XDM not allowing logins

1997-06-04 Thread Jason
I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with XDM not knowing about shadow passwords?

Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-04 Thread Brian K Servis
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: Brian K Servis wrote: Help! Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the following repeated 5 times in messages: Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the novell server. I want to be able to map a linux

Re: new kernel

1997-06-04 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has kernel 2.0.30) or is it

Re: new kernel

1997-06-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Unfortunately, it is not just a matter of copying the kernel, you have to copy the modules as well, and the System.map and psdatabase files (or else parts of the system may not work as advertized ;-(. Also, the distributed kernels are necessarily bloated, in order to recognize all

Re: XDM not allowing logins

1997-06-04 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason wrote: I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with

Re: new kernel

1997-06-04 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install

gcc X

1997-06-04 Thread Obi
Hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and everything works fine but compiling X programs. I tried to compile bdfresize (I want larger cursor) and I had to use xmkmf, but when I'm doing make, I got some unresolved symbol ... The program works because I could compiled it on a Sun. I believe is

Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-04 Thread Norris Preyer
Nathan E Norman writes: I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get a

Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 3, Marcelo wrote Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... Peter,

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-04 Thread Kevin Traas
I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the novell server. I want to be able to map a linux partition in the server to work

Re: new kernel

1997-06-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies

Re: XDM not allowing logins

1997-06-04 Thread Chris Harris
Interesting. I installed 1.3 today, upgrading from 1.2, and, after I 1) killed X, 2) typed shadowconfig on (and confirmed its success), and 3) restarted the machine, xdm logins functioned perfectly well, with no modifications on my part. (I went to look for xdm-shadow, because I thought I'd need

Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-04 Thread Marcelo
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: On Jun 3, Marcelo wrote Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it

Unidentified subject!

1997-06-04 Thread Dave Cinege
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion First if there is such a project already please point me towards it if not here are my ideas: LInux is a fine vertical network application OS, but hand building and maintaining it from scratch is pain staking. I would like to form the

Re: Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in 2.0.30. On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a bunch of SCSI drives to

*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion

1997-06-04 Thread Dave Cinege
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion First if there is such a project already please point me towards it if not here are my ideas: LInux is a fine vertical network application OS, but hand building and maintaining it from scratch is pain staking. I would like to form the

Re: Xemacs?

1997-06-04 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Dale == Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version Dale 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with regular emacs. Dale I've been using it for a week or two, and aside from a few Dale very mior bugs, it's working pretty

Re: XDM not allowing logins

1997-06-04 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
J == J P D Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J Until this is fixed in xdm, turn off shadow passwords: Mine works. 'shadowconfig on', and then when xdm is *restarted*, through /etc/init.d/xdm stop;/etc/init.d/xdm start, you can log in. The /etc/init.d/xdm script will start xdm-shadow when

Re: XDM not allowing logins

1997-06-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason wrote: I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is

Small Samba problem

1997-06-04 Thread Tim O'Brien
I'm running Samba on two of my Linux boxes so they can act as fileservers. One machine is a 486/66, the other a 486/100, both with 16M. These machines have only two purposes: Samba server (with TCP/IP), and IPmasq with a 28.8 modem. Neither is what I would call heavily loaded (usually no more than

Missing Part 1 of libg++27 On Maui

1997-06-04 Thread Melody Bohn
Aloooha, The Good News: I have successfully install Linux on my P200. Using Netscape my gameplan was to select dunc2.0 so I could use the dial up and ftp features to download many of your debian packages. I read somewhere (perhaps the FAQs) that after ppp is installed, the kernel will need to be

Re: gcc X

1997-06-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Obi wrote: Hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and everything works fine but compiling X programs. I tried to compile bdfresize (I want larger cursor) and I had to use xmkmf, but when I'm doing make, I got some unresolved symbol ... The program works because I could

Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-04 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Brian K Servis wrote: Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local machine widget-servis When my ISP drops my ppp connection I get the same thing. If I do a hostname localhost then printing works again. Mark. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

gated

1997-06-04 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Does anyone know of a good set of sources AND patch(es) (if necessary) for gated for linux? I mirror the gated sources here and have just tried building it on Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.29 (from bo) using the patches for gated 3.6A2 I got some time ago from ftp.redhat.com. I guess it would be even

Re: Xemacs?

1997-06-04 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On 3 Jun 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Alexander Stavitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with regular emacs. I've been

Re: netscape hung

1997-06-04 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: The instant you click on anything Netscape goes out looking to connect. The default is to connect to http://home.netscape.com. This will cause a temporary hang lasting several minutes. It will then come back with an error message. At that time you will be

Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
I've just volunteered to write a FAQ that will be specific to the Debian 1.3 release. Sue Campbell will put it on the website once I've written something. I'm looking for ideas on topics. How's this: 1. Overview 1.1 What new features are there in Debian 1.3? 1.2 What is rex/bo/hamm?

ssh for Debian?

1997-06-04 Thread George Bonser
Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to swipe passwords, etc. George Bonser [EMAIL

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
All of the suggestions were more or less appropriate, but I think a more secure way to grant another user the right to run programs on your display is to use xauth. See the xauth manpage for more details, but I use xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge - to allow *only* myself

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: A Debian 1.3 pre-release user at Pixar gets this complaint when running Netscape. I think he gets the same complaint when running remote stuff with Debian doing the display. This is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, I think. Warning: Cannot allocate

Re: Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in 2.0.30. AFAIK this is a problem in all the 2.0 kernels that was angered by 2.0.30's new buffer modifications. I have had it nuke a 8M box just idling on 2.0.27. Jason -- TO

Re: *RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
Brian Candler [EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on something called Linnet that would be a turn-key router and server. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A

Request for MIME'd html email samples

1997-06-04 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I'm goofing around with the perl5 MIME:: mods, and would like to have some samples of html embedded in MIME email by various mail programs, especially the Netscape 4 beta, which I don't have installed since it wouldn't post form data when I tried it. Would one you you guys clatter down a quick

Floppy tape formatting

1997-06-04 Thread Christian Meder
Hi, I just wanted to announce that the new ftape 3.03a floppy tape driver supports formatting of tapes. Formatting takes really loong but I needed it for a faulty tape. Thanks to Claus-Justus Heine zftape and the old ftape are merged and enhanced (module locking does function, formatting is

Re: ssh for Debian?

1997-06-04 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Have you checked the non-US section? From there you can find .debs for ssh and other crypto related packages. README.non-US in Debian mirrors lists all the sites that carry the section. George Bonser wrote: Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I

Re: converting .hqx files

1997-06-04 Thread Scott Hanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Tautz) writes: What are *.hqx files (mac?), how to I convert them to something i can look at them. Apparently i need something that emulates BinHex 4.0 -W.T. BinHex is a kind a of Macintosh uuencode. The resulting file is in low ASCII and preserves the Mac resource

Re: Small Samba problem

1997-06-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: I'm running Samba on two of my Linux boxes so they can act as fileservers. For some reason, Linux/Samba seems to be a good bit slower than Windoze95 on the same machines in terms of file transfers. Any idea what I've done

Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-04 Thread Lars Hallberg
Looks good Make sure to put a big spotlight on 'how to enable shadowconfig'. It is, as I understand it easy (shadowconfig on, restart some deamons, eg xdm), but ther allot of other descriptions on the net (and posably in /usr/doc/HOWTO) a user might run into. We alredy seen two masages about xdm

Re: FIXED POST: Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3

1997-06-04 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
On 3 Jun, Martin Bialasinski wrote: On 3 Jun, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote: 1) Irqtune was working for me under v.1.2, but though my configured hardware is the same I now get an error message. Here is the message at boot time:

Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-04 Thread Carey Evans
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis #(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu) [snip] /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net

Re: netscape hung

1997-06-04 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I waited and waited for hour and it still did not come back. I've also tried: $ netscape file:nothing.html## or nothing.html The netscape would not even come up with the above command. W Paul Mills wrote: :From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 3 22:23:45 1997 :Date: Tue, 3 Jun

Cron setup

1997-06-04 Thread Randy Edwards
I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly, monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I wonder what about

Help! Weird console errors

1997-06-04 Thread Nick
Hi I have a mostly complete installation 1.2 about halfway to 1.3 but anyway.. I was routing around in /etc and I'm not sure what I did but suddenly it prints out the bell character (it appears as a small circle) instead of actually beeping, and it also prints out the tab character instead of

Re: Cron setup

1997-06-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly, monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I wonder

xdvik not in frozen?

1997-06-04 Thread Alexander Lazarevic
Subject says it all. It's in the available list, but not in the directory. Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ssh for Debian?

1997-06-04 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, George Bonser, you wrote: Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to

Re: ssh for Debian?

1997-06-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am

frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-04 Thread Francis Swasey
Folks, I've just discovered that the Packages file on ftp.debian.org is again out of synch with the actual packages in the distribution. I'm sure (since this has been reported time and time again) that the Packages file on master is correct. We really do need to find some way to keep the

Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: 2. Installation and Upgrading 2.1 Installing from Scratch 2.1.1 - Where do I start? 2.2 Upgrading from a Previous Release 2.2.1 - What do I have to do? 2.3 Networking A real FAQ: how do I install Debian using FTP *and* PPP? Stress

Re: xdvik not in frozen?

1997-06-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Subject says it all. It's in the available list, but not in the directory. Alex. xdvi is in tetex-bin package. Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

YAP^4 : Yet Another PPP Problem

1997-06-04 Thread L Monk or M Akerberg
My PPP connection through the inscrutable and apparently anti-linux (xunil?) ISP concentric.net invariably breaks down after receiving a few packets. This happens both when using Netscape and when using Lynx, although more quickly with Netscape. I have tried many variations for

Re: frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
Francis Swasey wrote: The second problem I just ran into is that the size of the main directory in the frozen (bo) distribution has grown to such a size that it can no longer be contained on a 650,000,000 byte CD along with the unstable version. This means that you (at least I) can no

Re: Cron setup

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item running your script. Don't forget to use the crontab command if you edit the main file rather than doing it

Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread jghasler
Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email

Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
A real FAQ: how do I install Debian using FTP *and* PPP? Stress the fact that this means downloading 50-100 MB, depending on configuration. I've never done this myself (setting up PPP from just the base system). Does anyone have a no-fail recipe for doing this that would be suitable for the

Re: ISP conn.

1997-06-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:09:40 -0500 (CDT), Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I've tried EXACT procedure described in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and I failed to connect to my ISP from the Debian/Linux box. chat is looking for name: Your ISP is sending Login:

Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin

1997-06-04 Thread Chris Brown
Last night I tried the: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 ro There was no success there but I'm a little confused in that I thought that you just told the kernel that the second card was there and then it would look for it. Most of the time I have been

Couple little things (bugs?)

1997-06-04 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi! I'm having couple of a small problems: 1) 'irqtune: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o' This rised it's head after upgrade to either kernel 2.0.30 or modutils 2.1.34-5. Seems that

Connecting terminals

1997-06-04 Thread Pilon
How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread joost witteveen
Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? Well, xdm comes with the xbase package, so, if you don't want to install xdm, you'd have to live without X at all. But, if you want to just upgrade 1.3, without automatically activating xdm, that's very possible (it'll ask you at install

Re: Is the libXt security hole fixed in Debian 1.3?

1997-06-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Farzad FARID wrote: Is the XFree86 3.2 provided with the soon to be released Debian 1.3 free from the recently announced security hole? No, but it is planned to include Xfree86 3.3 in Debian 1.3.x (maybe 1.3.1) as soon as it is available

IConnect Corp Debian any good?

1997-06-04 Thread Benedict Chong
I bought infomagic's devel resource for the debian stuff and apparently it's broken. So I'm looking at getting something from iconnect (www.i-connect.net). 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

Weird emacs autoload question

1997-06-04 Thread Colin Telmer
emacs seems to be having trouble loading a BibTeX file _only_ after loading a LaTeX file. for example, I have three files in my home directory, test.f, test.tex, and test.bib. The autoload commands I have in my .emacs file are listed below (the whole .emacs file is there for reference). If I load

Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-04 Thread Dima
Jim Pick wrote: I've never done this myself (setting up PPP from just the base system). Does anyone have a no-fail recipe for doing this that would be suitable for the FAQ? Probably not -- because there are 2 possible easy setups (pap chap) and lots of difficult ones (text logins.) E.g.

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? Yes. Why do you ask? Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software

April Infomagic LDR Debian

1997-06-04 Thread Glenn Amerine
Hi, Does anyone know if Infomagic corrected the missing files for Debian on their April LDR? TIA, Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472 --

Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine (fwd)

1997-06-04 Thread Brian K Servis
Carey Evans writes: Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis #(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu) [snip] /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig lo

Re: Connecting terminals

1997-06-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Pilon wrote: : How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials : ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? : There is only a hardware limit if you're using standard devices. And you should configure each ttySx to use a different IRQ. Install the

Looking for a Sniffer

1997-06-04 Thread Scott
Has anyone out there seen or heard of a Packet Analyzer (Sniffer) that is available for Linux. Thank You - Scott -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Dead list?

1997-06-04 Thread Rick Jones
Has this list died? I've received 0 messages all day and little more in the previous 2 days. What's happening here? L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-04 Thread Tom Lees
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Pete Templin wrote: If I view the document source, the !--stuff-- shows up in italics, as if it's still a comment (and hasn't been parsed). If I add the XBitHack Full to my .htaccess, I get the following error in my error log: [Mon Jun 2 15:39:40 1997] access to

Re: Cron setup

1997-06-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: :E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these : scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item : running your script. : :Don't forget to use the crontab command if

Netscape 3.01 128bit

1997-06-04 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Has anyone installed Netscape Gold 3.01 128bit with the installer ? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-04 Thread Peter Tobias
On Jun 3, Christian Hudon wrote: Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it required the NetKit source to compile...

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-04 Thread David B. Teague
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Try netscape -install. Doesn't work here. Your friend probably just has a background patern that's eating up some of the colors on what I

knews - posting news ?

1997-06-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
When I launch knews, it gives an error message: Couldn't determine domain name. Posting will not be allowed. I have a stand-alone PC, dialing up to my ISP with PPP. My NNTP server is leafnode. Documentation lacks. What do I miss? TIA, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann

Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?

1997-06-04 Thread David B. Teague
Benedict I am a relative newbie, but I managed to install 1.1 and 1.2 from iConnect CDs. with only a few glitches. These CDs are a little cranky in that you have to guess (or ask, I didn't but should have) how to tell dselect where to find stuff. I gather that you can put symlinks in /tmp to

When will Debian 1.3 be available?

1997-06-04 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Hi! Debian 1.3 is announced on www.debian.org, but stable is still linked to rex on ftp. When will 1.3 be available? And will the CD-Images available on ftp? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Newbie

1997-06-04 Thread Rick Morrison
Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but 1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... 2. Any

Re: Cron setup

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Huh? The /etc/crontab file explicitly states that you *don't* need to run crontab to edit it. The /etc/crontab file has an extra user field that the regular crontab files do not have ... Absolutely right. I wasn't paying close enough attention. I

Re: Newbie

1997-06-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but 1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... 1. Make

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't work here. Does netscape refuse to launch with that option, or does it just not solve the problem? but I don't know how to change it to other than 8 bit. Find the section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config that has the Screen section entry for the

Re: Connecting terminals

1997-06-04 Thread Brad Bell
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Pilon wrote: : How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials : ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? There is only a hardware limit if you're using standard devices. And you should configure each

Re: Newbie

1997-06-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: :Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but : :1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can

orphan packages?

1997-06-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recently upgraded to bo and when I run dselect it shows some packages which are apparently non-existent. I selected modules-2.0.0-15 from the base listing and multimedia-2.1-3 and dselect ignores the selection. I checked the directory listings at ftp.debian.org and these packages do not seem

Re: Connecting terminals

1997-06-04 Thread Kevin Traas
How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials ports?. As many as you have serial ports to connect them to. While a standard PC can support 4 serial ports, almost all only have two physical ports on the back of the PC. To get any more than that, you'll probably want a

Re: orphan packages?

1997-06-04 Thread Kevin Traas
I recently upgraded to bo and when I run dselect it shows some packages which are apparently non-existent. I selected modules-2.0.0-15 from the base listing and multimedia-2.1-3 and dselect ignores the selection. I checked the directory listings at ftp.debian.org and these packages do not

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-04 Thread David B. Teague
Hi: A note of appreciation to several,and a continued request for help. Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15 monitor

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread jghasler
I wrote: Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? Dwarf writes: Yes. Why do you ask? Because every X discussion I've seen here recently clearly presumes that xdm is being used, and because the last time I upgraded my 1.2 installation I was forced to create a dummy

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread jghasler
joost witteveen writes: Well, xdm comes with the xbase package, so, if you don't want to install xdm, you'd have to live without X at all. I've already got the damn thing installed. I just don't want to be forced to activate it. X works just fine without it. So, how about me selling the

Re: xdvik not in frozen?

1997-06-04 Thread Alexander Lazarevic
xdvi is in tetex-bin package. Ok, found that one, but if xdvik shows up in the available list, shouldn't it be there (or the removed from the list)? Alex. -- Donate your CPU cycles: Join DES Challenge http://www.des.sollentuna.se -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Solution to irqtune problems

1997-06-04 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
Hi, I have tracked down the cause of the problems which were reported about irqtune. Apparently hwtools does not contain the most recent version of irqtune. Using irqtune 0.5 will solve your problems. I have addressed the package maintainer about this. Two solutions: 1. Wait for the new