fetchmail

1998-06-25 Thread R.Ll..V
Hola: reinstale debian 1.3.1 hace 12 dias. Configuré el sendmail y el fetchmail segun el Sendmail +fetchmail como La primera instalacion no me dieron ningun problema ni uno ni el otro. Pero ahora fetchmail no me baja los mensajes. Se conectacon el servidor pop3 acepta el name y el pass me dice los

Re: Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo

1998-06-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 06:23:39PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: compilar el kernel uso make menuconfig en el cual se puede obserbar que tiene opciones diferentes a mi anterior kernel por lo que agradecería a que si alguien ha conseguido compilar el kernel con soporte para la ZIP (a ser posible no

glibc 2.0.7r-2

1998-06-25 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista... Estoy cotilleando el codigo fuente de glibc 2.0.7r-2, y he visto que lleva unos parches para reemplazar a libgdbmg1-dev. ¿Se podria decir lo mismo del paquete libgdbmg1, y por tanto se podrian desintstalar los paquetes libgdbmg1 y ligdbmg1-dev? Saludos. P.D. ¿Sabe alguien

instalar tarjeta de red con driver de ELF1.2.13

1998-06-25 Thread Narcis
Buenas a todos, Tengo una tarjeta de red CeLAN PCI (EPCIPlus), con el chip RTL8029, Esta no aparece en la lista de tarjetas de mi Debian 1.3.1 y buscando por la red encontré un driver ... Lin8029.tar. Lo desempaquete en un directorio y vi que contenía lo siguiente: arch/i386/config.in

Re: glibc 2.0.7r-2

1998-06-25 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: P.D. ¿Sabe alguien de algun distribuidor en España que disponga ya de la Debian 2.0? ¡Ojo! La Debian 2.0 todavía no existe. Sólo existe la Beta. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: instalar tarjeta de red con driver de ELF1.2.13

1998-06-25 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 01:36:35PM +0200, Narcis wrote: ¿ Sabría alguien decirme que he hecho mal ? y ¿ Sabéis si en la 2.0 se soportan tarjetas RealTek ? Están soportadas en el kernel 2.0.34. Ese kernel es el que viene en la 2.0, pero también lo puedes recompilar tú mismo para tu Debian 1.3.1.

Re: 2 ethernet cards (more ...)

1998-06-25 Thread Ian Eure
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:08:07PM -0700, Philippe BARBELET wrote: Hi Debian friends, I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. At boot time, the system says : 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA and MCA bus!! loading device 'eth0'... eth0: 3c509 at

Re: 2.0 Beta Party...

1998-06-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: We already *did* get rid of most of the bugs, otherwise we wouldn't even release a beta. The point is that we think it is quite stable now, and can be recommended to users who can't wait any day

older debian release?

1998-06-25 Thread peter
hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. none of the older releases are on the main ftp sites (so far as i can tell) and doing a web

2.1.x kernels and depmod

1998-06-25 Thread Lindsay Allen
After changing two hamm boxes to my first 2.1.x kernels (2.1.106), I find that there is no mention in /lib/modules/2.1.106/modules.dep of a dependency on 8390.o by ne.o. It just shows:- /lib/modules/2.1.106/net/ne.o: instead of:_ /lib/modules/2.1.106/net/ne.o: /lib/modules/2.1.106/net/8390.o

Beta on CD?

1998-06-25 Thread Will French
Is the 2.0 beta available as a CD image? I'd like to try it, but I really need it to be on a CD. $ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beta on CD?

1998-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Will French wrote: Is the 2.0 beta available as a CD image? I'd like to try it, but I really need it to be on a CD. Try http://www.netgod.net/, it lists a couple of vendors. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:51:19AM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to start on makeing a web interface for a database i

Re: diald w/ dynamic ip address

1998-06-25 Thread stick
Pann McCuaig said Can someone point me to a sample configuration of diald when the caller's ip address is dynamically assigned by the ISP? Here's my /etc/diald/diald.connect from a system that's got dynamic IP: fifo /var/lib/diald/diald.fifo mode ppp connect sh /etc/diald/connect device

Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
As is my wont, I experiment with stuff on an old RH4.2 install (except as noted recently in this venue, my foray in Gnomeification-From-Source, which I carried out wily-nily on this Debian 1.3 system). I recently built from source, on the olde RH, egcs 1.0.2; said build process is certainly a

Partitioning/Dual Booting

1998-06-25 Thread M. Phillips
I'm a newby to the whole Linux/GNU/Debian system, being a long-time MS devotee, and although I am very close to being sold on getting it, I have a couple of questions to clear up first. 1: In the FAQ, section 3.4 http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-3.html#ss3.4 states that one should

Re: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Christopher Fury
Read the FAQ for egcs, it describes how to install and still have gcc. Don't worry, I had a simular but unlrelated FAQ reading problem with egcs recently too... :) Here's what I did (Still read the FAQ to make sure the gist is right) configure egcs like so: ./configure

speed improvements for a low end system

1998-06-25 Thread Paul Miller
I'm in the process of replacing my computer's role with an old computer, to give my system more freedom (I don't have to be up all the time!). Anyone have any software suggestions on how I can improve the speed on my old 486DX/33 (8 ram, 1 ide, 2 old scsi drives, PS/1 w/ 8k i-cache!)? This

program to switch consoles?

1998-06-25 Thread Paul Miller
I'm looking for a program to switch the displayed console after my system finishes booting (from tty1 to tty2). Why? I use tty1 for logging in and tty2 for syslog messages, and I'd like to see the output by default after my system boots. -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: Just wondering, is it safe to '_' the following packages??? --- Removed and no longer available packages --- - Removed Required packages - --- Removed Required packages in section base ---

Re: program to switch consoles?

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I'm looking for a program to switch the displayed console after my system finishes booting (from tty1 to tty2). Why? I use tty1 for logging in and tty2 for syslog messages, and I'd like to see the output by default after my system boots. -Paul

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote: Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff, then put CD drive in when it asks for it.. I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 12:27:56PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:51:19AM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was

Re: Partitioning/Dual Booting

1998-06-25 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* M. Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 1: In the FAQ, section 3.4 | http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-3.html#ss3.4 states that one | should partition a 1.6 GB hard disk with the following partitions: | | ?30 MBytes for the root directory (/) | ?450 MBytes for /usr | ?50 MBytes for swap

Re: Partitioning/Dual Booting

1998-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
M. Phillips wrote: I'm a newby to the whole Linux/GNU/Debian system, being a long-time MS devotee, and although I am very close to being sold on getting it, I have a couple of questions to clear up first. 1: In the FAQ, section 3.4

pppd 2.3 oddity. Help me, dammit! :)

1998-06-25 Thread Dale Harrison
Howdy, I recently [ie, 6am this morning] upgraded one of my bo boxes to hamm, via apt-get [which I must say is incredibly cool.. ] Everything seems ok, except for ppp. It doesn't want to work anymore. I'd be happy if that were the end of the story, it'd mean that I was doing something wrong.

changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Hank Fay
The Debian install (from floppies; CD is in the mail, couldn't wait g) went smoothly; a lot more smoothly than RedHat. The only hitch was that the ethernet was not installed correctly until the second try, and the first try's settings were stuck in some file (Running... says look for an .RC file,

RE: changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Hank Fay
Oops -- the info on modules to be loaded was in /etc/modules -- but no info on the parameters being passed. -Original Message- From: Hank Fay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 1:36 AM To: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: changing module parameters The Debian install

Re: printing man pages

1998-06-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Alex == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone explain me how can i print a man page? Is there any utility program for this? Alex You may convert the source of the man page to postscript file Alex and then print it, like: Alex zcat /usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -tmandoc -T ps ls.ps

Re: speed improvements for a low end system

1998-06-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I want to remove all processes that take lots of cpu time and memory. Recompiling the kernel is also something I'm interested in -- what takes cpu time/memory in the kernel? Experimenting with this is too slow; it takes several hours to recompile!

Re: changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 01:52:11AM -0400, Hank Fay wrote: Oops -- the info on modules to be loaded was in /etc/modules -- but no info on the parameters being passed. You want /etc/conf.modules. my ne otions line is: options ne io=0x340 -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, After a discussion on this list some time ago on exim, I decided to try out exim once again and once again I could not get it to work. I use Debian 1.3.1. I have a dialup system and use fetchmail an procmail normally with smail. After running eximconfig and answering the questions as

Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

1998-06-25 Thread Damon Muller
Hey Folks, I have a 1.2G IDE HD that I have in a removable drive cady on my Bo system. It's not a 'hot-swap' drive or anything sophisticated like that, and on my Windoze system I wouldn't have even considered pulling it out while the PC was running. However, under Linux, shouldn't I just be able

Re: xterm-debian?

1998-06-25 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:05:57PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: What's the difference between a standard xterm and a xterm-debian terminfo/termcap entry? It's easy enough to do a set term=xterm but I really don't want to keep doing that. Why did Debian create their own terminfo/cap entry and

DO NOT UPGRADE TO PLAN 1.6.1-4.2 ! USE -5

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Sorry for this, but I made a very bad mistake in -4.2, which will just unconditionally overwrite you netplan-acl file with an empty one. Please get 1.6.1-5 instead (in Incoming for now, maybe at its mirrors), it has this problem fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience - I sincerely hope nobody

Re: pppd 2.3 oddity. Help me, dammit! :)

1998-06-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DH == Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DH I dialin to a provider and authenticate via PAP. This was fine up until I DH upgraded ppp. It doesn't authenticate anymore. I've tried it on other DH providers and the same story... except when I dial into another hamm box. DH Everything's fine

Re: Isn't cc the default compiler?

1998-06-25 Thread Steve Lamb
On 25 Jun 1998 10:24:02 +0200, Brederlow wrote: I compiled a lot of packages on my system and often I see that programms don't use cc as their compiler. Thus they don't use /etc/alternatives/cc. Unless somebody tells me a good reason for not using cc I will open bugs against any Packages that

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jun, BARBELET Philippe wrote: But I think people want an exact list of the output that is generated after the kernel is done and the init scripts have started. So this is not the 'complete' solution. This is just a stab in the dark. But could something like

Re: Need help running man on newly installed Debian system

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
Fungame Game [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also

Re: Installing 95 NT w/out frying Linux. [Important]

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have heard some ppl on the list frying their Linux installations when installing 95/NT. So can someone please instruct me as to a -safe- way of removing installing 95 NT. Win95 should be fine, but WinNT will fry your boot menu. Make a bootdisk for

Re: Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey Folks, I have a 1.2G IDE HD that I have in a removable drive cady on my Bo system. It's not a 'hot-swap' drive or anything sophisticated like that, and on my Windoze system I wouldn't have even considered pulling it out while the PC was running.

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-25 Thread Lindsay Allen
On 25 Jun 1998, Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jun, BARBELET Philippe wrote: But I think people want an exact list of the output that is generated after the kernel is done and the init scripts have started. So this is not the 'complete' solution. [snip]

Re: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 11:47:27PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: I would like to put egcs on this Debian 1.3 system (which, with the imminent release of 2.0 CD's will most likely become my next experimental victim) but it now occurs to me to ask what caveats I should observe upon accomplishing

Re: Linux Compaq servers?

1998-06-25 Thread kriol
Hi, Chea On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Chea Prince wrote: is Compaq shipping servers with Linux installed? is there an article somewhere outlining Compaq + Linux? what kind of server(s) are you interesting in? we just installed rh 5.1 (sorry, debian) on 2CPU Compaq Proliant 2500. I have some

Files missing on ftp-mirrors

1998-06-25 Thread Joerg Friedrich
There are many files missing on ftp.de.debian.org and ftp.at.debian.org i.e. dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xfnt100_3.3.2.2-1.deb dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-2.deb dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xfntscl_3.3.2.2-1.deb

man -k isn't working on recent hamm

1998-06-25 Thread Dr. Michael Grimm
Hi, I'm running a hamm system from June, 23rd and have problems with man -k. Both relevant packages, man-db_2.3.10-65.deb and manpages_1.19-1.deb, are installed correctly, that's at least what dpkg -s is telling me. I can access every manpage in /usr/man/..., but I can't use man -k, it won't

Re: Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

1998-06-25 Thread Ian Eure
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 11:29:38PM -0700, Damon Muller wrote: Hey Folks, I have a 1.2G IDE HD that I have in a removable drive cady on my Bo system. It's not a 'hot-swap' drive or anything sophisticated like that, and on my Windoze system I wouldn't have even considered pulling it out while

xhost

1998-06-25 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I am trying to configure my debian 1.3.1 box to allow me to run X programs from the root account when I am logged in as another user, this is because the root account is locked so I have to 'su' to root, the problem I am having is that before I 'su' to root I have to run xhost hostname.

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-25 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:51:19AM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to

setuid problems

1998-06-25 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
Aren't setuid shell scripts supposed to be executed with EUID=1? They aren't on my system. I can't see what's wrong here... oskar:~$ id uid=1000(usel) gid=1000(usel) groups=1000(usel) oskar:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/suidtest #!/bin/sh echo uid=$UID euid=$EUID oskar:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/suidtest

Re: xhost

1998-06-25 Thread Stefan Gödel
If you always su to root from the same account (as i do), you can simply create a symbolic link from /root/.Xauthority to /home/xyz/.Xauthority (with xyz being your user name). Stefan __ Stefan Gödel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: older debian release?

1998-06-25 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. well, I tried 1.3.1 with 2MB, but that's really really

Re: xhost

1998-06-25 Thread fantomas
- I am trying to configure my debian 1.3.1 box to allow me to run X - programs from the root account when I am logged in as another user, this - is because the root account is locked so I have to 'su' to root, the - problem I am having is that before I 'su' to root I have to run xhost - hostname.

smbmount /usr possible?

1998-06-25 Thread Gunnar Strand
Greetings fellow debian users, I've recently gotten myself a little local network and have decided to run my old 486 as server for exporting its large HD by using samba. My new PC (the client) has both Linux and Win95 bootable + the old 1GB HD. Now, I want to minimize the Linux partition on my

Re: xhost

1998-06-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GL == 44 1785 248131 Graham writes: GL I am trying to configure my debian 1.3.1 box to allow me to run X GL programs from GL the root account when I am logged in as another user, this is because GL the root GL Also I have root's profile script set to export the DISPLAY environment GL variable

Re: mouseman+ with linux

1998-06-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mike Orr wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 04:14:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any info on using the 4-button/1-wheel logitech mouseman+ mouse with linux? See Colas Nahaboo's X Mouse Wheel Scroll Page at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ and also

Re: smbmount /usr possible?

1998-06-25 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
I'm not sure about the package management issue but I would definely use NFS in this case isntead of samba. SMB is missing some important filesystem features, such as permission bits and file ownership that you generally really want to have on /usr. Nate On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Gunnar Strand

Re: PNP

1998-06-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adam Greene wrote: I've been out of the loop for a while and I am wondering if Plug and Play is yet in the kernel?? PnP support is in the development kernel (currently 2.1.106) but not in the stable kernel (currently 2.0.34). There is a package called isapnptools that can detect

lilo-password-dos

1998-06-25 Thread xsat
Hy, don't you know, how to passwordize dos part of lilo - to make safer computer. (I know, that the best is to formate dos, but sometimes I need dos a bit). Thak's a lot. Martin S. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Linux Compaq servers?

1998-06-25 Thread Chea Prince
don't have a server model in mind. situation is this. we (public domain, inc. --pd) have been providing internet access to other nonprofits and individual artists for the past seven years on a sun 4/280 running sun OS 4.1.1. we now need to replace the sun -- which btw has run reliably 24/7 for

Re: setuid problems

1998-06-25 Thread David Z. Maze
Oskar Liljeblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OL Aren't setuid shell scripts supposed to be executed with EUID=1? OL They aren't on my system. I can't see what's wrong here... setuid-root (and probably setuid-anything) scripts run with the uid of the caller; they ignore the setuid bit. OL Some

RE: lilo-password-dos

1998-06-25 Thread Richardson,Anthony
You just need to add a password=XX line to each OS stanza as shown in the lilo.conf file below. You are prompted for a password after entering your OS selection at the lilo prompt: prompt compact single-key timeout=600 boot=/dev/hda message=/boot/message image=/vmlinuz label=Linux

2 ethernet cards - Thank you

1998-06-25 Thread BARBELET Philippe
Hi Ian, You were right. I have recompile the kernel whith the module 3c509 included and it's working very well ! Thenak you ! Phil. -- De: Ian Eure A: Barbelet, Philippe Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet: Re: 2 ethernet cards (more ...) Date: jeudi 25 juin 1998 01:14 Microsoft

Re: Need linux for alpha

1998-06-25 Thread Will Lowe
unless something drastic happened very recently, Linux will NOT run on any of the DEC 3000 series. for more info, check out Thanks for the info. Arg. :) Will -- |

RE: changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Hank Fay
Mike, yup, that works fine, thanks. A followup question: the old wrong parameters install still shows up earlier in the boot sequence. Where is that information stored? I'm half-guessing, being new at this thing, that it was compiled into some kind of map when I built the

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Panzer wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. Netscape for linux leaks memory like hell;

dump and 4mm DAT

1998-06-25 Thread Philippe BARBELET
Dear debian users, Do you know what are the good parameters to use whith the dump command for a 4mm DAT system ? Tank you. Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smbmount not showing all dir enteries on client

1998-06-25 Thread servis
Hi, I have my Debian box running samba 1.9.18p8. I am also mounting the clients drives with smbmount. The problem is that not all the directories on the client are showing up when mounted. In the windows directory on the client when I issue 'dir /a:d/o:n' I get: AIM95 DIR

Re: program to switch consoles?

1998-06-25 Thread Steve Mayer
Paul, man switchto Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Miller wrote: I'm looking for a program to switch the displayed console after my system finishes booting (from tty1 to tty2). Why? I use tty1 for logging in and tty2 for syslog messages, and I'd like to see the output by default

Re: Partitioning/Dual Booting

1998-06-25 Thread Mark Panzer
M. Phillips wrote: I'm a newby to the whole Linux/GNU/Debian system, being a long-time MS devotee, and although I am very close to being sold on getting it, I have a couple of questions to clear up first. 1: In the FAQ, section 3.4 http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-3.html#ss3.4

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-25 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have bootet some HPux systems here at the Univiersity and I realy liked the way they boot: After the kernel is loaded you get a list of things to be done. All have a [.] at the end. Now the bootprocedure goes from top to bottom and fills in what its doing into

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-25 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again But generally I would like to see something like this, writing the output from this program to a seperate log file might be an idea to. HPUX also makes boot/shudown logs regards, Ulisses -

Socks

1998-06-25 Thread Boris Lackovic
helo!! Where can I find socks package? Running bo 1.3.1. I would like to install sockd demon to help local users to use port 1080 as SOCKS port for the netscape etc... in my gateway to another network. Btw...Im inside firewal..no chanse to run some proxy server on my PC. (Im not alloved to use

How to use 2 ISPs with PAP?

1998-06-25 Thread atheris
Can anyone advise on how to configure the system to handle two ISP connections, both of which use PAP: 1. ISP with dynamic IP address 2. ISP with fixed IP address How should the routing work? At present I have 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 lo 192.168.0.00.0.0.0

Re[2]: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
Christopher Fury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry, I had a simular but unlrelated FAQ reading problem with egcs recently too... :) Hmmm...sort of a new public mental health issue, huh? We could call it FAQophobia or something equally pithy! Start a movement to defend the rights of

Re[2]: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you are patient (to wait for the CD), or if you don't mind downloading Debian 2.0 Beta: Debian 2.0 Beta already comes with both gcc and egcs. ;-) Kewl. BTW, Linux System Labs is taking orders for 2.0 (at least they've got mine!); they forecast

Re: Re[2]: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, $ ls -l /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/gcc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root60320 Jun 17 03:04 /usr/bin/egcc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root49460 Jun 15 00:48 /usr/bin/gcc* Ok, I haven't posted a BIG DUMMY question in quite some time; I'm overdue! SO: what's the

Mouse freezes when running GIMP

1998-06-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
I have libgtk 1.04 and GIMP 1.0 (hamm) and a standard serial el-cheapo mouse. When I run GIMP, the mouse locks up. I have to use Ctrl-Alt-Backsp to exit X. This didn't happen with prior versions, but I'm not sure what exactly is causing it, because both gtk and gimp have been updated in the

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-25 Thread Mark Panzer
Ed Cogburn wrote: Mark Panzer wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. Netscape for

VAXstation Linux

1998-06-25 Thread Tod Detre
Is there any plans to port Debian to VAXstations? I know there is a port of NetBSD, but Debian would be so much cooler. Tod Detre |Losers whine about their best, winners go home and @%^ the | prom queen. -Sean Connery (The Rock) |It is TOD not TODD! Do you see God spelling

Re: program to switch consoles?

1998-06-25 Thread Paul Miller
Perfect! That is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks -Paul On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I'm looking for a program to switch the displayed console after my system finishes booting (from tty1 to tty2). Why? I use tty1 for

Re: dosemu

1998-06-25 Thread The Gecko
On 24-Jun-98 Ian Stuart wrote: How on earth do I get dosemu to use my 4Dos dos rather than freedos? dosemu uses a disk image that's been created before hand. To get dosemu to use another *dos than the one it's currently using.. build another/different disk image.. I built my image off of a

Re: Mouse freezes when running GIMP

1998-06-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: I have libgtk 1.04 and GIMP 1.0 (hamm) and a standard serial el-cheapo mouse. When I run GIMP, the mouse locks up. I have to use Ctrl-Alt-Backsp to exit X. This didn't happen with prior versions, but I'm not sure what exactly is causing it, because both gtk and gimp have

Re: speed improvements for a low end system

1998-06-25 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I'm in the process of replacing my computer's role with an old computer, to give my system more freedom (I don't have to be up all the time!). Anyone have any software suggestions on how I can improve the speed on my old 486DX/33 (8 ram, 1 ide, 2

Re: smbmount /usr possible?

1998-06-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Gunnar Strand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently gotten myself a little local network and have decided to run my old 486 as server for exporting its large HD by using samba. My new PC (the client) has both Linux and Win95 bootable + the old 1GB HD. Now, I want to minimize the Linux

dosemu resolution

1998-06-25 Thread Robert Kerr
Many thanks to all those who gave me their thoughts on dosemu. I got it up and running yesterday. Here's what I did: 1) Boot dos6.22. 2) Sys a floppy 3) boot Linux 4) run dosemu using the boot floppy C: drive is the supplied hdimage 5) lredir d: my hard drive dos directory 6) using the

Re: dump and 4mm DAT

1998-06-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I use: dump 0uBf 4096000 /dev/st0 A couple of things to notice: 0 This means do a level 0 dump (everything). You'll want to work out a schedule of full/incremental dumps u This means that /etc/dumpdates should be updated. Incrementals backups depend on this data. B This is the length of

Re: changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:50:29AM -0400, Hank Fay wrote: Mike, yup, that works fine, thanks. A followup question: the old wrong parameters install still shows up earlier in the boot sequence. Where is that information stored? I'm half-guessing, being new at this thing, that

xmp-1.1.3 plays wrong on AWE32...

1998-06-25 Thread Aki Nyrhinen
What's wrong ? When I try to play a module using oss_seq, it plays the patterns _really_ fast. The oss_mix works like a charm.. platform is a noname alpha, kernel version is 2.1.107. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread neuwirth
Hi all, I hope this is the right list for utterly and incredibly new Linux newbies. I had another distribution my machine but it was too old to recognize most of my hardware to I gave it away. I'm waiting now for Debian 2 to start anew but I wanted to be sure my hardware will work with this one.

squake not working

1998-06-25 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all! I am having a few problems :-( Am I right in saying that my Neomagic video card should be able to play games such as squake in standard VGA mode? Whenever I try to run squake I get Segmentation fault (core dumped) although I can't find a core anywhere. How do I set this up? Thanks

Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Marsh Ray
I just set up a machine sort of like that one . . . From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Logitech TrackMan Marble (same connector as the standard PS/2 port mouse), use /dev/psaux, I think you need to load a kernel module. an HP DeskJet 820 CSE on LPT1, ATI Video Expression+

nvidia riva 128 - xf86config

1998-06-25 Thread O.G.
Hi, I`m useing a Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia Riva 128) card but this card isn`t listed in the xf86config. Now my question: where can I get a xf86config which supports the Nvidia Riva 128 chip set? Thanks Olli

ppp analog bonding w/ eql

1998-06-25 Thread Debian Mailing List
hi there i am a newbie and was wondering if anyone has or know how to use two modems or more to dial up to a isp and bond all the lines together.. my isp currently uses ascend dial-up servers and supports 56k modems --kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: older debian release?

1998-06-25 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smaller than

CONFIRM s062514302514253

1998-06-25 Thread Yosef B
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Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I can vouch for the Trackman Marble since I have the exact same thing. :) It works fine for me. All three buttons work in X Windows. If you are using the PS/2 mouse port, make sure you have PS/2 mouse support enabled in your kernel or installed as a module. The module for this psaux.

Re: HELP! can't get my email!

1998-06-25 Thread Johnie Ingram
Brian == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Report from server Err Maillock: 'var/spool/pop/bmorgan.pop' Sounds like a qpopper bug I ran into in October 96; pity its still there. My solution was to install cucipop (packaging it in the process). ;-) - PGP E4 70

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
i have the same problem,my cdrom is no more accessible (though it's not a indrance for now),i have a pioneer ATAPI CD drive,a regular ide card and the drive is properly configured as slave (my Hard Drive is master),i did not have the problem before when i was having Ontrack Disk Manager but i

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the following in your inetd.conf: #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtpstream tcp

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