Re: Kernel compilation

1998-03-09 Thread Carroll Kong
Unless I am in serious error, if uname -a gives you Kernel Linux 2.0.29, it really means you still are running that kernel. What I usually do now, (i dont' wipe out the headers anymore) is the standard make mrproper, make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make

Re: newbie setup of ppp

1998-03-09 Thread shaul
I've just install debian linux and I'm having problems getting ppp working. I have the modem setup and the pon script will dial and I get a connection but pppd just hangs up after about ten seconds. I've gone through the FAQ's and HOW to's but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: Ok, I just telnetted to your port 25 and you are announcing as Cal011205.student.utwente.nl This means that smail is discovering the DNS name when it is trying to find its own name. This can be changed by FORCING smail to use the correct

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail, What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to deliver

network problem

1998-03-09 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, I´m connected to my isp via isdn. Every 20 minutes my computer dials out and in dont know why. How can i see, which application is using this network connection? Is there a general logfile?? thanx cu florian attenberger -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Florian Attenberger
Jaakko Niemi wrote: I just managed to get it working using qkHacklib. This is a library that fools Q to use X for keyboard and mouse instead of svgalib. So this might be because of svgalib. I have the latest hamm package properly installed with PS2 keyboard and mouse. Don't see

network problem

1998-03-09 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, I´m connected to my isp via isdn. Every 20 minutes my computer dials out and in dont know why. How can i see, which application is using this network connection? Is there a general logfile?? thanx cu florian attenberger -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Memory leak?

1998-03-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I confirmed that the high CPU load was due to a hung tcsh process. When I returned to my computer after 4 hours and logged in again, I noticed a tcsh process running for four hours. After killing it, the CPU load dropped from being over 50% user to under 3% user. What's with the hung shell

Re: network problem

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Florian Attenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I´m connected to my isp via isdn. Every 20 minutes my computer dials out and in dont know why. Looks like your MTA. If you use smail, check the crontab in /etc/smail. How can i see, which application is using this network connection? Don't

Re: newbie setup of ppp

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Please everyone! The advice to use minicom or seyon is of course good. Recognize however that with at least some ISPs that use CHAP, you can be mislead by the results that you see with a term program. The problem is that some ISPs are monitoring the port such that a carriage return (or newline)

Re: Upgrade...

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Yes they are related. Look at the autoup.sh script or the Libc5 - Libc6 upgrade HOWTO. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!

Re: New web page: Debian Resources

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Chris, nice job! re: http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/ -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some

Re: Mirror problem!

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
I don't think that what you are getting is exactly a bug in mirror. While not certain about this, I believe that it is a problem experienced by running into the maximum number of ftp users on the mirror's source site. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: network problem

1998-03-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Attenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I´m connected to my isp via isdn. Every 20 minutes my computer dials out and in dont know why. Looks like your MTA. If you use smail, check the crontab in /etc/smail. If you determine that it is

installing hamm on a production box

1998-03-09 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello all i'm currently considering having hamm as second OS on my production Debian box,and if i install it,i would also need to read some document on how to setup it (PPP networking in my case) so i could install it via ftp,here's what i think i will need to know: 1-:does there is document on

Low Memory Disk

1998-03-09 Thread Morton AntiVirus Project
What do you type in when you boot your rescue disk and need to use the lowmem disk? Collin -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

/etc/issue, ssltelnet

1998-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
[This isn't strictly Debian related] Recently I've been reading security horror stories, and things that can be done to avoid the problem. Among the more vanilla problems is the /etc/issue file - specifically, the advertisement of what OS is running on the target machine. I'd like to get things

Re: PLIP question

1998-03-09 Thread Janos A Csirik
I have been told what the problem was. Basically frisbee did not figure out correctly where the parallel port was. Inserting the plip module explicitly via insmod plip io=0x278 irq=7 solves the problem. Apparently, putting arp into the ifconfig helps, too. Now it all works. My next thing is

Kernel 2.0.33 questions

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Jackson
I recently bought an HP 7200i CD-RW, an internal EIDE device. I was wondering if 1) Kernel 2.0.33 (or perhaps one of the 2.1 series) supports CD-RW format? 2) Kernel 2.0.33 supports the Joliet extensions to ISO9660? 3) Any CD-Writer software currently available for Linux natively supports

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: [snip] The outgoing server on the win95 machine must be kept as an ip address because the nameserver won't be running on the linux machine until it is connected to an ISP name service. e.g SMTP server 192.168.1.25 in my case. Cant you use the

Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Hmm... I've been getting this for a few weeks: run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/lpr exited with return code 1 Running by hand causes no problems. Then I piped the output to mail, and when it arrives, the lpd restart only echos a .. Any ideas? This is a relatively up to date hamm system. dpkg -l

Securing your system (was: /etc/issue, ssltelnet)

1998-03-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Norman, I can't say much about the /etc/issue file since I've never really dealt with it. If you figure out what do about the issue file, could you please let me know, too. By the way, this is the first time I've ever noticed a /etc/issue.net file. Is this new to hamm, or was it in bo, too?

Re: Cgi? how to make it work? anyone?, anyone?

1998-03-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 04:28:01PM -0700, Kent Andersen wrote: Everything looks good, other than the cgi craps out. have cgi supported in apache and have pearl installed. its like an out of the box install, it acts like a permissions problem but Im not to shure, I put the cgi scripts at 755

Re: newbie setup of ppp

1998-03-09 Thread Steven Morrill
I hope this doesn't sound overly simplistic, but... I literally beat myself up trying to get ppp working when I first got started with Debian. I read, re-read and bugged everybody on the list trying to figure out what was wrong with my setup. ( pon, poff, etc.) I double checked with my isp to

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, mfrattola == mfrattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mfrattola Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every mfrattola message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? mfrattola Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue all messages mfrattola and wait for runq to make the

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My advice: before installing the new kernel (assuming 2.0.29) mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29.old install new kernel and modules run LILO or wahtever (make new boot floppy) reboot shaul Thank you. mv /lib/modules/2.0.29

JAZ Problems.

1998-03-09 Thread Corey Miller
I have an iomega JAZ (1GB) drive, using a SCSI card based around the NCR53c406a chipset. I got everything (seemingly) working fine, but I frequently get errors like the following whenever I read or write to the drive. I only have the one disk that came w/ the drive. Mar 2 23:51:51 mstie

gcc problem

1998-03-09 Thread Stephen Carpenter
My hamm system crashed and burned yesterday the problem was related to an accidently installe dpackage not unmounting filesystems properly on reboot in any case today I re-installed. I installed bo then I upgraded to hamm via autoup.sh and the CD I burned on 3-4-98 then of course dselect

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, Graham == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 Graham writes: Graham Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using Graham either Smail or Sendmail, Simple in sendmail. Graham What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver Graham my internet email, The

Re: Another Newbie question

1998-03-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 07 Mar 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: i installed hamm using disks from unstable and found there is no PS/2 mouse device (/dev/psmouse). The PS/2 mouse device is called /dev/psaux (it has been for a long time). Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locks and compiling mutt

1998-03-09 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: I'm compiling mutt for a bo system. Why aren't you using the Debian .diff.gz as a basis? IIRC there was a discussion on locks a couple days ago. It appears that I should use: ./configure --enable-flock --disable-fcntl Can

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

1998-03-09 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you use a smarthost, then the mail that they send for you is not rejected, as their HELO [domain] is valid, it can be found on the DNS. whereas mine is not. is this right? In my limited experience, mail servers always accept HELO from non-existent domains. I

Debian distribution

1998-03-09 Thread Pascal MIQUET
I'm trying to make my PS/2 LiNUX ALiVE In order to install LiNUX on an MCA(PS/2) system, DRV and RESCUE must be patched for MCA. Is the 'Official' distribution take care of the MCA ? I've found DRV and RESCUE disks to be able to install BASE floppies :) System is coming to LiFE, but on

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to the canonical name it points to. So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From: header field, the recipient mailer will rewrite it.. no

Hamm CD images available

1998-03-09 Thread Johnie Ingram
To facilitate testing of Debian 2.0 I've set my ftp site to make CD images every night at 9 p.m. EST; the image can be downloaded as something like: ftp://ftp1.us.debian.org/Debian-2.0-980309-0929Z.iso This is a T1 to Merit, who peers with MCI and others in Chicago. Please let me know

Re: /etc/issue, ssltelnet

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Among the more vanilla problems is the /etc/issue file - specifically, the advertisement of what OS is running on the target machine. I'd like to get things set up so that it's not immediately clear whether one of our servers is running Linux, BSDi,

hamm installation problem

1998-03-09 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was installing hamm tonight and i got a problem while doing so,here's what i did: 1-:repartition my hard disk,i had a 400 meg partition as /dev/hda1,a 48 meg swap partition /dev/hda2 and a 1.1 gig /dev/hda3 partition,i separated /dev/hda3 as 2 partition (hda 3 and hda4) and copied the

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Johann Spies wrote: : How do I get the postgresql (6.3) postmaster to start running from the : start. ...does not work on my debian machine: : putting it in the inittab-file or putting the postgres.init script in :

snmpd weirdness

1998-03-09 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, (It's probably not a question of the package and debian, but..) So snmpd. It seems - and some fellow admins reported that they noticed the same effetct - that snmpd's ifInOctets and ifOutOctets are incorrect. More specifically, they are usually the half of the real values, and in my case

Re: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1998-03-09 Thread Alain Nissen
Brandon Mitchell wrote: run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/lpr exited with return code 1 Running by hand causes no problems. Then I piped the output to mail, and when it arrives, the lpd restart only echos a .. Any ideas? This is a relatively up to date hamm system. dpkg -l lpr: ii lpr

Re: What does spam-mail mean?

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 03:56:16PM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote: Sorry for what could be considered a very stupid question, but what does spam-mail mean? I've tried to find the word in the dictionnary, but no luck. SPAM is mail that you don't want to receive. It's advertisements normally.

Re: Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 07:48:06PM +0100, Farzad FARID wrote: development environment is Debian hamm with libc6 version 2.0.7pre1-2 and libg++272 version 2.7.2.8-0.1. If I link my C++ program without any g++ libraries syslog works. If I link my C++ program with '-lstdc++' syslog does not

Re: ibcs, modulo.

1998-03-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Pedro! First of, two things: a) this mailing list is in english b) there is an spanish mailing list ;-) Si no te molesta te contestare en ingl'es On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, PEDRO FERNANDEZ wrote: Trabajo con Debian 1.3.1. y esto tratando de cargar el modulo

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #353

1998-03-09 Thread UNK TWO
take me off this damn list -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-09 Thread servis
On 6 Mar, Catalin Popescu wrote: Thank you for the information. But what's the file's name. I saw only huge files (which I presume include the WHOLE emacs). As I had a quite slow phone link I would prefer to download the manual only. Catalin

Re: IDE CD-ROM IRQ

1998-03-09 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
I am only guessing: 1) How does it work on DOS/WIN (assuming that you have it installed) ? No problems with Win95. 2) I would try to change what might be relevant definitions in the BIOS and see what effects these changes might have. 3) Does the HD and the CD know that they supose to be

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread apiercey
Well thanks to all your help I'm connected, but (OF COURSE) I can't get anywhere, I've check the routing tables they appear to be set up fine according to the documentation I found on them. I can ping my isp and the DNS but nothing else. ifconfig appears to display the correct info again

Anacron isn't logged

1998-03-09 Thread Bob Hilliard
I update my hamm partition from a local mirror every four or five days. Since my last update (3/5/98) anacron runs normally every day, but there is no entry in /var/log/anacron. I don't know which packages were updated on the last run. Which package controls writing to the anacron log? --

RE: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-09 Thread servis
On 9 Mar, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Mar, Catalin Popescu wrote: Thank you for the information. But what's the file's name. I saw only huge files (which I presume include the WHOLE emacs). As I had a quite slow phone link I would prefer to download the manual only. Catalin

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Perry
Have you got a name server set up with the bind package ? Not knowing your setup If your linux box is a gateway, from your NT machine, is your hosts.allow correct ? -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected

Re: Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-09 Thread Farzad FARID
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Afaik this doesn't work. Take a look at the manpage: void syslog( int priority, char *format, ...) Now look what you've given them? priority logical_OR facility as first argument Let's take a look at the openlog() function:

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 9 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to the canonical name it points to. So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From:

Re: Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:07:50PM +0100, Farzad FARID wrote: It *does* work, I've cut and paste this code from the source of the 'logger' program, right form the Debian sources :) Of course it does not Args. Seems I should take a look at that guy. work when it's linked with libstdc++,

Re: Memory leak?

1998-03-09 Thread dpk
I don't know if I'm still on the list as we had problems with our mail server last night. I am using kernel 2.0.33. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On 9 Mar 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:

Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-09 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have set up a printer on a Debian Linux box and I have a tough time getting it to accept jobs from other machines. lpr seems to work fine but lpq shows that the job did not go through because I have no line printer access. This is the etc/printcap on machine 1 raw2|com5p:\ :lp=:\

Re: snmpd weirdness

1998-03-09 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 12:03:48PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote: So snmpd. It seems - and some fellow admins reported that they noticed the same effetct - that snmpd's ifInOctets and ifOutOctets are incorrect. More specifically, they are usually the half of the real values, and in my case it

Re: Anacron isn't logged

1998-03-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: I update my hamm partition from a local mirror every four or five days. Since my last update (3/5/98) anacron runs normally every day, but there is no entry in /var/log/anacron. I don't know which packages were updated on the last run. Which

Re: locks and compiling mutt

1998-03-09 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 09:57:49AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: I'm compiling mutt for a bo system. Why aren't you using the Debian .diff.gz as a basis? IIRC there was a discussion on locks a couple days ago. It appears

Re: lynx play sound files

1998-03-09 Thread Brian White
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie ..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a ..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul You have to install the mime-support package and of course some audio-player. There is a

Re: /etc/issue, ssltelnet

1998-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 9 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: : Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Among the more vanilla problems is the /etc/issue file - specifically, : the advertisement of what OS is running on the target machine. I'd like : to get things set up so that it's not immediately clear

xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
I've tried to use the xaw-wrappers program with xload using the following entry in /etc/xaw-wrappers.conf: /usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 But all I get is: griffon:~ echo $PATH

Re: GIMP

1998-03-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Matt Thompson hat gesagt: // Matt Thompson wrote: I just upgraded GIMP, and when I tried to run it, got: $ gimp gimp fatal error: sigsegv caught [n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process: s #0 0x400ae018 in g_stack_trace () #1 0x400addd0 in g_debug () #2 0x807e2f7 in

Sound card problems

1998-03-09 Thread Wojciech Zukowski
i have a problem with my soubnd card. it's SGBXII (8bits) i can compile it only in kernel (not in module) an d i can't play mp3... does anybody know what to do? Wojciech Zukowski PGP-key ID: C27D2715

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Thomas Apel
Hi! Manoj Srivastava schrieb: Hi, mfrattola == mfrattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mfrattola Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every mfrattola message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? mfrattola Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue all messages

Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: teljenpc:~/bin$ ldd rds lib_exif.so = /home/velocis/bin/lib_exif.so (0x4000a000) lib_adm.so = /home/velocis/bin/lib_adm.so (0x4000c000)

kernel 2.0.33

1998-03-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
HI, Can I use the 2.0.33 deb package from hamm in a bo machine without upgrade the whole system to hamm? Thanks, []s Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails

(smail + pine) reply-to?

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have a local lan connected to the Internet through a Pipe 50. The domain I use is real but the domain is NOT routed on the internet right now. I would like to use smail + pine to send messages. This setup is currently working but I would like the reply-to action for these messages to

Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Just tried 3.14a, and it somehow doesn't take -nosound or -noaudio, which make Q2 bomb because of broken sound in 2.1.88 and 2.1.89 won't compile cleanly, so here we go again :) I think a have the same problem as you had (Segmentation fault on Startup). Where can i get

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably disagree. I can belive that but ideally I would like to use smail but if sendmail will do what i want then i will use that. I have sendmail set up as : sendmail -bd -q 15m same as mine at the moment. I am using a win95

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't get anywhere, I've check the routing tables they appear to be set up fine according to the documentation I found on them. I can ping my isp and the DNS but nothing else. ifconfig appears to display the correct info again according to the documentation I'm

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If your username is different on your ISP account, and you want mail to go there, your mail user agent is generally what one configures to set a correct From: and Reply-to: fields; You can, fo course, add to rule set 1 to rewrite outgoing addresses, but that requires knowledge of

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Kirk Hilliard
[Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter mem=80M (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you

Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes stable. Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: This means that there is an upstream problem. If you do not sources, there is nothing you can do but complain. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to

smail, the sequel

1998-03-09 Thread David Stern
After reading and trying out many of the ideas I've seen here and elsewhere regarding smail configuration for dialup networking, I've decided to ask for some more help. VISIBLE_NAME and PRIMARY_NAME are now~ being set to u.washington.edu after

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Ok, I'm sure we can work through this... Your /etc/nsswitch.conf file probably needs to have something like this (this is from the hamm distribution but I believe that bo is similar): # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # Information about this

Re: Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-09 Thread Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 05:33:18PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: I have set up a printer on a Debian Linux box and I have a tough time getting it to accept jobs from other machines. lpr seems to work fine but lpq shows that the job did not go through because I have no line printer access.

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Fari Boustanchi
Please unsubscribe us. Thanks Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 a écrit: I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably disagree. I can belive that but ideally I would like to use smail but if sendmail will do what i want then i will use that. I have sendmail set

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am sorry for my previous message. I found the mistake: absence of the data directory. The problem is solved. Thank you for the help. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South

Re: Kernel 2.0.33 questions

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Eure
Martin Jackson wrote: I recently bought an HP 7200i CD-RW, an internal EIDE device. I was wondering if 1) Kernel 2.0.33 (or perhaps one of the 2.1 series) supports CD-RW format? Not a kernel issue. The kernel supports ATAPI (e/ide) devices- so if the drive reads it, it works. 2)

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Behan Webster wrote: I've tried to use the xaw-wrappers program with xload using the following entry in /etc/xaw-wrappers.conf: /usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 But all I get is: griffon:~ echo $PATH

how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Well, I tried to upgrade web/w3-el to version pre 4, using dftp. But after he put some of the files in the system, he told me I could not use it unless I had emacs 20, which conflicts with emacs 19. AFAIK, vm does not work with emacs 20, so I can't upgrade (I use vm quite a lot). Resume: my

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:01:10PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: This means that there is an upstream problem. If you do not sources, there is

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Steve Mayer
Kirk, When you first see LILO appear on the screen, hit the left shift key. You should get the boot: prompt. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirk Hilliard wrote: [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are just starting out

emacs starting very slow

1998-03-09 Thread Catalin Popescu
I have Debian Linux 1.3. running on a 486-66Mhz with 32 Mb RAM with me as a single user. Until recently emacs was starting in about 2-3 seconds. In the last few days I've noticed that it takes about 12--15 seconds to start. What could possibly have happened? It seems that also other programs (such

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Christophe Broult
Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter mem=80M (don't

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes stable. Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? You shouldn't need to, but if you have any problems,

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes stable. Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? No. There is a script that will do the critical part

Re: how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I also cannot seem to find the old w3-el package (which would allow me to downgrade w3-el). Can someone help me? Use the w3-el from bo, which is in dists/stable/binary-all/web, I would guess. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-09 Thread Paul Rightley
Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a normal floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days. Paul On 01-Mar-98

autoup.sh

1998-03-09 Thread mike
I've lost my link to this script. Could somebody please post the URL? Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-09 Thread Paul Rightley
Thank you for the suggestion. I got it to install without the use of loadlin. I made a rescue disk on a normal 1.44 floppy and then put a debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current tree on a LS-120 and put resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin and base2_0.tgz in the current directory. Before installing the

Re: lynx play sound files

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Brian White wrote: hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie ..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a ..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul You have to install the mime-support package and of course some

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Joey Hess wrote: Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/xload a symlink to /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/wrapper ? Yes. I tried to reproduce this, and I can't -- I get another set of errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~xload ldd: can't open /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real (Permission denied) xaw-wrappers: unable to determine

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Kirk, Hit the shift key before Linux starts booting. If the prompt still doesn't show up, you will have to modify your /etc/lilo.conf file to add a delay for the boot prompt or even force the boot prompt to wait for input before booting begins. IIRC, the line in lilo.conf would look

Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-09 Thread T-SNAKE
I want to mostly start anew with my install, since I think during my software install, I hit some wierd button accidentally and it FLEW through a bunch of prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Should

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Another data point. If I chmod xload.real to 755, xload seems to run ok, although it still seems to come up with the xaw3d library instead of the xaw95 library... Hmmm... Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word

glut + hamm = Failure

1998-03-09 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi: I have a mostly-hamm debian system with the latest gcc, glutg3, lesstif, etc. Recently I have tried to compile some of the example programs from the book OpenGL for X and found a problem. Typically, a session goes like this: gcc -o dials dials.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXi -l

Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 09:53:56 +0200, Jaakko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Roderick Schertler wrote: Try quake2 +set s_initsound 0 instead. Will try that. Is there a list of those commands somewhere? There are lists of console commands and settable variables at

Re: emacs starting very slow

1998-03-09 Thread Keith Beattie
Catalin Popescu wrote: I have Debian Linux 1.3. running on a 486-66Mhz with 32 Mb RAM with me as a single user. Until recently emacs was starting in about 2-3 seconds. In the last few days I've noticed that it takes about 12--15 seconds to start. What could possibly have happened? It seems

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