Re: formatted floppy type??

1997-09-28 Thread W Paul Mills
v/hdc /cd/0 iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hdd /cd/1 iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /dos vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt vfat ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Looks like vfat to me! : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Pa

Re: ftp upgrade problem

1997-09-09 Thread W Paul Mills
when I do ls, it just waits > forever. ^^ Are you using ip-masquerading? If so are you loading the ip_masq_ftp module on your gateway machine? : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ---------: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was ther

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root

1997-09-05 Thread W Paul Mills
Easily fixed. Go into /usr/X11R6/bin and > 1) delete X > 2) Make a link to the X server that you have chosen: ln -s ./XF86_SVGA X I may be wrong, but is X not a wrapper program that is supposed to be suid root? See /usr/doc/debian.README : http://www.sound.net/~wpmil

Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-05 Thread W Paul Mills
SEE: man ls : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -----: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMA

Re: MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-05 Thread W Paul Mills
er. But we made it, and all works well. The libc6 issue is no big deal unless you need to do development with both libs. : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ---------: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would

Re: [QF] fetchmail

1997-08-30 Thread W Paul Mills
me on both computers. Like this in .fetchmailrc (unless the user is running fetchmail himself: poll orion.aye.net protocol POP3 username kestrel with password is kestrel here : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several y

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-20 Thread W Paul Mills
t; If this isn't what debian's about then I'm sorry for making all this > > trouble. I'll shut up and go get Caldera. It's just a shame that the > > distribution which I think has the most going for it technically and > > produces

Re: bashrc bash-profile Problem

1997-08-16 Thread W Paul Mills
- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-11 Thread W Paul Mills
/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread W Paul Mills
also have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config. On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Yes. echo $MOZILLA_HOME gives /usr/lib/netscape which is where all the > netscape > stuff is located. > > Victor > > W Paul Mills wrote: > > > Did you s

RE: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread W Paul Mills
; iQCVAwUBM944kGgYC2+RaorhAQHQVwP/W+/OdOBEzkFBkQYcyySqO3q8STulaBbs > UY7UDNjhp9pkfEO3shWX8bw4TejoB8ZkZLHVzUW9ClevKaVov3KB4NKY+WWk2vee > tXs0Nlwcoe6BLf8Qep6QNXkmEblNfF4L2ZAr8aBlvn6FmlI6kgHRTvWKsQn+/23w > 4EkpgLcolFY= > =OQEA > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread W Paul Mills
t; no-xdm-start-server ^^^ I don't really know, but should this be xdm-start-server?? > > > > run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? > > I don't think so, I have xdm running with run-xconsole commented out. > That is no problem. If you co

Re: Harddrive/IDE channel error

1997-07-24 Thread W Paul Mills
Will > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to &g

Re: xdm path

1997-07-23 Thread W Paul Mills
is also set so I do not get all those nasty errors I here many get when starting netscape. : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -----: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomor

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-23 Thread W Paul Mills
ain drivers work better with certain kernels. Not necessarily the latest driver with the latest kernel. : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Wh

Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using "suck" to transfer news....)

1997-07-21 Thread W Paul Mills
wsgroup initially, until you have things working. Looking at the log and error files in /var/log/suck* and /var/log/news/* may be of some value in finding out what is going on. : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was t

Re: Using "suck" to transfer news....

1997-07-20 Thread W Paul Mills
the inn package. I believe you will find some info in /usr/doc that will help you get it all set up and working together. : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -----: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would

Re: libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb

1997-07-20 Thread W Paul Mills
appy. : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty

1997-07-20 Thread W Paul Mills
t; Are these well known bugs in xfree 3.3-3? > > -- > Pedro I. Sanchez > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > : http://www.sound.

Re: setting time via a server?

1997-07-17 Thread W Paul Mills
Also, I would prefer not to run xntp - it seems wasteful to me to > have it running continuously to just set the clock every 24 hours. Can > xntp be used as a one-off program and put into a crontab? Cheers. Try netdate or rdate. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ---

Re: Machine rebooting randomly

1997-07-17 Thread W Paul Mills
ot confirmed. -------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTEC

Re:Netscape Mail 3.x

1997-07-16 Thread W Paul Mills
t everyone uses. Stands for something like File Carbon Copy. If I remember right. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROT

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread W Paul Mills
normal priority. I am not so sure this is a documentation problem. More of a failure to read. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-09 Thread W Paul Mills
to eliminate the second \q and then add it to the next statement pair. So be carefull. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-09 Thread W Paul Mills
se issues > >and has been working rock solid for me. > Where can I get these patches? > > There appears not to be any information about these on the mentioned WWW > site. ---- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was

Re: Certification

1997-07-09 Thread W Paul Mills
Being a born rebel. And self-taught in nearly everything I do. I have known many a _certified_ person who was book smart ONLY. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-09 Thread W Paul Mills
is while still trying to resolve the sig 11 problem on one of my machines. If you change to the proper directory and remove the *.o file that the error shows for, then restart your compile you will eventually get the job done. The tough part can be finding the hardware problem. These can be har

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread W Paul Mills
long.. > TIA > DamirN > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-30 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > W Paul Mills wrote: > > > > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However, > > > every two or three minutes

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-30 Thread W Paul Mills
the init string? PC Magazine. Do not remember date. And yes I know what S12 is. I do not understand. I only understand that this hos worked as a workaround for some. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago.

Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??

1997-06-30 Thread W Paul Mills
crash while using communicator. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you!

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-30 Thread W Paul Mills
d: crock of > shit) though. If anyone out there know how to solve this problem I would > certainly like to know. I think you need to add S12=0 to your init string. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years a

Re: cron.daily : when does it run?

1997-06-29 Thread W Paul Mills
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. > (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) /etc/crontab http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -----

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread W Paul Mills
curity blanket :-) http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ --------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [E

Re: job delay problem

1997-06-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
nce!! > > Anthony -- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where we

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
rites: > > > Ping you host once in a while. > > > > ping -i 500 xyz.com > /dev/null & > > > > see ping man page. ---- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago.

Re: pppd leaves lock file after quitting

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
; > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > ---- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was ther

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
l the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas

Re: upgrading from popclient to fetchmail in 1.3

1997-06-20 Thread W Paul Mills
NAME pass PASSWORD is USERNAME here > > > > I don't understand the smtp error message. I am using the default smail > installation as my MDA. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. ---- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. P

Re: elm filters?

1997-06-20 Thread W Paul Mills
and really quite easy to set up once it all sinks it to the dense gray matter. There are several man pages for this procmail(1), procmailrc(5), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5). Try it, I think you will like it. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills

Re: Linux FS Question

1997-06-20 Thread W Paul Mills
ls me that it may be quite possible to read an overwritten disk. But multiple overwrites with varying patterns should make that impossible. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. :

Re: I need help again please?

1997-06-20 Thread W Paul Mills
_as_it_stands_now_. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ --------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! :

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-20 Thread W Paul Mills
|From|Sender).*spamford.com /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*public.com /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*quantcom.com /dev/null http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. :

Re: make boot floppy problem Deb1.3

1997-06-19 Thread W Paul Mills
ing fips to free space > for my Linux partitions. > > Any help for this Linux newbie highly appreciated !! :) > > Thanks a lot, --Erwin > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-17 Thread W Paul Mills
y that which I may or may not like. ---- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread W Paul Mills
g to do with libc and a wg15-locale package. Do you have anything in /usr/share/locale. Most seem to start having this problem if they install StarOffice which has you set LANG=us. It really does not seem to hurt anything other than all the trash it puts on your screen when perl programs are run

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-12 Thread W Paul Mills
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > W Paul Mills wrote: > > > > On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain > > > Debian packages such as xemacs for insta

Re: erroneous messages at bootup?

1997-06-11 Thread W Paul Mills
ar end is looped back. This can happen if logged into a shell. If he logs into a shell and then starts ppp on the remote end, when he tries to quit, it might be reverting to the shell? Just a thought. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-10 Thread W Paul Mills
match the added header instead: > > :0:/home/fax/mail/incoming/debian-user.lock > * ^X-Mailing-List:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /home/fax/mail/incoming/debian-user > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there sever

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-09 Thread W Paul Mills
n? Change your LANG variable to LANG="en_US". That should solve it. -------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL

Re: ethernet problems

1997-06-09 Thread W Paul Mills
it on the 3c900. Drivers from about v0.30 up have worked for me. I am using kernel 2.0.27. Seems like I heard of someone who had trouble with the 2.0.30 kernel, but not with 2.0.29. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there sever

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
se > > > it... > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill,

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
t yet completed. You could learn another language or two ;-) http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: Netscape Communicator Beta3/4/5

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > I have not had good luck with this one. ( Netscape Communicator 40b3, > > 40b5 ) > > > Sometimes when it crashes, it causes a reboot! Not cool! I have never > > had a

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >

Re: afterstep

1997-06-06 Thread W Paul Mills
"unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to

Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95

1997-06-06 Thread W Paul Mills
package > and what resulted. > > Thanks > Paul > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~w

Netscape Communicator Beta3/4/5

1997-06-06 Thread W Paul Mills
had a linux program bring linux to it's knees -- until now. Humm... maybe left some MS code in there somewhere :-/ http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I wa

Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?

1997-06-05 Thread W Paul Mills
gt; > Are their cdroms any good? Has anyone ordered from them? > > All I want is a basic debian linux system set up with X and PPP > support so that I can download new stuff. > > Ben http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills

Re: netscape hung

1997-06-04 Thread W Paul Mills
- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ag

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread W Paul Mills
ase email me. > > > Paul > > > > > > > If you log in as paul and then su to root, then after you su type > > > > export XAUTHORITY=~paul/.Xauthority > > > > -- > > Jens B. Jorgensen > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > &

Re: Help: Problem in setting up network

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
would say that you need to move the ether card to another IRQ. It is difficult to accurately determine by software what IRQ is used by what hardware. -------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka,

Re: ATI video card

1997-06-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
the vender, that it has an id that has not been included in pci.h and pci.c. This will NOT keep the card from working properly. If it really bothers you, you can add one line in pci.h and probably one line in pci.c to replace the message. I did that for my ethernet card.

Re: Help setting up a daemon

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
rfectly. Likewise, a similar > "fetchpop stop" works fine too. But for some reason, the program isn't > getting started automatically at bootup. Can anyone see an error and/or > tell me why/what I'm doing wrong? If so, I'd greatly appreciate it along > with any

Re: Debian FTP Installation through Internet (fwd)

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
alem Israel Work: +972 2 6585690 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ --

Re: backspace/delete at the console

1997-06-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
oard issues. Your solution may cause problems with the way Debian fixes motif Backspace and Delete. You can fix that by editing /etc/X11/Xresources. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Top

Re: debian 1.2 install

1997-05-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
oil > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > http://

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
ing Slackware then. Moved to Debian in Dec. 1996. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ --------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localize problem after upgrading to libc6

1997-05-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
rtin > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Pa

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