LC_ALL

1998-08-04 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista. Desde que puse la variable LC_ALL=es_ES, me pasa lo siguiente con dpkg: Si hago dpkg -i fichero no existente*deb, se produce un core dump; Si hago LC_ALL=C dpkg -i..., me sale el error de fichero no encontrado. ¿Puede ser necesario recompilar dpkg, o reconfigurar algo?

Re: LC_ALL

1998-08-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 07:19:51AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a la lista. Desde que puse la variable LC_ALL=es_ES, me pasa lo siguiente con dpkg: Si hago dpkg -i fichero no existente*deb, se produce un core dump; Si hago LC_ALL=C dpkg -i..., me sale el error de fichero no

Re: Tarjeta RTL8019

1998-08-04 Thread Javier López Martínez
Gracias a todos por vuestros mensajes. Ya he solucionado el problema y tengo el sistema en marcha. Un saludo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CAP for libc6

1998-08-04 Thread Chris
I was wondering if anyone has compiled CAP for libc6? I am having some troubles getting it to compile - so if someone has any ideas (or would like to help) I would appreciate it. Also, if there is a debian package for it (wish list) that would be unreal. Thanks, Chris --

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread mwb
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to choose which one they are going to buy.

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Peter Granroth
I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. I just deleted

Re: Diamond Supra Express PNP internal modem , Linux , and you.

1998-08-04 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
Hmmm, ok here's what I got from setserial: /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 Is the problem that the UART is unknown? Someone else suggested

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NB == Norbert Bottlaender-Prier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NB Laut Stephan Bortzmeyer (von der französischen Debian-Liste) soll Debian NB 2 in der neuesten Ausgabe des 6-CD-Satzes von Info-Magic enthalten sein Ich habe allerdings letztens noch in einer der Debian Listen (-users oder -devel

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #787

1998-08-04 Thread David Frye
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 787 Today's Topics: RE: Strange thing ... Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce? Re: New Debian user's reaction to X RE:

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:02:11AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: We're a cable ISP - we charge a whopping $5/month extra for a static IP :) If you're willing to run your own server and provide your own DNS, etc., it's $44/month, total (but then again, this is SD) I imagine @Home isn't

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:29:11AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote: Try Star Office. - COMMERCIAL Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! Close.. it may only be distributed with Caldera (ie, not with

deselect

1998-08-04 Thread Babs
Can't install anything using dselect error message = /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DpkgFtp.pm line 81, STDIN chunk 16. Anyone know how to fix this?? thanks Babs Thanks, Babs, Your Got.Net PC Tech... http://we.got.net -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5

1998-08-04 Thread Robert Lyonnais
On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 08:50:29 -0500, you wrote: Robert Lyonnais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I figured it was time to try something new :-). To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When attempting to start

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread George R
On 08/03/98 at 02:27 AM, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj, I find that remark disturbing. That is who you are writing the software for. The luser community produces the developers over time. Without a stong and vital user base, you will not attract a good developer community. If

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:16:09AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: NB == Norbert Bottlaender-Prier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NB Laut Stephan Bortzmeyer (von der französischen Debian-Liste) soll Debian NB 2 in der neuesten Ausgabe des 6-CD-Satzes von Info-Magic enthalten sein Ich habe

Re: Diamond Supra Express PNP internal modem , Linux , and you.

1998-08-04 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
No dice. I got the same results when I uncommented that line. During boot, I see a line that says Configuring serial devices...done. then the next line says something like /dev/ttyS0 IRQ 4 0x2f8 and such but nothing about ttyS1... I get the feeling it's not seeing COMM2 at all! I really

Re: how to direct received mail directly to the home dir??

1998-08-04 Thread Ronn Pimentel
We have been using procmail. We first compiled procmail with delivery to home directory $HOME/.mail. We then configured sendmail to use procmail as the local delivery agent. Then compiled qpopper (or other POP server) to pick up mail from $HOME/.mail. It has worked fine for us the past couple

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread George R
On 08/03/98 at 11:53 AM, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to choose which one they

where to turn for info on installation disks

1998-08-04 Thread sen_ml
hi- i would appreciate it if someone could give me some pointers concerning where to look as far as getting or making a rescue disk that will boot on a thinkpad 770 ed. i've tried both the vanilla and tecra hamm disks dated july 21st w/o any luck -- see message w/ id: [EMAIL

NAG, NAG, NAG

1998-08-04 Thread john mcpeek
I remember seeing NAG as I have flittered about but a can't remember where to go to download it. please help. I saw the mail about PLIP and that is what I need. The problem is that I don't have a clue where to start. Can Nag help ME? I do have an LPT to LPT cable, but that's about it. I have a

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-04 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Mark The links I created were: SNIP I compile kernels in /usr/local all the time, and I never have created any of these links ... they are not required. I made the links because that's what the README file for the linux kernel says to do. As

RE: Stuck In Limbo

1998-08-04 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I would *really* recommend staying with hamm. All development and quite a lot of users are going to be moving forward with hamm. It sounds like your only problem is with getting packages to install with dselect - correct ? Is deselect not able to get the list of available files ? Or is the

Re: GNOME 0.20

1998-08-04 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
If you go digging through the v0.20 directions on the gnome website, you'll be shown to add the following statement's to your xwindow's startup file. Here's how I've modified my /etc/X11/Xsession: # the following lines are added to startup GNOME: background-properties --init

Re: help rescuing a crashed hard drive

1998-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 12:11:59PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, JonesMB wrote: Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the BIOS reports as dead? This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think it is time for my canned posting about how kernel header files are handled by Debian. manoj $Id: README.headers,v 1.7 1998/07/14 21:18:38 srivasta Exp $ This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the Linux kernel headers. Linux was written by Linus

Using 2.1.x kernels with hamm/slink

1998-08-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have a mixed hamm/slink system which works fine with 2.0.35. I have tried running 2.1.112 and 2.1.114 and can't get pppd to start. Typing (as root) '/etc/init.d/ppp start' doesn't give any error message, but it doesn't run. Is there something different required for these newer kernels? Bob

Re: partition table erased! POSSIBLE RECOVERY??? (urgent..)

1998-08-04 Thread Ian Eure
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 06:19:45PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: A problem with our disk erased the partition table (at least). Is there a way to recover the info, if it's still there? Maybe with some ext2 utility trick... I don't remember the partitions exactly; I tried to create the first

Re: Strange floppy

1998-08-04 Thread Ian Eure
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:47:09PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: [Maybe off-topic alert] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try

Boot floppy problems

1998-08-04 Thread Helge Hafting
I am trying to install hamm on my home machine, from cdrom. I can't boot a CD directly, so I tried to make a rescue floppy and boot that. The machine has 2 ide drives, and 5 scsi devices: 0:500M harddisk, 1:1200M harddisk, 2:cdrom, 4:40M harddisk, 5:tape drive I want to put linux on the first 2

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-04 Thread Akop Pogosian
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: I have a USR 56k Internal Modem, works great. Micron computer was descent enough to include a real modem with my new computer, not a 'winmodem Ok... I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem is now I am running a masquerading

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-04 Thread Ana Graca Silva
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Really! You shouldn't do that it's dangerous! hmm apt-get update only gets the list of new packages from the servers not dangerous...in fact I do it almost daily! I'm not interested if apt is dangerous or not, I only whant to use it and

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Hmm. I started this thread, but it moved to a different topic very quickly! Getting back to the original point: there have been a couple of responses from people who have said that they did see the release of Debian 2.0 on Linux Announce, yet I don't think I ever received it --- I am

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Patrick Olson wrote: I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the POP server, the web browser stalls

Re: Boot floppy problems

1998-08-04 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/04/98 at 08:39 AM, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Kernel panic :VFS unable to mount root fs on 01:00 Could this merely be a bad floppy, or am I doing something wrong? I have trouble making those floppies, the rawrite2 program will usually complain about 64k

How do I set the Reply-To field in Pine/Smail?

1998-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I use Pine and Smail and regularly send email to a group of people. Now some servers is starting to refuse the mail because they see it as spam apparently because the Reply To field refers to my localhost in stead of my proper email address. I cannot see in the Pine configuration or

Re: How do I set the Reply-To field in Pine/Smail? (solved)

1998-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
Sorry, Just after I sent the previous message, I discovered the solution: customized headers. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201

Re: Backups

1998-08-04 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it is why is it not the defacto standard --Jonathan On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot get

Re: simple Q.

1998-08-04 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote: HI, I downloaded one of the CD images and now I would like to check CHECKSUM. sumcksum commands give definitly another values, not hex but decimal. How should I check it? Use md5sum command Wojtek Zabolotny

BTS

1998-08-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have sent a bug report to the BTS. Now I see this on the www: Your message specified a Severity: in the psuedo-header, but the severity value 'normal ' was not recognised. The default severity 'normal' is being used instead. The recognised values are: critical grave important normal

[Q] Debian Linux on Mac

1998-08-04 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hello people. Does anyone know - will Debian Linux work on new iMac from Apple? It's G3-based computer. -- Alexey Vyskubov -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: XDM / KDM problem... (also: xdm-not-on-boot hack)

1998-08-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Alan Su wrote: Well, that is a bit extreme. don't worry about shutting down the X server. when the tty on which the X server is running is active, you can switch to other tty's by using Control-LeftAlt-Fx, where x is the number of a different tty (presumably a text

Re: modprobe error

1998-08-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Robert Rati wrote: I added sound to my /etc/modules file so it would load at boot time, but I get this error: modprobe: no dependency information for module: /lib/modules/2.0.34/misc/sound.o I've done a make modules and modules_install as well as install when I

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NB == Norbert Bottlaender-Prier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laut Stephan Bortzmeyer (von der französischen Debian-Liste) soll Debian 2 in der neuesten Ausgabe des 6-CD-Satzes von Info-Magic enthalten sein On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:16:09AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Ich habe

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George R wrote: I'm neither a sysadmin nor a kernel programmer, I'm not even a unix user, I'm just a guy that wanted something stable that was still progressing (deciding to leaving OS/2 took a long time). Funny thing, when I decided to switch

School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread adavis
It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, making more computing resources available, without encumbrances of commercial software. Especially, perhaps, out here in some isolation, the Macintosh is widely advocated and used in schools. Networks are now planned, and while linux

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
The responses to George's suggestion were . . . interesting. I wonder if the majority of developers share this hostility towards new users.

Pari

1998-08-04 Thread Dan Golosovker
Pari was a wonderful math package that was once available in the stable = debian package directory. So now I tried to get it from the original = source in France. Has anyone successfuly installed Pari this way on = Debian 2.0? Does anyone know the correct paths for all the files = included in

[no subject]

1998-08-04 Thread NancyBryan
Hi! I have got a distribution of Debian Linux from a CD-Rom of PC Boost # July 96, and I don't know which packages I've got to install in order to have X-Windows. In the magazine, I was told to install the package X11 but I think it was missing. Can you please indicate me de packages I've

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, snip Forgetting the version numbers matter (that was showed to be somehow silly after George remembered LSB in his *second* posting), what I really could not understand and neither expect was the hostility to newbies. Oh, yes, I agree with that community staff. This is one of the

Re: NAG, NAG, NAG

1998-08-04 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, john mcpeek wrote: I remember seeing NAG as I have flittered about but a can't remember where to go to download it. please help. I saw the mail about PLIP and that is what I need. The problem is that I don't have a clue where to start. Can Nag help ME? I do have an LPT

Re: BTS

1998-08-04 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Hi, I have sent a bug report to the BTS. Now I see this on the www: Your message specified a Severity: in the psuedo-header, but the severity value 'normal ' was not recognised. The default severity 'normal' is being

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, Not only of yours. Some have even made it a reality. See http://www.heise.de/ct/schan/ That is german project supported by C'T. It allows schools to connect to the internet using a specially prepared

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-04 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:02:30AM +0100, Ana Graca Silva wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Really! You shouldn't do that it's dangerous! hmm apt-get update only gets the list of new packages from the servers not dangerous...in fact I do it almost daily!

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hmm. I started this thread, but it moved to a different topic very | quickly! Getting back to the original point: there have been a couple of | responses from people who have said that they did see the release of | Debian 2.0 on Linux Announce, yet I

Re: Using dialog

1998-08-04 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 07:20:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Johann Spies wrote about Using dialog | I want to try out dialog and have read the man page. But I still do not | know how to use it. Can somebody send me an example please? | The dunc package requires it so you could

Re: whiptail

1998-08-04 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Ta Brian, R. -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'They came forth from

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
[back to the original thread] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-announce-98/msg00015.html [now to the version number thread] George, you never replied to: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9808/msg00242.html Did I miss the point again? [now to the new user hostility

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-04 Thread Ana Graca Silva
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: How do you have apt set up? (can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list ?) ---* /etc/apt/sources.list *--- deb ftp://ftp.uevora.pt/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uevora.pt/debian-non-US stable non-US

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on

1998-08-04 Thread Marcus Johnson
As a newbie to Linux and Debian I have to say I almost entirely agree with George, and had even thought about writting something on this subject myself. Before I understood about the numbering system it really threw me for a loop to hear that my ISP was using Debian 1.1 (he's very conservative),

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread john
Johann Spies writes: I would also like to know how this can be solved. Have you tried contacting the fetchmail maintainer? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from

Re: your mail

1998-08-04 Thread Will Lowe
I have got a distribution of Debian Linux from a CD-Rom of PC Boost # July 96, and I don't know which packages I've got to install in order to have X-Windows. In the magazine, I was told to install the package X11 but I You'll need to install xbase, an xserver (which ever one works

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George R wrote: : : I'm neither a sysadmin nor a kernel programmer, I'm not even a unix : user, I'm just a guy that wanted something stable that was still : progressing (deciding to leaving OS/2 took a long time). Funny thing, :

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AGS == Ana Graca Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AGS 0% [Forking]Can't locate File/stat.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp AGS line 21 (#1) stat.pm comes with perl. $ dpkg -S stat.pm perl: /usr/lib/perl5/File/stat.pm Check if you have perl installed (dpkg -l perl). Ciao,

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Thalia L. Hooker
Netiquette aside, I agree with most of Mark's comments; especially his points about contininuing to strive for technical excellence, but putting a higher priority on marketing. Technical excellence is about doing something well, and coming up with a system which is highly capable. One

CHROOT Question

1998-08-04 Thread Matthew D. Myers
Non-debian question: Does anyone know how to setup a chroot shell so when someone telnets or ftp's into their account, they get a chrooted shell? I've tried some things I found by searching, but none of it worked right. I don't know if this is because it has to be done differently under Debian

Enlightenment problem

1998-08-04 Thread Jieyao
I had installed Enlightenment on my hamm installation. I did this by downloading all the necessary slink packages and installed them. It runs fine except.. I get the following in the file .xsession-error _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Enlightenment received an

Re: Strange thing ... (fwd)

1998-08-04 Thread Ana Graca Silva
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: ok...these look like perl errors...apts control contains: Suggests: perl, libnet-perl, libwww-perl, libmd5-perl dpkg -l : __ ii CGI-modules 2.75-13modules for

newbie Q2: recompiling kernel for SMP

1998-08-04 Thread Chris Evans
2nd newbie question: I know I have to change one line in the makefile to get a comment hash removed to reveal smp=1 to get my kernel makefile ready to recompile the kernel for my twin pentium machine in SMP mode. The catch is that I don't want to mess this up. Please would someone tell me

newbie Q1: launching Xserver as ordinary user

1998-08-04 Thread Chris Evans
I've done a clean install of Hamm and have success. (Debian is exposing all my M$ preconception and stupidities but is starting to look just about there -- hooray!) I now have startx working fine from root and X set up for my card, monitor, PS2 mouse etc. I declined to let dselect configure

Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! the /etc/fstab of my systems is as follows: /dev/hdb2swapswap defaults00 /dev/hdb1/ext2 defautls11 /dev/hda1/fat-c vfat defaults10 /dev/hdc /cdrom /ISO9660ro 0

Re: CD Creation in Windows

1998-08-04 Thread Kevin Traas
Dinesh, Adaptec DirectCD will not write images. You'll most likely need to get a commercial package such as Adaptec CD Creator Deluxe. (It's what I use to burn the images I create using mkisofs on my Linux box.) Regards, Kevin Traas -Original Message- From: Dinesh Nadarajah [EMAIL

Re: newbie Q1: launching Xserver as ordinary user

1998-08-04 Thread Will Lowe
except as root. The message refers to using xwrapper but I can't find that, or else it says I can use xdm, presumably from /etc/initab It deprecates using the setuid bit and I've not mastered that idea anyway so I'm happy not to use it (feeble grin) The setuid bit lets you run the program

KDE installed somewhat brokenly...

1998-08-04 Thread Young, Ed
Broken not in the dselect sense, but broken in that I'm unable to change certain elements of the desktop. Judging from at least one other posting, I suspect that the kde package installation for Debian may not be fully stable. Any comments on this? (I'm not at my Linux box now so this is from

RE: Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread Frock
Try 'man fstab', it explains all of the fields in /etc/fstab /Frock -- Software is like sex,its better when its free - Linus Torvalds -Original Message- From: Alex Kwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4. august 1998 17:00 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Question of

PPP Server Package?

1998-08-04 Thread Young, Ed
I'd like to set up my machine so that I can dial it up and run it remotely. I believe that mgetty is the general program, but is there a debian package which will configure and ask me all the right questions and make all my dreams come true? (Lately, it seems like 2.0 approaches this) Something

Re: Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread David Z. Maze
Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK would someone told me what is the meaning of: AK 1)defaults00 AK 2)defaults11 AK 3)defaults10 AK 4)ro 00 mount options/dump/fsck See mount(8) for information on what can go in the mount

Re: newbie Q2: recompiling kernel for SMP

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CE == Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CE 2nd newbie question: CE I know I have to change one line in the makefile to get a comment CE hash removed to reveal smp=1 to get my kernel makefile ready to CE recompile the kernel for my twin pentium machine in SMP mode. CE The catch is that

Re: Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AK == Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [fstab] AK would someone told me what is the meaning of: AK 1)defaults00 AK 2)defaults11 AK 3)defaults10 AK 4)ro 00 Please read the description with man fstab It later refers to man mount (for

Re: newbie Q1: launching Xserver as ordinary user

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CE == Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CE a) get xwrapper or some other safe way to be able to launch an CE xserver as an ordinary user CE or, less to my liking but ... fine ... (!) I installed hamm on a friends box some days ago and didn't have any restrictions about this. Anyway: $

Re: PPP Server Package?

1998-08-04 Thread Will Lowe
Something similarly cool would be if I could set it up to listen for a particular ring pattern (a one ringer) that signals it to ppp into my isp and then email me the IP address it has been issued. Then I could telnet to it or run it as a web server, etc. I'm sure this has been done before.

cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all, I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that cd_autoup.sh is not an executable. I copied the script to /root and did a chmod u+x

Named configuration problems

1998-08-04 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been working to set up a name server for a local school server and have run into a configuration problem. Could someone spot this problem for me? Here's the situation: The domain is colebrook.k12.nh.us This doesn't resolve. However, if I address the machine, e.g.

Re: PPP Server Package?

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
YE == Young, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: YE I'd like to set up my machine so that I can dial it up and run it remotely. YE I believe that mgetty is the general program, but is there a debian package YE which will configure and ask me all the right questions and make all my YE dreams come true?

Re: PPP Server Package?

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
WL == Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WL Check out http://www.ml.org/ml/dyndns/ ... you can get a hostname, WL register your new IP everytime it changes, and refer to your host by name WL rather than IP. www.ddns.org offers a similar service, but does the updates more often. There are

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Hello all, : : I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to : up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. : : After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that : cd_autoup.sh is not an

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: [ snip ] : The solution is simple, however ... simply type : : `sh/cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh' Blah, how about `sh /cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh' Sorry :/ -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104

RE: Named configuration problems

1998-08-04 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The domain is colebrook.k12.nh.us This doesn't resolve. However, if I address the machine, e.g. academy.colebrook.k12.nh.us everything works fine. I'm not sure exactly what you mean here? What is the IP addresses that your system is resolving

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread jason and jill
: progressing (deciding to leaving OS/2 took a long time). Funny thing, : when I decided to switch my home OS silly me took a few hours and read : about various OSs. : : Missing the point again as all seem to be in this discussion. I think I : have seen maybe one post that got the

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on

1998-08-04 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 07:11:47AM -0700, Marcus Johnson wrote: As a newbie to Linux and Debian I have to say I almost entirely agree with George, and had even thought about writting something on this subject myself. Before I understood about the numbering system it really threw me for a loop

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George R wrote: : : I'm neither a sysadmin nor a kernel programmer, I'm not even a unix : user, I'm just a guy that wanted something stable that was still : progressing (deciding to leaving OS/2 took

RE: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Young, Ed
I may be out to lunch on the following but I believe we're zeroing in on something anyway. That's what lists are all about, right? One thing I've gotten out of the thread is that RH and SUSE, (etc) are not adhering to standards but have the market share. Therefore comercial apps provide

Re: PPP Server Package?

1998-08-04 Thread servis
*- Martin Bialasinski wrote about Re: PPP Server Package? | | YE Something similarly cool would be if I could set it up to listen for a | YE particular ring pattern (a one ringer) that signals it to ppp into my isp | YE and then email me the IP address it has been issued. Then I could telnet to

Re: Named configuration problems

1998-08-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: @ TXT Colebrook N.H. U.S.A. School District. localhost A 127.0.0.1 colebrook.k12.nh.us.A 206.243.128.2 ; alias CNAMEs below: mailCNAME colebrook.k12.nh.us. mail2 CNAME

Re: newbie Q1: launching Xserver as ordinary user

1998-08-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Will Lowe wrote: except as root. The message refers to using xwrapper but I can't find that, or else it says I can use xdm, presumably from /etc/initab It deprecates using the setuid bit and I've not mastered that idea anyway so I'm happy not to use it (feeble grin) The setuid bit lets

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on

1998-08-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Marcus Johnson wrote: As a newbie to Linux and Debian I have to say I almost entirely agree with George, and had even thought about writting something on this subject myself. Before I understood about the numbering system it really threw me for a loop to hear that my ISP was using Debian 1.1

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Hello all, : : I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to : up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. : : After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that : cd_autoup.sh is not an

Re: Package maintainer script policy.

1998-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anselm Raul Miller wrote: How many people actually understand what ${1+$@} does, really? Interesting question. I thought it meant exactly the same thing as $@. Why? Anselm There used to (?) be shells that were so utterly

Apache Logs Rotations and related questions

1998-08-04 Thread Pure Energy
Hi everyone I'm still running the older Apache/1.1.3 Debian/GNU web server. I run a number of Virtually Hosted sites with it and was wondering if it's posible for each virtual site to have different log rotation times. Some sites would like to have logs rotated once a day

Tape Drive Suggestions Under Debian

1998-08-04 Thread Jason Michaelson
I'm looking to purchase a new tape backup drive. I'm looking for something fairly large (8-10GB or more), in addition to fast (i.e. it can't be a floppy or a parallel port connected device). Of course, it also needs to work under Debian. I can't afford to get a SCSI drive, as I also have no

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If you get a newer version of Apt, you shall find that the dependency on Perl has been removed; the latest few versions of apt are fully C/C++ binaries. HTH manoj -- Probably the best operating system in the world is the [operating system] made for the PDP-11 by

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