Re: Suck 3.9 y libc6...

1998-05-31 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:04:56PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon... Copia de hamm el paquete del código fuente. Está en debian/dists/hamm/main/source/news/suck* (son tres archivos, el dsc, el diff.gz y el tar.gz). Con esto: $ dpkg-source -x suck*.dsc obtienes el código fuente debianizado,

Re: Porque no se lanza ip-up

1998-05-31 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Sat, May 30, 1998 at 11:37:29AM +0200, Juan Carlos... No (o al menos eso creo). Para que los usuarios puedan ejecutar pppd, deberias poner pppd con propiedad de grupo 'dip'. Fijate en esto: sadacia:/usr/sbin# ll pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip275491 Jun 20 1997 pppd*

Re: Porque no se lanza ip-up

1998-05-31 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, May 28, 1998 at 09:58:12PM +0200, Jesus Rodrigo... sospecho qe no se ejecuta. ¿Como puedo estar seguro ? Haz un echo Conexión establecida /tmp/prueba-ip-up a ver. Ok, se ejecuta, :-) Utilizo Debian 1.3.1. ¿ Alguien puede decirme si le funciona en esta distribución

Segmentation Fault

1998-05-31 Thread Javier Arregui
Hola a todos. Desde hace varios meses tengo Linux en casa y hasta ahora todos los problemas los he podido solucionar con manuales, HOW_TO's y con los mensajes de esta lista. Pero ahora estoy un poco perdido. Cuando hago 'man' de muchos comandos (no de todos) me aparece el error

Supra Expres 336i PnP

1998-05-31 Thread Esteban Crespí de Valldaura
¿ Alguien sabe como configurar una Supra Expres 336iPnP? no consigo configurar el puerto serie y que suene el tono de marcado. Una vez configurado, como puedo probar que funciona? (intento usar minicom pero no se si es lo mas adecuado. saludos de un recien llegado. Esteban. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Segmentation Fault

1998-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 31 May 1998, Javier Arregui wrote: Cuando hago 'man' de muchos comandos (no de todos) me aparece el error 'Segmentation Fault'. Probablemente los índices se te han estropeado. Haz mandb -c como root. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia

Help! My debian machine has a mind of its own!

1998-05-31 Thread timothy
Hi, I have been using Debian 2.0 (from install disks) along with kernel 2.0.33 for the past month or two. My Debian box serves httpd, ftpd, telnetd for some friends: 24/7 on a permanent ppp modem link. It also has NT and with linux loaded off the NT boot loader. NT is the default choice.

Re: SWAP or swap

1998-05-31 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:42:01PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: Can anyone verify this.. I don't wanna waste disk space if it's not gonna be used. Thanks to you George. It was at one point 16 megs, but it's been 128 for some time now. pgpoBHI2L0xXP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dict

1998-05-31 Thread Bob Hilliard
Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed all I could get hold of, of dict*. I snarfed it a couple or three weeks ago off Incoming. I noticed there is no Webster's. Perhaps there should be a note? By the way, where can I get ahold of the appropriately formatted Websters?

Re: 3d pass through

1998-05-31 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 28 May 98 02:02:53 GMT, in linux.debian.user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got another machine which I would like to dual boot *grin* with Winblows so I can have fun playing StarCraft and Unreal. I would like to get a 3dfx card. Will linux care if the 3dfx card is installed? I don't wish

User views on software reqd, please

1998-05-31 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day everybody -- I have a feeling that this is not going to get me far but I'm going to ask anyways: 1) Does anyone here uses mechanical drafting apps (like AutoCAD or Cadkey-lookalikes) under linux? I have a demo of Varicad running, and there is a LinuxCAD, but they don't have any demos..Or

Re: User views on software reqd, please

1998-05-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
There is a version of microstation available, but AFAIK only in for educational use. There was at one time some information on Bentley's web site. On Sat, 30 May 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: G'day everybody -- I have a feeling that this is not going to get me far but I'm going to ask

Re: Help! My debian machine has a mind of its own!

1998-05-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 30 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi, : I have been using Debian 2.0 (from install disks) along with kernel : 2.0.33 for the past month or two. My Debian box serves httpd, ftpd, telnetd for ^^ I saw a lot of weirdness with 2.0.33, especially when the load got over

Re: non-removable file

1998-05-31 Thread Bob Hilliard
Corey Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c--xr---wx 1 130918308 35, 32 Sep 8 1996 README I cant seem to find any way to remove it, even as root. I tried everything that I could think of, and it wouldn't even let me change the permissions on it. Any ideas on how I can deal

Re: User views on software reqd, please

1998-05-31 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 31 May 98 01:12:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a feeling that this is not going to get me far but I'm going to ask anyways: 1) Does anyone here uses mechanical drafting apps (like AutoCAD or Cadkey-lookalikes) under linux? I have a demo of Varicad running, and there is a LinuxCAD, but

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Here is the config.h file that is used in the packaged version. This corresponds to the 2.8.3 version; the only changes made were (define UPDATE_VIEW_COMPLEX_WALL_ILLUMINATION, ALLOW_DEBUG, ALLOW_SPOILERS), and modify DEFAULT_PATH and MAINTAINER.

Re: I need an HTML Editor

1998-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Ooops. psgml, not psgmlk. Package: psgml Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 801 Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.0.1-17 Depends: emacs19 | emacs20, sgml-base, sgml-data Recommends: sp (= 1.3) Suggests:

Re: SWAP or swap

1998-05-31 Thread Norbert Veber
Can anyone verify this.. I don't wanna waste disk space if it's not gonna be used. Thanks to you George. if you dont beleive it, run this program: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h void main () { unsigned long

Setting up initrd / Using a RAM Disk (Is there a (good) alternative?) to make a jaz the root fs with a PCMCIA scsi adapter

1998-05-31 Thread Asher Haig
I want to use a jaz disk as my root fs. The problem that I'm running into is that I need to use a pcmcia scsi adapter -- and pcmcia services are loaded off the hd. I need to repartition the HD, so of course I can't be using that as a root fs. It seems from what I'm reading in teh docs that I

Re: exim defering local deliveries

1998-05-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 30 May 1998 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: What are the permissions on /var/spool/mail and /var/spool/mail/user? drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 May 31 00:25 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 May 30 01:23 .. -rw-rw 1 morpheus mail 1326 May 30

[dt316@hotmail.com: ]

1998-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Dream Theater [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id m0yfyu8-001N7IC; Sun, 31 May 98 05:35 MET DST

Re: [dt316@hotmail.com: ]

1998-05-31 Thread Asher Haig
Martin Schulze, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/31/98 8:51 AM I'm new to the linux debian system and i'm having troubles using the Tar (Tape Archiver) i am trying to extract the X_V10r3_tar.tar Archive but am not used to the program only pkzip can someone please write out an example of what it is

Re: Soundblaster 16 PnP Help

1998-05-31 Thread rE^d
On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- I am in the process of trying to get my SoundBlaster 16 pnp card set up and have read through the Kernel-Howto, Sound-Howto, and SB16 pnp mini-howto, and had a couple of questions on how to do this. If anyone has this set up,

Yamaha sound card help

1998-05-31 Thread ctang
Hello, I have spent so much time trying to set up my Yamaha sound card (OPL-SA3), but now it only partially works. So I need more help to have it worked. Hopefully, I can write a report about this. :) I am using 'isapnp' and sound module in kernel. The card is known to work at I/O 530 IRQ

Debian games?

1998-05-31 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
What Xwindow games are avilable on Debian? == live life to the full because your DEAD longer than your alive. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian games?

1998-05-31 Thread M.C. Vernon
What Xwindow games are avilable on Debian? That's a hard question - there are lots. I like Xbomb (like minesweeper, but so much better - triangles are _impossible_), Xblast, and of course angband :) I suggest you run dselect and have a look through the xgames section ;) HTH, Matthew --

Re: Yamaha sound card help

1998-05-31 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hello, I have spent so much time trying to set up my Yamaha sound card (OPL-SA3), but now it only partially works. So I need more help to have it worked. Hopefully, I can write a report about this. :) I haven't tried mine yet, but another very helpful guy suggested this URL helped

Re: No E 14 yet

1998-05-31 Thread Jaakko Niemi
--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 09:28:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am at Linux Expo and there is STILL no E 14 yet. So the wait= =20 continues. what is E 14? :) A

Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-05-31 Thread Mark Phillips
The last few days I have been upgrading to hamm. I rebooted my computer and it died badly. Instead of coming up with lilo, it repeatedly typed: LI LI LI LI LI LI ...etc down the screen. It looks like the boot sector has been corrupted or something like that, but I don't know what I've done

Re: No E 14 yet

1998-05-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 06:12:46AM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: A total rewrite of Enlightenment. Only a point bump .. .13 to 14 for a rewrite. Can't wait for the one dot something.. ;) Enlightenment must be damn good given the fanaticism it seems to attract. Most of my X usage is on xterms

Pinnacle CD writer

1998-05-31 Thread Lindsay Allen
I have access to a Pinnacle for a few hours tomorrow and would like to burn a hamm cd or two. The notes for xcdroast say that the Pinnacle is not supported. Is there any software out there for Linux that does support it? TIA Lindsay

Re: X installation for ATI Page II+

1998-05-31 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi! i'm pretty new to linux, and still struggling. i've installed bo 2 months ago. I've AMD K6, 32M RAM, ATI Page II+ with 4M. i can't startx. i wanted to ask whether anybody encountered special problems with ATI Page II+, because my debian reacts only to ctrl+alt+del EVEN after I select

Re: No E 14 yet

1998-05-31 Thread M.C. Vernon
Most of my X usage is on xterms at university, which do 8 bit colour only, and I hear that E isn't so good in such circumstances. I even found afterstep to chew too many colours to be worthwhile. Instead I am a diehard fvwm2 fan. I too like fvwm2, but I can't configure the menu - I've RTFM

Pre-Gap Enhanced CD's

1998-05-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Does Debian support Pre-Gap Enhanced CD technology (accessing multimedia information on an audio CD) ? Windoze does not anymore... Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org

Re: No E 14 yet

1998-05-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I too like fvwm2, but I can't configure the menu - I've RTFM and looked at the config pages, but I can't add things to sub-groups of the main menu - whatever I try just ends up at the bottom of the main menu (i.e. the `root' menu that comes up first when

Re: autoup v0.22 problem

1998-05-31 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Bob Hilliard wrote, Ralph replied: I used the one unpacked from the tarball rather than the latest. Having since retrieved the v0.27, things have gone swimmingly (except that my ISP hung up on me after 6 hrs. of download; I realy need a 56K or cable modem ;-) and I expect to be running hamm

Dual screens

1998-05-31 Thread Johan Levin
I've recently come across an old monocrome display/display card. It works fine in dos, but I can't figure out how to use it in Linux. Can I e.g. create some device like /dev/console? I'd appreciate any help. /Johan Levin Sweden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Pinnacle CD writer

1998-05-31 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 31 May 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: I have access to a Pinnacle for a few hours tomorrow and would like to burn a hamm cd or two. The notes for xcdroast say that the Pinnacle is not supported. Is there any software out there for Linux that does support

Re: Less in color?

1998-05-31 Thread Michael Harnois
Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That doesn't seem to do anything different. My problem is that when I pipe an ls to less, I end up with a bunch of b/w color codes instead of colors. Makes it hard to read. Did you do ls -r? That seems to be the key. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-05-31 Thread Mark Phillips
Back again. I've tried a few more things and thought I should report what I've found. (In case you didn't read my earlier email - I've had a major crash while attempting to upgrade to hamm.) I have managed to boot under a rescue disc (I think it's a bo one). I copied e2fsck from my brother's

Re: directory tree and .deb's

1998-05-31 Thread Jack Kern
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:53:00AM -0400, G. Kaplan wrote: Can I determine the destination directory of a package from the Packages file. My objective is to calculate the disk storage requirement for all (or a preselected subset of) packages by destination directory. Where can I find this

Re: non-removable file

1998-05-31 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 30 May 1998, Corey Miller wrote: I had my computer lose power, and when I rebooted it fsck reported that I needed to run it manually. I did so, and it seemed to fix the problem. However, today I noticed a change in one of my files in my home directory. It looked like this:

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-31 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 03:06:32PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: [...] with a lot less problems than exim. I couldn't get smail to work and went to exim, which worked almost out-of- the box. :) Funny I have had the opposite experience. smail ok outa-the-box; exim was a wreck. I had smail

Help with multi-boot please.

1998-05-31 Thread INFO
Hi, Can anyone help me? I have installed (mostly) Linux on to my secondary hard drive (d:). I have NT4 sitting on the first partition of my primary (c:) and win95 sitting on the second partition of my primary (e:). There is also a third partition of my primary (f:) which I use for deep

Re: Debian games?

1998-05-31 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 31 May 98 11:14:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikhali Mifsud) wrote: What Xwindow games are avilable on Debian? Well, some people seem to like Quake and Quake2. Another great multiplayer is Xpilot, which includes AI-controlled enemies. It may not look like much, but the gameplay is great.

Re: Dual screens

1998-05-31 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 31 May, 1998, Johan Levin wrote: I've recently come across an old monocrome display/display card. It works fine in dos, but I can't figure out how to use it in Linux. Can I e.g. create some device like /dev/console? Cool I have an old mono IBM monitor hooked up to this box, I am

How to configure sendmail for dial on demand operation ?

1998-05-31 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Hi, My box is connected to my ISP via an ISDN router (Ascend pipeline), which does dial on demand. I don't want sendmail to establish connections in the background. The mail processing shall be delayed until I explicitly make a connection. Though I found various hints on I was not able to make

How to create device for tape backup

1998-05-31 Thread Randy Edwards
I just acquired an IDE tape backup and I believe that this uses ht0 for a device. I've recompiled my kernel, and the kernel recognizes the device at boot and I have a ht0 listed in /proc/devices, but I don't have any sort of /dev/ht0 entry to use the device with. Can someone tell me what

Re: Help with multi-boot please.

1998-05-31 Thread Christian Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 31 May 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me? I have installed (mostly) Linux on to my secondary hard drive (d:). I have NT4 sitting on the first partition of my primary (c:) and win95 sitting on the second partition of my primary

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Ed == Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EdOn another curious note, Manoj, why is Angband considered 'non-free'? From the copyright file: __ Copyright (c) 1989 James E. Wilson This software may be

low throughput on PPP link

1998-05-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Currently we are building two Debian boxes(2.0.30) running as routers with a PPP link in between. Things are mostly going fine except the link throughput. 56kbps is the best it gets while we are expecting over 100kbps since we are using the 16550A UART serial cards, trying for 115K.. Here's the

Re: How to create device for tape backup

1998-05-31 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
I just acquired an IDE tape backup and I believe that this uses ht0 for a device. I've recompiled my kernel, and the kernel recognizes the device at boot and I have a ht0 listed in /proc/devices, but I don't have any sort of /dev/ht0 entry to use the device with. cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ht0

adding users via scripts

1998-05-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
We are in the process of moving users from a BSDi box to a Linux box. BSDi has an adduser script which accepts encrypted passwords. The Debian adduser script does not. From reading through the code for each, it seems that BSDi's adduser script manipulates the password file directly. ( I'm not a

Re: How to create device for tape backup

1998-05-31 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
cd /dev ../MAKEDEV ht0 Sorry that should read cd /deb ./MAKEDEV ht0 not ../MAKEDEV ... Bernt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Not able to use leafnode and trn?

1998-05-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all! I'm a little bit puzzled. I am trying to set up my system so I can read USENET news offline. Having failed to get slrn and slrnpull to work I've decided to try leafnode with trn instead. However it seems that using trn means I can't use leafnode, despite leafnode suggesting it! As shown

Kernel problems -- unresolved symbols.

1998-05-31 Thread Matthew D. Myers
When I recompile my kernel with all the stuff I don't need turned off, for example scsi support. At bootup I get messages about unresolved symbols and stuff. What did I do wrong and how can I fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Not able to use leafnode and trn?

1998-05-31 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Sun, 31 May 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: I'm a little bit puzzled. I am trying to set up my system so I can read USENET news offline. Having failed to get slrn and slrnpull to work I've decided to try leafnode with trn instead. However it seems that using trn means I can't use leafnode,

Re: How to create device for tape backup

1998-05-31 Thread Randy Edwards
Thanks for the tip Bernt. I assume that MAKEDEV pulls the device info from /proc/devices? Another tape-related device I've seen reference to (and thus assume I need) is /dev/nht0. Any idea what that device might be for and why two are needed (in addition to whether it is made the same

Re: How to create device for tape backup

1998-05-31 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Thanks for the tip Bernt. I assume that MAKEDEV pulls the device info from /proc/devices? Another tape-related device I've seen reference to (and thus assume I need) is /dev/nht0. Any idea what that device might be for and why two are needed (in addition to whether it is made the same