Otra vez NFS

1998-09-28 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hola! De nuevo tengo problemas con ls NFS. Tengo un servidor NFS (Debian 2.0) que da servicio a una Sun (Solaris 2.5.1) y a varios PC con HAMM (Debian 2.0). El caso es que sin motivo aparente, y de buenas a primeras, el servidor NFS tras llevar unas horas funcionando, deja de hacerlo, y ningun

Curiosidad

1998-09-28 Thread gustavo
Un pregunta: cómo es posible que en toda la distribución de Debian 2.0 no venga un sólo logotipo de Debian (por lo menos yo no lo he encontrado). Saludos: Gustavo Cano Rodríguez Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-28 Thread Carl Fink
Note: copied to original poster and the list. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message wwwofle will get. That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go

rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread mwb
I've installed rvplayer but it only works as root. When I run it as normal user it gives error 72, expired version. The user is in the audio group. I've installed it from the slink version. Is there anything else I need to do? Mark

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread dsb3
On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6

Re: simple password

1998-09-28 Thread Phillip Neumann
Ed Cogburn wrote: I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as `password`.. Thanks, If you are really unconcerned with security, then why use a password at all? Just hit Enter for the password (it will complain; just confirm it) and from then

Telnet

1998-09-28 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, When telneting to my computer, i get this `boaried' message: computron login: user password: x How can i change it to for example `Welcome to the computron universe. Please enter your name so i can know whoy yo u are: username Are you really username ? Enter you key: xx'

screen 10 minutes....

1998-09-28 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, Im wondering why is linux, after 10 min, turning my monitor black. I have only i nstall the base of the system. Is this couse by a software ? Which one ? Does this something to do woth enegry star? thanks, -- __

unable dependence...

1998-09-28 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Im about to installing libmagick4g wich depends on `freetype1'. Whew can i find this pagacke? In the libmagick4g debian-package web-page, stand freetype as requ ired and next to it said it is not abailbe with this distribution... Thanks, --

c++ and ncurses

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Madore
Hi, I don't know if this is simply a problem with my setup, but I'm having problem with the following test program (culled from a larger program). The program worked fine under Red Hat 5.0: #includestdio.h #includecurses.h int main() { chtype oldchar; initscr(); oldchar = inch();

Strange behaviour of less and most

1998-09-28 Thread Johann Spies
When used on a curses-based screen, keystrokes like Pageup and Pagedown and Spacebar, work at first but after a few strokes I have to press Enter after one of the normal keystrokes before less or most act on it. The fact that both programs do this and that I have never had such behaviour on

Re: Can't load default font 'fixed'

1998-09-28 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/98 at 05:40 PM, Evan Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm trying to get Xfree up and running... and can't run XF86Setup, so I ran XF86Config. I've set it for the VGA-16 server, just to make sure I can get something running, but I get the error message: Can't

MSS/WSS Recording?

1998-09-28 Thread Joe Lillibridge
I've been trying for a long long time to record with my CS4231 MSS/WSS sound card. My BIOS says that WSS Capture DMA is 1. Play is 0. On boot, I get this message. MSS audio codec (CS4231) at 0x534 irq 11 dma 0,0 I assume it should read: MSS audio codec (CS4231) at 0x534 irq 11 dma 0,1

RESCUE DISK | X ICONS

1998-09-28 Thread BOB'S MAIL
1. How do I create a floppy Rescue Disk from a recently installed Debian 2.0 system? 2. How do I install incons for applications in X -- or set a desk top etc.? Bob Barth EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Q:exim reject problem

1998-09-28 Thread Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, I really do not understand what is happen. Here you have some messages from reject.log file: -- 1998-09-28 09:42:09 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(Mihaela. inoe.ro)

Re: XEmacs on laptop BEEPING

1998-09-28 Thread Daniel ANDRE
Wayne Cuddy wrote: I have xemacs20.x loaded on my Toshiba laptop. Everything seems to be working fine except when I move the mouse over the button bar. There is an error that appears on the bottom line that says can't instantiate image and the thing beeps like crazy while I move the

Re: simple password

1998-09-28 Thread dsb3
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hello, Dont be so innocent ;-), of course i have not put my password as ``password'' , it was just an example... as far as an intruder is concerned, any dictionary word or close companion is as easy to guess as password. Any dictionary word

Re: screen 10 minutes....

1998-09-28 Thread dsb3
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Im wondering why is linux, after 10 min, turning my monitor black. I have only i nstall the base of the system. Is this couse by a software ? Which one ? Does this something to do woth enegry star? this can be configured with the 'setterm'

Re: Telnet

1998-09-28 Thread dsb3
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, When telneting to my computer, i get this `boaried' message: computron login: user password: x How can i change it to for example `Welcome to the computron universe. Please enter your name so i can know whoy yo u are: username Are you

Re: slink release date?

1998-09-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
How can one find out what the projected release date for slink is? First, it has to be frozen. You'll hear about that on this list when it happens. After that, it will take `some time', and it will be released `real soon now'. I would guess it will be in some months. If there is anything

Re: Segmentation Faults

1998-09-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Sorry to bother everyone here, but I have been getting a lot of segmentation faults lately and I was wondering what causes them. I think I have heard on this list before that it is causes by bad memory chips and just wanted to verify this. This can indeed be the case. If you have

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: But, is this the formal way or proper way to do it?? What is xterm-debian?? Any additional features?? Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. ? I've just read it, and

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 (meaning:

X windows

1998-09-28 Thread Bostjan JERKO
I have a problem starting X windows as ordinary user. It works as root, but it looks like I don't have sufficient permissions as ordinary user. Any suggestions ? Bostjan

Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color

1998-09-28 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The memory of the videocard is 4 meg. With this configuration, I cannot display 24bit color under XF86. I am pretty sure that my hardware is capable of doing that, as I can do it under NT. When I switch

Re: Q:exim reject problem

1998-09-28 Thread Bubulac Angela Tatiana
I have done all you said but I still receiving messages like those: 1998-09-28 12:13:13 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(pingo) [193.231.44.195] -- 1998-09-28 12:15:32 refused

Problem with ext2 floppies

1998-09-28 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hello all, I began working a lot with ext2fs formatted floppies those last times (moving around sources for a project I'm working on), and it already happend twice that a recently formatted floppy died on me when writing to it on a different machine than the one that created it. To be more

Re: About mount FAT32

1998-09-28 Thread Michele Bini
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: Hi, I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command. For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1

Re: SB32 PnP Midi

1998-09-28 Thread Michele Bini
I tried playmidi, and it just did not output any sound at all... Try to adjust the midi output level using a mixer. You can also add the AWE 32 support (it should work on a SB32, too). (you can install the awe-drv, awe-midi awe-netscape and libawe0.4 packages under debian, and use drvmid

Re: Flicking in xterms when using vi

1998-09-28 Thread Michele Bini
Hi guys, Sorry for asking the same question again.. when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm started flicking. Try to use rxvt, instead of xterm. It flickers much less. -Michele

XBanner fonts

1998-09-28 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, at work I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 in 3 486 computers out of order and only one have the default font of xbanner (the other two presents the error message #Could not get the font, using fixed). I think that the file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad that

Mirror debian 2.0

1998-09-28 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, I have a debian cd 2.0. I'll be copying the main to a harddisk. How do I mirror main in such a way that packages will be automatically be updated(delete some old packages, add some packages, automatically.)? I'll just mirror binary-i386 and binary-all. Someone mentioned rsync. will rsync

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
*-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8

IPX Colision and XBanner font (solved)

1998-09-28 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, excuse my old mail about XBanner fonts. I have already found that the problem was with the FONT PATH in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. But, I have another problem with IPX. The console gives me an error: Sep 28 07:41:28 HOST132 kernel: IPX: Network

Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again

1998-09-28 Thread D.L.WHITELEY
I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also installing stuff of the extra CDs. If I copy a .deb file onto somewhere on my HD and use dpkg -i does this update the list of packages reported when I run

Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also installing stuff of the extra CDs. The way I'd do this would be - dpkg --clear-available - for

permissions of hosts.*

1998-09-28 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)

Re: Mirror debian 2.0

1998-09-28 Thread Randy Edwards
I have a debian cd 2.0. I'll be copying the main to a harddisk. How do I mirror main in such a way that packages will be automatically be updated(delete some old packages, add some packages, automatically.)? Grab the 'mirror' package. You can easily configure it to get only the subdirs

Re: wmppp and ISDN

1998-09-28 Thread Thomas Apel
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: As announced, I looked into the source and made a first patch. Due its shortness I will append it to this posting. If anybody who is using the program too could test this patch, I could send it to the maintainer for possible inclusion. Since a few days I'm working

Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also installing stuff of the extra CDs. Another option might be the dpkg-multicd method written by

Habe ein Problem

1998-09-28 Thread Manuel
Hallo! Ich habe mir vor kurzem Debian Gnu/Linux 2.0 gekauft. Ich habe alles nach dem Booklet gemacht. Also, wenn bei mir das Installationssetuo beendet ist, dann wird ja der Computer neugestartet. Also, ich melde mich dann als Root an. Dann wird ja gefragt, ob man eine Internet-Verbindung

Backspace and Delete weirds

1998-09-28 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have a problem. My /etc/X11/Xresources have the following lines: *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ MetaKeyBackSpace: string(\033\177)\n\ KeyDelete:

Re: Habe ein Problem

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Manuel wrote: Da kommt dann die Fehlermeldung, No acces methos is selected/ configured. Dann habe ich ausprobiert, Acces. Wenn ich dann das Laufwerk auswaehle (weil ich ja von CD-ROM installiere). Dann kommt diese Meldung, Insert the CD-ROM and enter

Re: Backspace and Delete weirds

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
You don't provide enough information. The backspace/delete behaviour is only correct when you use the XKB (X Keyboard) extension. Are you using it? (check that there's no XkbDisable in your /etc/X11/XF86Config) What terminal emulators (xterm, rxvt, xvt, kvt, ...) have problems? What applications

Re: permissions of hosts.*

1998-09-28 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:41:05PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). hmm... well on MY system...all of them are: -rw-r--r-- Works for me. Any reasons NOT to have this the case? -Steve -- /* -- Stephen

Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again

1998-09-28 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:19:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: : I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean : way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also : installing stuff of

encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-09-28 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? (for windows and unix) I know that one possibility is

Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)

1998-09-28 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, In pratical terms, I have to do this until friday to my users login into Linux using Novell account. I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells

Re: xemacs' HTML [html] mode?

1998-09-28 Thread Mikael W Asp
On 24 Sep, Matt Garman wrote: I've been working on my personal web page with xemacs recently. Just today, it started acting goofy on its own. When I open xemacs 20.4 with my .html file, the first time I press the TAB key to indent for me, xemacs runs some things off across the bottom

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread John Goerzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: It's a kernel issue. On 32 bit platforms time_t will probably always be restricted to 32 bits, but on 64 bits systems such as the alpha time_t is 64 bits .. and by 2038 I expect everyone to be running at least a 64 bit machine. BZZT, wrong

Re: RESCUE DISK | X ICONS

1998-09-28 Thread Jack Kern
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 11:29:37PM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote: 1. How do I create a floppy Rescue Disk from a recently installed Debian 2.0 system? You need the file resc1440.bin from your cd or ftp site. Place a new formatted diskette in your floppy drive. Then do dd if=resc1440.bin

dpkg(install in /usr/local)

1998-09-28 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Could anyone teach me how to use dpkg to install in a specific directory, such as /usr/local/. Thanks! Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 Victoria AVE OxO PENSHURST 2035

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread Jack Kern
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL

Re: permissions of hosts.*

1998-09-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:07:26 -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). hmm... well on MY system...all of them are: -rw-r--r-- Works for me. Any reasons NOT to have this the case? No. The perms are perfectly

june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-28 Thread tko
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the debian binary disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL boot doc stable READ_CD.txt

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:56:28 -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: [...] I agree with part of this. DO NOT waste your time fiddling with dselect, you Thanks Bruce. I almost felt like an idiot fighting with dselect. :-( Most recently when faced with the same situation as you I just installed apt and used

RE: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread Mike Barton
-Original Message- From: dsb3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 11:40 PM To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian? On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wojciech

I cannot work on leafnode any more

1998-09-28 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Over the past many months, it's become increasingly clear that I won't work on Leafnode any more. Hacking on leafnode doesn't give any pleasure any more, and after a long day of hacking at work I simply can't find the will to work on leafnode. In fact, I haven't even been able to heep up with

Re: Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
[Paulo, please limit your lines to less than 80 characters] On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:15:17AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells about

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about

Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the debian binary disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL bootdoc stable

DEB vs RPM

1998-09-28 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have 10434 packages listed. Now, do we have this number of deb packages?? Am I missing out any gook web site?? Anyway, we can

Re: rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've installed rvplayer but it only works as root. When I run it as normal user it gives error 72, expired version. The user is in the audio group. I've installed it from the slink version. Is there anything else I need to do? the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try cat

Re: DEB vs RPM

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have 10434 packages listed. AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to

Re: DEB vs RPM

1998-09-28 Thread Nicolai Guba
jdassen == jdassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jdassen X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 jdassen On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have

Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ulisses Alonso Camaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? (for windows and unix) qpopper supports

Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-28 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:55:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Infomagic labelled Debian 2.0 containing 1.3.1] Hum. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0 release, but it is clearly an error. It is. This is the umpteenth mistake wrt Debian Infomagic have made with

Re: rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a single user system, it might not matter (much), but

Re: RESCUE DISK | X ICONS

1998-09-28 Thread Daniel Martin
BOB'S MAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. How do I install incons for applications in X -- or set a desk top etc.? You need to install a window manager other than the basic twm which comes with X. I'd recommend fvwm2 or fvwm95 for people just starting out. You can customize these relatively

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL

Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again

1998-09-28 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option might be the dpkg-multicd method written by Heiko Schlittermann; it's available from ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/ Unfortunately, the .deb doesn't have a copyright file, and the source for 0.5 (the 0.7 source's

Audio Group and NIS passwords

1998-09-28 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I follow always the threads about the group audio in the user debian list and know that I have to add a user in group audio for he to be able to play CD and midi. But, I installed Debian 2.0 and use NIS and my passwd does not have any user and when I try

audio device permissions (was Re: rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread dsb3
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a single user

linux on HP 715 ?

1998-09-28 Thread dave oswald
can anyone tell me if debian or any other linux is running on apollo/HP 715 ... please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the group.

viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-28 Thread Matt Garman
Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? I used to run a BBS a few years back, and had it pretty jazzed out with colorful ANSi graphics. I can't just cat the files, though, because the high-ascii characters are not diplayed correctly (and by high-ascii I mean

How do I get exim to work?

1998-09-28 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to get exim to work, but without success. I would appreciate some help. My hostname is Johann. My ISP-domain is alpha.futurenet.co.za. I have a single PC with a dialup ppp-connection and fetchmail. My username is jhspies on both the localhost and at the ISP. If I answer the

Re: wmppp and ISDN

1998-09-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 12:34:17PM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: - if I press the checkmark, I want the yellow light to appear to indicate, that my connection is in dial-on-demand state (i.e., the default route is set to ippp0 and the interface is waiting for the next paket to dial

denying su from non-local terminals

1998-09-28 Thread Eric Jensen
Is it possible to limit the terminals on which a user can su? _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | Page me via ICQ at | |___ | | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |__/ | or by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__/

Re: linux on HP 715 ?

1998-09-28 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, dave oswald wrote: can anyone tell me if debian or any other linux is running on apollo/HP 715 ... It seems to me that yes! http://www.osf.org/mall/os/pa-mklinux/index.html Maybe there is also a non Microkernel based project Also

[off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

1998-09-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi all, What is the best way to replace quoted includes (#include duh.h) with bracketed includes (#include duh.h)? I've got over one hundred files that use quoted includes and I would like to switch them over to bracketed includes. The package I am creating/maintaining uses the quoted includes

Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

1998-09-28 Thread Shaleh
I think that a s/^#include (\w+\.h)/#include $1/ is close to what you want. The (foo) (1) notation means find this chunk nad store it. Then it is accessed as 1. More could be used and they would be 2, 3, etc. The above regex is Perl notation. It should move to any other regex style fairly

Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

1998-09-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
What is the best way to replace quoted includes (#include duh.h) with bracketed includes (#include duh.h)? $ perl -i.bak -ne 'if (/#include \(.*)\(.*)$/) {print #include $1$2\n} else {print $_}' *.h (Creates a .bak file for every file processed from the *.h) -- Peter Galbraith, research

Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

1998-09-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Cool! However, I have several types of includes, e.g.: #include duh.h # include duh.h #include /**/ duh.h # include /**/ duh.h # include ... etc. As such, I'd like to be able to do something like: #include duh.h- #include duh.h

Re: Keyboard Policy

1998-09-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Thank you for your answer. But Xkbdisable is commented out in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. xev gives me a delete [Note: mailing list change] On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore -- in an xterm, netscape,

masqdialer

1998-09-28 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist? I currently have a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection. First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by everyone? (Or maybe only

Q: SMail and T-Online

1998-09-28 Thread Wolf-Ruediger Juergens
Hi, After switching from DLD Distribution to Debian Hamm, I like to use Smail instead of Sendmail for Mail. But I had no success to setup smail for T-Online. Can anyone help me , especially a german user who has resolved this problem ? TIA Wolf -- W.-R. Juergens e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Mike Stone Wrote, Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp yikes! when did that happen??? I didn't even look at it when I clipped,

more modem

1998-09-28 Thread tracheotomy_bob
OK, here's part II of the problem. I pulled out my modem and configured it to com1 irq4. I disabled com1 on the motherboard and windows seems happy. However now I get the following when I type plog Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Heh heh, I remember the days of DOS and BBSing and The Draw and DOOM II and MODs and demos I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or whatever and load it with an ansi font (eg xterm -font vga or rxvt -fn vga,

Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-09-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Ulisses Alonso Camaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? (for windows

mkfsk.ext2 and X problems

1998-09-28 Thread Person, Rod
Hey, First, I'm at work and I had typed a nice long e-mail about my problems and before I mailed it. My workstation crashed -- didn't I hear a rumor that NT was stable. Only mine crashed and all I was doing was typing e-mail Anyway. I attempted to created a linux partition from a 40mb

Help ppp

1998-09-28 Thread mr anonym
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Re: Help ppp

1998-09-28 Thread aqy6633
Hello, i have just installed Linux, how do i do to get connected(ppp)? As root, run pppconfig command. Then start ppp with pon, stop with poff, see log with plog. Good luck, Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |

Re: more modem

1998-09-28 Thread Kent West
At 07:39 PM 9/28/1998 +0100, tracheotomy_bob wrote: OK, here's part II of the problem. I pulled out my modem and configured it to com1 irq4. I disabled com1 on the motherboard and windows seems happy. However now I get the following when I type plog Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: pppd

XMCD segmentation fault

1998-09-28 Thread Toby Bouzane
Hi, Tried to configure xmcd with my Mitsu. CD and it came back as a segmentation fault when I tried to run xmcd. Anyone have an idea how to fix the problem? I am sure there is more info needed, just let me know and I shall provide. Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-28 Thread Jim Foltz
Try: echo -e \e[32mHi Where 32 is the ansi code for green. Also look at the setfont man page to set the console font to an ascii one to use the extended characters. Plain old setfont with no args works for me to set the console to vga fonts. On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 11:44:47AM -0500, Matt

XFMail rules question

1998-09-28 Thread Shaleh
I just started using XFmail today and am learning it mailbox rules setup. I have a mailing list where sometimes mail is from @MyDomain.Org and other @mydomain.org. How can I code a rule to catch this. Currently I have Text: mydomain.org and Field: Recipients but it does not catch the upper case

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Stutz
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. * The default keymappings for xterm are different than they are upstream, to

Re: more modem

1998-09-28 Thread Jim Foltz
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 02:07:08PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Just as a test, I'd try the following command: echo ATDT(some_phone_number) /dev/ttyS0 and see if you hear the modem pick up and dial. If you've got a second phone line (or cell phone, etc), you can dial it and answer it and hear

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Stutz
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? cat will do this after changing the console font to a font that will properly display all of the extended ASCII characters. alt-8x16 is one such font, but there may be many

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