Re: Problemas con el rescue

1998-07-30 Thread Jose Rodriguez
El Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:12:36 +0200, has escrito: Tengo un Toshiba Satellite 230 CDX, 32 Mb de Ram y 1,3 Gb de DD. No consigo instalar linux desde el disquete rescue. Yo lo he instalado utilizando los discos especiales para el Toshiba Tecra de Debian 1.3.1

RE: debian 2.0...donde?

1998-07-30 Thread Luís Arocha Hernández
Me sumo a la sugerencia de incluir los fuentes. Personalmente no me importa pagar un poco más por la revista para disponer de un Debian completo. Por cierto, ¿que hay de Linux Actual de este mes? Saludos. Luís -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

¿Alguien tiene Debian 2.0 en Madrid?

1998-07-30 Thread Ubaldo Cotta
Hola a todos, no se si es mucho pedir, pero busco a alguien en Madrid o cercanías, que tenga la Debian 2.0 para que me deje copiarmela (tengo copiador), o sino, que me indiquen donde puedo adquirirla. Gracias

Login Automático

1998-07-30 Thread Ubaldo Cotta
Hola, estoy intentando configurar linux para que por defecto, arranque con un usuario, que no posee password, algo así como un anonymous. Pero el problema, es que lo único que he logrado es que no me pida el password, se que lo más seguro es que tenga que tocar el código. ¿podrías indicarme por

Login automaático en Linux

1998-07-30 Thread Ubaldo Cotta
Hola, estaría interesado en obtener alguna información de como cambiar la configuración del login o donde tocar, o que fuentes puedo tocar para que linux no me pida el login al arrancar o me lo pida pero por defecto tenga un usuario (algo así como un anonymouse). El objetivo que persigo es que

Re: Login Automático

1998-07-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 07:45:18AM -0700, Ubaldo Cotta wrote: Hola, estoy intentando configurar linux para que por defecto, arranque con un usuario, que no posee password, algo así como un anonymous. Pero el problema, es que lo único que he logrado es que no me pida el password, se que lo más

Descomprimir Zip

1998-07-30 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, Tengo un fichero zip que contiene varios archivos. Creo que se hizo desde msdos. ¿Como puedo descomprimirlo en Unix? He probado esto: gzip -d -S .zip fichero.zip pero no funciona porque gzip espera solo un archivo. Saludos, Octavio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Descomprimir Zip

1998-07-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Tengo un fichero zip que contiene varios archivos. Creo que se hizo desde msdos. ¿Como puedo descomprimirlo en Unix? ¿Has probado a usar el programa unzip? Está en el non-free. -BEGIN PGP

RE: debian 2.0...donde?

1998-07-30 Thread Antonio Castro
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Arocha_Hern=E1ndez?= wrote: Me sumo a la sugerencia de incluir los fuentes. Personalmente no me importa pagar un poco más por la revista para disponer de un Debian completo. Hombre a mi tampoco pero no es esa la cuestión porque no creo que un CD más

Re: w18

1998-07-30 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 04:59:48PM -0400, Keith wrote: What's with the junk mail. What's really bad is that it appears to have come from or through an Air Force server (af.mil seen in headers). Someone could get fired _if it originated from that server (hard to tell, though--could've been a

Re: Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-30 Thread servis
*-Russell Senior (29 Jul) | | I am having some trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0. I have sucked down | hamm, ran autoup.sh and then dselect repeatedly (dselect seems to be | happy now), but gcc is not working. Trying to compile a simple hello.c | test I get the following during the link stage: |

Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Wong
Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/ --

Re: Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-30 Thread servis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (29 Jul) | up. I filed a bug report agains libc6 but apparently it did not get | taken care of by release time. | Um, I thought I did but I can't find any trace of it. H. -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-30 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Mike wrote: You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent xterms. I have screen captures of the first

Can only run X as root

1998-07-30 Thread George R
Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages and howto's until my eyes have crossed. When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. I've checked X, xdm, and startx all three are -rwxr-xr-x.

Re: Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-30 Thread Russell Senior
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *-Russell Senior (29 Jul) | | I am having some trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0. I have sucked down | hamm, ran autoup.sh and then dselect repeatedly (dselect seems to be | happy now), but gcc is not working. Trying to compile a simple hello.c | test I get the

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-30 Thread servis
*-Sudhakar Chandrasekharan (29 Jul) | | I just solved this problem (or rather, it solved itself). I had the | following in my .tcshrc - | | switch ($TERM) | case xterm: | case xterm-debian | xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources | breaksw | default: | breaksw | endsw |

make-kpkg ie, compile/link kernel image compressed...

1998-07-30 Thread Pat Kennedy
hey kernel build pros... 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 ok, but, linking the bvmlinux

Printer .......

1998-07-30 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, I have upgrade to gs 4.03 and now i can print in colors (with magicfilter). Even the printer speed is now fast !! So the problem was with gs I have try to use apsfilter, but i only saw the bj200 and bj10 device Thanks for the help, --- Phillip Neumann

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
These days, Linux being hard to install is true only in the sense that almost everyone installing it is starting out with something like Win95 already on their machine. That immediately causes problems like setting up a dual boot and partitioning to crop up - and these are problems that are not

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-30 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Which motherboard has the BusLogic on board? Thanks! Anders Hammarquist wrote: I'm in the middle of getting a new PII (300MHz +) system. I'd like to know what SCSI controller should I get for the best performance and supporter driver on Linux: 1. BusLogic 2. Adaptec UW A.

The Newbie Learning Curve

1998-07-30 Thread Bert Conliffe
Hello Debian Userlist Readers, I will wholeheartedly agree with all those who shout the virtues of Linux. I will praise Mr. Tovalds for his most worthy accomplishment, and his great act of charity, a far more noble man than Mr. Bill Gates (and by the same token a lot poorer). I greatly admire

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Andreas Nolda wrote: Dear Debian users, trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Sony PCMCIA-Discman (PRD-250) using pcmcia-cs_3.0.0-9, I constantly get error messages of the following kind: scsi4: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00

Compatability of Diamond Speedstar Pro SE

1998-07-30 Thread Known User
Is the Diamond Speedstar Pro SE video card compatible with Debian V1.3.1 ? with v2.0.0? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Bill -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Raymond A. Ingles; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Andreas Nolda wrote: Dear Debian users, trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Sony PCMCIA-Discman (PRD-250) using pcmcia-cs_3.0.0-9, I constantly get error messages of the following kind: scsi4:

Re: The Newbie Learning Curve

1998-07-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Bert Conliffe wrote: please don't blow smoke, and tell us its easy. I hear you, but I think those with that attitute are a distinct minority, and you will find them in any field of knowledge. This is certainly not unique to Linux at all. I started with Linux almost a year ago with

Hardware

1998-07-30 Thread Matt Simpson
Debian users, I posted the following message and thought maybe a Debian user could help. Thanks for any advice you could give. Please respond to my email address or to your list as I am subscribed now. I posted this message to comp.os.linux.hardware: Hello, I recently installed an AMD K6/2

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Brian Weiss
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, The guy on the couch. wrote: Hi, I use win95 and I tried Linux once and couldn't even load a program. I'm not very experienced with other OSes. Since then I've never tried it. I'm thinking of upgrading to win98 and got to thinking about Linux again. Is there a way for

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote: These days, Linux being hard to install is true only in the sense that almost everyone installing it is starting out with something like Win95 already on their machine. That immediately causes problems like setting up a dual boot and partitioning to

Re: Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-30 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:18:36AM -0700, Alexander wrote: Hi... Linux has no Y2K issues aside from the BIOS. It's that simple. However, sometime in the 2030s, it will have some time_t problems if not fixed by then. They should be, although you will probably need to upgrade your embedded

Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread James Brown \(Ender/Gcc\)
Hi, I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but after a reboot the screen flashs from text to graphics mode, and back. I think it might be XDM, as X Windows doesnt load... Any suggestions on how I can stop this? I dont want to format my H/D, and I cant shutdown XDM because the keyboard doesnt

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header

1998-07-30 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 29-Jul-1998, Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:42:28AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Why not just use the set hostname in mutt? EG: set hostname=calweb.com set hostname=teleute.dyn.ml.org set hostname=zippitydoda.com Thanks, that solved it.

Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Wong wrote: Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. I don't understand what you want to do. The normal state of

Re: Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread John C. Ellingboe
James Brown (Ender/Gcc) wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but after a reboot the screen flashs from text to graphics mode, and back. I think it might be XDM, as X Windows doesnt load... Any suggestions on how I can stop this? I dont want to format my H/D, and I cant

Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Adam Lazur
Chris Wong wrote: Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. I don't understand what you want to do. I believe

spam (was: Re: w18)

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Keith wrote: What's with the junk mail. Send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let Igor complain. (is has been sent already) Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

HAMM: difference between beta-2 final ?

1998-07-30 Thread Bernhard Treutwein
Sorry, if that is an FAQ, but I did not find any hint. What changed between the final and the beta-2, or where can I find that info ? -- Bernhard Treutwein Tel. +49-89-5996-642, Fax -615 Institut f. Med. Psychologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Wong
At 01:47 AM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote: Chris Wong wrote: Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. I don't

Re: HAMM: difference between beta-2 final ?

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Bernhard Treutwein writes: Sorry, if that is an FAQ, but I did not find any hint. What changed between the final and the beta-2, or where can I find that info ? Whoops. I believe the easiest ways to find out are: a) let mirror run over a mirror of beta-2 b) Check the archives of

Re: Ultra/DMA IDE controllers

1998-07-30 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:19:38PM -0500, Nick Gilliam wrote: Are Ultra/DMA IDE controllers and drives supported under Debian 2.0. Yes and no. See the mini-HOWTO, Ultra-DMA (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html) Hope this helps. (I have some experience getting the

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header

1998-07-30 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 04:45:47PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: On 29-Jul-1998, Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still bothered by the fact a working mailer set up could break in the same way more than once--angering my respondents and all--without my so much as touching its

Re: Can only run X as root

1998-07-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
George R hat gesagt: // George R wrote: Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages and howto's until my eyes have crossed. When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. I've

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-30 Thread Mario Filipe
On 22-Jul-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: 3. Install apt and run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The bo version of apt may be found at http://www.debian/org/~jgg/apt_0.0.17-1bo0_i386.deb (be sure to read the documentation in this package). You mean that if I do this on a bo system it will be ok! No

Re: [FAQ] Re: HAMM: difference between beta-2 final ?

1998-07-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Martin Schulze hat gesagt: // Martin Schulze wrote: Bernhard Treutwein writes: Sorry, if that is an FAQ, but I did not find any hint. What changed between the final and the beta-2, or where can I find that info ? Whoops. I believe the easiest ways to find out are: a) let mirror

Re: OFF-TOPIC: fwd: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Tip of the Day [Downloading multiple files - 07/27/98]

1998-07-30 Thread Norbert Bottlaender-Prier
count zero a écrit: Frock wrote: ... This is a general problem with windows95/98, because the OS doesn't allow more than 4 (four!!) network connections!! Why is this ??Why do ppl have to suffer from this stupid limitation ?? I never understood that. Maybe someone can explain it

Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Tate
Sorry, this question is not Debian-specific: I am trying to set up wwwoffle with Netscape 4.05. Apparently there shoud be, in the (Netscape) Edit/Preferences/Advanced menu, a section relating to proxies. All I have there are settings for Java and Cookies etc. Where the devil are the proxy

RE: Can only run X as root

1998-07-30 Thread Steve Rothanburg
George R hat gesagt: // George R wrote: Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages and howto's until my eyes have crossed. When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. I've

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Christopher Wesneski
I recently installed Linux on my machine days after I upgraded to Win98. The only problem (not really a problem, just an inconvenience) was having to run defrag and then removing my swap file because I couldn't run defrag without the swap file (windows choked, go figure). [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Christopher Wesneski
edit, prefs, advanced, proxies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, this question is not Debian-specific: I am trying to set up wwwoffle with Netscape 4.05. Apparently there shoud be, in the (Netscape) Edit/Preferences/Advanced menu, a section relating to proxies. All I have there are settings

advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Evans
Anyone spare a moment to recommend a good portable on which to run Debian? I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am transferring from windoze/M$ to Debian. I will have to retain a dual boot on the machine

Re: dselect missing ftp option

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:48:59 -0500 JonesMB writes: Thanks for the responses to my request. It turns out that I needed to add the dpkg-ftp package. Is it possible to upgrade/update individual packages on 1.3 systems or any upgrades that have to done must be preceded by the 1.3 - 2.0

Re: emacs/xemacs conflict?

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I didn't received the original message yet, so I answer to the followup of Alexander. Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:04:47 -0500 From: the lone gunman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian/GNU User's List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: emacs/xemacs conflict?

Re: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:53:10 +0800 (WST) Lindsay Allen writes: Have you any ideas on what this is trying to tell me? elm# smbmount //gum/h /mnt Password: SMBFS: need mount version 6 mount error: Invalid argument Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons Running

Re: dselect parse error in HAMM release

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:39:01 -0500 Craig Slusher writes: I'm new to the LINUX world and need some help solving this problem. When I run dselect, and update, I get the message; Checking for Packages file... FTP ERROR - Cannot parse yeeaar-or-time at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DpkgFtp.pm

Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread keatingjp17
I have some old computers that I would like to use as dumb terminals. I was wondering if someone could point me to a good howto or faq on how to set this up or perhaps give me some tips and or help. If I had known

linux printer software

1998-07-30 Thread Dan Golosovker
Does anybody know if there is a linux program that will send a 1 bit signal through the printer port? Dan Golosovker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

New install of Hamm 2.0.10_1998-07-21

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Evans
I am installing Hamm anew on a machine that I had managed to get Bo on (but only recently so I had nothing much to lose by zapping it). Everything seems to go fine. I have reinitialised all the drives with the bad block checking and done the full install. When it comes to the final reboot

linux software

1998-07-30 Thread Dan Golosovker
Does anyone know where I could get a linux program that would send a one bit signal accross a printer port? Dan Golosovker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Debian News

1998-07-30 Thread Nils Lohner
We are currently trying to add a section to our News on the web page that references articles that are published in which Debian is mentioned. If you come across such an article, please drop the URL for it in an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Nils. -- Nils Lohner

HELP: Just upgraded and now i don't have X

1998-07-30 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi The subject just about says it all doesn't it? Everything went smooth except for X, mor exactly xbase. Whenever i try to compile it i get this: running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up libtool (1.0h-5) ... Configuring libtool... dpkg: error processing libtool (--configure):

Re: Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Boot with your rescue disk. Mount the partition that contains your /etc directory. Edit /etc/X11/config, commenting out the line start-xdm. Reboot normally. Mike On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 04:44:39PM -0700, James Brown Ender/Gcc wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but

Ignore: New install of Hamm 2.0.10_1998-07-21

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Evans
An hour or so ago my moron self sent a message to the list that started: I am installing Hamm anew on a machine that I had managed to Scrap it -- sorry! I was being dumb and mounted a drive as /etc when I meant to mount it as /home. I presume that /etc has to be on the root drive. Things

Re: Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Dirk Bonne
Alan Tate wrote: Sorry, this question is not Debian-specific: I am trying to set up wwwoffle with Netscape 4.05. Apparently there shoud be, in the (Netscape) Edit/Preferences/Advanced menu, a section relating to proxies. All I have there are settings for Java and Cookies etc. Where the devil

RE: advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Ted Harding
On 30-Jul-98 Chris Evans wrote: I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am transferring from windoze/M$ to Debian. I think you're cured. You can go home now. Ted.

Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-07-30 Thread Kendrick Myatt
The last time I checked there was no such thing... Just curious if there is now a program for an NT/95 machine which will correctly burn the Debian 2.0 CD images (ISO-9660 + RRE, IIRC...). I just got a nice new box with some actual horsepower! (PII-300). If so, then I'd be willing to make as

RE: HELP: Just upgraded and now i don't have X - An update

1998-07-30 Thread Mario Filipe
On 30-Jul-98 Mario Filipe wrote: Hi The subject just about says it all doesn't it? Everything went smooth except for X, mor exactly xbase. Whenever i try to compile it i get this: snip I've been doing some research i definitely believe the problem is with either xbase or xlib6g.

Re: Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread E. S. Venkatraman
If you want to set them up a X-terms you can look at: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.htm Venkat On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some old computers that I would like to use as dumb terminals. I was wondering if someone could point me to a good

Re: DHCP and hostname

1998-07-30 Thread E. S. Venkatraman
Thanks for all of you who have helped me. I solved the hostname problem by using the -c commandfile option in the dhcpc init script in /etc/init.d. Now if I can make the rest of the init scripts (particularly xdm) wait for the hostname to be set (it takes the DHCP server about 15 seconds to

Dosemu Wordperfect 5.1

1998-07-30 Thread Johann Spies
If there are any debian users using WordPerfect 5.1 on dosemu, I would like to have a copy of their /etc/dosemu/conf. I could not succeed in getting Wordperfect 5.1 running successfully on Dosemu. Thanks. Johann -- |

Re: Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
The last time I checked there was no such thing... Just curious if there is now a program for an NT/95 machine which will correctly burn the Debian 2.0 CD images (ISO-9660 + RRE, IIRC...). I just got a nice new box with some actual horsepower! (PII-300). Forget trying to get the files

Re: 2.0 CD images and symlinks...

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 29 Jul, Tyson Dowd wrote: Try mounting them with -onojoliet Yes! That did it. Thank you! My man-page for mount (nor fstab) says nothing about -onojoliet (or joliet at all), maybe I need a newer version of mount? (2.7l) Or is this information stashed

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
All I can say is that I have upgraded one system with apt-get and didn't break anything. I have also done three upgrades using autoup.sh and one clean ftp install of hamm without any major problems. There have been a few minor glitches, but nothing which broke anything. One of these upgrades

Re: Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread keatingjp17
I read the document on dumb terminals for X but what if i just want them to sit with getty login instead of being dumb X terminals? Any chance anyone knows a good doc on that? If I had known this before I

Re: advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Chris Evans wrote: Anyone spare a moment to recommend a good portable on which to run Debian? I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am transferring from windoze/M$ to Debian.

Re: Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Tate
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 05:06:55PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote: Alan Tate wrote: Where the devil are the proxy settings hidden? Click on the arrow left of advanced, you'll see a popup menu... Dirk Sheesh, how stupid can one get? And I always clicked on the word Advanced, never on the

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Raymond A. Ingles; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Andreas Nolda wrote: trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Sony PCMCIA-Discman (PRD-250) using pcmcia-cs_3.0.0-9, I constantly get error messages of the following

Re: AGP video card

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Brian Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Fire GL 1000 , or also called Diamond Permidia 2 8MB AGP 2d/3d combo video card. I didn't see this in the list of video cards to select. Could someone please help me in setting up the correct

Re: find -exec

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Ulisses Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all I would like to know if there is a way to make something like this find some path -exec command1 {} | command2 \; xargs? HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key

'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Kaszeta
What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. Has it been relocated to another package? -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta --

log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the periodicity with which logs are rotated? most notably, i want to rotate syslog on a weekly, not daily basis, but

BO Lockup problems

1998-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I am running Bo on a Dell Laptop. I am using Kernel 2.0.33, I get random lockups with no warning, rhyme, or reason. I don't know what it could be exactly. I think it is related to APM, because it is usually after I take my computer out of suspend. I will unsuspend it, type maybe 5 or 6 letters

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread servis
*-Richard Kaszeta (30 Jul) | What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. | Has it been relocated to another package? | | % dpkg -S killall psmisc: /usr/man/man1/killall.1.gz psmisc: /usr/bin/killall sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8.gz sysvinit: /sbin/killall5 -- Brian

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. Has it been relocated to another package? Yes -- psmisc. Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Kaszeta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: 'killall' in hamm?): % dpkg -S killall psmisc: /usr/man/man1/killall.1.gz psmisc: /usr/bin/killall sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8.gz sysvinit: /sbin/killall5 Okay, thanks. I didn't install anything in 'base' since all that stuff is supposedly in base.tar.gz.

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
Richard Kaszeta wrote: What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. Has it been relocated to another package? Yes, psmisc. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in : /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called : syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the periodicity : with which logs are rotated? most notably, i want to

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
Nathan E Norman wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:51:59 -0500 (CDT) ): |On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: | |: I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in |: /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called |: syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
Alan Su wrote: Well, this is only half the solution; if i simply exit the script without doing anything, i don't get the daily rotations. however, i don't get the weekly ones either (which is what i want). -alan So move the script from daily to weekly. Then it gets run when you want it to

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
Shaleh wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:00:56 -0400 ): |Alan Su wrote: | Well, this is only half the solution; if i simply exit the script | without doing anything, i don't get the daily rotations. however, i | don't get the weekly ones either (which is what i want). | | -alan | |So move the script

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:51:59 -0500 (CDT) ): : |On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : | : |: I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in : |: /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called : |:

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
I did not see the full scope of the question. I am away from my Debian box. Alan, would you send a very clear, concise e-mail back to the list that better explains what you want? If the current scrpt fails in some respect then it can be updated -- that is the Debian way (-: Post a bug, make an

PCMCIA modem problems after hamm upgrade

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put in the wrong directory structure into dpkg-ftp and it completely corrupted my status file -- thank Gd for backups...). I've now updated all my packages to the versions in the stable hamm release, and have recompiled my kernel

simple driver

1998-07-30 Thread Dan Golosovker
Hi, I'm looking for a simple driver that will send a one-bit signal through a parallel port. The reeson I need this is that I would like to control 8 independant relay switches with a computer program. Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: PCMCIA modem problems after hamm upgrade

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
Just a little more info on this one: I have compiled all of the requisite parts of the kernel, and I even compiled them in directly rather than as modules, as I thought that might be part of the problem. I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put in the wrong

Unidentified subject!

1998-07-30 Thread keatingjp17
Has anyone or does anyone know how to, set up dumb terminals that are not X terminals? I have read a few docs that some have pointed me to (greatly appreciated) but they describe installing a unix on them I was wondering if there was a way to just plug a few monitors into 1 box kind of like an

Re: simple driver

1998-07-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Dan, Sending your message repeatedly (I've noticed 3 already) does little more than irritate people. Your question is not debian specific and is therefore inappropriate for this list. Finding this info on the web is a snap. The code you want is at

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jens Ritter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Did you grab an image from the mirror and burned that, or did you generate your own images for burning? Where did you get it from? I haven't done it myself, but one of the debian maintainers did it for me. Don't know the answer to that one.

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
OK, both Norman and Shaleh didn't understand my question. i can only conclude that i'm an idiot. =) here's a second shot: these are the output of 'syslogd-listfiles' and 'syslogd-listfiles --weekly': alsu# syslogd-listfiles /var/log/syslog alsu# syslogd-listfiles --weekly

Which debian?

1998-07-30 Thread Stephen E. Collins
I have given up trying to get PHP3 running as a module in Apache 1.3.1 with sybase-ct support on my RedHat 5.1 machine. Apache gives me a segmentation fault upon startup. I believe that glibc is at fault. I'd like to try another distribution instead of going back to RH4.2, which uses libc5. I

Debian CD Creation

1998-07-30 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I downloaded an image of the Debian 2.0 CD, but am not sure how to burn it in Windows. The documentation talks of changing the .raw file to a .iso file, but my system does not recognize the extension. Can the CD be created using Adaptec's DirectCD? Thanks, Dinesh ==

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