Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

1998-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
an entry in NT's boot manager for Linux. If it's Linux, add an entry to /etc/lilo.conf for NT, something like other=/dev/hda1 label=NT Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
not entirely sure I see the point though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: irc and that Free Software thing

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
student myself, I get pretty annoyed if I can't get a terminal to do some work because people are browsing the web, for example. I don't know about .NZ, but in .AU net access isn't really too expensive. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of it would have provided elf-x11r6lib when it was a current virtual package. It isn't now though, so xlib6/xlib6g don't provide it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the same as manually editing them. Is there a good reason to use vipw, instead of just vi /etc/passwd? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
which allows Windows work from any terminal. Some of the better PCs have NT 4.0 on the desktops, too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists

Re: frame on debian?

1998-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
know of a way to read frame files on linux? Or to write .pdf files on linux? You can write pdf files with recently Ghostscripts (eg gs-aladdin package), using the output device type pdfwrite. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: Linux won't use SMC 8416 ether card

1998-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
platforms. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ipfwadm -I -i deny -o -P all -S 127.0.0.0/8 -W eth1 -D 0/0 /dev/null There are only these commands, and a few others, to prevent IP spoofing. This seems to be a common misconception. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: NE2000

1998-05-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
specific; I have at least four disks here for ISA cards, one for ISA PnP, and another again for PCI. Try to find the disk. If not, I guess I could try to send you some. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 12:56:06AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: I suggest the NFS-Root and NFS-Root-Client mini-howtos. What I have ended up doing is creating a tree with just enough of /bin, /sbin/, /etc, /var and /tmp to boot up in it, then the client will mount

Re: ncpfs not working

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
it? Also, ncpfs doesn't support NDS, only bindery mode. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for package installation/deinstallation etc of course because /usr is readonly, and /var and /etc are machine-specific. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing

Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in terms of maintainence and partition requirements, but is harder to set up initially. (Use BOOTPART, though.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing

Re: Free/OpenSource software?

1998-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of a patent. Hmaish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: HELP - Host/IP mismatch causing mail denial

1998-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a customer's email just because their ISP has not set up reverse DNS correctly. To do that, change the line in /etc/hosts.deny which says ALL: PARANOID to ALL except in.smtpd: PARANOID Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: HP Laserjet 4000 T

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
installing magicfilter -- it can do that for you. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
which I print to on linux with lpr, with magic filter -- no problem. From memory I did the same with my ESC2P bubblejet 20 before that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

mars-nwe preliminary for slink

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Note: this package is for slink, which means you need a hamm or slink system to run it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
at all (remove the if=) then it won't use magicfilter, and will go straight through to the printer. Then you can have both the raw and cooked (magicfiltered) queues running in parallel; at least, I THINK this is supported (using the same port). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
someone can't start on 2.4.4unoff or similar and add features to 2.4.x now. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: ping failure and ipmasquerade

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
can use ppp, but nobody else. I haven't tried it with shadow passwords for a while but last time I turned on those it didn't go either. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
default configurations and added configuration projects are one of the best features. I've installed FreeBSD on my system as well and find that it asks me no configuration questions -- I have to configure sendmail myself, for example -- no thanks. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
GPL). hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in our changing to rpm? I don't see that dpkg works any worse. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: How to send files over uucp

1998-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
\!remote_filename ^ This sounds like a bit of a hack somewhere -- it should just be machine1!machine2!...!machineN!filename, no? But then, I do UUCP on one box for mail and not for file transfer. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
solution yet -- Acrobat Reader is clearly non-free, xpdf is unfortunately not DFSG-compliant, and ghostscript 4+ is required, which are also non-free. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: Does someone heard about Interbase on Linux?

1998-04-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:27:04PM -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: I want to test RDBMS for Linux... Does someone knows somethinig about Interbase and Linux? Apparently a version 4.0 is coming out for Linux in the next week or so -- I read this on c.o.l.a. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

super-strange linux behavior

1998-04-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
files is 2gb, yet the disk is only 700mb (as df shows). e2fsck didn't find anything except a few minor block free bits wrong, and afterwards those files are just as big! The file system for this is e2fs, too. Ideas? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UUCP :error with login

1998-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
modem dialup, or over TCP/IP, and if TCP, using the UUCP port or via telnet? What happens if you make the connect by hand with minicom or telnet as appropriate? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: exim mutt, weird

1998-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 01:27:48AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:42:43AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: In .muttrc I have: set hostname=earthlink.net # my DNS domain set use_from # always generate the `From:' header field

Re: exim mutt, weird

1998-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:43:51AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Right now, I have one box running mutt-i 0.91.1i-1 with smail 3.2.0.101-3, and another running mutt (non-i) 0.91.1 also, with exim. The latter does not get the hostname correct, the former does. Yet I have had someone else tell me

Re: newbie boot ?

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Also, if the device immediately after MD tells you what it is an what I/O it is looking at, you could reserve it at the LILO prompt (then in lilo.conf) so that the device isn't allowed to probe. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: Why no g++?

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: PCI NE2000 clone w/1.3.1, 2.0.30 kernel

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. IRQ 11. I/O at 0x6100. Interesting that yours has a different device number to mine. I have another of these cards again which is device 14; but that's in a 486. I think it's slot-dependent. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

exim mutt, weird

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
local_domains_include_host_literals = true relay_domains = rising.com.au Any ideas? I installed exim on this machine as a test before changing a production machine from smail to exim, but want to get this running before I play further. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: exim mutt, weird

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:18:53PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:05:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I have exim (1.90-3) and mutt (non-i, 0.91.1-1) installed here; when I send a message, mutt sets the from address to just hamish@@. In .muttrc I have

Re: Printer now printing properly HOWTO suggests magic filter?

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
That will build a .deb file containing the kernel and all the modules. Then use dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.32_1.00_i386.deb (or whatever the filename produced is, in /usr/src) to install it. make-kpkg is in the package kernel-package. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Red Hat have modularized drivers with 5.0, but from what I could see of their sound configuration tool (which supports only the PnP SB), their modularization patches are different to the ones used in Linux 2.1. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Apache tilde question - Solved

1998-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. BAD. Locate it somewhere else on the filesystem. Could you explain why? I can't see it. ~smith/cgi-bin will be the only way to access the directory, so either they'll be executed or they'll be sent. Scripts have to be readable (as well as executable), of course. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Yesterday we held an installfest at my university, where we installed several Debian pre-2.0s, some 1.3.1s, some RedHat 5.0s and even a FreeBSD 2.2.5, and didn't need anything more than the boot disk for any of these. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
which comes in HTML format. There is little Debian-specific user documentation (to the best of my knowledge), that is true. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
2.0.x doesn't seem to properly support DMA on Intel Triton chipsets for the secondary controller; I get a timeout and DMA disabled when it detects the disks. This appears to be fixed in 2.1 though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. I've seen a few PCs display strange video effects because of dying power supplies. Of course, it could be either the monitor or the video card too; try changing them temporary if you have spares. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

network startup script

1998-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone suggest why this script doesn't seem to work on 2.1.90? It's my /etc/init.d/network. I added the netmask on the route line for lo because it seemed to help, but I still get some other errors, and ifconfig seems to hang. #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask

kernels

1998-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed? dpkg/apt/dselect continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one, which doesn't suite my hardware at all of course (and causes random reboots

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Hi

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. This should certainly make some different, but I don't have the numbers. Nor am I an Intel fan. Hamish (K6-166) -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists

Re: Apache Server Side Includes

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
index.shtml in the DirectoryIndex line in srm.conf too. Hope this helps, I use shtml all over my web site to keep everything common to each page in one place (without using frames). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: Debian 2, What will it Have

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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weird routing problem

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
UG1 0 16 eth0 I just added ipfwadm -F -a a -b -S 192.168.1.0/25 -D 192.168.1.128/25 and vice-versa to the machines too and it still doesn't work -- I can still ping linux2 from pc1, but not vice-versa. Any ideas? It makes no sense to me! thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
wandering in a desert of documents for days. While It appears to be just as difficult in PhotoShop 4.0 though. I am not a graphics person, but a friend who is had just as much trouble. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the drive or sent me a new one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad blocks, as long as I have warranty? It's worth calling them. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: IPX problem

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
? Maybe there is a linux networking list at vger.rutgers.edu which can help you out; write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to find out what lists exist there -- all the kernel lists are at that site. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, or anyone in this industry could yet make Man of the Century. Perhaps next century. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
it went trashing registers too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
3.51 variant called WinCenter which is multiuser. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

weird menu problem

1998-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: Hamm compile errors.

1998-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
++ and libstc++28, so no need to pretend like this code does. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: LILO err

1998-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
with a warning about this, but obviously there's something about your second drive which needs special handling -- perhaps it's SCSI? Read the LILO documentation in /usr/doc/lilo; you need to use one of the other .b loader files in /boot probably. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

aliases trashed

1998-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in the name is newer than the file date, but still ancient. To say this is unacceptable is the understatement of the year. How could it happen? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP

Re: SAMBA w/ TCP/IP

1998-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2 etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Copyright of 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

1998-03-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. It can go in the non-free section, but not elsewhere. Are we allowed to modify the RFCs in doc-rfc? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists

xsession problem

1998-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm just trying out vncserver -- excellent stuff. In my /etc/vnc.conf I put $vncStartup = $ENV{HOME}/.xsession; but when vncserver runs, the ~/.vnx/X.log says rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 sh: /etc/X11/Xsession: Permission denied but

vncserver for bo

1998-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone have a vncserver port to bo? I tried to compile it but obviously it wants jdk 1.1 to compile the java client, which bo doesn't have. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a standard MBR, or install the mbr package I think, to replace it, then set your Linux root partition active. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists

Re: AMD K6 233

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
an original 6x86-P166+ (133MHz part) running 24x7 under Linux 2.0.32 for four or five months now, and I had the same CPU on a different motherboard in a dual boot NT/Linux system for another 8 months before that without incident. I have a K6-166 that works fine too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: X won't connect!

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
? I'm using the XF86_S3 server. Check your permissions on /tmp, should be rwxrwxrwxt. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: Will SuperZip drive run under Linux.

1998-03-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ports? If so, parallel mode apparently isn't yet supported under Linux -- SCSI mode should be though. (This is a summary of other posts on the list; I still have the original, painfully slow, parallel model.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
remember exactly what it did, but the function is probably close enough to what the other rumba does for this to be problematic. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies

Re: CGI -- Debian/apache --- Not working Why? Why. WHY!!!!

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the cgi-bin directory, executables should be readable and execute for everyone (ie a+rx, or 555), or at least for whatever user your web server runs as, normally www-data for Debian's apache I believe. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software

smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to switch it on: #+smtp_sender_verify -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
support different alias files for different domains? I've got the hideous smail method for doing that installed -- duplicating the configuration files in another directory and using dodgy transports. This is an important requirement here. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176

Re: desperately seeking installation

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
). 2.0.33 reboot immediately, several times. I recompiled it with --zimage and it worked immediately. I didn't compile 2.1.90 like that though, so it's probably coincidental. I seem to be about the only one having this problem on a desktop machine. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

gold CDs in Australia

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Anyone in Australia with a local mirror and a CD burner? I have neither the bandwidth nor the burner here unfortunately, but would like to get a CD to upgrade some machines. thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Soenke Lange wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I just upgraded to smail 3.2.0.101-3, something I've been dreading. With good reason; even though I haven't enabled any anti-SPAM features it says nobody is allowed

Re: Parallel ZIP drive (not Plus) and modules ??

1998-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-- I think this is in Linux 2.1 only. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894

Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.

1998-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: install troubles continue

1998-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random Broken Pipe

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 10:37:39AM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: in bask/ksh: export PAGER less You want export PAGER=less I do believe. hamish (a tcsh user) -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music

rpcgen :-(

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; { static int result; FILE *f; f = fopen (print_file, w); if(f == (FILE *) NULL) {result = 0; return (result); } fprintf (f, %s\n, *msg); fclose (f); result = 1; return (result); } -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software

Re: Linux SAMBA - Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
? As Eloy says, samba (the latest from hamm) has encrypted passwords. You need to put encrypt passwords = yes in /etc/smb.conf too. Otherwise you get unauthorised station messages. It works fine here for me now with SP3. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; usually it's a comma for a delay, I never heard of W before. And some modems are relay-less -- my Supra 288 can be completely silent if the speaker is disabled. Just fyi, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd

Re: Complex lilo setup for starters: use loadlin

1998-03-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, Linux and FreeBSD all straight from the menu. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, or they prioritise it differently to you, or they don't have the time to implement a feature which is not particularly useful to themselves. Remember, you are free to do any implementation you want done yourself. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
name it for marketing reasons. I hope I have summed this up accurately. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to the hard disk problem (I was overseas when it developed). I have only had to have physical access about four times, and once was to install new hardware. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
) and using that, it will set it up for you and can also set up booting both 95 and DOS separately from the menu, FreeBSD etc. It doesn't copy the boot sector from your Linux partition but puts a redirector one in instead as C:\BOOTSECT.LNX. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176

xterm problems

1998-03-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
=\E[m\017, smacs=^N, smam=\E[?7h, smcup=\E7\E[?47h, smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?1;2c, u9=\E[c, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd, -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: xterm problems

1998-03-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:45:27PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3 Hamish on Solaris 5.6 to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal Hamish does not draw properly

Re: Moonlight Creator and pthreads problem.

1998-03-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 01:39:42AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: I had this problem too; somehow libpthread.so.0.6 got left behind, and the dynamic linker seems to like to use it. dpkg -S couldn't tell me who owned it. I deleted it and haven't had a problem. if dpkg -S

Re: Moonlight Creator and pthreads problem.

1998-03-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 12:30:33AM +, Wintermute wrote: These are the thread libraries I currently have in /lib: libpthread-0.7.so libpthread.so.0 - libpthread.so.0.6 libpthread.so.0.6 I have not installed libpthreads in dselect so I assume that these libraries are a part of the

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
? The vfat file system does long filenames on Windows partitions just fine! You seem to be using an invalid domain name again btw. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 06:07:19PM -0500, Ralph Winslow wrote: When [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I replied: Try the following: su - root the_root_password dmesg | pg No need to be root. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software

C++ threads crashes

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
newserver; sleep(1); cout exiting main endl; return(0); } -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130

pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Where are the pthread manual pages for hamm? the Contents search on www.debian.org says package libpthread0-dev, but that's for libc5 and conflicts with libc6-dev. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:29:12AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 06:18:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Where are the pthread manual pages for hamm? pthread/LinuxThreads is a part of libc6; you'll find the manpages in libc6-doc. Thanks. Weird about the contents

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 01:15:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 10:53:13PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Weird about the contents search on www.debian.org though. http://www.debian.org/packages.html contains: :Note: substring searching currently isn't implemented

Re: Cgi? how to make it work? anyone?, anyone?

1998-03-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the only one having trouble with it. Do you have execute permissions set for other on the cgi-bin directory too? What exactly is the error from Apache? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

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