Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Robert Rati wrote: The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Bruce Walzer
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:25:28PM -0500, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). [...] I have thought about trying to use a CD-RW device, such

need help about video card and Win98

1999-08-04 Thread Alfredo Pacaon
Hi there! I tried installing Linux(Red Hat 5.0) about a month ago and I encountered the following problems. 1.) I couldn't run the X Windows GUI because I couldn't setup my video card(RivaTNT) which had 16Mb memory. 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into Win98 and opened explorer,

RE: sudo

1999-08-04 Thread jason
The trusted users aren't bright enough to user vipw..actually if you know of a passwd command that i can script to would be great too.. thanks though -j On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [...] SCSI sounds fun :) Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the

Re: [Systalk] FileMaker Pro and Linux/UNIX/Whatever

1999-08-04 Thread David L. Nicol
Jack Wilkinson wrote: does anyone know of a way to open FileMaker Pro files (.fp3) in any kind of UNIX derivative? Linux is preferable, but not necessary... Tell FileMaker to export them as comma delimited.

Shell will not start for root and ppp broke

1999-08-04 Thread Bill
Hi, Last night I had some bizzare things happen with my system. First, I can't seem to use ppp anymore. Last night I started ppp with sudo and everything began to work normally with my modem dialing and begginning to negotiate a connection with my isp. But, then I heard my modem click off and I

Re: need help about video card and Win98

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Rati
1.) I couldn't run the X Windows GUI because I couldn't setup my video card(RivaTNT) which had 16Mb memory. There are now drivers for the RivaTNT, so you should be alright there. 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into Win98 and opened explorer, my computer hanged. (I think it

qt-doc (slink)

1999-08-04 Thread Christian Surchi
I've installed qt-doc package of slink. Now I see a file /variable in the root. kgb:~# dpkg -S /variables qt-doc: /variables This file is empty. I think it's strange, isn't it? :o PLEASE SEND ME A CC BECAUSE I'M NOT SUBSCRIBED TO THIS LIST. TIA. -- Christian Surchi |

re clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-04 Thread Christopher Clark
Don't know the answer to the problem but, my NIS client couldn't bind to my NIS server (itself) until one day I set up a DNS server (another computer) for my Intranet. Then NIS started working. Both computers are in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf says try hosts first. I'm confused.

postscript

1999-08-04 Thread erasmo perez
hallo does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? thanks

problem with sbpcd-module

1999-08-04 Thread damiaan
hi, when i try to install the sbpcd-module in the installation program i get following message: eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution script:cd /dev rm -f cdrom ln -s sbpcd0 cdrom eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution installation succeeded i have no

Re: kernel read/write

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Edward Christman
I am trying to implement ioctls with a network driver. However I am confused as to where the driver is. In order to find the file descriptor of a character devices one simply uses file =fopen(dev/foo,r); fd=fileno(file); and ioctl(fd,cmd,arg); but the network interface doesn't appear on

Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?

1999-08-04 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:54:08PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: Just take a look at very new XFree86 3.3.4 - as I remember it has support for S3 Trio3D. Just take server (SVGA or S3 or S3V?) from address:

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to compile ppp with ms-chap support. Sorry to reply to my own post but I manged to sort it out. I did recompile

Re: postscript

1999-08-04 Thread Greg Baker
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, erasmo perez wrote: does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? Have a look at either netpbm or imagemagick packages. Netpbm might do what you want; Imagemagick does. You'll probably need to install gs to do

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Ian Winter
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:26:54AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to compile ppp with ma-chap support. I don't think they do. I dial up and connect using

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
On 2 Aug 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: You tell me. I have glibc 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2pre installations here with both NIS servers and clients on them, and for me it all simply works. Alas I cannot reproduce the problems that other people are having with NIS, and I am really trying. So, I

a quick scsi question

1999-08-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
This is not debian specific, but I figure someone on this list will know the answer. Now I know you are supposed to terminate the end of each scsi chain, but whats the difference between any of the plugs on the chain? its just a ribbon cable, so wouldn't it be ok if you terminate _any_ device on

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: Sorry to reply to my own post but I manged to sort it out. Believe it or not, I simply ram pppconfig and opted for PAP and Debian configured everything for me. I was about to tell you about configuring ppp connection with pppconfig but I assumed that

RE: sudo

1999-08-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: The trusted users aren't bright enough to user vipw..actually if you know of a passwd command that i can script to would be great too.. thanks though Please let me know if you find a solution, because someone on IRC was asking the same question this morning.

Re: need help about video card and Win98

1999-08-04 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Alfredo Pacaon wrote: 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into Win98 and opened explorer, my computer hanged. (I think it was trying to access the linux partition...) That's rigth ! It already happened to me some months ago(year !?). I resolve it adding to the config.sys the

Fetchmail and Exim - 554 SMTP service not available

1999-08-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
I can collect mail via smtp from Demon Internet, I can also collect mail from Demon and other IPs using fetchmail and Procmail. I can't seem to get Fetchmail to hand mail on to Exim for local delivery. My .fetcmailrc looks like this: poll mail.btinternet.com protocol pop3 password xxx When

unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system

1999-08-04 Thread Timothy Burt
Hello All, I just last week installed slink 2.1_r2 on a new machine and am now having trouble with gcc during large compiles (the kernel, for example). So far, gcc has never reported signal 11, only signal 6. The problem is unpredictable in the sense that the compile always fails but rarely in

problem with sbpcd module

1999-08-04 Thread damiaan
hi, when i try to install the sbpcd-module in the installation program i get following message: eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution script:cd /dev rm -f cdrom ln -s sbpcd0 cdrom eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution installation succeeded i have

Installation von Debian

1999-08-04 Thread Dieter Müller
Hallo! Ich habe die größten Probleme Debian zu installieren, weil mein Rechner den Kernel weder von der CD-ROM noch von Diskette bootet. Könnten Sie mir evtl. eine einfache Installationsanleitung und Fehlerbehebung an folgende Adresse schicken, da ich vom Computer meines Vaters schreibe und selber

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread David Warnock
George and everyone else. Thanks for the help. We are now relay free according to all the tests I can do. I have put exim on the firewall and am currently directly accessing it via pop3 (qpopper). Now I would like to instead relay from exim on the firewall to exim inside the firewall. How do I

PS printing question

1999-08-04 Thread Johan Dewaele
Hello, Being new to Linux , I've got problems printing PS files on a HP Deskjet 400 (color + bw) On my system : Debian GNU Linux slink v2.1 LPRng 3.5.2-1.3 apsfilter 4.9.7-5 gv 3.5.8 gs 5.10

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on

Re: Installation von Debian

1999-08-04 Thread Egon Schmid
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dieter Müller wrote: Hallo! Ich habe die größten Probleme Debian zu installieren, weil mein Rechner den Kernel weder von der CD-ROM noch von Diskette bootet. Könnten Sie mir evtl. eine einfache Installationsanleitung und Fehlerbehebung an folgende Adresse schicken, da

ppp fails LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

1999-08-04 Thread Not Again
For the first time I'm having difficulty establishing Linux ppp connections, with a recently opened ISP account. pppconfig has done well enough on my numerous previous setups, with only an occasional script tweak, that I've never had to debug Linux ppp connections before. If I keep trying

slink problems

1999-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. If it's an absolute requirement for configuration scripts to be able to ask questions, then perhaps there could be two categories, ones which never ask questions

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread David Warnock
Many thanks George. Dave snip As the final entry in the section under directors: smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: PS printing question

1999-08-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Johan Dewaele wrote: [snip] * When trying to print files from gv or gimp or acroread etc, I get or nothing or on the printer : Error: /undefined in FFF Operand stack: Execution stack:

LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-04 Thread joost witteveen
So I thought I know how to work with LILO. And I *thought* done this many times before (years ago). But... I want to prepare a harddisk (that should later become the root FS) So I put it in my system (it was found as hdc), and mounted it as /mnt I put in the lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hdc

Re: CD Image...

1999-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: there should be 4 discs.. 1. Debian Slink Disc 1 [base system + softwares] 2. Debian Slink Disc 2 [contrib] 3. Non-free [qt etc] 4. Non-US [ssh, etc] That's just _wrong_. There are 4 official images: 1. Main binary section 1, bootable where possible 2.

Help - IDE tape drive devices?

1999-08-04 Thread Jon Dallara
Hi All, Just installed a new IDE tape drive on my system but I can't figure out how to create the device files for it. Tried MAKEDEV but it didn't help. From dmesg: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf hda:

Re: a quick scsi question

1999-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
Aaron Solochek wrote: This is not debian specific, but I figure someone on this list will know the answer. Now I know you are supposed to terminate the end of each scsi chain, but whats the difference between any of the plugs on the chain? its just a ribbon cable, so wouldn't it be ok if

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