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Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm in the middle of upgrade from 1.3.1 to hamm upgrade and was trying to
upgrade the packages in dists/unstable/main using dselect. I have already
run the autoup.sh script.
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:59:48 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) said:
>
> 1) Is df.pm debianized?
Nope, and it's my fault. I posted my intent to package it to debian-devel,
found that the module has a copyright which accidentally prohibits anybody
from distributing it at all, then forgo
I heard that glibc2 (libc6) supports an extended character set.
Is it correct ?
Where (www.where) can I learn more about this support ?
Thank you.
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It seems that I did not understand what is the problem.
I thought you can't *start* the installation process because the machine has
no "normal" floppy drive. Reading your reply made me thought that the problem
is that the installation process does not run becuase the default kernel could
not ge
> what is a image file?
The meaning of an image file depends on the context. In the context of
installing debian it means a file that is a bit by bit copy of another file.
This is needed bacuase OSs tend to add headers and other signs for varuios
files. For example, DOS will add the ^Z character
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote:
: > Well, OK, you might call them misconfigured. But read this quote from
: > rfc1985: "[...] there is no documented stipulation for checking the
: > authenticity of the remote host name, as given in the HELO or EHLO
command."
: >
: > I cannot find
When Abou Anber wrote, I replied:
Arrange your Modeline lines in the order you prefer:
Modeline "800x600" 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165
Interlace
Modeline "640x480" ...
Modeline "1280x1024" ...
or whatever - make the one you like best the first entry, the one
you like next best
I currently have an application running on WinNT/MS SQL Server and I'd
like to port it to Debian. NT has been a huge hassle.
The app is essentially a daemon that receives diagnostic transactions on
a point-of-sale network, processes them, and puts them in a database.
It handles about 30-40 tps pe
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Ender Wigin wrote:
> > Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0)
> > TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package...
>
> Actualy look on the microsoft web site they have some and links to some
> that are actuly public domain, Microsoft says
Bruce Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone please tell me how to connect my newly loaded Linux machine to
> my small LAN in my apartment? I am running two Windows 95 machines as
> well. I believe I selected the IPX/SPX option when I set it up. Actually,
> if possible, can someone t
-K
Kevin Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do the Free-Ride
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0)
> TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package...
Actualy look on the microsoft web site they have so
I'm playing with mon as a packaged alternative to nocol, and I have 2
questions:
1) Is df.pm debianized?
2) Is tcp_scan part of a debian package yet?
Both of these are used by mon..
Tim
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You haven't provided enough information. When you say 'local mail' what does
that
mean? Please provide examples, including machine names, domain names, etc.
M K Pai wrote:
> We are running a LAN. E-mail clients are Win95 Eudora. Mail Server is a
> Linux box running sendmail 8.8.8. We have a serv
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header
>> > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header
>> > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header
>> >
>> >This is possible by
>> > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf t
Kevin,
Funny you should mention this. I looked at this problem--let me phrase it as
'how do I
find the "NetBIOS name of a machine give its IP'--and didn't get to the
solution.
However, here's what I found. The NetBT protocol for looking up names uses the
same
packet format as DNS, but uses diff
Hi,
Is it possible to use non-standard mirrors with dselect-ftp method?
Is possible, how?
The mirors in my country has no stable directory,
binary-all/
binary-i386/
...
are in /debian/ and dselect complains that there is no stable directory.
Thanks,
Deniz Dogan
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George,
[humor mode on]
To do a network sniff one must procure a very long piece of network cable.
Using you left hand raise the cable to your face just below you nose (about
mustache height). Now inhale with extreme vigor.
[humor mode off]
The only product I've ever user for sniffing is fr
Hi -
I've been looking into getting some external storage for my Thinkpad 560
and I was wondering if there are Linux drivers available for the PCMCIA
version of the drive (I know there's parallel port support).
Additionally, does anyone have opinions about this drive or others like
it? I'm inter
Hi,
Is it possible to use non-standard mirrors with dselect-ftp method?
Is possible, how?
The mirors in my country has no stable directory,
binary-all/
binary-i386/
...
are in /debian/ and dselect complains that there is no stable directory.
Thanks,
Deniz Dogan
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Hi,
I getting the following error when sending e-mail, mainly if not
using pine:
|- Message log follows: -|
Xfail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reason: (ERR144) transport uux: child
returned status EX_OSFILE (72)
|- Failed ad
Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself down at a
specified timeout (if the drive supports it).
Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> I would like my IDE disks (I'd very much appciate a general solution too
> which can be used on SCSI systems) to spin down when unmounted. Mounting
>
Does anyone use the old curses-based "month" calendar program
(last version was 8.7, I think) posted years ago to
comp.sources.unix?
I successfully compiled and ran it using the "-traditional" gcc flag
under bo, but since upgrading to hamm the program is occasionally
crashing, and now I can't get
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Joyal wrote:
>
> >gcc -shared -I/usr/include/apache -I/usr/include/postgresql -o
> >>mod_auth_pg95.so mod_auth_pg95.c -L/usr/lib/postgresql/lib -lpgsql
>
> but ld could not find lpgsql. I then tried compiling with -lpq and the
> mod_auth_pg95.so file was created,
S
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
> /dev/hda1: 37745/208896 files (6.0% non-contiguous), 733081/833584 blocks
>
> Does this mean that 6 percent of the files are fragmented, or that 6
> percent of my total disk space is fragmented? I presume this means my
> disk is not too bad?
I don't
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define.
pine (typo)
> Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine.
Or, better, ftp:///debian/non-free/source/pine_*
> It'd be great if Debi
Have you tried disabling APM? This kills me every time on my GW Solo 2100. I
have to disable it during booting otherwise the machine will crash. You may be
able to compile support into the kernel which would be the preferable solution.
This doesn't work for me because apparently the BIOS implementa
HELP: Configuring PPP on a Basic Debian Linux 1.3.1 System
-
ABSTRACT:
The simplest of cnfigurations, a standalone Linux system with an
external modem going across a regular phone line to a well-behaved
ISP cannot get dial-up cap
If you want to do a full backup each night the cron job is a snap, just
'dump 0f /dev/tape-device'. As to the restore disk this is something I've
wanted to set up for a while. I haven't made it a priority though because I
know I can restore by hand. This shouldn't be too hard though: there's a
pack
I heard that XFree86 3.3.2 has default color depth options during setup.
Carroll Kong
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> edit /etc/X11/XF86zConfig (on a hamm system) or /etc/XF86Config (on a bo
> system)
> and add the following line in the "Screen" section (the sae section
You can change headers in pine configuration menu
start pine go to setup, configure.
After that find (using W) customized-hdrs
You can set any header you want for example
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and so on...
Hope this helps
ZORO
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall
I was trying to install rsync trough dselect, and I got this one
Unpacking rsync (from .../net/rsync_1.6.2-1.deb) ...
dl_boot: mmap of /dev/zero failed!
dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 13
dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/net/rsync_1.6.2-1.deb
(--install):
Mine works great. I have PNP-aware BIOS which initializes the card so I simply
looked at what the settings ended up to be in Win95 and used these.
Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone ever been able to configure their Ensoniq Soundscape (yes,
> it is fairly old) card to work on Linux? I can
Hi!
> mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header
> mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header
> mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header
>
> This is possible by
> a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive
>
"Maximiano C. Francisco III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run
> at 16bpp by running X as:
> X -bpp 16
> But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this
> resolution automatically?
>
> Also, I
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote:
: > No, I'm just telling them that the mail originated in my isp's domain.
: > The HELO supposedly tells them who I am.
: >
: Yes! ... HELO/EHLO your.domain.org
: then smail (with some switches on) will test if the name and the IP# of the
: originati
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:
It is possible that you have a problem with a network card on the same segment
that your machine is on (It could be the card in your machine too.) You really
need to do an ethernet sniff to find out if the giant frames are all from the
same ethernet address or if they are from different address
Richard G. Roberto wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
>
> > i have originally subscribed to the digest list and now,i'm receiving the
> > non-digest version,could someone point me how to correct that ??
> >
>
> Me too.
Me three.
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Abou Anber wrote:
>
> At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like
>
> Linux (Bebian )
>
> Login
>
> Passward
>
> at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ +
> the res
When using xdm, put a line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers like my last line:
# $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $
#
# Xservers file, workstation prototype
#
# This file should contain entries to start the servers on the
# local machine;
# X servers are automatically added to
edit /etc/X11/XF86zConfig (on a hamm system) or /etc/XF86Config (on a bo system)
and add the following line in the "Screen" section (the sae section that
lists which monitor, vid card, and resolutions and server all in one)
DefaultColorDepth 16
it really does helpI can't stand 8 bit color
I lo
Hi,
Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0)
TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package...
Marcelo
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How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run
at 16bpp by running X as:
X -bpp 16
But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this
resolution automatically?
Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE
having t
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> i have originally subscribed to the digest list and now,i'm receiving the
> non-digest version,could someone point me how to correct that ??
>
Me too.
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Abou Anber wrote:
>
> At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like
>
> Linux (Bebian )
>
> Login
>
> Passward
>
> at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ +
> the res
When I edit files in X pressing the cursor keys outputs weird
characters.
How do I fix this??
Kechie
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I installed Netscape while running X at 32 bpp. Now, when I change to 24
bpp by altering /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and restarting xdm, Netscape has
problems. Opening pages with Java in them makes Netscape crash with a
bus error. Also, the icons become monochromatic (sometimes black,
sometimes red, etc.
At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like
Linux (Bebian )
Login
Passward
at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ +
the resolution become smaller again Cntl
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"Bruce Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone please tell me how to connect my newly loaded Linux machine to
> my small LAN in my apartment? I am running two Windows 95 machines as
> well.
You want to use TCP/IP. Choose a private network to use (basically
192.168..xxx) and assign nu
In debian-user, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the example above, I suppose I could write some kind of macro,
> opening shell output, but it gets much more interesting when I am
> looking at
>
> program | less
>
> and I do not want to execute program again, and I also
Hi, All.
I'm having a spot of difficulty getting xisp to work...
Can anyone who has successfully got this package working give
me a few pointers as to what files to configure etc. ?
I have read the documentation over and over, and I do consider
myself to be an advanced user, but this darned thin
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
>
> You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define.
> Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine.
> It'd be great if Debian's pine was compiled with this. You still have
> to add 'From' to the user-cha
> I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like
> to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard
You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define.
Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine.
It'd be great if Debian'
On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 20:23:06 CST, Rich Puhek wrote:
> The MX record (Mail eXchange) is on your DNS server. It's what points
> incoming mail for "@foo.bar to the appropriate machine to handle
> the mail. What's worked for me is the following:
>
> mail IN A 10.0.20.1
> IN
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