Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:42:33AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever the above libraries are relative to root (i.e. if in /usr/lib, copy to ~ftp/usr/lib). Make sure the libraries have a+rx permissions. And when did Debian stop

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Ronn Pimentel
First you want to make sure the the WINS server is running. I've had plenty of experiences where WINS just died for no apparent reason. Next make sure in DUN that they specify the WINS server(s) in the TCP/IP config. Next make sure that they have Logon to Network in DUN checked. This way

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-02-27 Thread dg
Hi Paul On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2

Quick Q on ADM xfs

1998-02-27 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Trying to get adm working with my sgi net running autofs. move auto_map table in pointed adm at it, tells me that it is having problem with the fs type. I think I'm just having a syntax problem, do I have to tweek the autofs table? or the cmd line (amd -D ?) or what. I found lots of info,

Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread FizzyPop
I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I figure it's all bad blocks. I ran fsck /dev/hda2 but it only seems to do a cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed Linux) and I keep getting the same errors after presumably correcting

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: None of these dialin users (Win95 or WinNT WS) can browse the network using Network Neighborhood. They get a Can't Browse Network message. However, everything else works fine. I've got a WINS server running and the Linux is a DNS server, so name

Re: BGP

1998-02-27 Thread Igor Grobman
Just a note: AFAIK debs.fuller.edu does distribute gated .debs -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Memory Usage Reports

1998-02-27 Thread tony mollica
Thanks for the reply. One other question I have isat what point does linux remove a program or its parts from memory after you have unloaded (closed) the programs in order to make use of that memory for other programs? Do you know where I can find more information on this? I haven't been

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-27 Thread shaul
Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? Does not cat /proc/interrupts be of some help ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Kevin Traas
None of these dialin users (Win95 or WinNT WS) can browse the network using Network Neighborhood. They get a Can't Browse Network message. However, everything else works fine. I've got a WINS server running and the Linux is a DNS server, so name resolution isn't a problem. However, they

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: Thanks for the comments. My apologies for not providing enough information. I do have everything set properly as mentioned above. The Win95 clients have the Log onto Network option checked and running winipcfg on them reveals that DNS, WINS, IP,

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:42:33AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever the above libraries are relative to root (i.e. if in /usr/lib, copy to ~ftp/usr/lib). Make sure the libraries have

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I figure it's all bad blocks. I ran fsck /dev/hda2 but it only seems to do a cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed Linux) and I keep getting the same errors after

Commercial support (was Server Questions (fwd))

1998-02-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nathan E Norman wrote: On 26 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... : However ... my boss wants to have someone we can call for support when : it doesn't work. This person, persons, or company would preferably hav e : some sort of documentation as to who they are and why we ought

Re: minicom...

1998-02-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rafael Castillo Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i do to configurate the minicom for conecting to interntet wiht a pulse telephone line??? Use the 2nd dial option, ATDP instead of ATDT Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is

dump screen to file

1998-02-27 Thread Paul Miller
How can I dumb the console screen to a file via a bash shell command (or program)? Thanks --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dump screen to file

1998-02-27 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 06:08:21PM -0600, FizzyPop wrote: I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I figure it's all bad blocks. I ran fsck /dev/hda2 but it only seems to do a cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed Linux)

Re: dump screen to file

1998-02-27 Thread Norbert Veber
hm, sorry, this was meant as a reply to the badblocks question :) On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:37:55PM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 06:08:21PM -0600, FizzyPop wrote: I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I figure it's all

Anon FTP and other conflicts

1998-02-27 Thread Ossama Othman
And when did Debian stop doing this for you? All my systems were upgraded buzz to rex to bo to hamm, and they all had the anonymous FTP stuff set up originally automatically. Obviously Debian didn't do it; otherwise this wouldn't be an issue on this mailing list. I don't recall the base ftpd

glibc install bug (was anon ftp conflicts)

1998-02-27 Thread Ossama Othman
My apologies. I didn't check the big reports prior to posting my last message about the glibc-dev conflict. Sorry guys. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public:

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Ronn Pimentel
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: Thanks for the comments. My apologies for not providing enough information. I do have everything set properly as mentioned above. The Win95 clients have the Log onto Network option checked and running winipcfg on them reveals that DNS, WINS, IP,

Re: Anon FTP and other conflicts

1998-02-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 20:52 -0500 1998-02-26, Ossama Othman wrote: I did notice one thing about the libs. Why is the hamm wu-ftpd package installing libc5 instead of libc6? It's a bug. Also, there were conflicts with the netstd ftpd man page that didn't allow me to install the package. To make it work I had to

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:26 -0800 1998-02-26, Alan Su wrote: Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST) ): |Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically |does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an |excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 26-Feb-1998, Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Anyone know of a nice way to keep different CVS servers synchronized with each other? A CVS server is a single entity. If you're looking for ways to reduce load on a CVS server, I have some ideas for that, but I believe

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote: A CVS server is a single entity. If you're looking for ways to reduce load on a CVS server, I have some ideas for that, but I believe multiple Please share, CVS serving on va is not exactly as lightweight as I would hope. Thanks, Jason -- TO

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-27 Thread Lee Bradshaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Bradshaw said: Art, is your local user name alemas? My problem is that if I use my isp Yes. And your local user name should be same as what you want as a user name in your e-mail return address (in your case, lee.bradshaw) until we find a solution for

diagnosing smail

1998-02-27 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm trying to beat smail down with a stick, am having a little trouble (actually more than a little). Would somebody *PLease* translate into English this brief /etc/smail/config snippet and answer three questions? from_field=From: \ ${if def:ident_sender\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Thomas Heide Clausen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I would look at SAMBA (http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/). I have set it up succesfully under many UNIX flavours, and it works like a dream (allmost out of the box). Cheers, and good luck. - --thomas ps: What is the WINS you're talking about? Sone NIS

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 26-Feb-1998, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote: A CVS server is a single entity. If you're looking for ways to reduce load on a CVS server, I have some ideas for that, but I believe multiple Please share, CVS serving on va is not exactly

Re: Possible new name for deity

1998-02-27 Thread John Spence
We are thinking about using Trove as the name for the project that has been code-named Deity until now. How about druid or pdruid (for package druid)? I don't care what they call it as long as it doesn't start with dpkg-somthing or kpkg-something. rpm may not be a better technology but it is

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote: There might be other things that can be done - I'm not sure what's causing load problems with the server on va, but these are some of the things I'd try. I've never seen remote CVS used on a very large scale (e.g. hundreds of modules) so I'm not sure

2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-02-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, all -- I just recompiled my own version of 2.0.33 kernel, based on 2.0.33_2.0.33-3 source package. Everything runs fine for the time being, and the only question I have is : how do you get rid of the kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-3 package? It takes up a whole lot of space on my machine and it

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 26-Feb-1998, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote: There might be other things that can be done - I'm not sure what's causing load problems with the server on va, but these are some of the things I'd try. I've never seen remote CVS used on a

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
The install and rescue floppies are indeed supposed to use the ramfs. Obviously the install floppy has to since at least most of the time there will be no other linux filesystem available. However, the rescue floppy does also because it has to be able to boot fully even if the root partition is

scsi: tape drive gets ONE partition's signals, load reaches 17.

1998-02-27 Thread Jameson Burt
For four months, I noticed no problems with my tape drive or my disk drive. In the last two weeks, I have updated a few packages in hamm, but not many. I now have two indicators that just one partition (out of 8+ partitions) on my disk drive gets its signals diverted to the tape drive. 1. mke2fs

RE: Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --

1998-02-27 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
Hi everyone, I wote some code to manage a data aquisition device in the labs. It runs for a while (say 24 hrs, gathering data every 6 secs [x 50 data points]) then it crashes, crashes bad (segmentation fault) /dev/ttyS0 input overflow ... does anyone know what is causing this?? I began

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
Normally you would boot from a rescue floppy for such maintenance activities and mount your filesystem read only. I haven't had to do this in a long time but it also seems to me that you can boot to single user and remount root as read only. FizzyPop wrote: I keep getting {DriveReady

Re: Memory Usage Reports

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
This certainly isn't any sort of answer to your question but does anyone know of hand if Linux frees shared code (libraries, maybe fonts) as soon as there is no code using it or does it wait until the memory is actually needed). i did look through some of the loader code and discussions about

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
Hummm, I have not tried that yet but it should work. When I do a dpkg --status libc6-dev it shows the dependency as kernel-source-2.0.32 (= 2.0.32-2) so your 2.0.33 should meet that requirement. Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi, all -- I just recompiled my own version of 2.0.33 kernel, based on

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:12:29PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I figure it's all bad blocks. I ran fsck /dev/hda2 but it only seems to do a cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed

HELP: Got in security trouble.

1998-02-27 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hello, If you know good documentation/Web pages about Security of Debian system and especially Web server, and how to set them right on Debian Box, please send me a note. Below is yet another story of hacker attack, which you may just ignore. Sorry if it is not exactly Debian issue. Thank

X crashes

1998-02-27 Thread Martin Pelikan
Hi, My X crashes quite often. It happens usually after I run netscape communicator but I am not so sure that it's caused by that. Nothing special is running usually, just few Xterms and when I try to switch screens it just crashes and exits to bash prompt. I use afterstep window manager. Does

Re: Possible new name for deity

1998-02-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote We are thinking about using Trove as the name for the project that has been code-named Deity until now. What a pity, I'd love to see the deity install satan :) Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of

Re: Possible new name for deity

1998-02-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Red Hat already did Disk Druid. what about ppenguin, the package penguin? Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40

diagnosing smail (2)

1998-02-27 Thread David Stern
Hi, This is a slightly shorter version of some questions I asked earlier regarding smail configuration. I've read all the smail docs available and there is no definitive smail resource, so I'd really appreciate it if someone would *PLease* take a few moments to reply. 1.) How can I find out

Re: dump screen to file

1998-02-27 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: How can I dumb the console screen to a file via a bash shell command (or program)? man xwd man import (in ImageMagick package) -- Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI) | Tel : +33 298 001 730 ENST de Bretagne| email : [EMAIL

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-02-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Create or download a kernel-headers-2.0.32 package, and install that. Then you should be able to remove the kernel sources. manoj -- Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))

1998-02-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote: [A heck of a lot clipped] I hope that will be of some use to you. Apparently not... I am beginning to think I need to raise some money for a new monitor.. :( limits: 30-50 horiz 50-75 Vert Oh well... Well, you can change

i made a mess with dselect

1998-02-27 Thread Alain Toussaint
tonight,i got dselect to upgrade my debian distribution,i connected to the ftp.debian.org site (via dselect),cd to /debian,it updated her package.gz file,and i choosen to install all package suggested by dselect in the install menu,but the installation has gone wrong,i tried to undo the change but

r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Hi, I sent a message about this when I had the problem at my last job. I left the job before ever resolving this. I'm at a new job now and I'm trying to integrate linux somehow into our environment. I plan on using linux for some minor development at first, just to get some linux machines in

Re: i made a mess with dselect

1998-02-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, As is pointed out on the Debian site, you can get a really low priced version of the Official Debian CD from several web sites for around $5 or $6 if you don't want to download the entire distribution off the net. I would mention the company but I am not sure if that it considered

AW: r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread TBaetzle
Richard G. Roberto asked: [...] However, I still can't get the r* commands to work. [...] I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, and even .rhosts for myself, but to no avail. [...] Let's review your setup. You want to be able to rsh/rlogin to root on a remote system,

upgrading to current smail

1998-02-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've had to install the bo smail, and leave it htere the last few months. About the time the spam provisions went in, the new smails don't seem to talk to the outside world; everything bounces both ways. I last tried a hamm version last week. However,every time i reinstall bo's, it all works

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Also, I've been told not to run disk checks while the HD is mounted, how can I load linux sans mounting the HD? does it work if I boot from a floppy? It shouldn't be a problem to run badblocks while the HD is mounted; it does not write to the drive, just

Re: AW: r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard G. Roberto asked: [...] However, I still can't get the r* commands to work. [...] I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, and even .rhosts for myself, but to no avail. [...] Let's review your setup. You want

php3 + apache = undefined `table_elts'

1998-02-27 Thread tibor simko
hello i'm using: php3 version 3.0b4-1 apache version 1.3b5-2 after having enabled the loading of php3 module in the apache config, i've got the following error while restarting the apache daemon: Restarting apache daemon...Syntax error on line 93 of /etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf:

AW: AW: r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread TBaetzle
Hello Richard, you wrote: [...] - enable .rhosts for the superuser by adding -h to the in.rlogind optionlist in /etc/inetd.conf (man 8 rlogind)? on my system: [no -h in man 8 rlogind. Hmmm...] I have netstd 2.05-1 and netbase 2.04-1 with libc5 5.4.20-1. This might be part of the

Re: r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread Tim Sailer
Richard G. Roberto wrote: I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, and even .rhosts for myself, but to no avail. I have no hosts.allow or hosts.deny file, nor am I using tcpd at all. Host names resolve via DNS or /etc/hosts with no problem. I tried having the hostname

Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.

1998-02-27 Thread john
Sasha writes: Below is yet another story of hacker attack,... Please do not refer to these people as hackers. This is not Newsweek. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make

Re: diagnosing smail (2)

1998-02-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: This is a slightly shorter version of some questions I asked earlier regarding smail configuration. I've read all the smail docs available and there is no definitive smail resource, so I'd really appreciate it if someone would *PLease* take a few

Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.

1998-02-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Below is yet another story of hacker attack,... Please do not refer to these people as hackers. This is not Newsweek. Okay...then what are they? Gremlins? Heh..sorry. :-) In all seriousness, what would you call them? I understand that those of us who hack code to improve it may also

Re: still crashing -- narrowing it down some though

1998-02-27 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Marcin Kadziolka wrote: Have you got any related messages in /var/log/kern* or something? Not a thing. (I don't have a /var/log/kern* directory -- just /var/log/messages ...) The last entry in /var/log/messages is the last line from bootup, and the next entry is the

Netscape doesn't save ftp messages

1998-02-27 Thread Jim Lynch
I've had this problem for a long time, but have been ignoring it. When ever I click on a link using Netscape that is of the form ftp://ftp.xyz.com/dir/file the file is displayed in the netscape window. That's sorta OK for text files, but binary files do the same thing. On other versions of

Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.

1998-02-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Below is yet another story of hacker attack,... Please do not refer to these people as hackers. This is not Newsweek. Okay...then what are they? Gremlins? Heh..sorry. :-) :cracker: /n./ One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against

Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.

1998-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : : Below is yet another story of hacker attack,... : : Please do not refer to these people as hackers. This is not Newsweek. : : Okay...then what are they? Gremlins? Heh..sorry. :-) : : In all seriousness, what would you call them? I

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-27 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 11:02:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And after I turned on the power, rebooted and logged again, I got a segmentation fault whenever I tried to man -w something. Only after manualy running the script the man -w something worked. Has someone else

Problem with deinstalling emacs20

1998-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I can not (completely) deinstall emacs20. I have removed all emacs* packages, including emacs, emacs19, but I do not get rid of emacs20. This is not WinExploder in disguise, is it? ;-) I want to remove it because I had the impression it did not install properly. How do I get rid of it (without

hard disk not ready - newbie, please forgive me!

1998-02-27 Thread ANDREW INFANTE
I have a machine with an EIDE drive and a SCSI 1.3GB The SCSI is an old HP mainframe drive with 255 heads, 164 cylinders, and 63 sectors. I am able to use the rescue disk to start the debian install, and then modify the settings with the expert commands withing FDISK

Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.

1998-02-27 Thread Ossama Othman
: Who is right and who is wrong? I would have to say neither. Each of us : is entitled to their own interpretation. Sure. You're entitled to any interpretation you please, but that doesn't make you right. Take a look at the jargon file. Hey, I agree that the term hacker is misused.

Re: Netscape doesn't save ftp messages

1998-02-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I've had this problem for a long time, but have been ignoring it. When ever I click on a link using Netscape that is of the form ftp://ftp.xyz.com/dir/file the file is displayed in the netscape window. That's sorta OK for text files, but binary files do the same thing. On other versions

Re: diagnosing smail

1998-02-27 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: Hi, I'm trying to beat smail down with a stick, am having a little trouble (actually more than a little). Would somebody *PLease* translate into English this brief /etc/smail/config snippet and answer three questions? from_field=From: \

Re: diagnosing smail (2)

1998-02-27 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure on this one. From: is always required. The others are optional. For example, pine will prompt the user if Return-path: is defined in the message if they would prefer to use that instead of From: . You're confusing Return-Path: with

X install/config query

1998-02-27 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else that I have tried seems to be). I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system. Should I remove X and re-install, or is there another

What is /var/log/messages telling me???

1998-02-27 Thread Paul Rightley
I looked in my /var/log/messages and found the following lines (where I have removed any specific names and/or IP's). What are these lines telling me? Feb 24 06:54:45 shroom syslogd 1.3-3#22: restart. Feb 24 13:34:21 shroom kernel: ICMP redirect from IP.IP.IP.IP

Re: Netscape doesn't save ftp messages

1998-02-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Jim Lynch wrote: I've had this problem for a long time, but have been ignoring it. When ever I click on a link using Netscape that is of the form ftp://ftp.xyz.com/dir/file the file is displayed in the netscape window. That's sorta OK for text files, but binary files

Re: Problem with deinstalling emacs20

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi, I can not (completely) deinstall emacs20. I have removed all emacs* packages, including emacs, emacs19, but I do not get rid of emacs20. This is not WinExploder in disguise, is it? ;-) I want to remove it because I had the impression it did not install properly. How do I get

Re: X install/config query

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else that I have tried seems to be). I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system. If neither of these is there, then you

Re: X install/config query

1998-02-27 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else that I have tried seems to be). I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system. If neither of these is there,

Re: Problem with deinstalling emacs20

1998-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, On 27 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Somehow you managed to remove the emacsen-common package without removing emacs20. Since emacs20 depends on emacsen-common, this means you must have forced dpkg to ignore dependencies. This is a bad thing. To fix the problem, reinstall emacsen-common,

NO error in fdisk :D

1998-02-27 Thread HELMUT LEINFELLNER
Hi ! Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux on different partitions. The key to this was to put the DOS partitions FIRST. The only thing still to solve right now is this: DOS fdisk gives: 1 PRI DOS YESHUA 1000 FAT16 100% 2 EXT DOS1000 100% 3 Non-DOS

Re: NO error in fdisk :D

1998-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : Hi ! : : Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux : on different partitions. The key to this was to put the DOS partitions : FIRST. : The only thing still to solve right now is this: : DOS fdisk gives: : : 1 PRI DOS

Re: NO error in fdisk :D

1998-02-27 Thread HELMUT LEINFELLNER
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : Hi ! : : Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux : on different partitions. The key to this was to put the DOS partitions : FIRST. : The only thing still to solve right now is this:

Re: NO error in fdisk :D

1998-02-27 Thread HELMUT LEINFELLNER
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : Hi ! : : Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux : on different partitions. The key to this was to put the DOS partitions : FIRST. : The only thing still to solve right now is this:

Re: X install/config query

1998-02-27 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:12:35 MST, wrote: Hello: Hello I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else that I have tried seems to be). If dselect or dpkg says your xserver isn't configured, you

Re: NO error in fdisk :D

1998-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : : On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : : : Hi ! : : : : Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux : : on different partitions. The key to this was to put the DOS partitions

Re: X install/config query

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
If neither of these is there, then you don't have X installed. You must install xbase and one of the xserver-* packages. If you want to use XF86Setup then you must also install xserver-vga16. Clearly, it wasn't installed correctly. There are all kinds of X applications

Re: NO error in fdisk :D

1998-02-27 Thread HELMUT LEINFELLNER
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : : On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, HELMUT LEINFELLNER wrote: : : : Hi ! : : : : Just wanted to let you know that I can finally run both Win95 and Linux : : on different partitions. The key to

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-02-27 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Joost Kooij wrote: Hi, I've been playing with some package's source and now I have a question: When I run ./debian/rules it prints lines containing: -DHOSTTYPE='i486' -DOSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DMACHTYPE='i486-debian-linux-gnu' I think that the

xemacs20

1998-02-27 Thread Matt Thompson
Hello, I'm running a full hamm system and just installed the above. When I tried to run it for the first time, I got the following: $ xemacs xemacs: error in loading shared libraries libcompface.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ??? TIA for any help :) matty --

Re: IBM Token Ring Card [does not work]

1998-02-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Try using the diagnostic tools and setting the card to Auto 16/4. I have a Turbo 16/4 at work and it works fine. The routing table looks strange - how does the kernel pick which card to send data out on? On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 08:16:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] [kermit:/root]

lyx 0.12 final in hamm is actually bo ?

1998-02-27 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, looks like lyx 0.12 binal bo version live now in hamm tree. Is it known probelm ? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Problem with gmp? Conflict on /dev/ttyS0?

1998-02-27 Thread Charles Blair
I have been using Debian linux on an IBM Thinkpad for about a month. The machine only has one serial port. I am using a modem and kermit on that port, with device name /dev/ttyS0. I have been able to make remote connections with other machines, but there have been occasional crashes and other

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-27 Thread Gary Kline
According to Bill Leach: The install and rescue floppies are indeed supposed to use the ramfs. Obviously the install floppy has to since at least most of the time there will be no other linux filesystem available. However, the rescue floppy does also because it has to be able to boot fully

Bad installation :(

1998-02-27 Thread Erik Rodríguez
Hello: I checked my file system and it's ocuppied more less 60 MB (14%). I know this is a very incomplete installation I have de Debian CD-ROM so i could reinstall or patch. It's recomendable to install all over again? or is more recommendable to patch my actual installation so i could

Re: Bad installation :(

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
I checked my file system and it's ocuppied more less 60 MB (14%). I know this is a very incomplete installation I have de Debian CD-ROM so i could reinstall or patch. It's recomendable to install all over again? or is more recommendable to patch my actual installation so i could

.deb installation

1998-02-27 Thread Erik Rodríguez
Hello: I have downloaded gcl_2_2_1-1.deb and libg++272-dev_2_7_2_8-0_1.deb from the www.debian.org website. I downloaded them in my Win95 machine, i want to install them in my WinNT/Linux Machine. I have mounted the WinNT File System on Linux. How can i install the both packages in Linux

dselect nfs question

1998-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
This question is overly vague; sorry ... I started playing with nfs today (nothing like a little excitement on a friday). I've got a 9 gig partition on a BSDI box, which holds my ftp mirror of debian, among other things. I want to be able to do local installs via nfs. So I fought my way

Re: .deb installation

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
How can i install the both packages in Linux with the other hard disk partition mounted or how can install the packages from floppies? dpkg -i FILENAME1.deb FILENAME2.deb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-27 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I'm familiar with the phenomena. I'd happy to take your money, but I suspect that your boss wants to see a glossy brochure that says Debian Support, Inc. on the cover and lists dozens of Fortune 500 customers. It does seem like there is a business opportunity here. A network of

Re: X crashes

1998-02-27 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, My X crashes quite often. It happens usually after I run netscape communicator but I am not so sure that it's caused by that. Nothing special is running usually, just few Xterms and when I try to switch screens it just crashes and exits to bash prompt. I use afterstep window manager.

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