Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Hello all. I've got a server and a client and I'm trying to mount the servers /var/spool/mail but nomatter what I try the mount point is empty on the client. Does anybody know why?? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American

Re: pppd

1997-10-25 Thread Rob MacWilliams
On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 04:54:55PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Now my link seems to be slow - is there a possibility to watch the throughput (like x.xx kb/s or sim.)? pppstats isn't perfect, but it does what you ask. thank you, but where can I get it? It's in the ppp source package.

Re: smail POP error

1997-10-25 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org; Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 4:11 PM Subject: Re: smail POP error I can't connect using POP to retrieve my mail at a remote server I

Re: unable to boot off floppy

1997-10-25 Thread Dale Harrison
-- [ From: Louis H. Iselin * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- I real problem is that the keyboard works to look at all of the function key helps, but times out after Linux runs. The keyboard becomes completely unresponsive when the booting gets to the screen to choose color or BW. I had the exact

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Jason Killen
Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the given ip, thats right...right. On the client I

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-10-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 08:45:43AM -0800, Britton wrote: my window is in working on coming into the foreground:) Anyway, the bovine team has plunged straight into the 64 bit effort! Since involvement has really exploded lately, they figure they may be able to slove it almost as fast if they

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Cameron Lowe
At 12:14 AM 25/10/97 -0400, Jason Killen wrote: Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the

problem with installation.

1997-10-25 Thread Ronn Pimentel
I'm having a problem installing Debian on my box. After I select install operating system and modules i get the following message. Installing from the rescue floppy ... general protection: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[037e375c] EFLAGS: 00010a92 eax: 0025 ebx: 037e372c ecs: 0019

Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro

1997-10-25 Thread Matt Thompson
I saw this network card on the Hardware-HOWTO list, so I was thinking about buying one (I need a PCI network card, all my ISA's are used up). I just installed the 2.0.29 source using dselect, and i did an xconfig as root. When I got to the Network device support area, I see the entry for the

[OFFTOPIC] cpu idle time

1997-10-25 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I was recently installing linux on a poor 386sx, with 4M of memory. I noticed that during a compile of a kernel, 2.0.30, which took 35 hours to complete, vmstat showed a large idle time. I was swapping like mad, and came to the conclusion that time spent in swap is accounted for in the idle time?

RE: [OFFTOPIC] cpu idle time

1997-10-25 Thread George Bonser
I would say that it sure makes performance tuning a lot easier if you know exactly what needs tuning! (responding from debian-user) On 25-Oct-97 Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I was recently installing linux on a poor 386sx, with 4M of memory. I noticed that during a compile of a kernel,

Instalation floppies

1997-10-25 Thread Jean Christophe Helary
Hello, I have a cd-rom version of debian that I cannot use anymore for instalation because I totally lost access to the cdrom (pcmcia). Is there any way to get a set of disks with all the files contained on the cd-rom ??? Jean Christophe Helary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: [OFFTOPIC] cpu idle time

1997-10-25 Thread joost witteveen
I was recently installing linux on a poor 386sx, with 4M of memory. I noticed that during a compile of a kernel, 2.0.30, which took 35 hours to complete, vmstat showed a large idle time. I was swapping like mad, and came to the conclusion that time spent in swap is accounted for in the idle

Re: alien problem (bo)

1997-10-25 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Jason Wright wrote: Howdy... Awhile back, I bought RedHat Motif when I thought that I'd be running their distribution. Well, I discovered that I liked Debian better and that alien, as shipped with Debian 1.2 would install the motif RPMs. I've since upgraded my

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Oct-97 Jason Killen wrote: Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the given

Applixware

1997-10-25 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Has anybody experience with Applixware Office suit (sold by redhat) on a Debian system? Is the installation procedure straight forward? Can you give comments on the compatibility of the file formats of Applixware, MS Word and Ms Powerpoint? Thank you. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt.

Re: Applixware

1997-10-25 Thread Adam Shand
Has anybody experience with Applixware Office suit (sold by redhat) on a Debian system? Is the installation procedure straight forward? Can you give comments on the compatibility of the file formats of Applixware, MS Word and Ms Powerpoint? I have used Applixware but not a lot. The

Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro

1997-10-25 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: I saw this network card on the Hardware-HOWTO list, so I was thinking about buying one (I need a PCI network card, all my ISA's are used up). I just installed the 2.0.29 source using dselect, and i did an xconfig as root. When I got to the

mailboxes and netscape

1997-10-25 Thread Paul Miller
is there anyway to make netscape use the system mailboxes instead of moving all the mail to its own box? imap? anyone done this before? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Jason Killen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Tine to shine the bright lights in the eyes and start asking nasty questions to your system: For instance, after you have done mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt, what do you get from ls /mntpnt? ls /mntpnt/var? ls /mntpnt/var/spool? There are files in

imap-4

1997-10-25 Thread Paul Miller
I don't think my imap-4 daemon is working .. how can I test it? It always says logon failed.. help! -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Gnome deb package.

1997-10-25 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, Where can I find the gnome debian package that Bruce talked about? ... Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

error message

1997-10-25 Thread Paul Miller
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain 3dillusion.com what does that mean? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

is anyone using qmail?

1997-10-25 Thread Paul Miller
is anyone using qmail? is it any good? and how easy would it be to upgrade smail to qmail? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

bind postinst problem

1997-10-25 Thread Paul Miller
dpkg: error processing bind (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: bind dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. anyone know what may be causing this? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

* Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread dc
Enough is enough. It is time for Bruce Perens to step down form the leadership position, and an interim leader take his place until a new leader can be chosen at the formal election. I state the following facts as reasons: Bruce has continually censored those people on the lists that have

RE: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread George Bonser
On 25-Oct-97 dc wrote: Enough is enough. I disagree. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-25 Thread Johann Spies
Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO

IP Masquerade and X-Windows

1997-10-25 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello to everybody, I know that the question I am asking most probably have It is impossible as an answer. But still I have two computers connected to each other. Both run Linux and X-Windows. One is configured to provide IP Masquerade and is connected to the Internet. I can telnet, ftp,

* Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Jesse Goldman
On 25-Oct-97 dc wrote: Enough is enough. I'd also like to take exception to the above statement. I don't think I've ever been involved in a non-technical discussion on this list but I think it's necessary, in this case, for those of us who subscribe and take an interest in the Debian project to

RE: Applixware

1997-10-25 Thread George Bonser
I, too, am interested in the compatability especially when it comes to power point and word. There are a lot of people out there with old SPARC stations on their networks that are replacing them with NT workstations because Sun wants an arm and a leg to upgrade them to Ultra's. Linux with

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. I have used both WP5.1 and 6.0 with dosemu (many versions over the past three years) with no trouble or anything special done to set it up. The

Re: mailboxes and netscape

1997-10-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: is there anyway to make netscape use the system mailboxes instead of moving all the mail to its own box? imap? anyone done this before? In Netscape 4.0 (Communicator), the Edit/Preferences/MailGroups/MailServer dialog has this option: o IMAP4

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, dc wrote: Enough is enough. So that one might know who you are, what is your name, or have you always just gone by dc? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pppd

1997-10-25 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 24 Oct, Rob MacWilliams wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 04:54:55PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Now my link seems to be slow - is there a possibility to watch the throughput (like x.xx kb/s or sim.)? pppstats isn't perfect, but it does what you ask. thank you, but where can I get it?

MS Frontpage Server Extensions

1997-10-25 Thread Bao C. Ha
Has anybody successfully install Microsoft Frontpage 98 Server Extensions on a Deabian 1.3 system with the Apache server? Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.hacom.net voice: (706) 736-8717 dial-in: (706) 849-0785 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On Oct 25, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is time for Bruce Perens to step down form the leadership position, and an interim leader take his place until a new leader can be chosen at the formal election. I disagree. I was going to try to answer point-by-point, but I realized that I've

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread dc
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:07:31 -0500 (CDT), Jesse Goldman wrote: On 25-Oct-97 dc wrote: Enough is enough. I'd also like to take exception to the above statement. I don't think I've ever been involved in a non-technical discussion on this list but I think it's necessary, in this case, for those

RE: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread David Puryear
On 25-Oct-97 dc wrote: Enough is enough. -- cut -- I, like most Debin users, think Bruce is doing very fine job. I would hate to see Bruce or anyother developers quit because of the few who don't appreciate the amount of time and the effort the developers freely give to make Debian what it

RE: Gnome deb package.

1997-10-25 Thread David Puryear
On 25-Oct-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote: Hi, Where can I find the gnome debian package that Bruce talked about? ... Thanks I think it's in the Incoming, but please do remember that gnome is still in very early stages of developement although moving very fast.

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:57:18 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Because you didn't contribute anything accept noise and dissent. I've yet to see Bruce refuse to allow someone to work on Debian, who actually had something to contribute. From Ian to me, and Bruces interjection 2 days ago:

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, dc wrote: much dreck deleted If Bruce really cares about the free and open future of the Debian Project, he will cede his position immediately. Much (private) discussion has gone on about forming a new distribution based on how the old Debian used to be. This is my

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Anthony Fok
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: Dave, trust and respect don't come freely. You have to work for it. Show your integrity and respect others, otherwise don't expect others to respect or trust you. Anthony On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:57:18 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Because you didn't

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Ok, good. Fine. Now pick *ONE* list to discuss this one. I am in NO mood to get 4 copies of EVERY email on this thread. All my responses to this list thread will be to debian-dissent -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You asshole. You made me add '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to my killfile, right next to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. You are an A-1 whacko. Go create your own distribution, manage it yourself, and watch the hordes of developers follow you -- not. Kindly cease to pollute my channels of communication with your

* Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 97 14:23:17 -0500 From: dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enough is enough. I totally disagree with you. Bruce has been doing a great job. You, on the other hand, have done nothing but spread around a lot of negative and divisive feelings. Please take your negativity somewhere