Re: [wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org: Re: Debian NIS = SunOs crash ? (FWD'd)]

1998-07-14 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hola! Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Tiene esto que ver con el problema que alguien más había reportado con SunOS (lo que me preocupa ahora es que acá pidieron Solaris/x86...) Marcelo The default NIS configuration (not only for Debian by the way) uses

Problema con Sendmail

1998-07-14 Thread Humberto . Morell
Hola Amigos Yo utilizo como servidor de correo el sendmail, hasta el momento considero que tiene muy buenas prestaciones, adicionalmente tengo algunos usuario que toman su mensajeria por un acceso uucp. La Semana pasada me ocurrio que a un usuario de uucp le enviaron mensajes que sobrepasa el

error compilando gnome-libs-0.20

1998-07-14 Thread Alfredo Casademnut
Pues eso, que queria probar el gnome, pero al compilar el fichero gnome-libs-0.20 me dice: gcc -O2 -o .libs/htmltest test.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib ../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so -lXpm -ljpeg -lz -lSM -lICE -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -lglib -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm

Instalar Debian sobre UMSDOS

1998-07-14 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hola a todos! ¿Como se podria instalar Debian 1.3.1 sobre umsdos? Quiero instalar Debian sobre umsdos y habia pensado en creal el sistema de ficheros con los diskettes de instalacion de una Slackware que deja instalar en umsdos y una vez creado el sistema de ficheros instalar Debian indicando

Re: Xiterm

1998-07-14 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
J. Parera : en una Xiterm la tecla Intro del teclado numérico no me funciona, como se soluciona? Y como cambio el prompt de ella? Pués el .bashrc no le afecta. ¿Estás seguro de usar la shell 'Bash'?: hay algunas muy parecidas y los ficheros de inicio cambian. Por ejemplo, la shell C usa

Help me...urgent please.

1998-07-14 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, I deleted my mail folder (unintentionally).. How to create another one in /var/spool/mail.. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-14 Thread alexander e dukat
What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version 3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some restoring. I haven't taken the total plunge yet because I need to set up a special

Re: Loadable Modules and Configuration

1998-07-14 Thread Greg Norris
Make sure that /etc/modules has the entry 3c509, and that it's uncommented. Also, you might need to do a depmod -a as root to rebuild the module dependency information (I modified my /etc/init.d/modutils to insure that this was done at every reboot). On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:20:29PM -0500, Len

Re: Help me...urgent please.

1998-07-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
VM == Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VM I deleted my mail folder (unintentionally).. How to create another VM one in /var/spool/mail.. It is created automaticaly if new mails arrives and there is no spoolfile. Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Exim!

1998-07-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 11:03:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: One person may want procmail, but I dare say that if an ISP installs exim after using sendmail/procmail they need it lest they break a couble thousand procmailrc files from their

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 04:31:40PM -0400, David Parmet wrote: How do i change the date and time? date MMDDHHMM Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Tom Malloy
I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null

configuring XFree86

1998-07-14 Thread Avalon Rusk
I thought i had XF86 configured correctly, but it seems I need to change the configuration settings. When doing so, I encounter problems. After typing:sudo /usr/sbin/xbase-configure I get the following response: Leaving existing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 entry alone. What does this mean

Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)

1998-07-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu which appear on the left of the screen. Nasty hack: put the following in the last line of

RE: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-14 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jul-98 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and

Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-14 Thread cfb
Greetings I just spent a very frustrating evening attempting to chroot bind and run it as a non-root user. The instructions that I was following were written for redhat. I use debian. The main difference in the instructions between the two distributions involved the use of /etc/rc.d by

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Christopher Barry
Tom Malloy wrote: snipBut there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of userability.snip Well then, if that's what you want then get

make-kpkg: ld bombs on misc.o

1998-07-14 Thread Pat Kennedy
I'm unable to build a kernel .deb package with the 2.0.34-4 kernel source and other required/suggested packages as documented in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README. Doing make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image compiled everything, but, at the linker phase... make[3]: Entering directory

Re: libc6 Netscape form problems

1998-07-14 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, Netscape probably is the problem. I downloaded the glibc Netscape from ../development to because Netscape was the only libc5 app I was using and if I switched to glibc Netscape I would have a 'clean' glibc-only system. But I had problem after problem with it. It would freeze on web page

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If you like programming by example, I can provide you with a live copy of my fvwm config files (16Kgzipped) which should be a good start. URL:http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/fvwmconf.tar.gz has a copy. I did not include the custom xpm and gif files that I use, since it

Non-intuitive kernel config change

1998-07-14 Thread Jim Nicholson
I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS support. This is made particularly tricky by make

Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change

1998-07-14 Thread Shaleh
Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS support. This is made

Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change

1998-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
In 2.0.35 (released today) NLS, FAT and ISO9660 are selected Y by default. Bob On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that

Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change

1998-07-14 Thread mwb
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS

Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-14 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm replying to debian-user since this is the only relevant list from those you sent this message to. Please try to avoid sending to more than one list. I'm NOT on the debian-user list. I got your message through debian-isp. On Tue, July 14 1998, cfb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |The main problem

power-save mode in screen mode ?

1998-07-14 Thread fantomas
Hello, is ther any way to force monitor come to power saving mode when i'm in full-screen mode ? -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-14 Thread graeve
On 12 Jul 1998 06:38:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote: Hi, graeve == graeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: graeve Even with make-kpkg the modules don't end up in the right place. Could you elaborate? Where do the modules end up? Where should they be ending up? Would it

debian-cd

1998-07-14 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Does anybody tell me how to use debian-cd package ? How to make own cd image with debian 2.0 ? Thanks ! begin: vcard fn: Peter Shtinkov n: Shtinkov;Peter org:Spectrum NET email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: System Administrator tel;work:

[Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium,

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:21:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. In menu filesystems set on Native language support (Unicode, codepages) you get iso and

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Chris wrote: Tom Malloy wrote: snipBut there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of userability.snip format rant If you feel

Re: cirrus logic/sparklies (newbie)

1998-07-14 Thread Bruce Mardle
I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies both ok. I used xf86config to set up the

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:21:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. In menu filesystems set on Native language support (Unicode, codepages) you get

Re: cirrus logic/sparklies (newbie)

1998-07-14 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Bruce Mardle wrote: I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies both

Re: power-save mode in screen mode ?

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 08:51:13AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: is ther any way to force monitor come to power saving mode when i'm in full-screen mode ? setterm -powersave on? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:53:11AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Ah, I didn't know iso and fat where languages :-) Changed in 2.0.35 anyway, just out. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish.

xmodmap proper

1998-07-14 Thread K.Y.Lo
hi I am novice linux. Backspace key doesnt working in X-windows proper I look confused about how to use xmapmod. Backspace for Ctrl-H code what explain do I use xmapmod command. -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: xmodmap proper

1998-07-14 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 12:12:28PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: I am novice linux. Backspace key doesnt working in X-windows proper This is an issue that is being addressed in Debian 2.0, which is currrently in beta test. If you are not using that version, you might want to upgrade to it. If you are

Yamaha OPL3-SAx and master volume

1998-07-14 Thread Maarten Bezemer
Hi! I recently bought a sound card which seems to have a OPL3-SAx chip. I managed to compile a kernel for it (2.0.32 with OSS/Free), but now there is no master volume control bar. I have been using an OPTi 82C931 for some time, and with that card it was possible to change the master volume. I

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-14 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and

RE: Two Questions

1998-07-14 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Maybe I can help with the boot problem. Debian doesn't use LILO as a MBR boot manager. They use a program known just as MBR. (At least this is true for the bo release, is it true for hamm?) I'm not quite sure why LILO isn't used as the MBR boot manager, because it appears to be superior to MBR

RE: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-14 Thread Foltz, James N.
xcircuit might work for you. You can define shapes and add them to your library, rotate objects and text. It doesn't give you fine control over things but it worked when I needed to draw simple line and text based thingys. -Original Message- From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [SMTP:[EMAIL

how to boot from other disk?

1998-07-14 Thread Adam . Sztuka
Hi! Is that possible to boot Linux or Win from other disk then hda ? I have one disk with Debian 1.3.1 and another with Win95. Can I setup LILO to choose option windows to boot from hdb1 ? Is this depends from BIOS? Adam Sztuka -THEbian Linux - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

RE: how to boot from other disk?

1998-07-14 Thread Richardson,Anthony
DOS and Windows (up through Win95 at least) can't be booted from anything other than the first disk. There are ways to fake an OS that only uses the BIOS (DOS) into thinking the second drive is the first one. (LILO's map-drive option can do this.) I'm fairly sure this won't work for Win95 though.

its not a dos partition?

1998-07-14 Thread John Martin
I tried creating a second primary dos partition with linux' fdisk since dos' won't let me have more than one primary. (my first clue maybe) Then I format with dos. Mother MUST have her dos/window3.1/I-won't-give-95. Dos can read and write to that partition but linux says notdos/other error when I

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem | to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. | They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There | are several, prethis.hook

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread servis
*-Nico De Ranter (14 Jul) | On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:21:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: | | Hi, | | can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 | kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. | | In menu filesystems set on Native

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I see. If you are using make modules_install, you are not using make-kpkg. In that case, my suggestion to you is: use make-kpkg from kernel-package; it really takes care of these details for you. You never run make modules_install. manoj graeve == graeve [EMAIL

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible for the novice user. I wouldn't say I'm a novice but I had much the same problem, I used to have a great little .fvwmrc file and I wanted to do same thing with my .fvwm2rc file but

smail expanding domains

1998-07-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! My machine is called casal.upc.es. Whenever I try to send email to another machine in the same net (upc.es) by just puting the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is dat.upc.es), I get the following error: |- Message log follows: -| no

Re: configuring XFree86

1998-07-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote: After typing:sudo /usr/sbin/xbase-configure I get the following response: Leaving existing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 entry alone. What does this mean and how do I reconfigure xbase? It usually means that there is no /etc/X11/XF86config file. Try

You have new mail

1998-07-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. Does

Secure Mail server

1998-07-14 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? Thanks regards, Vaidhy _ DO

Re: Secure Mail server

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 07:23:10AM -0700, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? If you want to use

Re: You have new mail

1998-07-14 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I think

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Steve Mayer
Nico, During your 'make menuconfig', enable the NLS support and you will get the option for ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, etc... Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I

Re: Secure Mail server

1998-07-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
webserver or mail server? Anyway, you can use HTTP 'Basic' authentication with the Apache server. Install the apache package. You'll have to set up a sort of password file and specify which directories require authentication. Look at the 'AuthName' directive in the on-line documentation.

gnu ghostscript and HP-deskjet 560C

1998-07-14 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I'm trying to get my printer (hp dj560c) set up with ghostscript, but the printer is printing the pages too long. The doc files mentioned that to calibrate I would have to modify the printer specific driver files for ghostscript ... just wondering whether anyone already has a 560c driver that

Re: You have new mail

1998-07-14 Thread Pere Camps
Eric, I think in /etc/profile, you have to include export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER (untested) See man bash and look for MAILPATH. It worked. Thanks. Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL

Strange Ethernet collisions/frame problem

1998-07-14 Thread Henrique Almeida
Hi list! Sometime after upgrading do 2.0 beta I started to have some strange problems on my gateway machine. This condition can be described as a race in eth0's collisions and frame values (see below for ifconfig) that starts a couple minutes after boot. This is driving telnet and other network

Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?

1998-07-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent whichever VC I was on when I typed the reboot/halt

Re: gnu ghostscript and HP-deskjet 560C

1998-07-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I've used by dj560c with ghostscript and had no trouble. Perhaps you have the wrong papersize set. What do you guys use in Canada, 8.5x11 or A4 or something of the sort? Nebu John Mathai wrote: I'm trying to get my printer (hp dj560c) set up with ghostscript, but the printer is printing the

Ftape w/ Colorado FC10/20

1998-07-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Hello: If anyone is using Ftape with a Colorado FC10 or 20 controller card, please contact me regarding your setup. I'm having a few problems. Thanks, Mark == Mark A. Bialik (414)

Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-14 Thread Carlos Barros
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like : #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/sh

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Alexander
Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0400 From: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Parmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: the time Resent-Date: 13 Jul 1998

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 14 Jul 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I see. If you are using make modules_install, you are not using make-kpkg. In that case, my suggestion to you is: use make-kpkg from kernel-package; it really takes care of these details for you. You never run make modules_install. I

Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-14 Thread Alexander
Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? Alex -- Unsubscribe?

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Shaleh
To my knowledge there is no app that will change the time PERMANENTLY. That is why I said that the BIOS should be fixed. I used date, and another app (I forget what) on a bo box here at work. When it rebooted (long story) the time was wrong again. So I had to reboot it AGAIN. Yuck. If you

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-14 Thread servis
*-Alexander (14 Jul) | Hi... | | Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the | screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support | that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. | Does anyone know how to

Packages of FTP Client (GUI)

1998-07-14 Thread Alex Kwan
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? Thank You for Your Help! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Patrick Meidl
# abstract: what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and

Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)

1998-07-14 Thread Shaleh
There is one called xftp (it is a simple Xaw based one). wxFTP is being packaged and should appear in slink soon. Alex Kwan wrote: I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? Thank You for Your Help! -- Unsubscribe?

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how to

Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)

1998-07-14 Thread aqy6633
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? WXftp GUI FTP client was recently packaged and uploaded to Incoming. You may get the packages (wxftp-doc, wxftp-gtk, etc) from ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/ Alex Y. --

RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Evan Van Dyke
what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and

Anyone using plplot ?

1998-07-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have installed plplot and plplot-tcl. All went ok. When I try to run pltcl I get the error pltcl: error in loading shared libraries libMatrix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can't find the libMatrix.so lib anywhere in my system or in www.debian.org I contacted

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Meidl wrote: primary: 1) X MB linux native for booting linux 2) 1 GB fat16 for win95 3) extended: 4) 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM) 5) 1 GB linux native for linux apps 6) 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux for ease I have indexed the

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
Nico, During your 'make menuconfig', enable the NLS support and you will get the option for ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, etc... I recompiled mine and I still cannot get the ISO, FAT or VFAT to mount. I also cannot load this module manually? I have not looked into this too hard, but I have

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
Try: clock -w This will write system time to the CMOS clock... make sure you have the correct time and use -u for GMT. --Jay Barbee Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0400

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread jason and jill
after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: Personally, I use loadlin to boot unix

allowing xlogin from remote server

1998-07-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I need to be able to run Xsessions rom remote xterminals while I'm away. Reading the xdm docs and the Xaccess files, it looks like simply adding name.of.remote.display to /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess should allow this, but it doesn't seem to; X :1 -query remote.system sprouts a background

Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, alexander e dukat wrote: What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version 3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I am using the same (3.04d). have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some

Re: [ale] Secure Mail server

1998-07-14 Thread Linux Idiot
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: Hi All, This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? Under Linux I would use apache and a perl cgi.

Re: [andrmuel@rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE: 'rm' doesn't terminat anymore]

1998-07-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: - Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [snip copious headers] I have used the program cdda2wave. I gues that it will create big files (about 50MB and more). After my tryings I deleted my big files:

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? From the man page of clock: NAME clock - manipulate the CMOS clock SYNOPSIS /sbin/clock [ -u ] -r /sbin/clock [ -u ] -w /sbin/clock [ -u ] -s /sbin/clock [ -u ]

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:02:37PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There are several,

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:05:48AM -0700, Alexander wrote: Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? from man pages: hwclock (8) - query and set the ISA hardware clock (RTC) DESCRIPTION hwclock is a tool for accessing the Hardware Clock. You

Re: its not a dos partition?

1998-07-14 Thread Christopher Barry
John Martin wrote: I tried creating a second primary dos partition with linux' fdisk since dos' won't let me have more than one primary. (my first clue maybe) Dos won't let you create more than one primary partition when one is already set 'active' (bootable). Dos's fdisk won't let you set

Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B

1998-07-14 Thread gzp
Hello all! I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller. Hardware: VLB motherboard with AWARD 4.50G bios AHA2842B controller with bios enabled Quantum ProDrive LPS 270 MB Sony CDU 76S When I'm booting the root.bin, I see this on the screen: scsi0: AHA284x/ ...

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Christopher Barry
Ya know, The 'kernel-package' package automates all of this for you. I had troubles getting modules to work even though I thought I did all the steps (make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install ; depmod -a. Then symlinking the new kernel and running lilo. The

Re: Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B

1998-07-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hello all! : : I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller. : : Hardware: : VLB motherboard with AWARD 4.50G bios : AHA2842B controller with bios enabled : Quantum ProDrive LPS 270 MB : Sony CDU 76S : : When I'm booting

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
...I believe I am confused... I do not mind a little automation, but currently in my lilo.conf I have 3 linux kernels that I use. Linux [default] Old [Previous Image] Experment [Pointing to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage] This kernel-package util seems as if it takes this functionality

REALLY small machine

1998-07-14 Thread Robert Henry Rati
I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon

can't find bind

1998-07-14 Thread Michael Harnois
I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent host/domain and it rolls over

Re: REALLY small machine

1998-07-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? you can get a bare bones linux onto it but you'll have to put more ram

Re: REALLY small machine

1998-07-14 Thread Shaleh
I believe that 4mb is the minimum for a happy Linux system. The hard drive size is not the problem. Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-07-14 Thread Debian Mailing List
How about a scsi Jaz Drive i find them to be the best backup media ... because ... it is not as sensitive as burning CDRs and to me not as expensive too and pretty portable and easy data retrieval too. kim0 On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, the lone gunman wrote: I'm unsure of what backup media

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread JonesMB
furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95 partition and mount the partition under linux and edit them :) I have the same setup here. Problem is

Re: can't find bind

1998-07-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 14 Jul 1998, Michael Harnois wrote: : I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that : serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my : workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get : : *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3:

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