Problem Connecting to ISP

1999-03-05 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am having an extremely difficult time trying to connect to the Prodiy ISP. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it. I have used everything available trying to connect to thei network but haven't had any luck. Apparently, as soon as I get connected my Debian PPP send the LCP

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > > been afraid to do that. > > Yes, you can do that. Just make sure you go i

Re: Print command

1999-03-05 Thread ktb
Others can give you better answers to your questions but I'll point out a couple of sites, if you haven't found them yet, that might help. At least something to get you by for a few hours:) http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/gs/gs.html http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debian.org/doc/ Good luck, Ke

Print command

1999-03-05 Thread Jerry Human
Could anyone tell a newbie the command to print a text file or a man page item, like a file named "vi.1.gz" on a dot matrix printer? I have installed the 'base' system from D/Led floppies (used the 'rescue' disk and installed the drivers disk and the five 'base' disks). During the install, I did

Re: Here is some more on deb bus ideas (jc@crack.com) (fwd)

1999-03-05 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Please explain what kaberos does. I've quite understood it... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On 4 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Paul Nathan Puri writes: > > I'm interested in starting commercial service that of

Re: PPP-Dialup: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted

1999-03-05 Thread John Hasler
> I'm in the group dip and all files in /etc/ppp, /etc/ppp.chatscript, pon > and poff are owned by dip. A normal Debian installation has no /etc/ppp.chatscript. /etc/chatscripts and /etc/ppp/ should be owned by root but in the dip group: drwx--x--- 2 root dip 1024 Dec 22 17:47 /et

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Marshall Savage
I have been following your thread & you have my sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg & dselect are so great but in my experience they are at best medium in practice. Th

Re: Janet

1999-03-05 Thread ktb
oops, sorry. ktb wrote: > You are beautiful. > Kent > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

RE: G3

1999-03-05 Thread Shaleh
On 04-Mar-99 tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hallo all, > Has anyone put Debian GNU/Linux onto Apples new G3? Are there any > particular issues one should be aware of when putting Debian onto Apples? > I've never touched an Apple before so I'm just wondering... > thanks > We are working on it (we

Janet

1999-03-05 Thread ktb
You are beautiful. Kent

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:01:43PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > > been afraid to do that. > > Yes, y

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Tommy wrote: > Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > > > > You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option > > would be to > > tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them > > -- > > Currently dselect marks 90% of the packag

dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
Tommy wrote: > > When I upgraded the package lists of > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ... This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always been afraid to do that. -- ...RickM...

Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-05 Thread Tom Pfeifer
"John C. Ellingboe" wrote: > > Back when I did use one of the Gates viruses I had problems with win9X > writeing to areas of the disk that it shouldn't. Some of those disks > are still unusable today because of that. I would make sure that > there were NO M$ partations on my Linux disk at all be

Dependences Problem - dselect

1999-03-05 Thread Marshall Savage
I'm trying to install Debian slink over the web. I don't have the CDs. The base install from the floppy images goes ok & when debian.org is up I can update the packages. Now after 2 weeks of repeatedly trying & now using the 2/23/99 disk images & selecting the very smallest package, 25MB, t

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option would > be to > tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them > -- Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system as broken. And there are a lot of them. I tried switching

PPP-Dialup: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted

1999-03-05 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to use my working (as root) ISP-Dialupconnection as an normal user. I got following in ppp.log: Mar 4 19:55:29 Toshiba pppd[336]: pppd 2.2.0 started by matthschulz, uid 1000 Mar 4 19:55:30 Toshiba chat[337]: timeout set to 20 seconds Mar 4 19:55:30 Toshiba chat[337]: abort on (NO C

Re: accepting talk from only some users

1999-03-05 Thread Matt Folwell
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 12:01:52AM +, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to accept only talk from a list of users I specify... > something like: if you're not on the list the "your party is refusing > messages" pop-up shows up, and if you're on the list the as usual. > > Does an

Re: fetchmail

1999-03-05 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: fetchmail Date: Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:28:33PM +1100 In reply to:Shao Zhang Quoting Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Sorry, I did not describe what I want very clear. What I need is to leave > them as Unread on the pop3 server. I retrieve them from pop3 at wor

Re: Cheap pnp ne2000 Lan cards

1999-03-05 Thread Will Lowe
> The cards are made by LanStar. They were only $12 each so it won't > break me if they are junk. But any help is appreciated. > By the way I only have or use Gnu/Debian, so a solution involving other > os's is not viable. Thanks Did you try isapnptools?

libc6-19981211-6

1999-03-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Anyone had problem with this version of libc6? After I install it, all my dns stop working, I had to down grade to the version in the stable hamm. A couple of weeks ago, I upgrade my system to slink, I had the same problem when I install libc6-19981211-4. The next day,

Re: question regarding this news group and accessing it.

1999-03-05 Thread ragOO
Ramiel Givergis wrote: > > I was wondering if there is a place that all the Debian-Users > news group is archived so I can just read it from there? > There is an archive of the mails but is there a repository where one can get/download the compressed mail archive, say ordered by month ? I have

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-05 Thread whbell
Quoting Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you sure you don't mean ipfwadm (which is part of netbase)? > > Bob > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already. > > There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywher

Re: Netscape 4.08 questions

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > What type of system are you running it on? How much RAM and Swap? Netscape > uses lots of RAM. > Right now, on my system, navigator 4.08 is using 35 MB of ram. My system is an AMD 586 133 with 64 mg Ram and a 128mg swap. Kernel 2.1.125 I did not have this problem with pr

Re: cpu used too much

1999-03-05 Thread D'jinnie
speaking of things going into infinite loops and eating up CPU, is there any way to get rid of zombie processes? Good ol' kill -9 doesn't cut it...I don't want to reboot just to get rid of them :( --- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tan

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-05 Thread D'jinnie
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: : :If you plan to use applications like ICQ or any servers on client computer :on your network you'll need to use a Proxy aswell. I don't have any proxying enabled and ICQ as well as silly AOL messenger work fine. I loaded all the ip_masq modules but that

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Are you sure you don't mean ipfwadm (which is part of netbase)? Bob On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already. > There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywhere. > > I have run 'find / -name ipmasqadm' with no hits.

Re: Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:32:53AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > Oh, I wasn't advocating rethinking "root" I was just pointing out that you > cannot effectively prevent root from accessing anything you want to. (In > fact, it can be damn tough to prevent access to certain users if you allow >

Re: Maximal Mount Check

1999-03-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:05:46AM -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > In a message dated 3/4/99 7:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL > > > PROTECTED] > > > writes: > > > > > > So, defragging your disk isn't a normal Debian maintenance tas

Re: Netscape 4.08 questions

1999-03-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:08:15PM -0500, Tommy wrote: > I while ago I installed netscape communicator 4.08 in /usr/local. I > works fine except that it is extremely slow. Specificly, If I am at the > browser page and try to open the mail window it takes about 2 minutes. > That is not the time to

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote: > I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing > releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system > back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd > are on it, so that everything

Re: question regarding this news group and accessing it.

1999-03-05 Thread whbell
Quoting Ramiel Givergis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > thanks, I just did it > do I need to now unsubscribe to this email so I don't get the messages? > > At 07:45 PM 3/4/99 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Quoting Ramiel Givergis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I really hate having to download all of th

Cheap pnp ne2000 Lan cards

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
I bought some cheap PNP ide ne2000 compatible crds to setup a small net work. My bios does not seeem to recognise the cards, but it does see my pnp sound card. Is there anything I can do via debian to use these cards? The cards are made by LanStar. They were only $12 each so it won't break me if

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-05 Thread whbell
Quoting "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:51:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Please help me find this beast :-) > > I *think* it's > > http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary- > i386/net/ipmasq_3.3.1.deb > > Unfortunately I'm still

Re: question regarding this news group and accessing it.

1999-03-05 Thread Ramiel Givergis
thanks, I just did it do I need to now unsubscribe to this email so I don't get the messages? At 07:45 PM 3/4/99 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Quoting Ramiel Givergis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I really hate having to download all of these messages every day >> when I read only a handfull. I do

Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Back when I did use one of the Gates viruses I had problems with win9X writeing to areas of the disk that it shouldn't. Some of those disks are still unusable today because of that. I would make sure that there were NO M$ partations on my Linux disk at all because of that. I would keep all of th

forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd are on it, so that everything works correctly. And I can move forward from there if I choose

Re: question regarding this news group and accessing it.

1999-03-05 Thread whbell
Quoting Ramiel Givergis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I really hate having to download all of these messages every day > when I read only a handfull. I do all my email on my side > NT computer with Eudora and filter all the debian user emails to > another folder. > > I was wondering if there is a place

Netscape 4.08 questions

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
I while ago I installed netscape communicator 4.08 in /usr/local. I works fine except that it is extremely slow. Specificly, If I am at the browser page and try to open the mail window it takes about 2 minutes. That is not the time to get the mail, but simply to open the window. Does anyone know

question regarding this news group and accessing it.

1999-03-05 Thread Ramiel Givergis
I really hate having to download all of these messages every day when I read only a handfull. I do all my email on my side NT computer with Eudora and filter all the debian user emails to another folder. I was wondering if there is a place that all the Debian-Users news group is archived so I can

it's far, far more than a mere editor.

1999-03-05 Thread mike shupp
I hadn't been intending to ask about this, but since folks are exposing their prej--er-- discussing fine points of editors, has there ever been a UNIX or Linux port of XyWrite in any of its incarnations or of NotaBena? (or Atex, a dedicated word processing system from which XyWrite was derived?)

Re: Please HELP ME!!!

1999-03-05 Thread mike shupp
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Nuno Donato wrote: > I really need some help here. > How can I have Linux to mount automatically my hard drives > at boot. Because every time I run Linux, I have to mount all > my partitions into separate directories. > Can I create some type of autoexec file? You have such

fetchmail again.

1999-03-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Netscape mail has got the following two options for the pop3 server: Leave the messages on server Remove the messages from server when deleted locally How do I do this with fetchmail?? Thanks in advance. shao.

please help with backspace

1999-03-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, somehow my backspace key does not work in rxvt and Netscape, but it works in xterm. How do I fix this?? Thanks. Shao. Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 Victoria AVE OxO PENSHURST 2

accepting talk from only some users

1999-03-05 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'd like to accept only talk from a list of users I specify... something like: if you're not on the list the "your party is refusing messages" pop-up shows up, and if you're on the list the as usual. Does anybody know how to make this? TIA! -- p.

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