Hi,
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
I work in a job that requires me to frequently make lots of informative,
mostly-text posters. They are fine on 81/2-11 paper, and usually are
just text something like
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Where can I specify that XDM start with the server option '-bpp 16' ??
Thanks,
Matthew
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Matthew Tebbens wrote:
Where can I specify that XDM start with the server option '-bpp 16' ??
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
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What boot parameters should I set to prevent autoprobe and set
everything manually? I'm trying to install from scratch if that makes
a drifference.
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
Hi Craig, and all list readers:
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote, in part:
[...]
MS is inescapable. Programs like WINE and WABI and Willow's TWIN
are useful and necessary because linux needs more apps (preferably
freeware, but
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMO, microsoft should get out of the operating system game and leave
it to those who actually have a clue about OSeslike linux or bsd
kernel hackers and unix programmers for example.
IMNSHO, MS should write a libwin95.so and a win95wm for
Another machine. I've got a dual PPro 200 working on it plus a couple
of other slugs.
HTH -- Greg.
Ferenc Kiraly wrote:
Hi!
This is just to encourage more Linux users to join the effort:
I have just set up 4 machines to help crack the RC5 challenge, three
of which are
On Aug 29, 1997, at 16:18, joost witteveen wrote:
shell-init: could not get current
directory: get\cwd: cannot access parent directories
This I don't understand. I wrote update-menus, and I've
seen quite a few error messages from update-menus. But
I've never seen this one (nor do I
1. Try to disable the boot prom.
How do I do this? I have gone through the 3Com disk and didn't see
anything like this.
2. Your transciever type must be BNC if your using coax cabling, RJ-45 if
you are using UTP cables.
I have the 3c509B-TPO, so I only have the UTP input.
cat
Here, no problems with a 3C509B. I disabled pnp and set the irq to 5
(for arbitrary reasons.)
What do you get from `cat /proc/{interrupts,io}` ?
I have tried different irq's and addresses and all of them have been clear
of anything in cat /proc/interrupts ioports. I am now going to remove
Absolutely. Linux also needs marketing, marketing, and more marketing.
I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't
support - OCR. Everything else is available.
What about something like Pagemaker? We have xfig, but it really doesn't
do the same thing. Pagemaker is
I've installed xquake 1.06-4 on my debian 1.3.1 system. I've also finally
managed to get sound working (at least I can play CD's and cat exmh's
clink.au file to /dev/audio and get a clink sound) with my SB AWE-64.
Is there any way to get sound from xquake? It's so frustrating not to
hear the
I came up with a work around that results in Debian booting with a cursor.
I set default=dos in lilo.conf, while in dos turn on the cursor, boot with
loadlin and I now have a cursor. :) Later I'll dig out a dos manual and
set up my config.sys to boot Debian as default and leave a couple
On %M %N, Douglas Bates wrote
Alternatively, am I completely missing the boat and trying to retrofit
a printed copy from the html version of the documentation when there
is another, more easily printed, version.
Yes :). If you get the source of dpkg, you will find the sgml source of the
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Mark Stone wrote:
I've just done my first Debian installation, after having used Slackware
for a couple of years, and I've got my ppp connection working. My next
challenge is to get domain name resolution working properly so I can
navigate by something other than IP
Hi,
I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X,
such that the paste button is on the rightmost
button.
thanks
-mlt
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The name of the package is worklog.
Toens Bueker wrote:
Hi *,
somebody - I guess it was Christoph Lameter - recently
announced a tool, which he used to keep track of the time
spend on different projects. The description looked very
interesting, but I lost the message and although I'm
Where can I get more info on Debian Sparc? I had a quick look at the
debian.org.au mirror and couldn't spot anything relative in the index.
Also, does this build of debian have its own setup disks like standard
debian? Thanks.
Michael
electric RAIN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Was going through the logs, and came across this in my /var/log/daemon.log
Aug 28 15:17:22 joanrich tcplogd: telnet connection attempt from
van-52-1146.direct.ca
Aug 28 15:17:22 joanrich in.telnetd[10595]: connect from
van-52-1146.direct.ca
Aug 28 15:17:23
I'm a little confused on some of these options. If someone could fill in
the blanks for an average ppp connection started with pon about twice a
day approximately it might be very helpful to the effort. I also
encourage everyone to take part in this, extremely cool! Only two files
in the tar
Hi !
I have some problems with the ne module, after I have recompiled my
kernel. I get the message undefined symbols when loading the
module. I when I reconfiguraded my kernel, I disabled PCI Bios
support because I only have a 486. When trying the debmod -a it
loads a lot of modules, writes
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
[snip]
Ok, let's take a look. Just sit back and relax. This won't hurt a bit.
Aug 27 14:46:46 sally pppd[13583]: pppd 2.2.0 started by admin, uid 0
[snip]
Thank you for your analysis of Kevin's situation. I've learned another piece
of the puzzle of going live
joost witteveen writes:
[snip]
And another question - how many hosts can one have on a single thin
ethernet cable?
Dunno. Wasn't there a maximum to the lenght of a BNC cable? (100 meters
or thereabouts)?
185 meters without a repeater box. From experience, I'd place at least 2
meters of
Hi again !
Ups ... it was not undefined symbols but unresolved symbols!
Like unresolved symbol pci_bios ... device... something
Any ideas, how I can fix this ?
Regards
badpixel of bad sector
michael legart
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I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X,
such that the paste button is on the rightmost
button.
xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 3 2'
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On the telephone line I am anyone, I am anything I want to be.
Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Doesn't the mca in these messages refer to the IBM MCA bus standard?
Wouldn't that interfere with the VLB bus tou say you have?
IIRC the Debian rescue disk kernel and modules are now built with MCA
support. These messages could come from loading
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
[snip]
the error seems to be in the SMTP connect to (null) failed
Can you find out whether the problem is at the fetchmail end or the
smail end? I'm not using smail, so the messages will be different,
but try:
%
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any usefull linux/debian software for such simple, big-text
applications? Latex isn't really meant to be used (directly) for such an
application, and using something like Gimp for text processing seems like
overkill.
Xfig works quite well
Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have some problems with the ne module, after I have recompiled my
kernel. I get the message undefined symbols when loading the
module.
[snip]
You'll need to recompile the ne module at the same time as the rest of
the kernel. Select it as a module
I may be able to help you a little.
On 30-Aug-97 Britton wrote:
I'm a little confused on some of these options. If someone could fill in
the blanks for an average ppp connection started with pon about twice a
day approximately it might be very helpful to the effort. I also
encourage everyone
On 30-Ágú-97 Craig Sanders wrote:
but mostly, they are fairly decent apps that do a fairly good job.
i don't object to MS applications the way I object to MS operating
systems. I don't like them much, but they don't cause me the grief that
Win 3 95 NT do.
The Windows NT is actually the only
Hi !
Just wondering if I can use the qpopper package, that comes with
Debian 1.3, to make a pop3 mail server ? If so ... how do I configure
it ? I have it installed, but I can't seem to find out how to create
accounts etc.
Also ... the ftpd package ... is it a ftp server ? I also have that
Well it looks like i may just have to accept microsmurfdom. :-).
My debian partition has gone and r--ted itself somehow.
I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried
to access it and ouch.
I recieved the following.
Attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03:rw=0,
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Darin D. wrote:
1. Try to disable the boot prom.
How do I do this? I have gone through the 3Com disk and didn't see
anything like this.
If you have the configuration and diagnostic program version 3.0, then
click on install, configure adapter. It's there.
regards,
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran fetchmail -a -v -k and got the following:
fetchmail: 3.8.0 querying orion (protocol POP3) at Wed Aug 27 21:46:49 1997
fetchmail: POP3 +OK QPOP (version 2.2) at orion.aye.net starting.
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fetchmail: POP3 USER kestrel
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, john wrote:
I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried
to access it and ouch.
I recieved the following.
Attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03:rw=0, want=1939953655,
limit=979965 EXT2-fs error (device08:03): ext2_find_entry: bad
Well it looks like i may just have to accept microsmurfdom. :-).
My debian partition has gone and r--ted itself somehow.
I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried
to access it and ouch.
I recieved the following.
Attempt to access beyond end of device
Carey Evans writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X,
such that the paste button is on the rightmost
button.
xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 3 2'
But be warned that it will effect everything else that uses the 2 and
3 buttons. Examples: Netscape, Emacs,
On 30 Aug 1997, Carey Evans wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
[snip]
the error seems to be in the SMTP connect to (null) failed
Can you find out whether the problem is at the fetchmail end or the
smail end? I'm not using smail, so
Hi all,
I tried updating to libc6-dev and in the efort I had to reinstall tk42-dev
However this now depends on tk4.2 which in turn depends on xlib6g
But I can't find xlib6g anywhere. Can somebody help ?
Thanks
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 14:08:37 +, Michael Legart wrote:
Hi !
Just wondering if I can use the qpopper package, that comes with
Debian 1.3, to make a pop3 mail server ? If so ... how do I configure
it ? I have it installed, but I can't seem to find out how to create
accounts etc.
adduser
Greetings,
I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload
and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. I
cant find this package anyplace (or something close)
Please help! thanks!
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:29:53 -0700 (MST), Darin D. wrote:
Here, no problems with a 3C509B. I disabled pnp and set the irq to 5
(for arbitrary reasons.)
What do you get from `cat /proc/{interrupts,io}` ?
I have tried different irq's and addresses and all of them have been clear
of anything
In one of those strange turns of events, a professor here has hired me to
consult for his computer chain on Linux. Having twins on the way, I'll take
the extra couple of hundred a month.
Anyway, the systems are remote; they are mail servers for schools throughout
the state. They seem to
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Michael Legart wrote:
Also ... the ftpd package ... is it a ftp server ? I also have that
one installed, but if i try to connect with a ftp-program (*not* as
root, but as a user), I just get the message, that the remote host
have closed connection, because the service
I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It
has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the
PCI card. Do I need to get something and recompile the kernal in order
for linux to see the pci card?
Tony Koehn
This email originated from
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:49:28 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It
has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the
PCI card. Do I need to get something and recompile the kernal in order
for linux to see the
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Udjat the BitMeister... wrote:
I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload
and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. I
cant find this package anyplace (or something close)
Say, you have hosts remote1, remote2, ...,
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should
send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if
one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on an 'ATH'.
I think 'poff' lowers dtr. try atd2
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Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should
send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if
one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on an 'ATH'.
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On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:29:24 +, Michael Legart wrote:
Hmm this should not be. Do a 'ps aux' do you see /usr/sbin/inetd running?
Can you telnet in? Can you ftp to yourself? (myhost$ ftp myhost)
Yep ... inetd *is* runnning, *and* ftpd *is* configurared, but it
still won't work.
Is ftpd
Marc W. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would think that XFig, gnuplot and LaTeX could produce all the
flashiness that one would need.
Also, for those not familiar with it, jgraph can produce some really
nice, clean postscript graphs from a fairly straightforward
input specification.
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Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another example is the ease with which you can make flow text around
a picture with a complicated contour in say PageMaker compared to
how difficult that is in TeX.
Of course true lumberjacks would just write raw postscript :
I've succesfully used a Mac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted Harding) writes:
However, I'd be most interested to hear of experience with Applixware
(and what about StarOffice?).
I used StarOffice here to convert a Word6 document to html so that I
could print it. It did a pretty good job, but it was a small
document.
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Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
Alternately you can put a
DefaultColorDepth 16
entry in the appropriate Screen section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config.
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Should I get pgp-us or pgp-i? I'm living in Chile, if that makes any
difference.
From the looks of it, I'd say pgp-i, but just want to make sure...
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Hi,
Hmm this should not be. Do a 'ps aux' do you see /usr/sbin/inetd running?
Can you telnet in? Can you ftp to yourself? (myhost$ ftp myhost)
Ftp program returns: 421 Service not available, remote server has
closed connection
Strange, huh ?
Regards,
badpixel of bad sector
michael legart
I am wondering how I can make poff hang up my phone. ppp comes down ok,
but my phone line stays tied up. I have to pick up the reciever and sing
into it until it gives up, which is not very elegant, especially
considering my singing. Anyone know how to do this? Is it supposed to be
doing it
Didn't know where to report this, so here I am.
I tried to use dselect to download and install pgp from
os.inf.tu-dresden.de. Everything went fine; I could download the list
of packages and selected both pgp-i and pgp-us (I also tried just
selecting pgp-i, with the same results). When I gave it
Hi !
adduser (Maybe I'm missing somthing?)
You meen, that users added to the system, also have pop3 accounts ?
Hmm... sound true enugh ! I haven't even thougt about that ...
thanks!
Hmm this should not be. Do a 'ps aux' do you see /usr/sbin/inetd running?
Can you telnet in? Can you ftp to
Greetings,
I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload
and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost.
So? Start them on another system than localhost, and eigher make
sure DISPLAY is set to your display (usually done automatically), or
Hi !
You'll need to recompile the ne module at the same time as the rest of
the kernel. Select it as a module when you configure the kernel.
Ok ... it doesn't work when you compile the kernel, and then do a
make modules, make modules_install ?
kernel-package will make installing it all
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:49:28 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It
has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the
PCI card. Do I need to get something and
Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Should I get pgp-us or pgp-i? I'm living in Chile, if that makes any
difference.
From the looks of it, I'd say pgp-i, but just want to make sure...
pgp-i is better for those outside the US. It'd be better for those
inside the US too if it
I give up. What's the difference between
tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tk42_4.2p2-6.deb
and
tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tcl76_7.6p2-6.deb.
Perplexedly yours,
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On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should
send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if
one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on an
I have a Packard Bell 166 MHz Pentium Tower.
I have suddenly lost BOTH the internal modem and all sound.
I have installed an external modem and configued it, using
Windows 95, for Serial Port 2, but that does not correct
my problem with no sound.
Are the modem and sound on the same card in this
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Dan Gannon, WA5ANF wrote:
I have a Packard Bell 166 MHz Pentium Tower.
I have suddenly lost BOTH the internal modem and all sound.
I have installed an external modem and configued it, using
Windows 95, for Serial Port 2, but that does not correct
my problem with no
On %M %N, Britton wrote
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should
send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if
one of them is not doing its
I have figured out how to make this work, thanks to the tips provided by
Joerg and Shaleh. In case others are having the same problem: the trick
is to tell the modem to hang up when DTE goes low. Perhaps most people
realized already that the way to do this is in the chatscript
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