From: Mitch Blevins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moore, Paul wrote:
[snip]
The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no
reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald
proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link
came up
Paul writes:
I've come to the conclusion that the best way of doing what I'm after is
to dial up manually, using pon. This is no problem. Diald doesn't really
offer me anything extra here, as I basically don't want to dial up on
demand... BUT, once I am online, I'd like to be able to get at
Hi,
I don't mean to spam, but I am concerned. Please disregard as
appropriate. I'll keep it short. I'm mainly just an end-user
FWIW, I have no clout, no special programming skills, and little
spare time.
Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future
of Linux IMHO. I2O also
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Paloschi Diego Esteban (ceb1_98) wrote:
When I boot my pc with the debian first install I get to the boot:
prompt ok. When I press enter, a quick page of info passes by to quick
to read and then my pc re-boots itself.
There are 4 different boot images on the cheap bytes
What I don't really understand is why XF86Setup was able to function
just
fine with the S3 setup, but the actual S3 X server package failed...
But I'm
just trying not to think about it too much.
=
That's because XF86Setup doesn't use the
Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
I have downloaded another copy of base2_0.tgz from
I have two debian 2.0 boxes that have Spellcaster ISDN cards
installed. These machines are using CIPE to provide a encrypted link to
each-other across the internet. Currently the boxes are both online 24/7
and I've just been informed that if the remote box remains online full
time they
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I retrieved dvisvga and dvilx from slink. I tried to install them
with dpkg. Each attempt fails with
the message tetex-bin is required but not installed. What am I missing
about this?
chuck kaufman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
See dpkg
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Frock wrote:
I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a
random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone
using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org)
Once someone posted this script to find the fastest debian mirror, which
could
I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar
xvfz, I got:
icarus:~/writing/newsletter tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz
tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header
Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out
Helge Hafting wrote:
You don't have . in your path, so files are *not* considered executable
just because they are in the *current* directory.
This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called
ls or similiar in his home directoy. If you try to look at his files
*- Lukas Eppler wrote about Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors
| On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Frock wrote:
| I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a
| random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone
| using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org)
|
|
*-Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
Hello, and welcome :-)
| I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
| ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
| and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
That
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:04:16PM +, Jim wrote:
Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
Of
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Jim wrote:
Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
I have downloaded
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
:
: Helge Hafting wrote:
:
: You don't have . in your path, so files are *not* considered executable
: just because they are in the *current* directory.
:
: This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called
: ls
Hope you don't mind...
Out of my reply I have clipped a great many adresses. I would imagine
Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds are very busy men and don't need
my chatter :) - and the Debian-user list is the only one I am on
that even seems mildly aprorpriate (btw sending it to multiple
redhat adresses
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where
you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin
directory! (Same privileges are required)
Just a thought.
Just make the . directory the _last_ part of your path,
I would suggest that it is better to convert the rpm packages to deb
with alien before using. I have been doing this for months, and I have
not have one (obvious) problem yet ... the packages convert without fail
and install and run just fine. The reason I suggest doing this instead
of
while fighting slink, i ran FreeBSD for a day. Don't do this with your
ext2 partitions; it doesn't work quite right (@!*#(*$(().
ANnyway, I had to modify my .maildeliver for the different location of
rcvstore. I forgot to undo this before logging in after i restored my
file system, and it
I've been running slink for a few weeks. Last night I upgraded and
xbase and xserver failed to install. What is worse is that somehow
they deleted (at least) the xdm executable. Some of the message
during the failure said that the file
/var/dpkg/(i forgot dirname)/tmp.ci/preinst
does not
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
(actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to go
some time ago, (I think it was on a debian list) a URL to a pretty funny
comic strip was posted. I don't even recall the name :( If you've any
clues please let me know :)
---
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL
Hi,
After upgrading to the latest available XF86 Debian packages my programs
no longer run properly. For example, one commercial package gives the
following error:
Error: X does not support locale C.
Netscape complains about missing NLS stuff, and another program
segmentation faults.
Mitch Blevins writes:
For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for.
Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Rick Younie wrote:
If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode
instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the
window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a
language or a good hex editor, replace the carriage return/line
feed pairs with a
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
Hi!
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
[...]
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
[...]
I'm using Linux 2.0.35. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible.
Since the PC was
Hello people,
I think this is the last of my confguration problems, so bare with me.
I'm trying to get my SB32 to work, obviously it's fine under windows, so
they're the values is used
after doing a pnpdump. (see below for full isapnp.conf). I've built sound
into the kernel using these
values
On 22 Oct 1998q, Mitch Blevins wrote:
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong.
It
will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes
cdrom.
The entry in my sources.list is as follows:
deb
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
After upgrading to the latest available XF86 Debian packages my programs
no longer run properly. For example, one commercial package gives the
following error:
THere are two versions of xbase/server/fonts in slink right now. one
seems to be based on libc5. I didn't find a solution, but
Hallo again,
Is anyone using a Gigabyte GA-6XDS Motherboard? I know it comes with
onboard SCSI (plus)
but it uses an Adaptec 7895 chipset (minus). So I need to know how easy it
it to use linux with this
board. Is there a kernel that readily supports this chipset or is it better
to purchase a
What is the correct way to downgrade a package?
I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants
to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to
downgrade xbase because, after installing Version: 3.3.2.3a-4,
I don't seem to have xset anymore.)
$ dpkg --search xset
some time ago, (I think it was on a debian list) a URL to a pretty funny
comic strip was posted. I don't even recall the name :( If you've any
clues please let me know :)
Could it have been userfriendly ???
http://www.userfriendly.com
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:29:40 -0500 (CDT), D'jinnie wrote:
some time ago, (I think it was on a debian list) a URL to a pretty funny
comic strip was posted. I don't even recall the name :( If you've any
clues please let me know :)
www.userfriendly.org
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm
Yes! I knew debian people could read minds! Thanks to everyone who replied
=)
---
Man was created before woman, obviously as a prototype. Thus, they
represent an experiment, rather than the crowning achievement of creation.
D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Well there is something you can do...
1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's
IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory
space.
2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as
above.
Now we know why intel and ms want isa to
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list
file as
deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for
hamm (2.0).
He was NOT using apt under
Hi,
Does anyone have idea when X will be functioning properly again? I've
really hosed my X setup with the current packages. Perhaps I shouldn't
have been so daring when I installed the current X packages. :)
Thanks,
-Ossama
My experience is similar. I notice that xset is now missing.
--
Stan
Please forgive me for the crossposted reply, I've trimmed some addresses
out.
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future
of Linux IMHO. I2O also springs to mind, and Intel may help with
this. We've seen
At 23:49 Uhr -0700 21.10.1998, George Bonser wrote:
Exim is a much better choice.
Any chances that this will replace Smail as Debian's de-facto default MTA
in the near future?
I recently upgraded emacs, xbase, xlib6g, etc. to the latest versions
in slink and now I get the following warning whenever I start emacs:
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Does anyone know what this is and how to get
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 02:00:15PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote:
What is the correct way to downgrade a package?
I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants
to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to
downgrade xbase because, after installing Version:
Actually, it looks like the problem is directly related to upgrading
all the X libraries and stuff. Any X application now generates the
following warnings:
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
However, everything seems to work fine
Hi,
my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and
stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the
page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing
happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem ( and solution )?
Greetings,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mitch Blevins writes:
For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for.
Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux?
Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm)
that I had heard of it working...
Anybody out there
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
see the sig below
me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list
file as
deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
But I don't think he
I see, I must have been confused when the archive tried to open man and found
it wasn't
there. I wonder then why is the reference to man in the archive at all. Thank
you for your
help. And thank everyone for your help. This is a lively group!
Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get
I assume you run bind.
Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like:
1) dig @theispdomain | grep IN NS afile
2) extract the IPs of the servers and sed them into the forwarder line
in named.conf
3) ndc restart
in ip-down.d you'll want to restore the named.conf to something
Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
Try, as root, executing
mandb
This should hopefully update your man database.
Though I have to admit, I'm having problems with the whatis feature, and I'm
trying to figure out when it stopped working - when I updated to the latest
slink or kde. Did your
I have my ftp directory linked from my web page and want to limit access
to certain domains. Any idea how I can do this? I am running debian slink.
Cheers.
--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.telmer.com
What is the best way to have hamm system support debugging of ADA programs
in
gdb ?
Install the slink version of gdb, try if it works; if it doesn't, submit a
useful bug report.
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/gdb_4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gn
at.deb
Note the gnat in
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Colin Telmer wrote:
I have my ftp directory linked from my web page and want to limit access
to certain domains. Any idea how I can do this? I am running debian slink.
Cheers.
tcp_wrappers
See hosts_access(5).
noah
PGP public key
Gosh I wish I had this when I started! Now, as I installed on a laptop and
configured from default menu choice Configure Device Driver Modules first,
and configured PCMCIA second, which might explain why my serial ports don't
initialize (boy am I getting an education) I am thinking re-install?
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 05:40:25PM +, Jim wrote:
Gosh I wish I had this when I started! Now, as I installed on a laptop and
configured from default menu choice Configure Device Driver Modules first,
and configured PCMCIA second, which might explain why my serial ports don't
initialize
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