nslookup failure due to Connection refused

Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1, and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working. The error message is *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed When I run 'strace nslookup', I see that the sequence of events leading up to this

what is /dev/scg?

The documentation for cdrecord says it writes to /dev/scg*. But I can't find anything about scg's in the kernel sources (or even in a string search at Linux v2 Headquarters). So my questions are: What is /dev/scg? How can (or does?) one get a kernel driver? How can one integrate this into

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

Hi Bernd -- You said: The current resque disk does not work with my Adaptec 2940 UW. This does not surprise me, as none of the Kernels above 2.0.12 (up to 2.0.27) I tried did work. An small remark in a README in an otherwise useless RedHat stated that Adaptec support is partially broken

Re: Mail list problems??

Me too. Susan Kleinmann Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this is related to the problems with the mail list, or

Re: Documentation - I see squares

In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are there little squares or cryptic $%^ thingees. I guess that there's something I've missed somewhere... What have/haven't I done? On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining markup, then you

Re: 56k baud modem (x2)

Hi Greg -- You asked: Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :) Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the time. Even though this box isn't internally the same as the real USR modem you're talking about, the software configuration under Linux would

Re: Graphics file converter(s) (Like xv)

Stan Brown said: I am looking for a general puropose conversion program for graphich formats. What I would really like would be sonething like xv that could be run ono interactivley by the lp interface script. Ultimetly II need the fiel is PCL3, but I have ghostscript

Re: Bad Address

Lindsay Haisley said: The Debian FAQ lists the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address to which to send corrections and suggestions regarding the FAQ. Mail to this address bounces with a Sorry, no mailbox here by that name message. Do the people who maintain the FAQ know this? Yes. 1.

Re: debian-newbie list

Related idea: I'm thinking about working on the FAQ this weekend, and one thing I'd like to do is to break it up into at least two parts: --one which is general, and --one which focusses only on dselect and dpkg. Of course, we could break it up further. For example, we could have --an FAQ on

Re: Getting cron.daily to start sooner?

Hi Chad -- You asked: Is there a way that I can get cron.daily to start running it's processes before 12am? I have a program in there that needs to run before the new day starts so that is can get the correct data. The system crontab uses a file /etc/crontab. This is to be distinguished

Re: Suggestion

Hi Joe -- You said: I have been reading this list for a few weeks now, and I wonder if someone could regularly post and maintain the . I'll call it debian FAQ, for lack of a better term. It would be very worthwhile to keep a list of unique debian questions and answers. I'm one of the

Re: ftp site problems

Hi Eric -- You said: I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error that says: Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed successfully. And it won't d/l

Re: Where is make-kpkg?

Hi Martin -- You asked: Do I still need make-kpkg for generating a kernel package? Well, not absolutely, but it sure is a handy tool. If so, where can I find it? It's in Debian-1.2/binary-all/misc/kernel-package_3.03.deb You can find out which debian archive file ('.deb' file) contains a

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

Hi Dan -- You said: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) ... Open up your case, and see what cable its attached too... Only use FTAPE if its hooked up through

cannot exec 'cc1'

On a relatively recent Debian installation, I keep getting this error: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory But when I execute: # ls -l /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/cc1 I get: -rwxr-xr-x 1 rootroot 1153181 Aug 14 15:23 \

Re: libelf (Re: cannot exec 'cc1')

Hi Stuart -- You asked: Did I forget to stick in Replaces: libelf and Conflicts: libelf in there somewhere? libelf0 and libelf0-dev are the current versions; libelf should be dead. (If I forgot to do the Replaces and Conflicts bit, bug me, and I'll fix it. Two minute job, and a good excuse not

Re: tail -f /var/adm/messages

Hi Johann -- You said: Heiko wrote: What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say? I found the following sequence of lines: - Nov 4 07:55:43 Johann syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Nov 4 09:15:24 Johann syslogd

Re: cannot exec 'cc1'

Hi Dale -- You said: I have had this same problem on my test partition. It was suggested (I think it was Steven Early) that one of the other packages in devel, possibly using dpkg diversions has clobbered things. If you look, you will find a 2.7.2 directory as well as the 2.7.2.1 directory

Re: cannot exec 'cc1'

Hi Guy -- You suggested: Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a relatively recent Debian installation, I keep getting this error: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory Do you have any packages installed which divert gcc? Other language compilers

Re: Help with LaTeX permissions

Hi Pedro -- You said: whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following: [ Text on font metrics generation deleted] Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm. Output written on cmr10.300gf (128 characters, 13184 bytes). Transcript written on cmr10.log. mkdir: cannot make directory

exmh suddenly spawns zombies

Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply. Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender), exmh shows this message: Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ... But exmh doesn't

Re: xman

Hi Kenneth -- You asked: How could that be if xman dose not exist in debian ?? It couldn't be. If you execute zgrep xman Contents.gz | grep bin you'd see that xman is part of the xcontrib package. The Contents.gz files are in the top of unstable, stable, non-free, and contrib. But it

Re: sanyo cdrom (crd-256P)

Hi Richard -- You asked: A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this writing I have asked him to determine more e.g. - is it IDE - is it ATAPI - what debian version

Re: BusLogic SCSI

Hi Ricardo -- You asked: What is the price compared with Adaptec 2940UW? I got one for $189.00 a couple of months ago at a computer show. You might check out: PricePages: http://www.ntek.com/cgi-shl/cgi_ivor.exe/index.data which lists prices from Usenet postings or PriceWatch:

Re: make-kpkg

Hi Leszek -- You asked: Can anybody tell me where can i find make-kpkg ?? If you execute zgrep Contents.gz in the top of the rex directory on any Debian mirror, you'll see that make-kpkg comes in the kernel-package package. Specifically, the answer is to fetch from any Debian mirror

Re: Available tools for making clickable WWW imagemaps?

Are there such tools in Debian packages? Not that I know of. If not, what do you recommend me (I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize? Here's a short list: Glorglox: http://www.uunet.ca/~tomr/glorglox/ gd:http://www.boutell.com/gd/ (This is a C

Re: make-kpgk modules troubles

Hi Thomas -- A while ago you asked: Until recently, I just rolled my own kernel as I was used to do with Slackware. But since I found out about make-kpkg, I decided to do things the Debian way and use that instead. After much hassle wit the broken tar (solved by downgrading), there's still a

Re: make-kpkg kernel_image fails

Hi -- You said: make-kpkg -r kernel-image-2.0.21-Custom.1.i386.deb kernel_image The -r flag takes the revision number as an argument, not the entire package name. Try make-kpkg -r Custom.1 or make-kpkg -r Custom-1 if the '.' is causing problems. BTW, make-kpkg expects that it

Re: newsreader problem?

Hi David -- You asked: I've problem with Netscape3.0 newsreader in Linux. When I do 'Show All Newsgroup', I don't get the complete(which I get when I do this in Windoz) list. I tried knews and had same problem. Have you set up a value for NNTPSERVER? For example, have you set export

language

I request that users of this list try (a little harder) to keep their language polite, pleasant, and professional. Though I too get mad at my computers sometimes (which seems pretty funny when I think about it), I think it helps keep the focus on the technical problems rather than the

Re: New User

Hi Craig -- My next step is to setup ftape, and ftape is built into the kernel; perhaps you are talking about some kind of configuration. (I don't use ftape so I don't know what is involved.) find out why most of the application and games do not work from xwindows' menu. What have you

Re: fvwm2 middle button

Hi Richard -- You said: I am using fvwm2 as the window manager and have a 3 button logitech mouse (serial, mouseman). The icon triggered by the middle button sticks to the mouse arrow so that the arrow cannot select from that icon's menu. Is there a simple fix? Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config

Re: Apache ELF 1.1.1

Hi Michael -- zless buzz-fixed/Contents.gz yields: usr/lib/libgdbm.so libgdbm1-dev usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 libgdbm1 usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1.7.3 libgdbm1 If you got libgdbm, may got

Re: scsi errors

Hi Mike -- You asked: Is there any way of testing a block device in linux? The test program is fsck. Every time you boot, fsck is run if there's a problem with the file system. So this may be some help, but not consolation. Cheers? Susan Kleinmann

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

Hi Rob -- If your modem is on COM3, then it is referred to as /dev/cua2 during boot-up and as /dev/ttyS2 for most operations thereafter. If you are trying to get it to work at high speed, then I think what you need to do is to change a line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. I suspect you have a line

Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?

Hi Richard -- You said: After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is it set anyway? It looks to me as if

Re: where's man ??

Hi Boris -- You said: On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: dwarfIf you only installed the base system then the only editor availabe is AE dwarf(Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is small enough to fit on the dwarfbase disks. I am sorry, but isn't vi designed

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

Hi -- You said: Currently, I have a DOS partition that takes up 25% of the total disk space and the rest is empty. My concern was if I would lose any data on the DOS partition if I create two Linux partitions using Linux fdisk on the empty disk space. I suppose the installation notes are

Re: where is kernel-package ?

Hi Chris -- You said: I can't find kernel-package anywhere on ftp.debian.org... I found kernel-headers, and kernel-source, but I already have a tar.gz of the source. It's in rex/binary/misc. It't not clear why. Do I even need the kernel-package? What benifits will it give me?

Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?

Hi Richard -- You said: After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is it set anyway? In looking over some

Re: where's man ??

I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... 'ae' comes with the base installation, because it is small and can be used by anyone instantly. No traning required. Now

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

Hi -- You asked: I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. If you will be using memory-hungry applications (like X or httpd), then you'll definitely need some swap space. A few tens of MBytes would be a

Re: What where huh?

Hi Marcus -- (From section 5.7 of the FAQ:) Debian-1.1.x, a.k.a. stable and buzz-fixed: A copy of the the current release with the updates applied. The minor number is changed whenever new updates are added. I'd agree that a search engine front end to the FAQ would be helpful. Good luck,

Re: X authorization

Hi Derek -- You asked: How is the X authorization set up in Debian? Lukas Nellen provided a nice answer to this a while ago. I'm just repeating it here: I am running xdm and I discovered that only the login user can start an X window. There are 2 situations when I cannot start a X

Re^2: dvips top margin

Nick I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer Nick leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to Nick /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of Nick letter. Correct. Also the app-defaults file for xdvi sets a4 paper and

Re: Custom installation boot disks?

Hi Paul -- You asked: I need to create a custom installation boot disk to install Debian on a system at work. This is a custom server, with a SCSI main drive on an Adaptec 2940UW controller. Once I get the main drive supported and the base installed, I can finish it from there. I've

Re: Re^2: dvips top margin

Hi Dirk -- Susan I had another problem with the latest version of TeX which I could Susan not seem to fix by adjusting dvips/config.ps. It was that an extra Susan 1 seemed to have been added to the margins on all sides. I fixed Susan this using vmargin, but that wasn't necessary

Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?

Hi Jean -- There are (at least) 3 counterarguments to the concern that Debian maintainers could maliciously add dangerous commands to their {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts: -- the same package system which is open to many for development is equally open to many for testing. -- by having both

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hi Jan -- You asked: where did mkdosfs go? It got swallowed up into dosfstools, which is in the rex (unstable) distribution. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann

Re: char-major-10

Hi Boris -- Bruce suggested: brucels /dev |grep 10, Try instead: ls -l /dev | grep 10, Good luck, Susan Kleinmann

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

Hi Paul -- You said: Well, i think it's time to compose some kind of an Debian-Installation-FAQ just for these kind of cases. An FAQ of this kind would have saved me and probably others lots of time and frustration. Anybody interested in contributing to such an FAQ? Let's see if i can manage

Re: A couple of Problems

Hi Jim -- You said: I tried adding the line to /etc/X11/Xmodmap -- It didn't work. I also tried creating ~/.Xmodmap and ~/.xmodmaprc files with the same data. These did not work either. Did you run xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc after you changed it? If not, then the edits you made wouldn't have any

Re: aout/elf

Hi Tim-- You asked: Can some kind soul tell me if there is a libg++ for the aout compiler, I have an old a.out system on a disk partition that I mount once in a while. It has all the libg++ files on it. However, I do not have the old libg++ debian package. I can make you a tar file using the

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

Hi Danny-- In what are by now prehistoric times you said: I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed, complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap. Bill Mitchell bequeathed to me the kermit package, and building a new one is on my list of todo's. I'm hoping I get organized to do this

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

Hi Bruce -- You said: Supporting two terminal management mechanisms would not be a good idea. It would probably be a good idea to remind folks (in the FAQ or wherever) about the rationale for using curses vs. termcap. I tried to find one using AltaVista and DejaNews, but I'll bet you can guess

Re: Debian Linux

Hi John -- You said: The kernel needed is the special kernel 6: special NCR53C8XX. This special kernel is supposedly available from buzz-fixed/disks-i386/special-kernels at any Debian FTP site. However, when I go the Debian FTP site the only special kernels available are numbers 0 through 5

Re: tex font problems

Hi Hakan -- You said: I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like \{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else moticed this? As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX constructions. I made a silly .tex file with

Re: Debian LInux

Hi Mark -- You asked: When using dselect, do I have to download from the ftp site, packages or are they on the install disks ? The install disks only contain enough software to set up your system so that it is *capable* of being used to fetch the major packages. All tolled, the Debian software

Re: Gcc won't compile :-)

Hi Marcus -- You asked: Thanks everybody I didn't have the crt*.o in my lib directory. It should be in the libc-dev*.deb right? No, it should be in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib. You can see what directory a file will be installed into by looking at the Contents file associated with the distribution

need libbsd.so.1.0.0

The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a. (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file? (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive question.) Thanks in advance, Susan Kleinmann

Re: Using dpkg to install Debian?

Hi Barid -- I assumed that the logical approach would be to download the source to dpkg and dpkg-ftp, install them, and then install some of the more critical pacakges via ftp. Well, the better thing to do is to -- download boot1440.bin, root.bin, base14-1.bin, base14-2.bin, and

Re: I'm looking for a demo user ...

Hi Dirk -- You asked: - I was used to have the /etc/profile for the bash and other configuration files to be more configured than they are now. You might want to look in /usr/doc/examples/bash. (How to find a new programm, when you don't know about it :-) This must qualify as a billion

Re: ftape format warning!!!

Hi Daniel -- You asked: Just one question... Does taper implicitly call 'mt'? Well, no. In fact, taper does its own ioctl calls, which is why it is behind the other general-purpose utilities in supporting a broad array of hardware. I spent a long time studying both taper and tob, and I'm

Re: Three Probs

Hi Marcus -- You asked: My root login, well I don't have one. When I boot from LILO I go straight to linux without going into a login and password prompt. I am the user root. It's hard to see how this happened. In any case, if even root isn't asked to log in, then add this line to

Re: flop-py disk installation...........

Hi Mike and Candy -- You asked: Can anyone clue me in as to how to transfer package information to a floppy in a form that linux can recognize?tried: direct copy from mswindows file manager, Does this mean you had an MS-DOS formatted diskette in your floppy drive? i.e., After you made the

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

You can find a particular .sty file (or anything else in the CTAN archives) by visiting: http://www.shsu.edu/cgi-bin/ctan-index Then enter the name of the macro you want, in this case, a4.sty, and you'll be returned a page with links to sites that provide it. HTH, Susan Kleinmann

Re: A few problems

Hi Miro -- (I'm not sure of these answers, but see if any of them help.) You asked: 1. After I recompiled the kernel, NAS loads fine at boot, but auplay et all tell me that they can't connect to audio server. Can anybody help?? I think that the error here may be that the kernel provided with

Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

Hi Philippe -- You wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:14:10 PDT Philippe Troin (phil) wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:23:16 EDT renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at th e following? I looked at the Web page, and

Re: using procmail with emacs RMAIL

Hi Steve -- You asked: Can someone point me to info for the quickest, easiest way to use procmail with Emacs RMAIL to separate, say, the debian list into a separate folder? Below I'm forwarding a big hint on this topic given by Dirk Eddelbuettel to someone else a few weeks ago. I found it quite

Re: Cron error in debian 1.15

Hi ReWt -- You asked: Whats wrong with the cron script to produce this error? Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing due to

Re: xconsole error

Hi Ken -- You wrote: I am having difficulty getting the xconsole to work running in fvwm (or any window manager). I use a .xsession file in my home directory. Here is that file: - begin .xsession file - #!/bin/bash [snip] xconsole -exitOnFail -g

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

Hi Hakan -- You asked: I have latex 2e-7 installed, but I can't find a4.sty a4wide.sty, in which package are they? I think the Latex-2e approach is not to use .sty files, but to use .cls (class) files. Support for a4 letter paper is built into the article.cls file, for example, but the

Re: procps 1.01a-1 problems

Hi Hakan -- You said: I tested to install procps 1.01a-1, but after that all I get out of ps is: ps: can't load library 'libproc.so.1.01a' The libriry I have is libproc.so.0.99, which package contains the new version , and shouldn't the dependency infomation in procps have told me that?

Re: Problems with X-windows Install

Hi Walter -- You asked: Has everyone been able to install x-windows with little pain? I have been trying to install x-windows for the last 3 weeks. Whenever I dselect xserver, etc, etc and select install it follows the entire setup procedure when it has completed all the steps it says

problem with the mailing list

Does anyone else get repeated messages from Manager, AlisaMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] regarding Undeliverable Mail? As far as I can tell, the only person whose address comes close to lockheed.com who has written to the list is Mark Rahner [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I've gotten about half a dozen of

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

Guy Maor wrote: On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: Is there a postscript version of the documents Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/ you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript. Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents which do

Re: debianized

Hi Timothy -- You asked: I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me read on how to become debian-ized. Look on http://www.debian.org. I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching. You'll get the unwelcome advice that you'll need to (a) save your

Re: mailagent and MH

Hi Brian -- Brian Mays wrote: Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail' program, to the user's local account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailagent

Re: mailagent and MH

A couple of days ago, I wrote: I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like: popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't automatically refiled as a result of matching one of the rules are then stored in the

Re: mailagent and MH

I discovered (more or less) what was happening, by a fluke experience! I have another account at another ISP on which I had never previously checked my mail til today. My user name at the other ISP is just susan. Now, the likelihood that they've had (in the past) another user named susan is

Re: libtiff?

Hi Larry -- You said (ages ago, sorry): Trying to install libtiff3-gif says it depends on libtiff3, but the dependency listing says libtiff3 doesn't appear to be available. What's the deal here and how can I fix it? This means that the list of available packages in dselect's memory does not

Re: ALPHA: pe package - periodic execution

Hi Christian -- Your pe package sounds very interesting. You asked: It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they seem pretty old and I didn't find any information. If you get any version of dpkg

Re: kernel size

Hi Hamish -- You asked: Will dselect still work with nothing but a local directory, Sure. Just specify the local directory with option 1, Access method. or should I just use dpkg by hand? That would work too. Regards, Susan Kleinmann

Re: where to find older pcmcia that uses 2.0.6 kernel

Hi Eddie -- You asked: is there a record of pcmcia packages that use 2.0.6 kernel. the new one expects the 2.0.7 kernel and I need the older one. I'm not sure, but the general answer is: should I just upgrade my kernel? Yes. is this hard to to? No. Go to any Linux FTP archive.

Re: perl

Hi Todd -- You said: why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion. dpkg --info libc5-dev_5.2.18-9.deb yields . . . DEPENDS: libc5 (=5.2.18-9) CONFLICTS: libc (4.6.27-11), libc-dev, pthreads-dev PROVIDES: libc-dev,

Re: heads-up about SCSI tape drives

Hi Bill -- You said: One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0 (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa. I

Re: Apache - catch 22?

Hi Fun -- You said: Hi i just grabbed the unstable apache package. I tried to install it and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what, libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk 500 megabytes

Hi Charles -- I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux: mkdir ./dos mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos cp /boot ./dos Your mount command (as given above) is making a DOS file system accessible under a Linux directory. That seems unusual. If you just

Re: Need an 8 mm tape recommendation

Hi Pedro -- I need to buy and install an 8mm tape system for our debian systems. If you happen to have one up and running, could you drop me a note telling me things like: - Tape system brand name, I have an Exabyte 8505. - Connection type (serial/parallel port, internal,

Re: Solved: mouse problem (running both gpm and X)

Hi Charles -- You asked: I can't get my logitech serial mouse to work under X on any of the three machines where I've attempted to use X. Should I ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse if my serial mouse is connected to the first serial port? That ought to work. I also have a Logitech serial

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

Bruce Perens wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (renald loignon) May I ask, in all seriousness, and without a trace of sarcasm, where in the world (BUT preferably in the Debian installation instructions) one is expected to find this information? I was used to the old cdu31a=0xPORT,IRQ syntax

mailagent and MH

I have just begun using mailagent, and am hoping for some enlightenment regarding its behaviour. I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like: popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't automatically refiled as a

Re: mailagent and MH

Hi Michael -- You said: ... is it not true that by using mailagent wisely one should be able to avoid the use of inc altogether? I've been tip-toeing my way forward with mailagent. My ~/.rules file currently disposes of only a few of the mailing lists I'm on, and only those for which I don't

can I erase /var/tmp?

I just noticed that my /var/tmp directory contains: 12784 base-tmp-6491 2 extract-tmp-10628 2 extract-tmp-10702 1 extract-tmp-6127 1 extract-tmp-6208 1 extract-tmp-6289 7676partial-tmp-6491 What creates those directories, and can I erase them? TIA, Susan

heads-up about SCSI tape drives

I've been having a lot of problems with my SCSI tape drive in the past week or so (Unrecognizable archive, etc.). Another user also told me in private email that he'd also been having trouble with his SCSI tape drive. (I have an Exabyte 8505; I do not know what kind of SCSI tape drive the

Re: Where can I ftp pcmcia package

Hi Eddie -- You can get the Debian pcmcia package from any Debian mirror. ftp.caldera.com:/pub/mirrors/debian is close to UCLA. When you get there (i.e., when you get to pub/mirrors/debian, which is where Caldera puts the Debian distribution -- this top level directory is

Re: gs 3.53 and up

Hi Ervin -- You said: I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00 in the standard distributions. ... I have solved the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and compiling it with no gcc optimizations. However, I have to install it in /usr/local/ because I

Re: where is wish ?

Hi Hubert -- You asked: I have tried make xconfig to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error wish not found Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is? To find which package contains a file, try something like this: # zgrep wish

Re: Where is the kernel-package package?

Hi David -- You asked: I've been searching all over my system and ftp.debian.org and I haven't found the kernel-package package. ... Anybody know where to find it? kernel-package is in rex/binary-all/misc or rex/binary-i386/misc at any Debian FTP site. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann

Re: Debian 1.1: fsck failure.

Hi Oz -- You said: After a power failure. I cannot fsck one of my IDE partition when I type: fsck /dev/hda8 I get: -- Parallelizing fsck version 1.02 (16-Jan-96) e2fsck 1.02, 16-Jan-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read

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