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.

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 a

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

1998-03-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y an easy fix, scince it seems that I am 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 pa

Re: dial-in / dial-out on same device

1998-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
evices are obselete; they are no longer used for call out with ttySN used for call-in. ttySN is used for both. Also, use mgetty instead of just plain getty, it handles modems much better. I have mgetty running on /dev/ttyS1 when not in use, and can dial out on /dev/ttyS1 with minicom, diald etc with

Re: Dselect

1998-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ave no local distribution but only a local directory, and it can use dpkg-scanpackages to generate the information it needs from the files themselves. Unfortunately, the deb files can contain different section and priority to fields to what's actually used on master, so this might cause s

Re: lp devices

1998-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
0, and standard on most clones I would think. IIRC, the module does assign them as found from lp0 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 ar

Re: Debian vs. FreeBSD

1998-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o see any advantage over Linux though, but I am not running huge servers. I have had Linux machines with 180+ day uptime (which ended due to power cycle) and I am happy enough with that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: spontaneous rebooting

1998-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lots. 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 FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
WD don't make SCSI disks, unless they have recently started. Buy Seagate or IBM, Quantum aren't that good. 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 maili

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
gt; I gather. NCR cards are also very cheap - www.swt.com has an ad in the > Linux Journal to sell an NCR53c810 (Fast SCSI) for $53 (US). For what it's worth, Adaptec have just bought Symbios Logic. I don't know whether this will change things significantly in the Symbios line or not.

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
g, but DOS-wise "a:" is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. "a:*.*" is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: making room

1998-03-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
that can get you this information easily. 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: /dev entry for cdu31a device

1998-03-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
gt; Thanks in advance. > > > This should be /dev/sonycd if i'm not severely mistaken. At least > this used to work with my own cdu33a CD-ROM drive. The kernel's Documentation/devices.txt says /dev/sonycd is correct for cdu31a and cdu33a devices. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: Max swap on Linux

1998-03-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
re. > Which is correct? My understanding is that it's 128mb per swap partition, and that you can have several (up to 16?) of those. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9

Re: MX list for aaa.bbb.ccc points back to rrr.sss.ttt

1998-03-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
il, so there's no quick fix. You need to tell us a bit more about aaa.bbb.ccc's relationship to rrr.sss.ttt. 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 f

Re: minicom...

1998-03-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and to see his > gretting. Of course it can. Never heard of a shell account? 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://hami

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
f the errors I was having with a disk went away when I replaced the power supply. One bad sector remained which I fixed with e2fsck. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of r

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
bian stop doing this for you? All my systems were upgraded buzz to rex to bo to hamm, and they all had the anonymous FTP stuff set up originally automatically. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/ha

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ill be able to save that with Linux. Yes I had one of those timers you put on your power points (for lights while you're away on holiday etc) on my DOS system. Horrid but effective. Much nicer under Linux. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] L

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
It happened to me once -- dselect decided to remove half the system, very annoying. I try to avoid using dselect anyway. You can remove a package using dpkg --remove If you mark a few things for removal in dselect, go to the command line and run dpkg --no-act --remove --pending to see w

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
something new(ish). > > am i grossly mistaken here? Yes I think so. Full duplex drivers have only been made available fairly recently, but the card itself is full duplex. It has two DMA channels for this reason (one for recording, one for playback). hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PRO

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
machine, but nicer. You could also have an external event from your mailer to run EXITEMU instead of the kill. My system survived ok for 12 days while I was overseas like this. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.

Re: IRQ6 - tape & floppy sharing

1998-02-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
loppy controllers. Perhaps you can change the IRQ on your Colorado's controller, or put the Colorado on your standard floppy controller. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#

Re: lpr remote printing

1998-02-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t instended to be anti-FreeBSD, since the same applies to Solaris, BSDI, 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.

Re: 1FA:

1998-02-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
essing a key too soon in > the boot sequence, or from not having a proper boot sector installed. > If you are using LILO, check to make sure that it is installed on the > boot sector rather than in the partition. Actually it's a prompt from the package mbr, not your BIOS. The effe

pgp complaint

1998-02-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
My PGP (pgp-i 2.6.3a-2) has started to complain about a missing configuration file, even though it has /etc/pgp-i.conf. Is there a link to somewhere required? I had some minor disk corruption recently which probably caused this. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: [Q] cp /etc/smb.conf /dev/lp0 -- does not work

1998-02-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ll set everything up properly. 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 FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 05:13:16PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: > Does anybody know of a good piece of BBS software for debian? > I'm looking for something like Remote Access for DOS. Good luck, and let me know if you find anything. I've never been able to find a BBS program for Linux that

Re: lpr remote printing

1998-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 08:28:52PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:16:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:08:28AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > > > I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report > >

Re: lpr remote printing

1998-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
839 bytes This could be a telltale sign. Perhaps the original reporter had other lpr problems and it just seemed to be a remote printing problem? I think one of my machines has an lpr installed on DOS, I will check it out (but it's not the same implementation mentioned in the bug report).

Re: Login string FUBAR; what package does this?

1998-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ix. > > Anyway, I believe /bin/login gets the prompt from /etc/issue. Perhaps a bug > should be filed regarding '\?' substitution. login doesn't seem to try to show issue again here. The getty is mingetty. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Re: Linux on top of win95

1998-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s any amount of memory enough to do away with swap? Just think of it this way; when real memory runs out, without any swap, programs will die. If you had swap, they will just slow down. You wouldn't run Windows without any swap. Why Linux? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: PPP still a pain

1998-02-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ave to enable it by editing the file. (The default of 4 & 3 respectively is used.) 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://ha

Re: IP Masquerading

1998-02-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the "client" machine i've set up the gateway pointing to de > > firewall machine. Looks fine to me. 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 fro

Re: Re[2]: HowTo?: Log Everything -> file

1998-02-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a session and sets the process group ID setsid (8) - run a program in a new session 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

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

1998-02-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for Rockwells). > Back when I ran bo, I got connect speeds for all three modems. My hamm > packages are all 100% up-to-date. Any chance the modems are configured differently now, either by the profile stored in the modem or due to commands in /etc/mgetty/*.conf? hamish -- Hamish Moff

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
at you let any user outside of your system view? Most External users may not be able to view the files if some sort of authentication has been used; local users get past that. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ft

Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 10:56:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > export https_proxy="http://localhost:8000/"; > > to, iirc, get some support for https:// urls, if your proxy supports > them, even if Lynx doesn't. Interesting idea; loses some of the security though.

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o produce valid postscript ... 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 FROM THIS MAI

reboots during kernel boot

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
6) 133MHz to an AMD K6 (which the kernel says is post-bug) 166MHz, but that was about last September and I haven't really noticed the connection. Nothing else has changed hardware wise. Any suggestions, even on how to get more details? Please email me directly. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffa

Re: Ghostscript

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
are compiling ghostscript from the sources, which you don't need to. "gs -h" will list all the available drivers. These drivers are built in to gs, rather than being in external files. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debi

Re: zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
parallel port between a printer, zip drive etc at the same time, without removing and inserting the modules etc. However in my case I just want to use the zip drive, I have no printer on the port. It's different for 2.0 vs 2.1 though. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

Re: zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nous typing it in all of the time > cd / > mkdir zip > mount /dev/sda4 /zip Thanks for your help Charles. Unfortunately I don't get as far as being able to mount it -- the SCSI drivers don't load properly. I have had this working in the past but not with recent Linux beta ke

zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
there ... Any hints? I have zip only on the port; I don't want to use a printer as well. thanks, 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

dpkg and kernel 2.1.8x

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Kernel 2.1.86 swaps lchown() and chown() so dpkg might work again, according to http://www.linuxhq.com/ 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: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rself. 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 FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the CARD is not correct installed > > or > > Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) Network devices do not have entries in /dev. The portmapper is used for some RPC services like NFS; what do you mean it "is away"? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt,

weird tcp/inetd problem

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for that service; other services work fine. 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: "Hard Install"

1998-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote: > On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change > >individual settings because their locations aren't standardize

Re: network status thru voice

1998-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
x27;ll have to figure out how > to get the sound out over the telephone, I guess. You can probably convince vgetty (a modified mgetty for voice) to do this for you, although I've always found it too hard to find sufficient documentation to get it running. It would play pre-recorded sounds

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
S manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic settings are (like hard drive types) but none of the settings you spoke of are. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. P

Re: Viewing bootup message

1998-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y I > can re-direct it to a file for perusal? dmesg will show you the kernel stuff, eg "dmesg | less". Most of it is in the logs in /var/log too. There's no way (that I know of) to see all the non-kernel stuff. Note that scroll lock will pause the display. Hamish -- Hamis

Re: www.debian.org trouble

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to override things done in the root; sometimes I might not want to use an ErrorDocument on a virtual server for example, while I want one on the root. I think that all servers should be on equal footing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d enforce them. You should not get on your soapbox on a mailing list about 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: single user mode

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nux -b"). It will get > you a root shell directly, without password, and without running _any_ > of the init scripts. Remember that your root file system is read only at > that point and that not even /proc is mounted .. Is this different to "linux emergency"? Emergency d

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ause I bought a new disk and couldn't find any way to move NT), it only took about 5 minutes to install 95, and there aren't any hard questions involved, even with a custom install. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian pack

Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ys who tried to help me. Can't you use the NT install floppies with the rescue disk you created during install or with rdisk? You did create the rescue disk, right, like the Debian installation disk/CDROM warned you to back everything up ... ? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: proxy environment variable

1998-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 09:52:12PM +0100, Peter Paluch wrote: > ftp_proxy=proxy.utc.sk:3128 > http_proxy=proxy.utc.sk:3128 > > That's all the trick. This might work with wget, but it doesn't seem very standard -- Lynx doesn't like it. I use http_proxy=http://proxywww.rmit.edu.au:8080/ The final

Re: file system copying nightmare

1998-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rything in / > (including /mnt) to /mnt. H. Fair enough, although counter-intuitive to me at least. thanks, 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 f

Re: file system copying nightmare

1998-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the whole disk or the files? The new file system is bigger than the old one, so I want to copy the files rather than the file system itself. I could just tar the file system to a file on another partition. That would work but should be unnecessary. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTE

file system copying nightmare

1998-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d tar respectively appear to be ignored. I would do it with the rescue disk, mounting the two partitions as /mnt and /mnt2, except that the rescue disk (poorly named?) seems to have a cut down cp with only -r, and no tar! Any suggestions? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
DMA buffers. The people on the appropriate linux- list tell me it's a design problem in the floppy driver, and that ISA DMA is problematic with > 16mb RAM (which is what it uses). I had to reboot to reset it, did you? Joost's suggestion of a bad disk isn't a bad one either. ;-) Ha

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hers all unusable until I could find other copies. This doesn't happen with Debian. 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. htt

Re: max mount count?

1998-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ing > the volume periodically even if the volume is always cleanly unmounted. I usually end up with a few "deleted inode has zero dtime" messages when the forced check occurs. Is this normal? It doesn't sound like it to me. Never anything more serious than that though. hamish

Re: shell program menu

1998-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, but you can't hide .. from their home directory, for example, unfortunately. 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://hami

Re: nprint error:

1998-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
recall the name). Is NDS supported these days with ncpfs? Neat. 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.m

Re: Printing Guru question.

1998-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 07:44:52PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > The printer won't accept jobs from both Novel & LInux simultaneously but you > can co-exist quite peacefully without you Novell users even noticing. And avoid print quota etc... Oops. :-) Hamish -- Hamish

Re: cyg-win32 problems

1998-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
iles needed to run this application > cannot be found You may need Cygnus's GNU Win32 DLL, I can't remember the exact name. I agree that static should remove this requirement though. ftp.cygnus.com. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Apache 1.2.x for bo?

1998-01-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e 1.3b3 packages. 1.1.3 is pretty stale though. Quite a few improvements to mod_include were done for 1.2, for example. 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 m

Re: Bug#15854 should be release-critical (was Re: buzz upgrade report)

1998-01-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 07:21:09PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > It sounds like you are talking about Bug#15854. On 11 Dec 1997 > the maintainer's response to the bug report included a patch to fix > it, which he said would be included in perl 5.004.04-4. > > My rex system contai

buzz upgrade report

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ause the script will try to install them again and this causes problems with libc5 at least. 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.

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
special 2.0.18 boot disks on the Debian 1.1.11 CD I have. 1.1.1 seemed to have some special kernels but not special boot disks. Working nicely now. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#

Re: Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nux-libc1/X11? Some missing symlinks will stop Netscape from starting properly, with a bus error or segfault. 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: can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and the bo bootdisk worked just > fine. Hmmm. I'm not using a VLB IDE controller, that didn't seem to want to go in the slot, so I'm just using an ISA one. Anyway I found a special boot disk with 2.0.18 from Debian 1.1.11 and that worked fine, so I have buzz installed now.

can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0. I get "eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed" etc, then it hangs. This is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being probed, but I pulled mine out completely and it stil

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ill download again all the packages I have already downloaded; I have to run a select phase in between to stop it doing this. (Just about to install buzz here Craig.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.ris

Re: isapnptools config

1998-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
an 3 or 4; 5 or 2 would be fine (depending on what other hardware you have; your sound card might take 5 and you VGA card might use 2/9). Once you have enabled it in the configuration file, Debian's serial setup script (/etc/rc.boot/0setserial) should find the port and configure it automatical

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ot; You need to edit /etc/modules. You can either (a) add vfat to the list, so that it is available during boot, or (b) add auto to the list, so that kerneld IS available during boot to load any other needed modules. I prefer (a). It's up to you though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [

Re: PnP modem

1998-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
installs the modem as COM2, which is left > disabled in the CMOS) That should work fine. Use the isapnptools package to set up the modem. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D

Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:56:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 02:30:37PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > i released v0.11 of the script a few hours ago, so you'll probably > > > want to

Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 02:30:37PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > i released v0.11 of the script a few hours ago, so you'll probably want to > update your rex version to that. buzz, too, anyone? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] La

Re: Re[2]: Trying to fix a mistake in upgrading Netscape...

1998-01-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
he file system. That's another reason for using dpkg. 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

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
case of installing new ld.so, removing the libc5 -dev libraries, installing libc6, installing the hamm non-g libraries, then installing the hamm g libraries, then anything else, like bash. For a while I only upgraded the libraries (just to support running new libc6 stuff from hamm), not bothering with

Re: device /dev/hdh does not exist....

1998-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ng special involved. 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 FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Windows NT & Debian

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 12:59:25PM -0400, Adam Greene wrote: > This is the output from my Linux box that won't attach to my network: That looks fine; what problem are you seeing? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian package

Re: ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
uot; The original submitter said they had to adjust their firewall for the strange port numbers ProFTPD uses. Perhaps this is your problem. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 C

Re: hamm screen

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 12:07:54PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 04:52:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works &g

Re: hamm screen

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ts there for ever, not error message, nothing. Permissions correct on /tmp? (drwxrwxrwxt). screen creates some sockets in /tmp I believe. I'm using 3.7.4-3 here and it seems to be fine. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at f

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:46:41PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] > On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:34:01AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was > > to add the following to pap-secret

Re: DOSEMU and IPX

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ink). 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 FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
h certainly not unimportant. Shadow passwords may also make a difference. I'm not using them here; I think last time I tried them (on ppp 2.2) I couldn't login with PAP any more either. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian pac

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 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 FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: Linux IPX configuration.

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
pfs author to find out for sure, or the appropriate mailing list if there is one. 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://h

[offtopic] looking for some services in the USA

1998-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
mpany anywhere in the USA who can do 500 discs in fairly minimal time (since we are behind schedule :-). Any recommendations? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of re

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
system, works fine. 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 FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Good Soundcard?

1998-01-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
far inferior Creative Labs > SB16PnP. SB16PnP is about $65 Australian, which is probably mid $40s USD at present, or lower, hardly $80-$90. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#E

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ue if you use kerneld to load the module. After your application finishes, some time later the module will be removed by kerneld, and when reinserted next time its needed the volume settings will be reset. But if you load it in /etc/modules, it will never be unloaded. So no problem. Hamish -

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
mber than the other command to > reconfigure LILO. Usually, you just run lilo -- no need to run liloconfig 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

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

1998-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
gt; kernel's headers... No it doesn't; read /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz. 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://hami

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