Zip SCSI

1998-11-05 Thread Víctor
Alguien me puede decir cómo se configura un Zip SCSI con la controladora Zip Zoom de Iomega (es la controladora SCSI) Gracias :)) attachment: winmail.dat

Re: Problema con colores en X

1998-11-05 Thread Xavier Calbet
Hola Tienes dos posibles soluciones: 1) Arrancar cada programa de X-windows con un mapa de colores privado. Cada programa utiliza un switch diferente. Por ejemplo para netscape es 'netscape -install'. A su vez seria recomendable que usases un gestor de ventanas que gaste pocos colores para

Re: Conexión a Internet

1998-11-05 Thread Xavier Calbet
PEDRO FERNANDEZ wrote: Como soy un neófito en el tema de la conexión de Internet bajo Linux, y como leyendo unos y otros tratados, cada uno lo explica a su manera, me gustaría que alguien me indicara los pasos a seguir para conectarme, he llegado hasta configurar el ppp con

Re: ¿¿¿¿¿ IP MASQUERADING ó DNS ?????

1998-11-05 Thread Antonio Jesús Oliva González
El día 04 de noviembre de 1998, Roberto Ruiz (rru) escribió: rru rru funcionaba bien desde el principio excepto el ftp (lo menciono porque rru tu dices tener problemas con las conexiones http también), bueno, para rru no alargar más el cuento, resulta que hay un módulo que tienes que rru activar

dselect - sort by date to find newest releases

1998-11-05 Thread Darxus
I would find it rather useful to be able to sort all packages by the date that they were added to the archives/created/whatever works best. As the existance of www.freshmeat.net shows, it's nice to know what's new. I'm guessing this will require a modification of the .deb format ? Or is this

Re: dselect - sort by date to find newest releases

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
D == Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D that they were added to the archives/created/whatever works best. As the D existance of www.freshmeat.net shows, it's nice to know what's new. I'm If you enter select after a update, there will be sections named new packages in section abc.

Re: help! I have a strange problem with Netscape

1998-11-05 Thread Douglas Guptill
Hello! I have the following problem: I've installed Debian 2.0 on my machine and I'm trying now to install Netscape 4.06. At first Netscape couldn't find some libraries. Now everything is OK with the libraries but when I try to start it in X-Term it says: Segmentation fault. Please help

Has something changed in Debian regarding interpreting Windows 98 partition time stamps?

1998-11-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
What has changed between Debian 1.3 and Debian 2.0 in the interpretation of file time stamp on (directly) mounted Windows partitions? I just noticed that my old Debian 1.3 system and my new Debian 2.0 system report different file timestamps for files on my Windows 98 partition. Neither

Re: detecting unscheduled reboot due to power failure

1998-11-05 Thread Mitch Blevins
Joe Chung wrote: I came home yesterday and found out my debian machine had been rebooted around noon for the first time in a long time. My wife denied everything, so [snip] ^ Am I to understand that you allow your wife physical

qmail time zone problem

1998-11-05 Thread Tupshin Harper
I just converted a Debian(slink) box from sendmail to qmail. After install, it seems to be working fine, handling multiple domains, sending, selectively relaying, and receiving. My mail is then accessed sucucesfully via the U. Washington imapd, cucipop, and local clients like pine. The problem

PCI Modem with debian 2.0

1998-11-05 Thread Rakesh Mohan
Hello, I have PCI inter modem (AOpen FM 56H) on my PC. It works well with NT 4.0, but i am not able to configure it for debian 2.0 This is what i get in /proc/pci for this modem device Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Serial Controller: Unknown vendor, Unknown devicec (Rev 1) Vendir id = 1270,

Re: memory loss

1998-11-05 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 00:06:34 -0500, Jun Hou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 96M memory, so I set this info in my Lilo; and I do see 96M total physical memory when I type in free command. But after a day or so, this memory will become virtual 0 (say, 4k) out of no reason. I only have netscape

Re: Kernel rebuild

1998-11-05 Thread Waif W. Urchin
Sorry this reply took so long to post; I had to figure out how to get the ppp.log file created, then out of Linux and into Windows so I could share it with you. The ppp.log file listed below contains two attempts from today. The first attempt was done after a clean floppy install (ppp, slip, bsd

Help fixing latest X deb weirdness.

1998-11-05 Thread timothy
Hi, I was trying to repair whatever the *-6 x11 files did to my machine All the errors are about /usr/man, so I check in /usr/man and I have SNIP drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 31 23:14 man6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 1 01:07 man7 ?-w-r-s--t 28276 root

Re: PPP route problem?

1998-11-05 Thread john
John Maheu writes: Any idea on how to fix this? ftp, and ping work fine. Can you telnet from Windows? Could your isp be blocking telnet? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP Headaches

1998-11-05 Thread john
Ladd Joseph Epp writes: I just installed Debian 2.0 on my system and I need to get PPP up and = running. I've been able to connect to my ISP and begin a PPP session = (Using pppd and chat on a terminal server, if anyone thinks that it's = relevant). My problem is (I think) that I cannot get

Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

1998-11-05 Thread Reagan Doose
I had tried that to no avail. Actually the problem turned out to be that I needed to disable UW negotiation for non-UW devices. Once I did that, all went smoothly. Thanks for taking the time to answer! Reagan -Original Message- From: Rob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Reagan Doose

how does one learn to create debian packages ?

1998-11-05 Thread Darxus
I would think it would be in everyone's interest if this information were well documented and easily locatable. There are numerious programs for which I have seen no debian packages, which I would be interested in packaging myself.

Re: how does one learn to create debian packages ?

1998-11-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Look in /usr/doc/dpkg. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP route problem?

1998-11-05 Thread John Maheu
On 4 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Maheu writes: Any idea on how to fix this? ftp, and ping work fine. Can you telnet from Windows? Could your isp be blocking telnet? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI I don't have Windows and no

Re: Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

1998-11-05 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hallo erstmal! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a good card? A friend ran it with hamm's SVGA server. I switched his setup to nvidia's peliminary server, because there was noise on moving windows. Now it works

Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive. Since my printer is connected to the Zip drive I was wondering if

Re: PCI Modem with debian 2.0

1998-11-05 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rakesh Mohan wrote: I have PCI inter modem (AOpen FM 56H) on my PC. It works well with NT 4.0, but i am not able to configure it for debian 2.0 I think all of AOpen's modems are software based, like the USR WinModems. Without the drivers (of which their are none for linux)

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Shand
I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says connecting to server... then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this package broken? There are no real docs with it. i had the same problem when i upgraded

Re: Kernel rebuild

1998-11-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote: Sorry this reply took so long to post; I had to figure out how to get the ppp.log file created, then out of Linux and into Windows so I could share it with you. Thats quite alright... :) The ppp.log file listed below contains two attempts from

Test (nothing)

1998-11-05 Thread Phillip Neumann
yes, but dont as i wanted to I recived a message saying that i have unsubscripe to the list. i never didnt. no problem, i will subscribe me again (i is a test too...) Bob Brown wrote: Well, it works... -Original Message- From: Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-05 Thread Mark Panzer
Adam Shand wrote: I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says connecting to server... then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this package broken? There are no real docs with it. i had the same

RE: OFF TOPIC: help with SMB wierdness?

1998-11-05 Thread David Karlin
-Original Message- From: Matt Garman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two graphical samba browsers of which I am aware: tkchooser and smb2www. In fact, there is a smb2www package for Debian Where can I find smb2www? (I couldn't find it in .../stable/main/binary-i386/packages

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 09:13:29PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive.

Re: PPP route problem?

1998-11-05 Thread Paul Miller
John Maheu wrote: Here is the output from ROOT:/rootroute -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 207.34.68.254 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U

Re: how does one learn to create debian packages ?

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Darxus wrote: I would think it would be in everyone's interest if this information were well documented and easily locatable. There are numerious programs for which I have seen no debian packages, which I would be interested in packaging myself. The developer's

simple question

1998-11-05 Thread Davide Duran
I'm very interested in the future of Linux as commercial OS, but I have a question: Linux is great thanks to over 1000 programmers who hard worked on it in their free time. It was a passion, an hobby. For sure, the best valuable passion or hobby I ever seen, but I ask:

Re: simple question

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
I'm very interested in the future of Linux as commercial OS, but I have a question: Linux is great thanks to over 1000 programmers who hard worked on it in their free time. It was a passion, an hobby. For sure, the best valuable passion or hobby I ever seen, but I ask:

Re: Howto /dev/3dfx ?

1998-11-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Dave Swegen hat gesagt: // Dave Swegen wrote: Try using the tar at this location: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/3dfx/ It worked first time (I have a 2.1.x kernel, but should work OK for a vanilla deb 2.0). Thank you very much, Dave. This tar-file has another better-looking Makefile and did

Mounting problem on cdrom

1998-11-05 Thread Wes Jennings
Hope someone can determine what this problem is. Outlined below is information about my system, observations and error messages. 1. I have had a Slackware Linux system, kernel 2.0.27, running for about 1 year. All my hardware functions fine. I decided to upgrade my system and wanted to try the

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Roberto Ripio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribi¢: ... | This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future | issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The hosting WWW site ... | As published, the document is edited by Eric S. Raymond,

RE: SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-05 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Noah L. Meyerhans[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Doh! I feel pretty dumb now. The scripts ARE being run. The problem does, however, seem to have something to do with the way in which they're being run. One of the scripts contains an ftp command, which should (using a macro in /root/.netrc)

Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, Is there a package that can get/set the status of Zip disks like the Iomega tools do (write protect, unprotect until eject, etc.)? Bye Felix

Re: Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Christophe Broult
Chang, FKK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a package that can get/set the status of Zip disks like the Iomega tools do (write protect, unprotect until eject, etc.)? You should install the mtools package which provides the mzip command that can be used to change protection mode and eject

Re: Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Peter Berlau
Date forwarded: 5 Nov 1998 10:38:38 - To: Chang, FKK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: debian user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Zip drives Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christophe Broult [EMAIL

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AS == Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says connecting to server... then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this package broken? There are no real docs with

Re: simple question

1998-11-05 Thread AJT60
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Davide Duran wrote: Linux is great thanks to over 1000 programmers who hard worked on it in their free time. It was a passion, an hobby. For sure, the best valuable passion or hobby I ever seen, but I ask: who can say me that I can be sure that

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Vera Lucia Mazzocchi
Hi, I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that is, let them know only what we want they know and let's see what they think about. Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing such document, or allowing somebody to have access and releasing it.

Free Cheap Advertizing

1998-11-05 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, This is to all Linux users that are also Lind Waldock Customers. We have made a version of Lind Online software available in Linux/Unix. Mike Technical Resources Lind Waldock Co

Font Frustration (adobe-helvetica)

1998-11-05 Thread Jeff Miller
Does anyone know what font package has adobe-helvetica in it?

Mounting problem on cdrom

1998-11-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Wes Jennings wrote: Hope someone can determine what this problem is. Outlined below is information about my system, observations and error messages. 1. I have had a Slackware Linux system, kernel 2.0.27, running for about 1 year. All my hardware functions fine. I decided to upgrade my system and

Netscape3

1998-11-05 Thread Richard Harran.
I was hoping to install netscape 3, 'cos it's smaller and apparently less buggy than netscape 4, but I can't get the tar file off netscape. The .deb package suggests ftp://archive.netscape.com, but this site wont let me log on as anonymous or as guest. Does anyone knnow where I can get the

Installing Perl 5.005_??

1998-11-05 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I have Debian 2.0, which has Perl 5.004_04 installed. I'd like to upgrade to 5.005_02 (or maybe even _53). There isn't a debian 5.005 package yet (AFAIK) - how do I install 5.005, without confusing dpkg? I don't know what there is on my system which depends on Perl - can I find out? I'm quite

Re: xmix cannot open mixer device

1998-11-05 Thread Conrado Badenas
Kirston Akos wrote: You have to compile the kernel with /dev/audio enabled. Or you have to chmod your device. The devices /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1 are both owned by root.audio and I belong to group audio (I belong to groups users, audio, disk, cdrom, and floppy). Both devices are chmod'ed

Writing CD from W95

1998-11-05 Thread Christopher D. Judd
Hi, all, I want to write a Debian CD here at work so that I can more easily upgrade my system at home. The only CD writer which we have here is on another scientist's W95 system. It is an HP CD Writer Plus 7200 with HP DirectCD software. Is it possible to write the CD image with this

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? .. --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] How

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? Try grabbing the source and re-compiling? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:11:34PM +, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/{msdos,win32,nt} or any other CTAN site, methinks. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with

Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-05 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? Where is the config file fo setting this environment

Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable by latex? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/

Re: Netscape3

1998-11-05 Thread Doug Dine
With your browser goto ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/navigator/3.04/shipping/english/unix/linux12/navigator_complete/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz At 11/5/98 1:54:00 PM, you wrote: I was hoping to install netscape

printing problem [was Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a

Re: Help fixing latest X deb weirdness.

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
t == timothy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t SNIP t drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 31 23:14 man6 t drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 1 01:07 man7 t ?-w-r-s--t 28276 root 29545 1245212 Oct 2 2029 man8 t /SNIP t I figure I Will delete man 8 (since if its been

The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
Although this is not strictly on topic, it seems strongly related to a kind of kernel development. I checked out distributed.net, and they seem to have a much different approach to the question. They are more concerned with parcelling out portions of a task, not with making an actual usable

install script problem

1998-11-05 Thread Tim Thomas
I'm trying to get the Excite Search installed and run into the following error. Is anyone bored enough to take a look at the install script and see what's up ? Script at: http://www.xinu.org/crud/ starting installation. This may take a few seconds... tar: perl: Not found in archive tar: Error

Re: Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable | by latex? I don't believe you can directly do this. I've heard you can use a TT - PS Type 1 converter and then use those, although the quality of the result may or may not be

Re: Installing Perl 5.005_??

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP I have Debian 2.0, which has Perl 5.004_04 installed. I'd like to MP upgrade to 5.005_02 (or maybe even _53). There isn't a debian 5.005 There was a package, but it was retracted after it broke some things. Basicaly any module, which is not pure

Where can I find working X packets for slink

1998-11-05 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
I upgraded to the newest slink X packets (the x*3.3.2.3a-6 set) which I found to be horribly broken (they can't find fonts, locales are broken etc) in my experience. Where can I find the good old working packages? -- /Tommi K/ QOTD: Her other car is a broom.

Netscape3 install

1998-11-05 Thread Richard Harran.
Thanks to Doug, I got the netscape3 tar file, and I've installed it, but it won't let me run as root for security reasons. As I am the only user on my computer, I always login as root (I know this is considered 'bad', but it is far more convenient for me). I remember having a similar problem on

Re: Writing CD from W95

1998-11-05 Thread Jonathan Sambrook
I want to write a Debian CD here at work so that I can more easily upgrade my system at home. The only CD writer which we have here is on another scientist's W95 system. It is an HP CD Writer Plus 7200 with HP DirectCD software. Is it possible to write the CD image with this combination?

Re: Netscape3 install

1998-11-05 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi Rich Thanks to Doug, I got the netscape3 tar file, and I've installed it, but it won't let me run as root for security reasons. As I am the only user on my computer, I always login as root (I know this is considered 'bad', but it is far more convenient for me). I remember having a similar

apt-get update errors?

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Whenever I run apt-get update with slink stuff in my sources.list I end up getting like 20 errors similar to: Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev [16.1k] Error ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/makedev_2.3.1-4.deb: not a plain file.

Re: apt-get update errors?

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thus spake Adam Lazur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Whenever I run apt-get update with slink stuff in my sources.list I ^ doh, I meant apt-get upgrade after I run apt-get update .adam -- Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University

Problems compiling

1998-11-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Everyone Can someone explainwhy the following happens : 14:53:09# gcc -O2 -o iwconfig iwconfig.c -lm /tmp/ccc10981: In function `float2freq': /tmp/ccc10981(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `pow10' /tmp/ccc10981: In function `freq2float': /tmp/ccc10981(.text+0xdd): undefined reference

Re: Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 5 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable | by latex? I don't believe you can directly do this. I've heard you can use a TT - PS Type 1 converter and then use those, although the

Re: icmplogd: destination unreachable from my nameserver

1998-11-05 Thread Mark H. Mabry
[ Your From: address does not work. 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Host unknown (Name server: goomba.debian.org: host not found) ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I _continually_ get icmplogd: destination unreachable from my nameserver in my syslog and it's really beginning to bug me. Anyone know what

Re: apt-get update errors? FIXED

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thus spake Adam Lazur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Whenever I run apt-get update with slink stuff in my sources.list I ^ doh, I meant apt-get upgrade after I run apt-get update fixed it by switching my slink site to ftp1.us.debian.org .adam -- Adam Lazur -

Re: Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 5 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable | | by latex? | | I don't believe you can directly do this. I've heard you can use a | TT - PS

Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread stick
Vera Lucia Mazzocchi said Hi, I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that is, let them know only what we want they know and let's see what they think about. Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing such document, or allowing somebody to have

mounting cds in debian

1998-11-05 Thread Rob Collins
I've a new debian installation; and I'm trying to mount music cds. My system is scsi, and I've a CD-WORM on scd0, and a 24x Pioneer on scd1. As root, I get the wrong fs type, bad option... error when I try to mount the drives (I get the error and control returns right away on scd1, but scd0, the

DNS question

1998-11-05 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
Hello, Is it possible to create a new domain on a subnet that is already registered? Here is my situation. Let's have subnet 111.111.111.255 which has domainname `university.edu'. Now I want to take one address from the subnet, let's say 111.111.111.254, and register it as a new domain (outside

Re: mounting cds in debian

1998-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Rob, You don't mount music CDs. Just install the CD in the drive and run your favorite player software. Bob On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Rob Collins wrote: I've a new debian installation; and I'm trying to mount music cds. My system is scsi, and I've a CD-WORM on scd0, and a 24x Pioneer on scd1.

help

1998-11-05 Thread Kester Clegg

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential? It was confirmed by MS. See slashdot.org

Re: Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. I've done this before and it is pretty painless,

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-05 Thread Markus M. Schneider
Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I recently upgraded as well but now communicator fails with a bus error. I've also upgraded to the latest libc and X packages in unstable. Has anyone else seen this problem? I've not upgraded the X packages. I get only a bus error if I start the acroread plugin

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
chuck asked, Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential? Is the Wall Street Journal a good enough source? :) Tuesday morning's WSJ

Re: Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. BN Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to BN be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. /etc/hosts, the MTA config files maybe

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s == stick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this s has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or s not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential? M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$

[comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Matt == Matthew Devney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Matt Take it off the network, unplug it, lock the case, encase it in Matt 19 feet of concrete, and you can pretty much guarantee it'll be Matt safe. But the security consultant will still worry. Dennis == Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

Re: [comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
Does this still protect against the popular nuclear bomb DoS attack? Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] UnixGroup Admin - NASA LaRC On 5 Nov 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Matt == Matthew Devney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Matt Take it off

Quake 2

1998-11-05 Thread richard
I had a go at running Quake 2 this weekend, with limited success I spent ages getting all the libc5 stuff, (glide 2.53, Mesa 3.0 quake2) and I could only run softx in an x window. yeuch. However I noticed that there was also a glibc version of quake2, so after attempting to recompile mesa using

Re: Problems compiling

1998-11-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Mario, The compiler/linker process doesn't know where the pow10 function is defined. Include the .o file which contains the pow10 definition on the command line when you compile. On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 03:51:38PM -, Mario Filipe wrote: Hi Everyone Can someone explainwhy the following

desperate for a .eps for two lines of text

1998-11-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I'm getting desperate; these things have to go out today, or tomorrow morning at latest, and I can't get the letterhead i need on them. All I need is two lines in a cursive font. I've tried converting the postscript fonts for latex. I can get as far as producing the .tmf, but it then gets

off-topic graphicla-programming

1998-11-05 Thread count zero
hi there, i would like to make a program which works in vga (not X) whiche just display a blue monitor with some text inside ( yeah you guess right : the clone of the 95's system-error ) but i don't know from what point to start any suggestion? (e.g. source code avaible, HOWTO's etc etc) thanks

Re: Problems compiling

1998-11-05 Thread Doug Lumpkin
I am trying to run dselect to install various packages, but it never seems to make it all the way through the process. It always dies at installing the hello package, saying it can't find the .gz files. So I went into the select section and deselected hello and tried running the installation

Re: SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-05 Thread wtopa
Subject: SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run Date: Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 03:49:30PM -0500 In reply to:Noah L. Meyerhans Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Doh! I feel pretty dumb now. The scripts ARE being run.

Re: Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Don't forget /etc/init.d/network if you're not using dhcp. On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to be changed? Both the host name and

Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-05 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Nov 04 1998, David Wright spake thus: Takes up 1.6MB though :( try 'strip' on the executable, or turning off the '-g' option to your compiler in the Makefile. my mutt executable is only +/-400KB. regards, leon -- __ _ Leon Breedt-o)

Re: Backups seem to take too long(scsi tape)

1998-11-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:29:57 -0500 (EST) servis writes: Hi all, I have a Seagate Tapestore 8G on a scsi-2 controller. When I back up my drives(ext2, vfat) and some smbfs mounted drives(over a 10-T) it seems to take too long. I am just using tar whith compression. Here are the stats from

smb logs

1998-11-05 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody know what to put and where to put in order to have some decent samba logs? I've got the following but nothing nice comes out (ie: no smb log files and an nmb log file which is pretty useless. ; smb.conf debug level = 3 log file = /var/log/smb.log max log size =

Re: DNS question

1998-11-05 Thread David Coe
You can do what you suggest. When you register a domain name (xyz.org), you just tell the InterNic (or whomever) the primary and secondary name servers (provided by your ISP, usually) for names in that domain. The name servers answer the specific host address for each such host (you have to tell

SCSI cdrom mounting, #2

1998-11-05 Thread Wes Jennings
To: The Debian Gang - A howdy to all: Since I posted my message yesterday on debian-user about having problems mounting my Hitachi CDR-1750S cdrom I have found out some additional information. As a review, the problems is that when I give the following command mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt my

Recommendations for an Admin Package.

1998-11-05 Thread Person, Rod
Hey All, Now that I have found out that Xadmin is gone, does anyone have a recommendation fro a replacement admin tool. I like something at least equal to xadmin if not better... Rod...

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