Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? Thanks, Timothy Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, and make sure it's not the same interrupt as another card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: Sorry for taking so long in replying. Ugly solution: I'm running my RA 2.50/Bink 2.60/IMAIL 1.75/Squish 1.10 system under dosemu on Debian 1.3. I just unplugged the hard drive from my DOS BBS machine and plugged it into

[autofs] Need a auto.hosts map for different machines with different exports

1998-02-25 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
$ showmount -e foo /logs (everyone) / (everyone) $ showmount -e bar /var/spool/pcnfs (everyone) /d (everyone) $ cat /etc/auto.master /h /etc/auto.hosts /tools /etc/auto.tools /mnt/etc/auto.mnt --timeout 10 $ cat

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want wide distribution and adoption of your software in the free software community, then use a free/open source toolkit. if you don't care about that then use motif or some other proprietary toolkit. The thing here is that no free

Does eiffel make a good laptop for debian

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Rightley
I seem to have heard a couple of mentions of Eiffel laptops on this mail-list before. It looks like they have some pretty good machines for sale. Are these machines any good at running debian? Does anyone have suggestions as to the ideal (considering price/performance) laptops for linux?

'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Rightley
Sorry if this is not specifically Debian related (but this seems to be a wholely polite mail-list - a rarity lately). I have an up-to-date hamm installation. I sometimes work on a RedHat machine (through an 'X-terminal' Sun running Sparc linux). When I edit a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine

Re: fetchmail quit after upgrading smail

1998-02-25 Thread Jim Foltz
Actually, it works except for mail I sent to myself. That's what made me send the help message in the first place -- I couldn't fetch mail I sent to myself and didn't wait long enough for someone else to send some. Thanks for the reply. On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 10:32:05PM +0100, Martin

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Welcome in the club, you are using smail 3.2.0.100-x, don't you? No. 3.2.0.92-3. I`m using bo. After trying some configurations with smailconfig I managed to sent mail. But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I wrote in my previous post

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great proposition. Unfortunately, both lesstif and gtk developers flamed me heavily while I was lurking on their lists :) May be it's my problem though... could be. it's hard to imagine that a lurker would get flamed. people usually only get flamed for saying something annoying. Oh,

Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Alami
I currently have a SCO UNIX system connected to 6 text-based dumb terminals. Does Debian Linux support dumb terminals? - Jeff Alami Guardian Consulting Services Senior Consultant 3911 Fraser St. E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 11:36:19PM +0400, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? cat /proc/interrupts Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: error in fdisk/cfdisk ?

1998-02-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 Helmut Leinfellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there ! I've partitioned my hard drive with fdisk / cfdisk this way: Pri 1 Linux Swap (64 MB) Pri 2 Linux native (1200 MB) Pro 3 DOS (2 GB) ^^^- Should this be Pri? Pri 4 Extended DOS (4-part. 800 MB) When I

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:31:31PM -0800, Jeff Alami wrote: I currently have a SCO UNIX system connected to 6 text-based dumb terminals. Does Debian Linux support dumb terminals? Dumb terminals are not a problem for Linux or any other variety of Unix. Linux supports a number of multiport

lean indexed navigation tool for system help

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
Hi, :-) Someone using a lesser linux distro is asking me if there's any kind of a lean navigation tool which indexes the typical Linux help facilities built into his box such as man and info pages, HOWTO's, /usr/doc/*.gz, and so on. My only idea was that something like that might be possible

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Alami
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:31:31PM -0800, Jeff Alami wrote: I currently have a SCO UNIX system connected to 6 text-based dumb terminals. Does Debian Linux support dumb terminals? Dumb terminals are not a problem for Linux or any other variety of Unix. Linux supports a number of multiport

pcmcia module trouble

1998-02-25 Thread FizzyPop
I'm trying to install the pcmcia module but when I run MAKE install it goes through some of the installation but then fails with: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/include/linux/modversions.h does not exist! To fix, run 'make dep' in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29. So I go to

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED]@krypton.stern.nyu.edu wrote: Great proposition. Unfortunately, both lesstif and gtk developers flamed me heavily while I was lurking on their lists :) May be it's my problem though... could be. it's hard to imagine that a lurker

One More Time

1998-02-25 Thread Robert Smith
Here is my problem: 1. I can not install Linux on any of my machine's hard drives because of different reasons, but there are no hardware problems with my machines hard drives, RAM, procesesors, etc. 2. I want to install Linux on a Syquest EzFlyer 135, which is supposed to be supported, but when

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-25 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) said: My only problem is that echoing the \a twice runs them together to sound like one... I would like a double beep, so i used `runq;runq' to get a suitable pause in between beeps... If anyone has a better

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:50:06AM +, Deniz Dogan wrote: Hi, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Welcome in the club, you are using smail 3.2.0.100-x, don't you? No. 3.2.0.92-3. I`m using bo. Oh. It would have been soo easy to downgrade ;) After trying some configurations with smailconfig I

mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Miller
Did anyone respond to my email? I lost a days worth of messages from this list. I have a SupraFAXModem 288i v.34 (33.6kbs) and I'm wondering how to configure mgetty to distinguish voice/fax/date calls and use caller id. From looking at the mgetty logs, mgetty sends AT+FAA=1 to my modem

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-25 Thread Bill Leach
Two things... first, are use sure that you have to recompile? I thought that this was just a change to the fvwm2 config files. Second, is that I can move windows between virtual screens by dragging the window so that it overlaps both and then switch to the destination and finish 'pulling' the

Re: Binary Directorys

1998-02-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: Is there any significant difference between /bin|/sbin and /usr/bin|/usr/sbin ??? I am just interested as to why there are two bin and sbin directorys. Stuff in /usr may not be present when the machine first boots

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 06:17:28PM -0800, Jeff Alami wrote: Are there any information resources I can look at which will show instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals for Linux? All you really need to know is the name of the device. On the Cyclades card, it's

Re: One More Time

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:00:28PM -0800, Robert Smith wrote: Here is my problem: 1. I can not install Linux on any of my machine's hard drives because of different reasons, but there are no hardware problems with my machines hard drives, RAM, procesesors, etc. 2. I want to install Linux

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Alami
Jeff Noxon wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 06:17:28PM -0800, Jeff Alami wrote: Are there any information resources I can look at which will show instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals for Linux? All you really need to know is the name of the device. On the

Re: One More Time

1998-02-25 Thread aqy6633
2. I want to install Linux on a Syquest EzFlyer 135, which is supposed to be supported, but when I use the rescue disk it only shows my hard drive. Please be more specific about your hardware. What kind og EzFlyer you have? (SCSI, IDE, parallel port), what kind of hard drive (IDE, SCSI), SCSI

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I had problems with the Millenium II driver from XSuSE. The backspace key worked at the bash prompt, but not in vim. I use a version I downloaded from xfree86. I untarred it to a temp directory and copied the new XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA after moving the old version. The

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
I had problems with the Millenium II driver from XSuSE. The backspace key worked at the bash prompt, but not in vim. I use a version I downloaded from xfree86. I untarred it to a temp directory and copied the new XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA after moving the old

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On 24 Feb 1998, Roderick Schertler wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) said: My only problem is that echoing the \a twice runs them together to sound like one... I would like a double beep, so i used `runq;runq' to get a suitable pause

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On 24 Feb 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Deniz Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed Add smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc And als oadd localhost to the hostnames in /etc/smail/config I had the same problem, and this solved it quickly...

SyJET driver

1998-02-25 Thread iquest
Hi, I've finally connected and mounted the SyJET onto my Linux box. Everything seems to work fine. However, I noticed that the SyJET mount point would sometime 'magically' change itself from 'rw' to 'readonly' mode. I suspect that when the drive went into idle for a long time and it

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Ben Pfaff wrote: I had problems with the Millenium II driver from XSuSE. The backspace key worked at the bash prompt, but not in vim. I use a version I downloaded from xfree86. I untarred it to a temp directory and copied the new XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA after

Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-25 Thread maor
Hi Art, I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will eventually show up in the archive, but it wasn't there yet. Thanks -- Lee

Re: SyJET driver

1998-02-25 Thread aqy6633
Hi. You might need to feedle with options in your SCSI adapter BIOS. (like enable motor spin-up, play with map removable as fixed, etc). What scsi adapter are you using? It always a good idea to get more up to date driver. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

Re: BGP

1998-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Stephen == Stephen Zedalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: Nope. You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all (including in non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the licence (and you can't just have someone else sign the licence and

POP

1998-02-25 Thread Johan Berglund
I´m sorry but this might not be a Debian-specific question, but I don´t know where to ask it and you out there on the list seems to be nice people ;-) I have a Linux box at home serving a couple of windows 95/NT clients with SMB resources, telnet and POP mail. I also have a dialout modem for

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-25 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 and everything works right. I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: /sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS1 apc-advanced

IMAP quirk

1998-02-25 Thread Dale Harrison
I've got IMAP4 (imap4-4.1) installed and it seems to work well.. I'm using Netscape 4 as the mail client, I can retrieve/send mail fine. WHat I can't do it delete messages. It moves them into the trash folder, then barfs that it could not delete the source file [the actual message I assume] So

Dvorak keybindings in X

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
Hey, A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as well? Thanks, Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

re: wwwcount from hamm

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
I called the cgi script like that: (Debian hamm / Apache) img src=/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat Does NOT work !! BUT: img src=http://my.ip.addrr/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat; WORKS fine Can anybody tell me what i did wrong i'm guessing but you may have hit the

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed bo/hamm system. I can't explain your problem but the debian package works fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). Adam. Internet Alaska

APC UPS

1998-02-25 Thread adavis
I have a small APC BackUPS Pro working with debian linux. The genpower debian package is really easy to get working for that unit. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way. tcp-wrappers will not stop you from being scanned. even if the port is wrapped it will still

Swap disk size

1998-02-25 Thread Clement
When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything 128MB, and install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB. Is 128MB the limit of swap disk for Linux? Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is recommended. Regards, Clement web

Sound

1998-02-25 Thread Wojciech Zukowski
I have a sound card Aztech SGBXII...i've compiled new kernel with sound support built-in (no module). when i was trying to compile this as a module i can't stard sound. alltime messages no such device (but i've had module sound loaded). with sound built-in kernel al is good..but i can't play mp3,

Re: Swap disk size

1998-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Clement wrote: When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything 128MB, and install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB. Is 128MB the limit of swap disk for Linux? Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is recommended. swap partitions are limited to 128MB each. You

Server Questions [mildly offtopic]

1998-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
We are looking at purchasing a new server to add to our stable, and I'm looking for some feedback/opinions/experience with news and/or SMP systems with Debian Linux. Private email is welcomed, since this isn't really list material (sorry) What I'm looking for is this: If you're running SMP,

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: : Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? : : Thanks, : Timothy cat /proc/interrupts : : Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see : exactly what interrupt the serial port is on,

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Huygen
Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I edit a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no such menu when editing a LaTeX file. How do

security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code. wow!! thanks Benoit Joly email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Pure Energy
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Ian Eure wrote: You might want to look at Abacus Sentry- you can get it from www.psionic.com matthew tebbens wrote: Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! I heard

Re: new hamm nmh breaks header rewriting, isp becomes irate

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:43:39 EST, wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: The most likely explanation is that nmh has started adding Sender: lines; this is in general a good thing - we just need to be careful to take them out or rewrite them nicely on the way out. It may be that

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the specific cards. As far as I know the Millenium II also works with MetroX, and yet again it is not free but it is a good package, and very

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Chi Wong
I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it. Is there

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it.

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: strace -p update pid -f didn't trap the bdflush process. bdflush() is a system call, not a program. See the bdflush man page, and /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c. I thought bdflush() only wrote dirty file system buffers, so another process (or kernel task) must be

Re: POP

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
Johan Berglund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are different users on the win clients and therefor different E-mail accounts out on the internet and I would like to have my Linux box fetch ALL the users E-mail by using POP3 to the different E-mail servers out on the net. Then I want to

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code. Get ssh from a Debian non-US

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have been scanned I assume it shows up in the log files. not necessarily. if you are running tcplogd (from the iplogger package) then you get a line like below for every tcp (this does NOT get ucp or icmp packets)

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have been scanned I assume it shows up in the log files. The package courtney can do this monitoring. It will report to syslog and also mail root about an incident.

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Paul Huygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I edit a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Deniz Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also. Connection is refused. Any ideas? Comment out any rule in /etc/hosts.deny and try again. If this works, then

Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and locations. However, he would like a leaner,

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two things... first, are use sure that you have to recompile? I thought that this was just a change to the fvwm2 config files. This change was made upstream between 2.0.45 and 2.0.46. And it is not a config option,so yes, you have to recompile the fvwm2

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver for it is not full-duplex capable? Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 03:28:26AM -0500, Benoit Joly wrote: hi, i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code.

IMAP4-4.1 Broken

1998-02-25 Thread Dale Harrison
Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. Bug? Feature? D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, First day on the list, first posting :) Are there any information resources I can look at which will show instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals for Linux? We have a 16-port BocaBoard, and there is a very handly little HOWTO for setting up this little bit

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver for it is not full-duplex capable? err, what? since when? this is a two plus year old, standard sb16 card, i'm pretty sure it's

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-25 Thread Kevin Cheek
Robert Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a client. I would recommend also taking a look at Best Power's products http://www.bestpower.com/

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 03:32:07AM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver for it is not full-duplex capable? err, what? since when?

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all! On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Adam Shand wrote: fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver for it is not full-duplex capable?

Sendmail...

1998-02-25 Thread Chris
Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network arrives. This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on the gateway), but also must forward any other mail on to another internal server

cross-compiling from LInux to SCO with Oracle 7.3.2.2.0

1998-02-25 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all I'm trying to know if it is possible and how I can cross-compile from Linux to SCO using Oracle 7.3.2.2 Production Release for SCO Unix wich I run successfully with the iBCS module... If I succesfully achive it, I will make a mini-HOWTO to the

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
You need to set up XKB properly for XSuSE. There should be some sort of error message about this when you run startx. The fix is basically making a link to a directory. After you do this, everything will work properly. It worked for me! Thanks Ben, I had XkbDisable in

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Deniz Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also. Connection is refused. Any ideas? Comment out any rule in

Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, I don't do anything like this yet (my modem isn't fancy enough), but here's how I read the mgetty info pages: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in? My modem supports 'readable format' (#CID=1) and 'ascii printable characters in

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
cat /proc/interrupts bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: aha2920, no disk found

1998-02-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Just to confirm that the aic7xxx docs *are* correct, this is from the AIC FAQ: * The AHA-2920 appears to be a Future Domain controller (Adaptec bought out Future Domain) and is not supported under the AIC7xxx driver. What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller? The hardware

Re: Can't install samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (the one in hamm)

1998-02-25 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : No, ksmbfs is an old name for smbfs. samba contains the smbclient program : and the samba server. smbfs contains the smbmount and smbumount programs. Correct. ksmbfs must be removed from Hamm before 2.0. smbfs replaces ksmbfs and it contains only two

How do you re-create the status file dselect uses?

1998-02-25 Thread Jon A. Bakken
I accidentally deleted the status file that dselect uses to determine what is installed on my machine. I managed to recover using one of the numerous backups of the status file that dselect keeps when it updates software. By issuing several dpkg commands, I think I got back a status file that

A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Norris Preyer
Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if this is not specifically Debian related (but this seems to be a wholely polite mail-list - a rarity lately). I have an up-to-date hamm installation. I sometimes work on a RedHat machine (through an 'X-terminal' Sun running Sparc linux). When

dpkg-buildpackage

1998-02-25 Thread Jens Christian Lisner
Hi! I've got a problem with building Packages with dpkg-builpackage. I thought it should be possible to rebuild Packages from their sources who were extracted from *.orig.tar.gz with dpkg-source -x. But instead dpkg returned vampira:[xldlas-0.85] # dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc no utmp entry

Re: IMAP quirk

1998-02-25 Thread Bill Leach
Dale; I can't help you with imap as I don't use (and have never used) it. However, this does sound like a 'permissions' problem. Understand again that I don't _know_ that this is relevent when using imap but you need a netscape mail directory in your home directory with permissions like:

Re: Sendmail...

1998-02-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network arrives. This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on the gateway), but also must forward any other

Re: Cyrix 586/100

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Matthew Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 24 Feb 98: Can anyone tell me if this processor is compatible with debian, and if any special installation procedures will be required? from installing debian ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Cyrix CPUs and

HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-02-25 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I got strange behaviour of xlock after recent updates of hamm. I lock the terminal in the night, everything looks fine, there is a password prompt and screensaver running. But when I come back in the morning screen is unlocked. Also for some reason the list of authorised nodes, which I

Knowledge Base Applications

1998-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Could anyone tell me if there is a good Knowledge Base Application for Linux? Knowledge Base for Help Desk Personal that consist of technical notes on Microsoft, Novell and other Company. _ .__.

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code. wow!! I don´t know if

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Steve Mayer
Richard, You can do a 'dpkg --purge package name Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard B. Talley wrote: Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect

IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

1998-02-25 Thread matthew tebbens
To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: Network firewalls IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? IP: firewalling Is forwarding/gatewaying required for filtering packets ? Is forwarding/gatewaying required for masquerading ? Can someone be more specific on

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Luke Bussanmas
I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed bo/hamm system. I can't explain your problem but the debian package works fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). If its 16-bit doesn't that mean 2 channels consisting of 8-bits

Re: problems while updating packages with dpkg

1998-02-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcía Pacheco wrote: Hello, Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud of myself ;-)). Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian

Re: IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

1998-02-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO. It does a very good job of explaining the basics. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: Network firewalls IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? IP:

Re: Dvorak keybindings in X

1998-02-25 Thread Keith Beattie
Adam Shand wrote: A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X. How did you do that? Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as well? One way is to use xmodmap, there's

X Windows problems

1998-02-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I having some problem in configuring X to work properly with my video card. It's a Diamond Stealth 2500 (Alliance AT24 chip). The screen is stretched vertically so I can't reach the bottom; the fonts are distorteds, it's a ugly view. I can switch resolutions up

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

1998-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz (not that one would think of looking there, but this has been seen while building kernels) g) dpkg-gencontrol fails if LC_ALL is set to de_DE. Actually, I can't really confirm this works for anything except en_US. This is true as

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs currently installed that have been deselected by the user. Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and choose *install*. This

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