ppp server con callback

1998-12-10 Thread Jose Illescas Perez
Hi, ¿alguien conoce algún sitio donde expliquen como se configura un equipo con Debian para que haga de Servidor de PPP y ademas haga un callback al equipo que está llamando para conectarse? Saludos. /\ _`\ \ \ \L\ \ __ _ __ __ \ \ ,__/'__`\/\ '__`\/\ \/\ \ /',__\ \ \ \/\

Re: ppp server con callback

1998-12-10 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 08:16:57AM +0100, Jose Illescas Perez dijo: Hi, ¿alguien conoce algún sitio donde expliquen como se configura un equipo con Debian para que haga de Servidor de PPP y ademas haga un callback al equipo que está llamando para conectarse? Saludos. Mira la

Re: ppp server con callback

1998-12-10 Thread TooManySecrets
Ugo Enrico Albarello el día Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 08:16:31AM -0500 expuso lo siguiente: El Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 08:16:57AM +0100, Jose Illescas Perez dijo: Hi, ¿alguien conoce algún sitio donde expliquen como se configura un equipo con Debian para que haga de Servidor de PPP y ademas

[SEGURIDAD] Nueva version de ssh podria arreglar saturacion de buffers

1998-12-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Este es un anuncio de seguridad en [EMAIL PROTECTED] que traduje para el grupo local de Linux. Creo que puede ser de interes para usuarios aqui tambien. Marcelo---BeginMessage--- Recientemente ha habido mucha confusion respecto a ssh: algunas personas

RV: ppp server con callback

1998-12-10 Thread Marcelino Valles
Revisate la documentacion sobre ppp que tendrás en /usr/doc/ppp y los HOWTO. Creo que hay varios documentos sobre lo que preguntas. -Mensaje original- De: Jose Illescas Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves 10 de diciembre de 1998 8:17 Para: Lista de Debian Asunto:

Re: Linux actual y la madre que la...

1998-12-10 Thread Raul Hernandez
Hola, parece ser que Linux Actual no es la revista de calidad sobre Linux que todos ansiamos. Cuando no llega a tiempo ni siquiera a los kioskos, parece lógico :) pensar que no llegará a tiempo a los suscriptores. Otro tema es el de los famosos CDROMs, ¡¡Compra nuestra revista, que te regalamos

Mesa 3-D Y Voodoo2

1998-12-10 Thread Ramiro Alba
Hola a todos: Estoy interesado en hacer programación Grafica 3D utilizando Mesa 3-D y el chipset de 3Dfx Voodoo2. Centrándose la marca Creative Labs hay se ofertas dos tarjetas: 1 - 3D Blaster Voodoo2 (la clásica) 2 - 3D Blaster Banshee La segunda es más barata (unas 7.000 pts de diferencia)que

Re: postgresql, ahora arrancarlo

1998-12-10 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
El 04-12-98 a las 18:43h, [EMAIL PROTECTED], despierto y en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales; comentó inteligéntemente: On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 06:40:43PM +0100, R.Lloret wrote: Hola: Ahora que he instalado bien (creo) el postgresql, no se arrancarlo. No me aclaro con la

Re: Linux Actual .... y un poco de comodidad

1998-12-10 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
Carlos Sosa Gonzalez wrote: Primero que nada dar las gracias por leer este misero mensaje ;) Resulta que anoche mismito me pelee con los paquetes rpm de KDE que tenia en un CDACTUAL (num:27)... Todo funciona prefe. Tengo la Debian 2.0 (hamm), y quisiera saber si

Re: TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

1998-12-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
IIRC that is fixed by installing the latest setserial. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Linux

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-10 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
I had this problem with a laptop (no CD ROM drive , no network) and solved it by using the ftp option in dselect. You just have to be careful to state the correct path if you're using a mirror site. Just set up your isp details using pppconfig, then pon yourprovidername start dselect and choose

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-10 Thread Frankay
I have had this message: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 with two hard drives, one of them brand new, so I do not think it means the hard drive is coming to the end of it's life. For me, it was the above repeated endlessly on increasing sector numbers. I think it was due to my

Re: New User with possible BIOS prob

1998-12-10 Thread Frankay
I am not an expert, but... 1FA: should not be a problem, it is perfectly correct: it is the lilo loader prompt. It means press 1 to boot off the first partition press f to boot off the floppy press a to list all partitions If you have installed linux to boot off your first partition with lilo,

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SL And say I am on your machine and want to make a report and have it SL comes back to my machine (rpglink.com). Are you going to insert SL another rewrite rule? Yes. If I don't, the default rewrite would apply. SL Now apply that to, say, an ISP

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DE == Daniel Elenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DE So, I use exim to do a rewrite on the 'from' and 'reply-to' fields DE of outgoing mail sent by me. The problem is, like I've pointed out DE before, that local mail isn't affected by this. I don't understand DE why not!? I don't know exim, but

Re: First attempt

1998-12-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: I don't think I'd use one partition for the system, although the system doesn't really care. It's just that later you might find it more useful if you've modularized the system some. I'd probably allocate 200MB for the root, maybe 300 if you want to be

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 01:50:37AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: SL And say I am on your machine and want to make a report and have it SL comes back to my machine (rpglink.com). Are you going to insert SL another rewrite rule? Yes. If I don't, the default rewrite would apply. Which

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-10 Thread john
eferen1 writes: I have tried several times to establish a dial-up connection but nothing has worked. MSN is my provider. They have a server assigned IP address. Because of this, I'm sure it does not connect. Exactly what have you tried and exactly what happened? Have you run pppconfig? We

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

1998-12-10 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:26:39AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: options). But 'rules build' (and an ordinary 'make' as well, actually) gives me the error: 'ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory'. I was kinda hoping you, or someone else, could help me with that. Yeah -- I

X server died when I wasn't at machine

1998-12-10 Thread servis
Ok this freeked me out. I come back to my machine after being away for several ours and I am greeted with the xdm login screen. I check my uptime and the machine hadn't rebooted or anything. So I check the xdm-log and I find this: - Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SL Says who? We have two shell machines. web1.calweb.com and SL web2.calweb.com. But we'd prefer mail go to mx.calweb.com or SL mail.calweb.com. We could put in a rewrite rule but that would, SL as you say above, screw up any user level

Re: KDE: krdb missing! Help!

1998-12-10 Thread David Natkins
I always put unstable (slink) before stable. So if it isn't in slink, I must have gotten it from Stable. I know for sure that I didn't download it from some place else David Natkins email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 9 Dec 1998,

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 02:59:42AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Of cause it is up to them. The script runs as a gid who can change the file. They may only change their own entry (realuid), so there is no problem with this. Erm, no. SL If it cannot put in the proper address, that is a

Creating 1.743MB Debian Rescue Disk

1998-12-10 Thread Gnoh Chee Seng
Hi, Recently I downloaded the latest Debian disk images from ftp.debian.org. However I noticed that the rescue disk image was not the usual resc1440.bin, instead it was resc1743.bin. I have Debian Linux running on my PC at home, however I am having problems using superformat/fdformat and dd to

Xemacs and Column edits

1998-12-10 Thread rathon
Hi, Can Xemcas do Column editing ? If I have 3 columns of data. Can I use Xemacs edit function of some sort to swap, reposition any columns of data ? Rathon. Get free e-mail and a permanent address at

Cursor fonts ..............

1998-12-10 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, im trying to understand how does the cursor works in X. Why does the cursor changes its look when, i.e, changing from the root window (X-like cursor) to a application (arow cursor)? Does the app say X to change the cf (cursor font) from X to arrow and then when going back to the

Re: Pine Netscape

1998-12-10 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Robert Vollmert wrote: url-viewers = _TEST(test -n '${DISPLAY}')_ /usr/local/netscape4.5/netscape Does anyone know of how to use the -remote argument or some other way for pine to open the selected url in the current netscape process?

Re: Lynx Proxy again

1998-12-10 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 08:57:14PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, I did the following, still not working.. In netscape 4.5 I set my proxy - auto proxy - http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac, and it worked fine... so in lynx.cfg, I wrote a line:

Re: emacs xemacs

1998-12-10 Thread Kent West
Near as I can tell, this was sent to me but not to the list. Anyone out there who can translate it for me? Thanks! On 10 Dec 1998 /G=BUREAU/S=DISTRIBUTEUR/DD.HPMEXT1=BUREAU DISTRIBUTEUR$/TTETIV$/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Votre message n'a pas pu ?tre distribue ? : Franck Fl LEGALL /

Re: Fwd: Re: running dselect on 4 computers.

1998-12-10 Thread Kent West
Again, can anyone translate please? Thanks! On 10 Dec 1998 /G=BUREAU/S=DISTRIBUTEUR/DD.HPMEXT1=BUREAU DISTRIBUTEUR$/TTETIV$/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Votre message n'a pas pu ?tre distribue ? : Franck Fl LEGALL / TTETIV/01 parce qu'ils n'ont pas pu ?tre trouves ? l'entite destinataire.

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-10 Thread Kent West
Can anyone translate please? Thanks! On 10 Dec 1998 /G=BUREAU/S=DISTRIBUTEUR/DD.HPMEXT1=BUREAU DISTRIBUTEUR$/TTETIV$/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Votre message n'a pas pu ?tre distribue ? : Franck Fl LEGALL / TTETIV/01 parce qu'ils n'ont pas pu ?tre trouves ? l'entite destinataire. Cette

Re: Thanks/X11

1998-12-10 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: First I'd like to thank all those who helped me with the base instillation! I would now like to install X11 but when I am in dselect and have highlighted xbase and then try to install I get a message: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile:

Re: emacs xemacs

1998-12-10 Thread KJ Peters
Courtesy http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate? Roughly translates as follows: Your message could not be distributes to: Franck Fl LEGALL / TTETIV/01 because they could not be find with the entite recipient. This copy was detruite because it appeared out

Re: emacs xemacs

1998-12-10 Thread Kent West
Thanks! On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, KJ Peters wrote: Courtesy http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate? Roughly translates as follows: Your message could not be distributes to: Franck Fl LEGALL / TTETIV/01 because they could not be find with the entite recipient.

Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to set up fetchmail to extract my email from university to my home machine. It seems to start out okay, but falls down along the way. Here's what I get: # fetchmail Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 4 messages (3 seen) for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au. fetchmail:

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:16:04PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Can anyone translate please? Thanks! Votre message n'a pas pu être distribue à : Franck Fl LEGALL / TTETIV/01 parce qu'ils n'ont pas pu être trouves à l'entite destinataire. Cette copie a été detruite car elle apparaissait en

Re: Thanks/X11

1998-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 02:04:28PM -0600, KTB wrote: Also looking at the description of xbase in dselect it said that xcontrib was a more complete package. Does this mean I don't need xbase and could start with xcontrib? No. Try reading the extended descriptions of the X packages in slink,

Re: Debian very slow to get latest releases?

1998-12-10 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OK, I do appreciate that the whole thing is maintained by volunteers, | and I am very grateful for the work they do. I am not moaning as much as | wondering - it seems that Slink has been frozen, and Potato is being | worked on - where do new releases of

Re: configuring sound (easy?)

1998-12-10 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm running 2.0.36 on i386, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 plugged into | it, which is unconfigured. | | I used to use Red Hat, which came with a rather neat little utility | called soundconfig (I think) that was capable of automatically helping | you install a module for

Re: Thanks/X11

1998-12-10 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-KTB [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | First I'd like to thank all those who helped me with the base | instillation! I would now like to install X11 but when I am in dselect | and have highlighted xbase and then try to install I get a message: | dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile:

Re: Cursor fonts ..............

1998-12-10 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Why does the cursor changes its look when, i.e, changing from the root window (X-like cursor) to a application (arow cursor)? Does the app say X to change the cf (cursor font) from X to arrow and then when going back to the root window it says X to change

Re: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills

1998-12-10 Thread Rino Mardo
Hmmm. Based on your .fetchmailrc contents you don't have the password set. Do you have a password for your user mark? -Original Message- From: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 9:41 AM Subject:

Re: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Evan Parry wrote: .fetchmailrc that is causing it to bail prematurely. I suggest deleting the timeout 60 part from your .fetchmailrc file and try again. If this still does not work, mail the list with more details. Thanks for that. It still doesn't work, but at least it

Re: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills

1998-12-10 Thread Mitch Blevins
Mark Phillips wrote: I am trying to set up fetchmail to extract my email from university to my home machine. It seems to start out okay, but falls down along the way. Here's what I get: # fetchmail Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 4 messages (3 seen) for mark at

Re: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: # fetchmail Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 7 messages (6 seen) for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au. fetchmail: skipping message 1 not flushed fetchmail: skipping message 2 not flushed fetchmail: skipping message 3 not

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: 3) Set qualify_domain = ist.flinders.edu.au to make your locally generated mail appear to originate from that machine. This is potentially not necessary if ist.flinders.edu.au accepts mail for *.flinders.edu.au and the MX records are set

Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

1998-12-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, In my ip-up, I have a line run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d So I put a file called fetchmail with a single line fetchmail. I also made it executable. But when my link is up, nothing happened. I tried to ps ax the process. It is not there. I

mutiple isps proxy

1998-12-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, How do I detect which isp I am using, and automatically export the correct proxy settings?? PS: I am not using pon poff. I use my own dial up scripts... Thx Regards, Shao.

Re: Lynx Proxy again

1998-12-10 Thread Tim Thomson
On 9 Dec 1998, Ryan King wrote: I saw you linking to: http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac So I wondered what kind of data is in proxy.pac. ... I'm thinking maybe this file is NS-Specific? As far as I know Netscape is the only one that reads these. Lynx wants a server for a

Re: Cursor fonts ..............

1998-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Dunno. There are probably some font editing programs in Debian somewhere... Yes, xmbdfed. -- see shy jo

Email Question

1998-12-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I love this mailing list. But there are too many for one day... I have already accidentally deleted some of my important emails for a couple of times... Could someone tell me a way, to put all the incoming debian mails in a seperate folder... or whatever to make

Re: Not that simple (was Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading)

1998-12-10 Thread ferret
H. I've actually received files from behind my masquerade box. I'm not sure how the other person's set up. I have to have mine set for 'peer-to-peer' mode in order for it to connect to the server at all, and then have it set to go through a non-socks firewall. I do have all the masquerade

restore(8) barfs on tape 5/5

1998-12-10 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! I'm currently trying to restore my stripe from tape with restore -rf /dev/st0. I am stuck at the prompt for the last tape. It refuses to continue. Yes I made a mistake while dump(8)ing to tape: The drive was still busy when I told dump to continue. dump got EOF imediately, wrote nothing,

Re: strange non-trivial routing problem

1998-12-10 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hallo erstmal! Jeff Katcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to ask at all (linux-net is announced as development list ...). I appreciate pointers to the correct forum. Ok, first some

Re: Pine Netscape

1998-12-10 Thread Adam Shand
No this I had already tried and it fails.. instead of opening netscape it opens the default lynx browser. Thanks for the try tho. Anyone else like to take a stab at this aswell? this is how i used to do it in pine 3.96. i've had problems getting it to work properly in pine 4.05 with the

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-10 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:17:20PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: 3) Set qualify_domain = ist.flinders.edu.au to make your locally generated mail appear to originate from that machine. This is potentially not necessary if

elm email gets through, exmh email doesn't

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've just set up my machine so it can email the rest of the world, at least I thought I had. I can now successfully send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using elm, but when I try and send a similar message using exmh, it complains that: mark at ist.flinders.edu.au: loses; [USER] 550 relaying

Email Question

1998-12-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I love this mailing list. But there are too many for one day... I have already accidentally deleted some of my important emails for a couple of times... Could someone tell me a way, to put all the incoming debian mails in a seperate folder... or whatever to make

Re: Xemacs and Column edits

1998-12-10 Thread Paul Huygen
rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Can Xemacs do Column editing ? At least you can kil and yank entire columns, so that you can swap them Try: 1) mark the left upper corner of the column (Move point to this spot and press C-x @) 2) move point to the lower right corner of the column and press

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, rick wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: What do the following errors mean: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, sector=103023 0 end_request: I/O error,

OFF TOPIC slashdot

1998-12-10 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Sorry about the offtopic post, please reply to me privately. Does anyone know if there is a problem with slashdot.org at present. I can't resolve its ip address using the root domain servers. I can however resolve it using some of the web hosted DNS checkers on peoples web sites.

Re: -- MARK --

1998-12-10 Thread Daniel Marquez-Klaka
Gregory T. Norris wrote: It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still active. You can use the -m option to change it's frequency. But in my /etc/init.d/syslogd file i can't find the option -m !! And why is my maschine every 20 minutes so slow Daniel --

Re: firewall question

1998-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 20:24:52 +0100, you wrote: I have a question about firewall. We would like to setup an intranet protected by a firewall, but as we travel a lot, we would also like to access our data from outside the firewall via web. Is there any kind of firewall able to authenticate users

Re: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills

1998-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:56:04 +1030 (CST), you wrote: I read somewhere that the 192.*.*.* is one of the internet addresses which will never be officially used, That somewhere is RfC 1918 and it refers to 192.168.*.*. These addresses are never to be routed anywhere. and hence can be used

Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

1998-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:04:19 +1100 (EST), you wrote: In my ip-up, I have a line run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d So I put a file called fetchmail with a single line fetchmail. You need to put executable shell scripts in there. So your file fetchmail should contain

Re: writing man page

1998-12-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
John wrote: Eric writes: Is there any tool available to write man pages (with all the standard sections) and keep a nicely readable source? Just use an existing man page as a template. The page for man itself is a good choice. I am now writing the thing directly in nroff, but the

colour in emacs/console

1998-12-10 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
Hi! I've been converted to Emacs (so to say :D), but find that the console version does not have any flashy colours (it also has pull down menus that don't seem to work, but I guess that's a feature :D). I was just wondering if it might be possible to get some colour in, as emacs does when

K6-2 and debian ?

1998-12-10 Thread Michael_G_Koch
Hi ! I know it sounds like a stupid question but since i installed my new K6-2/300 i have a lot of problems. Hardware is: Gigabyte HX 2.01 board, latest BIOS (with K6-2 support) at 66Mhzx4.5 Symbios 8751 UW SCSI, IBM DCAS 34330 UW etc. When running this hardware with my K5-PR133, no problem.

Re: Continued libc6 problems....

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 15:21:33 -0800, Curt Howland wrote: [libstdc++2.8 upgraded, dselect still breaks] You don't mention what version of dpkg you have installed. The current version of dpkg in frozen is linked against libstdc++2.9, not 2.8, so it's quite likely that upgrading your libstdc++2.9

Re: TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

1998-12-10 Thread Daniel Elenius
Lindsay Allen writes: IIRC that is fixed by installing the latest setserial. Ever since I switched to the dev kernel, I've had the following message on boot: TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored Yup, that fixed it. Thanks!

hardware questions - Promise Ultra DMA 33 + Asus TX97E

1998-12-10 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, I know that hardware questions aren't reallly the thing here but I do not have regular access to newsgroups so I try anyway :) OnIDE0 (Motherboard) I have a UDMA Quantum fireball 3.2G as master, no slave; On IDE1 I have DMA quantum sirocco 1.6G as master (PIO4), no slave; Since I want

Rlogin problem using netgroups.

1998-12-10 Thread Jesper K. Pedersen
I have a serious problem with rlogin, which I hope someone can help me with. When trying to do rlogin to a machine running Debian 2.0, I have to give pass word, even though the machine, which the rlogin comes from is in a netgroup accepted by the machine. The /etc/hosts.equiv file looks like

Re: firewall question

1998-12-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Weel, we have all our data available in a web server, so we'd like to browse the data in the same way. Maybe we can have something like: CLIENTFW SERVER browser authenticator-daemon firewallweb server when the user outside the firewall ask to connect

special exim configuration

1998-12-10 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, is it possible to configure exim such that outgoing mails appear to come from another host *and* mails between local users really come from the local host? My current configuration masquerades *all* mails as coming from another host. This is bad for replys, especially if the sender is

RE: K6-2 and debian ?

1998-12-10 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi ! I know it sounds like a stupid question but since i installed my new K6-2/300 i have a lot of problems. Hardware is: Gigabyte HX 2.01 board, latest BIOS (with K6-2 support) at 66Mhzx4.5 Symbios 8751 UW SCSI, IBM DCAS 34330 UW etc. When running

Re: Finished with Linux

1998-12-10 Thread Fred McDavid
I had similar problems that I never managed to fix for almost a year, tinkering with it every so often...but with redhat 5.1, I believe I was able to use linuxconf to get my dj693 to print graphics, but not text...used emacs to do that. With debian, I used magicfilterconfig and had it printing

tleds on Dell Inspiron 3200

1998-12-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I have a warning for anyone who is thinking of installing the tleds package on there Dell Inspiron 3200 Laptop. Dont !!! I have had all kinds of problems with caps lock and shift and even some of my applications would not work properly with the mouse. The worst problem was

Update-menu with /usr/local apps

1998-12-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello... Is there a 'standard' way to add applications installed locally in /usr/local/bin to the update menus system. I have a number of applications that I would like to run from the window managers menu, but as they are not debian packages then some other way to add them is needed. Any

Re: nethack

1998-12-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Nathan E Norman hat gesagt: // Nathan E Norman wrote: What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ... Could be that nethack is not allowd to write in the directory /var/lib/games/nethack/ Check this: # ls -la

how to create locales? [OFF TOPIC]

1998-12-10 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, first I tried to send this Q to debian-i18n, but it seems that list is not active enough. May be someone here would be able to help me on this non-debian specific subject. [BTW, solving this problel will somehow help to promote Debian and linux in general in my country :). ] I am

Sound Equalizer??

1998-12-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Do you guys know a good graphical sound equalizer?? I would like to put it on my xdm session... Thx. Shao.

Re: hardware questions - Promise Ultra DMA 33 + Asus TX97E

1998-12-10 Thread Curt Daugaard
My hardware is similar to yours and the mini-howto helped me get up and running. You'll find it at http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html If you find you have trouble with Lilo let me know. I found I had to alter its source and recompile it before things would work right.

Re: SOT: Networking/Inquiry on 3Com 3C905B-TX

1998-12-10 Thread graz
On 9 Dec, Bernd Kreimeier wrote: I have been offered twisted-pair (RJ) only PCI boards, 3Com 3C905B-TX, which I map tp 10Base-Tx, Cyclone B revision, aka `Boomerang', the B version is supposedly 'cyclone' rather than 'boomerang'. Anything I should be aware of? I have them in all my

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-10 Thread pat
Le 10-Dec-98, Daniel Mashao a pris ses électrons pour écrire: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } I got these errors after I recompiled the kernel with the option 'Intel 82371 PIIX Triton DMA support'. I have this chipset but it caused DMA errors and trashed

Re: configuring sound (easy?)

1998-12-10 Thread Randy Edwards
| I'm running 2.0.36 on i386, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 plugged into | it, which is unconfigured. If you can't figure things out from the HOWTOs (Marcus Brinkmann has written a fine SB 32 HOWTO) I'm sure there are plenty of people on this list who have a working SB AWE 64 (me included

linux in the workplace

1998-12-10 Thread Zack Brown
I have the opportunity to introduce linux into my company, completely replacing the very flaky windows 95 system that we currently use. Their primary software is Paradox and FileMaker Pro 4.0. As far as I can make out, the other needs of the system are trivial (word perfect, networking, internet

Zip drive problem

1998-12-10 Thread Attila Csobonyei
Hi, I have just installed Debian 2.0 slink and tried to remake the kernel with the Zip drive. Not being an expert in these things I first did a make zdisk which worked fine, the Zip drive was working without any problems. Next I tried to make zImagebut when trying to install the ppa

Re: K6-2 and debian ?

1998-12-10 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I know it sounds like a stupid question but since i installed my new K6-2/300 i have a lot of problems. Hardware is: Gigabyte HX 2.01 board, latest BIOS (with K6-2 support) at 66Mhzx4.5 Symbios 8751 UW SCSI, IBM DCAS 34330 UW etc. When running this

rawrite[23] problem on nt 4.0

1998-12-10 Thread Aaron Stromas
i need to create boot floppies to install debian 2.0 as i have the adaptec ultra2 scsi controller, and i'm having a problem with both rawrite2 and rawrite3 utilities on my nt 4.0 toshiba laptop. both utilities claim they Can't figure out how many sectors/track for this diskette. happens with every

Re: Pine Netscape

1998-12-10 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote: this is how i used to do it in pine 3.96. i've had problems getting it to work properly in pine 4.05 with the url-viewer function and communicator 4.5 ... but this did definately work for me with netscape 3 and pine 3.96. in your ~/.mailcap add these lines:

Re: --MARK--

1998-12-10 Thread Patrik Magnusson
Gregory T. Norris wrote: It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still active. You can use the -m option to change it's frequency. But in my /etc/init.d/syslogd file i can't find the option -m !! Exactly; twenty minutes is the default interval - in case you

Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?)

1998-12-10 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
For the past few days everytime i post to debian-user I get this back. It has started to become very annoying :-( -Rob -- Forwarded message -- Received: from gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com [195.101.39.226]) by Timberwolf.Provision.Net

Re: linux in the workplace

1998-12-10 Thread graz
On 10 Dec, Zack Brown wrote: The basic system I am planning on will be Debian/KDE, since I use Debian myself, and find KDE to be most similar in appearance to ms-windows (no insult intended to KDE). as an extra bonus, you could show them how flexible linux + X are, and when you've finished

Re: colour in emacs/console

1998-12-10 Thread servis
*- Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote about colour in emacs/console Hi! I've been converted to Emacs (so to say :D), but find that the console version does not have any flashy colours (it also has pull down menus that don't seem to work, but I guess that's a feature :D). I was just wondering if

Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?)

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 08:06:23 -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: For the past few days everytime i post to debian-user I get this back. It has started to become very annoying :-( -- Forwarded message -- [A French mail delivery failure message] insert rant about why

Hiding directories

1998-12-10 Thread Patrik Magnusson
I should know this, but I don't. How do I hide a directory so that others won't see it when using dir. I still want them to be able so get into and browse the rest of the parent directory. /Patrik.

Re: Mouse pointer

1998-12-10 Thread Joachim Ostwald
hi Phillip, On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi On mié, 09 dic 1998 16:14:12 Michael Tempsch wrote: To set the root pointer I have the following in my .xsession # Nifty root cursor xsetroot -cursor $HOME/.rootcursor $HOME/.rootcursor All right.. that worked

Re: Hiding directories

1998-12-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I should know this, but I don't. How do I hide a directory so that others won't see it when using dir. I still want them to be able so get into and browse the rest of the parent directory. /Patrik. You can rename a directory to start with a dot so that it's name doesn't show up with dir or

slink/non-US

1998-12-10 Thread alexander.schwartz
Hi, on which server can I find the latest versions of slink/non-US? deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US slink non-US doesn't seem to work... Alex. -- Alexander Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alex_schwartz

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-10 Thread Frank Gerhardt
Dear Patrice, On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:43:48 -0500, Patrice Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Linux on my laptop and i have now to use 'dselect' to install X and others packages. I'm in exactly in the same situation. Installed it last night. I have a Laptop with PCMCIA modem

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