Re: crt1.c

1998-03-04 Thread Bill Leach
This is just a bit of guessing here. It sounds like your messages have to do with trying to compile crt1.o. However, there are lots of other possibilties. It could be that the makefile uses command/syntax not recognized by GNUmake Do you know what the function of crt1.o is? It is possible

Re: Moved harddisk

1998-03-04 Thread Bill Leach
Yes, the first part of what you have done should be correct for a floppy boot system. The entries in /etc/fstab do HAVE to reference the correct device/partitions. If you are using lilo on the boot floppy then that has to be corrected for the new location also. Hunter H Marshall wrote: I

Can't get KDE Beta 3 to run on Debian.

1998-03-04 Thread Sérgio Lopes
Hi there! First i want to say that i'm a newbie in linux, and a newbie in this mailing list. :) My problem is that i can't get KDE (beta 3) to run on my Debian 1.3, when i execute ./startkde it says cannot connect to the X Server, can anyone help me with this? I have all the environmental

Re: Out of PTTY's

1998-03-04 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks, I'll look into that Best regards Jonathan On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script

Re: afterstep

1998-03-04 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 03 Mar 1998 14:16:41 PST, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: I upgraded afterstep to 1.4, but I had to downgrade it back to 1.0, cuz the new one did not get any of my old confs, and looked horrible! Did I do anything wrong? You need to follow the instructions in:

Re: making room

1998-03-04 Thread Jim
Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package would be shown, but found nothing. I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity should give me a breakdown of the space that would be used by

Re: Have a question about Debian..

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just downloaded all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! What are the chances that every chunk is bad?? Is it possible I have downloaded an old

Re: Slackware-----Debian

1998-03-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it just install side-by-side to Slackware. What you can do is this: 1) Move every binary you think you should need from /usr/bin,/bin to

Non Debian Specific Network Security question

1998-03-04 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
Sorry that this is not debian specific, but on the off chance that someone does read this, thanx! I am about to put work onto the internet to run a web server, and for users to browse the web and exchange email. I have registered a domain, for example xyz.com The link will be a dedicated dialup,

Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread P. D. Tisdale
I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-04 Thread Adam Shand
I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the expected LILO: What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? for me the only thing that has ever caused this (there are almost

Re: Have a question about Debian..

1998-03-04 Thread Bob Hilliard
One possibililty is that the files were downloaded as ASCII files, not binary. Most ftp servers display a message similar to Opening BINARY mode data connection for file_name when they start downloading a file. Ftp servers on UNIX machines usually default to binary, but some ftp servers or

Ensoniq sound problems

1998-03-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Has anyone ever been able to configure their Ensoniq Soundscape (yes, it is fairly old) card to work on Linux? I can't seem to get anything out of my sound card. Basically I've been trying to use isapnp to initialize my card, otherwise I would have to initialize it from DOS (ugh). Here is

Re: making room

1998-03-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 05:15:18PM -0800, Jim wrote: Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package would be shown, but found nothing. I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity

Re: Debian install source (Was Re: Yikes, sorry.)

1998-03-04 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 07:05:34PM +0100, Lorens Kockum wrote: As a corollary, where do you find the source of the programs executed during the install of debian? I ask because I wanted to check if the install points out the NIS problem when it asks whether to use shadow passwords. IIRC,

Debian-|-Zip

1998-03-04 Thread Holden Caulfield
Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? If so is it possible to install LINUX from a zip drive to a laptop? Holden C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian-|-Zip

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. If so is it possible to install LINUX from a zip drive to a laptop? Yes. Make at least a boot floppy (you can put the base disks on the ZIP disk, I think) and plug in and turn on the ZIP drive before booting. If all goes well

Re: Ensoniq sound problems

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
I installed the Debian xmcd and xmix packages but I initially couldn't run them because the CD and mixer devices had 660 permissions. After I changed the permissions to 666, I could run them. Is this a bug in hamm? Probably not. You might not want everyone who has access to your

Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Walker
Ok, this is a BIG nasty weird problem. I'm runnig Debian With default Kernel 2.0.29 I grabbed Kernel 2.0.33 from ftp.kernel.org and did the following steps: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zlilo make modules make modules_install reboot

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Chuck Peters
Install make-kpkg. After make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision version name kernel_image Install the new kernel with dpkg. Chuck On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Scott Walker wrote: Ok, this is a BIG nasty weird problem. I'm runnig Debian With default Kernel 2.0.29 I grabbed Kernel 2.0.33 from

Re: Debian-|-Zip

1998-03-04 Thread aqy6633
Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets

Re: SGML-Tools

1998-03-04 Thread David S. Jackson
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I don't have latex (nor latex2e). I have tetex instead. I thought tetex is a latex substition, at least when looking at basics functionality. Indeed the sgml-tools package did not comment on this, even though latex is one of its

Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter

1998-03-04 Thread Rene Bagia
Thank you verry mutch for this Information, i replace my Xircom Card with a 3c589D Card from 3COM. Now i have the Cardservice running, but i dont know how to setup the Carddriver for the 3com card. The Cardsevice say unknown Card in Slot 0 or 1. Where can i find Information how to setup the next

Description of Perl Data Language

1998-03-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
I just uploaded a debian package of this to master. The next revision will have a free license. (Soon) The docs and online help , etc . are much improved. A beta version 1.9900 of PDL is now available on CPAN (+). PDL is a freely-available number-crunching extension for perl,

Re: Kernel Customization.

1998-03-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shaul You are right. /usr/dockernel-package/Flavours.gz does not shaul exists in a Bo version of kernel-package. I think it should shaul be. Unfortunately, I thought of the Flavours stuff after Bo was released. And since kernel-package has

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, There is not enough information to make a judgement. Please provide the following: % ls -asCF /lib/modules % ls -als / % ls -asCF /boot BTW, on Debian, kernel-package offers a simple, convenient way of upgrading and maintianing severl different versions of the kernel on

wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Jason Ish
I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jason Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it

Re: How to remove Boot block

1998-03-04 Thread Carey Evans
Pascal MIQUET [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've install Linux with LiLO as super boot block. I'd like to change it and make only LiLO for my LiNUX partition. How can I remove this kind of information on ms SCSI PS/2 boot disk ! Look in /boot. There should be a file like boot.0800 - the

Re: crt1.c

1998-03-04 Thread C.J.LAWSON
If I remember clearly, the file you allude to crt1.o must necessarily exist for gcc to function properly. I once did a find .. '*.o' -exec rm \{} \; ... to clean my system and found myself in hot water when I tried to exec gcc. I was pretty new to Linux then and had to go a-begging the chap

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-04 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Beattie writes: What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login,... I may try that. ...

Is there HA (High Availability) like solution ?

1998-03-04 Thread whkye
Hi ! I'd like to bind two debian stations by using HA like solution. I belive that it could be the tolerant system. Where can I find it? Thanks for any small help whkye begin: vcard fn;quoted-printable:=B0=E8 =BF=F8=C8=A3 (Won-Ho Kye) n;quoted-printable:;=B0=E8 =BF=F8=C8=A3 (Won-Ho

XNTPD problem

1998-03-04 Thread Martin Madlik
Hi, I have folowing problem I'm using Debian 2.0 with 2.0.33 kernel and now I'm trying to set up xntpd. my /etc/ntp looks like this : logfile /var/log/xntpd driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats

broken manpages-dev

1998-03-04 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
I just installed manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb, and I had to uninstall it, because it breaks my man. It stalls updating the cache, untill I have to CTRL-C it... Anyone else? Look: nr# dpkg -i manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb Selecting previously deselected package manpages-dev. (Reading database ... 28709

Re: forwarded message from Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella

1998-03-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Luiz == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luiz I posted this question in debian-user list, and was advised to Luiz post in this list, because you have supposedelly just decided to Luiz remove from the .deb packages a feature that would allow this to Luiz be accomplished.

Re: forwarded message from Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella

1998-03-04 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Manoj Srivastava writes: Hi, Luiz == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luiz I posted this question in debian-user list, and was advised to Luiz post in this list, because you have supposedelly just decided to Luiz remove from the .deb packages a feature that would allow this to

Last login info

1998-03-04 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi, I noticed that redhat 5.0 'remembers' the full host name of my last login, while my debian 1.3.1 system gives me only the first 16 characters of it. As I didn't yet have the courage to install hamm, my question is, will hamm also remember the full hostname of the host I last logged in from?

Re: I need help

1998-03-04 Thread Ivan Ines Rojas
First, thanks to all the people that has posted to this thread. Second, I want to explain some point here. I have Debian 1.3.1 with ppp installed from the 1.3.1 cd ( ppp_2_2... don't remember ) and I found the pon and poff files. I checked my ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out scripts according

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread tko
P. D. Tisdale writes: I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is

Re: making room

1998-03-04 Thread Carey Evans
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package would be shown, but found nothing. There's no built in way. However, I'd suggest something like: % dpkg -L

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread Carey Evans
P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but there are quite a few ZERO LENGTH FILES on the CD. Is this normal or did I do something wrong?? I used EZCD Pro for Windows 3.1, and a 650Mb CD. (My CD Burner is a Creative Labs 4210). Are

Re: Have a question about Debian..

1998-03-04 Thread Carey Evans
P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! A better possibility than that you downloaded in text

mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, 'mmove a: /dos/e' doesn't. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Thank you, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: php3 + apache = undefined `table_elts'

1998-03-04 Thread tibor simko
greg == Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: greg The current php3 package was compiled with apache greg 1.3b3. Since then apache 1.3b5 is available as a debian greg package, i just didnt have time to upload the new php3.deb greg compiled against it... hmm, perhaps you

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == how am I supposed to use mmove? As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever I have not tried it though. All the best, Peter *

Re: making room

1998-03-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 05:15:18PM -0800, Jim wrote: Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package would be shown, but found nothing. I would _love_ an

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Thank you for your reply. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever Well, I tried that before and it didn't work either. Best regards, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: Thank you for your reply. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever Well, I tried that before and it

www.ml.org and dynamic dns

1998-03-04 Thread john
I have agreed to package one of the client programs that www.ml.org has for Debian, but I think that this would best be done by someone who is actually using the service. Is there anyone here who is and wants to become a maintainer? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). I don't know about you, but have a look what it complains about: frcatel:~$ mmove a: /archive/users/peterp/pokus Path component archive is not a directory Bad

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 12:55:24PM +0100, Peter Paluch wrote: You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). I don't know about you, but have a look what it complains about: frcatel:~$ mmove a:

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise a: is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. a:*.* is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem though. I've tried some things on the

installing packages

1998-03-04 Thread ANDREW INFANTE
For a linux newbie... How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? TIA, Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Thanks a lot. Peter *

Virtual Consoles

1998-03-04 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like mingetty? I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Sounds like maybe you didn't redo your links for vmlinuz in / and didn't edit lilo.conf (if you want to still have your old kernel available in emergencys). Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Printer sharing

1998-03-04 Thread iquest
Hi, I'd like to know how to share my printer that is connected to my linux box to other PCs that run Windows/NT on the network. Currently, I'm able to ftp from the Windows/NT PC to my linux box. So I think my network is working. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise a: is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. a:*.* is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem

Re: Compute Farm, Part II (nobody mentioned nfsroot!)

1998-03-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
I'm suprised no-one has mentioned nfsroot to-date. Based on its docs, it could do this quite well. But tryin to understand the docs is hell, and getting it to work even worse, especially when I got no response to my probs f/the maintainer. -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
Hopefully it'll turn to symlinks... he needed to burn with ISO9660 with Rockridge extensions. Didn't he say he burned with EZCD Pro? Mine for Win 95 / NT had no such option. They have joliet.. maybe even romeo so he can try to patch his kernel for fat32 support / joliet (combo patch),

-I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just do a mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried mcopy a: e: and no go (a while back in FreeBSD). I got

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-04 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
At 11:35 03.03.98 -0500, you wrote: Hi Helmut; I am not really much of an expert in this sort of problem but would like to see if I can help you to have a little better understanding of what is going on with your system (as best as I understand anyway)... The ROM portion of DOS loads and

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed to work properly under Linux. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

Re: installing packages

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? If they are only gzipped, then there is only file inside the .gz file, and you unzip it using gunzip, like : gunzip name_of_the_file.gz However, if the files end with .tar.gz or

Re: installing packages

1998-03-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, ANDREW INFANTE wrote: How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? Ouch! You can't just do that, you need to install Slackware first :-) But IIRC Slackware is not available as a .deb yet. Maybe someone is working on it.

Lilo v18==v20 : HULP!

1998-03-04 Thread Kevin Cave
HELP! Can't remember what I was doing at the time a month or so ago, but when I try to run LILO, for it to replace the boot record, it kind of goes like this. compaq_4# lilo First boot sector is version 18. Expecting version 20. compaq_4# Any help to get around this is

Re: Debian-|-Zip

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... That's odd, it's worked for me for a while. You're looking for the ppa driver, you probably have

Re: Virtual Consoles

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen (i.e Does it support some features mingetty does not, when used for

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: Hello, == I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Thanks a lot. You probably want to ask

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:36:47AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed

Re: -I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just do a mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried mcopy a: e:

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it

Re: Printer sharing

1998-03-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I'd like to know how to share my printer that is connected to my linux box to other PCs that run Windows/NT on the network. I'm not sure if this will work with NT machines, but here goes anyway :). In order to allow a UN*X machine to accept print requests from a remote machine, you

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:36:47AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi NO, DON'T DO THIS. Read

Re: Have a question about Debian..

1998-03-04 Thread Steve Mayer
I also ran across this problem when I tried a hand built MD5SUM from the source package on sunsite. Once I replaced it with the Debian copy, the problems went away. Check to see if you have more than one copy of MD5SUM in your path. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carey Evans wrote: P. D.

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, i have just purchased an inexpensive advansys fast scsi controller from a com,pany and it seems that they are very good at working with the linux community. the firm that i great a good buy from was centrix international. thanks, allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Last login info

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: I noticed that redhat 5.0 'remembers' the full host name of my last login, while my debian 1.3.1 system gives me only the first 16 characters of it. As I didn't yet have the courage to install hamm, my question is, will hamm also remember the full

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In an article Peter Paluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no | experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well | with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-04 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at boot up. If this fails then do the

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-04 Thread john
I wrote: I have one [a valid hostname]. It just makes things worse, since it isn't in my isp's domain. Michael Beattie writes: I gather you mean a valid domain as in being in the DNS? Yes. hehe not my ISP, they are so slack that billing sometimes get completly screwed up... BrightNet

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
My bad. Sorry for the misinformation then. I am new to Debian... used to old school Slackware. Although it says it will break compilations... it seemed to work fine for the most part. But from now on, I will not do it. Carroll Kong On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:

Re: Printer sharing

1998-03-04 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, iquest wrote: Hi, I'd like to know how to share my printer that is connected to my linux box to other PCs that run Windows/NT on the network. Currently, I'm able to ftp from the Windows/NT PC to my linux box. So I think my network is working. Thanks! --

Re: New (hamm) afterstep info

1998-03-04 Thread Anthony Fok
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 11:28:13AM -, Kevin Traas wrote: I'm running the new 1.4 on a few machines here and it's great! Many changes from the previous version. ftp the tarball and untar it. The README/INSTALL provide info on changes from the original - however, these files are

sharing a fax/modem with win95

1998-03-04 Thread Rob Goodwin
Hi there, Can anyone out there tell me if there is some kind of solution out there that will let win95 to send a fax through a fax/modem on a linux server? thanks for any suggestions, rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

tape backup regiment

1998-03-04 Thread Rob Goodwin
I would like to set up a fail-safe backup system for a linux box that i am putting together for a client of mine. Ideally the client will just have to make sure there is a new tape in there every other day and a cron will take care of backing up the entire 2G drive to tape sometime when everyone

Re: Debian-|-Zip

1998-03-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 04 10:07:30 1998 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:07:30 -0500 Resent-date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:56:26 + Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:56:27 -0500 (EST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IDE CD-ROM IRQ

1998-03-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
I'm performing an installation from CD-ROM on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with a CreativeLabs 8x IDE CD-ROM. During dselect, the machine comes to a crawl (including the other virtual consoles), almost unusable, and the instalation of each packages takes minutes. The console is filled by many,

My laptop keeps crashing

1998-03-04 Thread Charles Blair
I have installed debian on an IBM Thinkpad (model 310ED--- this seems to be a little-used model, I'm beginning to understand why). I used the CD's that came with Dale Scheetz's DEBIAN LINUX USER'S GUIDE. Most of the system worked as I expected. However, I have recently been experiencing

dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
Hi, Quite some time ago (somewhere around debian 1.1 and 1.2), it was pointed out (by Miquel Smoorenburg, I think) that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using dotfile locking, many of them used the wrong function to implement that, since the commonly used

re: Printer sharing

1998-03-04 Thread iquest
Hi All, Thanks to all the users replied to my question on Printer sharing. Most of you suggested me to use Samba. I went ahead and install the Samba package. I read some of the document that came with the package and I still do not quite get to do what I want. If anyone of you do not

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. Though the syntax may look superficially similar, that's about the only connection between mmove and mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, Here,

Re: php3 + apache = undefined `table_elts'

1998-03-04 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 4 Mar 1998, tibor simko wrote: greg == Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: greg The current php3 package was compiled with apache greg 1.3b3. Since then apache 1.3b5 is available as a debian greg package, i just didnt have time to upload the new php3.deb greg

Re: sharing a fax/modem with win95

1998-03-04 Thread Steve Mayer
Rob, Check out the Hylafax package. It has a Windows client. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Goodwin wrote: Hi there, Can anyone out there tell me if there is some kind of solution out there that will let win95 to send a fax through a fax/modem on a linux server? thanks for any

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-04 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I'm glad to be of help Jonathan On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Henry Hollenberg
I found Dale Scheetz book helpful pg. 159-171 go over the traditional linux way of compiling a custom kernel vs. the Debian way. I got mine from www.linuxpress.com but you might find one in your local bookstore The Debian Linux User's Guide I'd have been pretty lost without it. Oh yeah, I

Re: afterstep

1998-03-04 Thread Kevin Traas
I upgraded afterstep to 1.4, but I had to downgrade it back to 1.0, cuz the new one did not get any of my old confs, and looked horrible! Did I do anything wrong? Yeah, you didn't configure it to your own tastes!Give it another try! The conf files and structure have totally changed between

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Scott Walker wrote: Ok, this is a BIG nasty weird problem. I'm runnig Debian With default Kernel 2.0.29 So we're in bo, I take it. I grabbed Kernel 2.0.33 from ftp.kernel.org and did the following steps: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz cd linux make mrproper make

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