libbfd

1997-12-04 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello, There are two versions of libbfd in the mirror. They do not conflict with each other and they have different names. /debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libbfd2.8.1.0.15_2.8.1.0.15-1.deb /debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libbfd2.8.1_2.8.1-2.deb Is this intentional and if not, how do I

How to make boot + root disk? - Please Help!

1997-12-04 Thread Debian List
Hi, How can I make a bootable diskette that has a minimal root filesystem on it (maybe just mount, cp, ps, e2fsck, /etc and probably no networking)?? I know how to make a bootable disk by copying the kernel and using rdev, however I don't know how I'd place a root filesystem on the diskette.

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Unga Synskadade Smaland Blekinge / Peter Nilsson wrote: Now that I have went over to using PPP over a modem line, I have got some trouble. The problem is that I have no official hostname. Therefore, I call my host peter. I have configured smail for Internet site

Re: How to make boot + root disk? - Please Help!

1997-12-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
How can I make a bootable diskette that has a minimal root filesystem on The debian install disk has some of this functionality. It prompts you when you first put it in about what you want to do. I think after the kernel is loaded you have to switch to virtual console 2. I don't

Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!

1997-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
Dominic Davidson wrote: Yup. I was checking regularly for the results of the poll. They didn't have the results of the poll up after it finished, so who knows what the final results were... apart from those @slashdot.org. Makes it rather pointless really. They stopped the poll when redhat 5

ALT key in X for Emacs

1997-12-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, The ALT key works under emacs when in console mode. But it doesn't work under X. Is there any reason for this? How can I fix it? Perhaps I need to use xmodmap? I heard something about a userfriendly version of this. Does anyone know what it's called? Thanks, Mark.

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Probably this does not apply to you or it won't solve your problems (because your SCSI controller is different than mine) but I was getting SCSI timeouts with 2.0.30 and an Adaptec AHA-2940U with two hard disks and one DAT tape unit. I was unable to make it work but all the problem went away when

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi, First off: _very_ cool list! Lurking here has been exceedingly helpful. Hi. Thanks, we'll keep up :) We're running Debian 1.3.1 (bo, kernel 2.0.30) on an Intel Premier PCI II motherboard, with a 90MHz Penti, 32MB, BusLogic BT-948, and Quantum Fireball Drive. Several times a day

Re: How to make boot + root disk? - Please Help!

1997-12-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
How can I make a bootable diskette that has a minimal root filesystem on it (maybe just mount, cp, ps, e2fsck, /etc and probably no networking)?? I know how to make a bootable disk by copying the kernel and using rdev, however I don't know how I'd place a root filesystem on the diskette.

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Probably this does not apply to you or it won't solve your problems (because your SCSI controller is different than mine) but I was getting SCSI timeouts with 2.0.30 and an Adaptec AHA-2940U with two hard disks and one DAT tape unit. I was unable to make it work but all the problem went away when

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Unga Synskadade Smaland Blekinge / Peter Nilsson wrote: Now that I have went over to using PPP over a modem line, I have got some trouble. The problem is that I have no official hostname. Therefore, I call my host peter. I

My new project

1997-12-04 Thread bruce
Now that I am leaving the Debian leadership, I am embarking on a new project. Debian is consistently coming in second in popularity polls for Linux distributions. It's become very successful as a hobby system, and somewhat acceptable among informed business users. I intend to work on Debian

Removing libc4

1997-12-04 Thread James Dietrich
I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I can remove it if it isn't needed? Or is there a good reason to keep it? Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: My new project

1997-12-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 4 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Now that I am leaving the Debian leadership, I am embarking on a new project. : Debian is consistently coming in second in popularity polls for Linux : distributions. It's become very successful as a hobby system, and somewhat : acceptable among informed

Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-04 Thread Allen Burns
I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was returned: Hello Allen, Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no

Re: How to make boot + root disk? - Please Help!

1997-12-04 Thread Debian List
Great! thanks!! I think that will help... Ricardo On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Alan Su wrote: Debian List wrote (Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:37:43 -0800 (PST) ): |Hi, | |How can I make a bootable diskette that has a minimal root filesystem on |it (maybe just mount, cp, ps, e2fsck, /etc and probably no

Re: Removing libc4

1997-12-04 Thread dpk
I don't know about any debian-related command that will produce this information, but if you search for libc4 in the file /var/lib/dpkg/status you will find the packages dependent on it. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Wintermute
William D. Rendahl wrote: Hi, First off: _very_ cool list! Lurking here has been exceedingly helpful. We're running Debian 1.3.1 (bo, kernel 2.0.30) on an Intel Premier PCI II motherboard, with a 90MHz Penti, 32MB, BusLogic BT-948, and Quantum Fireball Drive. Several times a day we

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-04 Thread ioannis
An innocent mistake made by a rep who supports Windows. Funny that you mention, you just reminded me a post on usenet few years ago by a linux user who wrote this on the Subject line: Help! How do I download Linus On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 09:53:13PM -0700, Allen Burns wrote: I

My new project (repost)

1997-12-04 Thread bruce
Dear Debian Users, Sorry about that partial message. Telnet over a radio modem fails sometimes. It's real nice to be on the net with no wires, though. As I was saying, now that I am leaving the Debian project leader position, I want to work on commercialization. Debian consistently comes in

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-04 Thread Wintermute
Fuzzy wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Allen Burns wrote: Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 21:53:13 -0700 From: Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-04 Thread Wintermute
George Bonser wrote: Notice the 'Linus' ?? What the h*ll was he somking? Crack? -- Look, they are operating under very tight margins. They can not go around hiring COMPETANT people or they would soon eat up all of their profits by PAYING them. Ask them why they do not

Re: Removing libc4

1997-12-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:32:03PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I can remove it if it isn't needed? Or is there a good reason to keep it? You could just

Re: My new project (repost)

1997-12-04 Thread Wintermute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian Users, [Quoting SCO] 1. Linux has no technical support or maintenance. I am instituting a 24/7 commercial email support desk for Huzzah! The more commercial support the better.. It's strange, but corporations just don't think they're getting

Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: They stopped the poll when redhat 5 was released, when redhat had about 50 to 100 more votes in the poll (1 or 2% more of the vote, in other words). The problem with that poll was, they basically stopped it when they felt like it. If they had stopped it

Problem with IP-Masquerade

1997-12-04 Thread Bip Thelin
Automatiskt svar Angånde: Problem with IP-Masquerade 97-12-03 Hi Debian folks I have a problem.. don´t we all.. I have a machine with two netcards, eth0 and eth1 eth0 is connected to the internet with ip:

CONT.: Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!

1997-12-04 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello again!! Thanks for all the help yesterday! It was very quick! You were right! I didn't have xbase installed. I installed it and tried to run startx (without configuring, just to see whether it runs). It didn't, said it couldn't connect to the server (Or something like that, I'll try to

Re: Removing libc4

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
James Dietrich wrote: I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I can remove it if it isn't needed? This may not answer quite the same question, but you can search for a.out executables:

Re: My new project (repost)

1997-12-04 Thread Keith Holler
I agree with you 100%... I sat on a tech support line for 2 hours at a cost of $ 35 for networking help in Windows 95. After all of that I ended up fixing the configuration problem in my networking myself. They tried to convince me it was my new 200 MMX processor and board that wasn't handling

HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread ranty
My father wants to make some changes in his Bussines and I am trying to get Debian/Linux into those changes. I will explain myself: He is going to change his system: Computer: FUJITSU TITAN2600 (with 24 terminals) O.S.: PICK O.A. v5.2 With: Terminal based menues for entering,

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: William D. Rendahl wrote: We're running Debian 1.3.1 (bo, kernel 2.0.30) on an Intel Premier PCI II motherboard, with a 90MHz Penti, 32MB, BusLogic BT-948, and Quantum Fireball Drive. Several times a day we get messages on the console describing

Re: Removing libc4

1997-12-04 Thread James Dietrich
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:32:03PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I can remove it if it isn't needed? Or is

Re: majordomo problem

1997-12-04 Thread tko
G John Lapeyre writes: On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Steve Mayer wrote: Have you checked out the sample configurations in the /usr/doc/majordomo G John Lapeyre wrote: I can't seem to get majordomo to work. I don't understand much about setting uid 's . The following transcript

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On 3 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me some feedback on dunc? I'm revising it and would like to hear opinions on what should be changed. Already planned are pap/chap support and use of the standard option and chat files. What version of dunc are you looking at? The last

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-04 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On 03 Dec 1997 15:43:13 you asked: Can anyone give me some feedback on dunc? Several weeks ago I experimented with dunc 1.5. The major bug I found was in the dialup_connect script. There is what I think is called a race condition that causes the /bin/rm -f /tmp/wchatfile to remove

Documentation of outb() etc.

1997-12-04 Thread David Wright
I'm looking for the documentation of outb() and its friends. man outb(2) claims to document only the extra info to use outb from user space, and refers to outb(9) but I have no section 9. The IO port programming mini-HOWTO says There are man pages for these macros in reasonably recent releases

Re: we need to start setting up for a new computer

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: I have slackeware more or less running on 386sx8 and want to install debian 1.3.1 (bo) on a new 6x86 p200+ based system that will be a server. I have the 2 CD distribution from lsl.com and the contents of the stable/non-free directory from an ftp mirror

Re: threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-04 Thread Dale Martin
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads working, there isn't much sense in using c++ :-) I've had the same problem, and as far as I've been able to collect, g++ simply isn't, and won't be thread safe. If you wish for a thread safe

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread john
Daniel Martin writes: Among other things, the satellite setup makes using fetchmail near impossible. I personally think that a big warning should be issued if you choose this option, as people seem to think that it's the appropriate choice for intermittently connect PPP machines. It seems

Re: we need to start setting up for a new computer

1997-12-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: and want to install debian 1.3.1 (bo) on a new 6x86 p200+ based system that will be a server. I have the 2 CD distribution from lsl.com and the contents of the stable/non-free directory from an ftp mirror on a ez135 disk, (yes the new system also has a

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Norris Preyer
William D. Rendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, First off: _very_ cool list! Lurking here has been exceedingly helpful. We're running Debian 1.3.1 (bo, kernel 2.0.30) on an Intel Premier PCI II motherboard, with a 90MHz Penti, 32MB, BusLogic BT-948, and Quantum Fireball Drive.

Re: threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads working, there isn't much sense in using c++ :-) I've had the same problem, and as far as I've been able to collect, g++ simply isn't, and won't

NE2000

1997-12-04 Thread Sergey Zelerny
Hello! Can you help me to get documentation for driver writing for NE2000? I must write driver for it, but I can't find any information for it. Thanks, Sergey Zelerny -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

RE: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-04 Thread Paul Rightley
On 30-Nov-97 Matt Thompson wrote: I seem to be having trouble configuring a custom kernel. The only kernels that work are on the 'tecra' rescue disk, and the one I got from Valery Petrov's site, but those don't support fat32 and when I make a boot floppy from the rescue disk, it loads the kernel

multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-04 Thread E Papantoniou
Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background appears) and gets

Re: undeletable file (RESOLVED)

1997-12-04 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Thanks to all who responded to my question. I was able to delete the file last night by resetting attribute flags using chattr. The attribute flags on that file were ALL set! (Actually, this seems somewhat consistent with the group ID getting mysteriously changed to 65535). No other files were

RE: My new project (repost)

1997-12-04 Thread Lewis, James M.
The SCO letter is just fud. They didn't point out any capability that Unixware has that linux does not. Corporations like to have someone to blame. The culture is to make safe dicisions. Accepting total responsibility for something isn't done very often. (exceptions are things like process

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults That does the job! Since it only works for the

Re: ALT key in X for Emacs

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ALT key works under emacs when in console mode. But it doesn't work under X. Is there any reason for this? How can I fix it? Perhaps I need to use xmodmap? I heard something about a userfriendly version of this. Does anyone know what it's

Re: Cron and find

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often have some nfs filesystems mounted on my machine and whenever cron runs updatedb I end up with a huge mail listing each file on the nfs filesystems saying permission denied. Is there a way to stop this message without unmounting the filesystems? Hi G'razel!

network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I was wondering if there was a debian package that'd let me do the following: I need to get information of bandwidth used over time on our leased ISDN link... I could stare at 'netwatch' all day and write down the data (where it says ROUTER), but then I wouldn't be able to get any work done.

kernel warning

1997-12-04 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I got a new message from my kernel today: Dec 4 13:22:07 garfield kernel: Warning: dev (03:01) tty-count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup anybody knows what this is ? Thanks George

Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread Stephen Zander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think he needs: A PICK interpreter or so. Something to convert the old data. Some program to later on replace that PICK interpreter? Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. That sounds like a pretty complete list. However, it's likely to be

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-12-04 Thread John Kuhn
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Is there a way to crypt a whole e2-filesystem or at least a whole directories? Or is there any other way to overcome this? Yes there is. Whether or not Debian has a package for this yet I do not know, however here is an address that should answer

ipfwadm

1997-12-04 Thread Mark Stone
In order to use the ipfwadm command set, what options and modules need to be selected in configuring the kernel? I thought I had done this correctly, but keep getting an error message when I try to use ipfwadm. The error message is something like SOCKOPT error: protocol not available. Mark

Re: we need to start setting up for a new computer

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: (about installing the kernel-source package, etc.) I think the CDs have kernel 2.0.30? we've heard that 0.29 and 0.32 were stable but 30 was a problem, but than again, .deb has local patches that maybe stablized it?

Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My father wants to make some changes in his Bussines and I am trying to get Debian/Linux into those changes. I will explain myself: He is going to change his system: Computer: FUJITSU TITAN2600 (with 24 terminals) O.S.: PICK O.A. v5.2 With:

kernel compile question

1997-12-04 Thread Shaleh
Making 2.0.32, from its tarball gestalt:#make-kpkg kernel_image --revision gestalt.1.5.0 ... cp vmlinux debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.32 cp System.map debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.32 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32 \

Re: QPopper warning

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: I've been getting the following message in /var/log/messages ever since I installed qpopper on my system: Dec 2 13:09:35 inetgw in.qpopper[742]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 Everything works fine, but I always get that message - filling up

Stop

1997-12-04 Thread Alexander Chepegin
Stop -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread dpk
Look at mrtg under 'contrib/net'. This works really nice - running from crontab, it updates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly information. If you want a quick view of it's output see www.egr.msu.edu/~dpk/mrtg Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844

Stop

1997-12-04 Thread Alexander Chepegin
Stop -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Stop

1997-12-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Alexander Chepegin wrote: Stop done -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Watkins

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ian Gill Watkins wrote: I have started receiving this message since installing the remainder / most of the Debian system. The domain on my home net is called watkins (original huh?). I have had a look out on the net and it appears to be something to do with TCP/IP / DHCP but I could

Re: CONT.: Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!

1997-12-04 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 04 Dec 1997 11:52:38 +0200, Liran Zvibel wrote: You were right! I didn't have xbase installed. I installed it and tried to run startx (without configuring, just to see whether it runs). It didn't, said it couldn't connect to the server (Or something like that, I'll try to install

Re: installing on a new disk from a running system

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
robert havoc pennington wrote: Hi, I just got a new disk and mainboard (yay!) but I have to do some work tonight. So I just put my old disk in the new system and booted, and things are working great (and a whole lot faster - 386-16 to K6). However, I'd love to have a fresh new install

Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

1997-12-04 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that the reqd library is in /lib - $ cd /lib $ ls -l *nsl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17448 Jun 5 1997 libnsl-2.0.4.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: QPopper warning

1997-12-04 Thread Kevin Traas
I've been getting the following message in /var/log/messages ever since I installed qpopper on my system: Dec 2 13:09:35 inetgw in.qpopper[742]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 Interesting. I wouldn't think what you did would fix it. The api for name/IP lookup makes

Re: backup

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Matthew Tebbens wrote: I have 2 harddrives in my system. The main hd is going bad and I would like to copy everything to the second and use that as the main drive. Is it possible to copy EVERYTHING to the second hd and just run lilo on it ? If so, anyone know all the options to use with

Re: kernel compile question

1997-12-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From the /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz file : __ c) dpkg-gencontrol fails with the error message failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek This is an error in older versions of dpkg-dev.

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Norris Preyer
William D. Rendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, First off: _very_ cool list! Lurking here has been exceedingly helpful. We're running Debian 1.3.1 (bo, kernel 2.0.30) on an Intel Premier PCI II motherboard, with a 90MHz Penti, 32MB, BusLogic BT-948, and Quantum Fireball Drive. Several

Re: threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-04 Thread Dale Martin
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads working, there isn't much sense in using c++ :-) I've had the same problem, and as far as I've been able to collect, g++ simply isn't, and won't be thread safe. If you wish for a thread safe

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel Martin writes: Among other things, the satellite setup makes using fetchmail near impossible. I personally think that a big warning should be issued if you choose this option, as people seem to think that it's the appropriate choice for intermittently connect PPP machines. It seems

[no subject]

1997-12-04 Thread by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list. If this wasn't your intention or you are having problems getting yourself unsubscribed, reply to this mail now (quoting it entirely (for diagnostic purposes), and of course adding any comments you see fit). Transcript of

Re: threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads working, there isn't much sense in using c++ :-) I've had the same problem, and as far as I've been able to collect, g++ simply isn't, and won't be

Re: we need to start setting up for a new computer

1997-12-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: and want to install debian 1.3.1 (bo) on a new 6x86 p200+ based system that will be a server. I have the 2 CD distribution from lsl.com and the contents of the stable/non-free directory from an ftp mirror on a ez135 disk, (yes the new system also has a ez135

Re: Philosophical question

1997-12-04 Thread Steve Witt
On 4 Dec 1997, Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: I hope I don't sound heretical: I imagine that a lot of people like Linux for the fact that there is something new to try every week or two. :) (or more often?) But practically, how often do people think it is worth the trouble to upgrade major

Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!

1997-12-04 Thread Steve Witt
I follow the Red Hat list on Usenet ... it is a ZOO compared to this list. Thinking about it, it makes sense. What market is Red Hat aiming at? People who can't install Linux! We have a very active mailing list and that somehow reduces Debian posts in the general linux groups. I

Re: squake/multiplayer

1997-12-04 Thread Pete Harlan
when I'm playing multiplayer quake (1.09) I can't move forwards or backwards.. I can in single player mode.. My opponents are win95 tcp/ip with quake 1.06.. is there an incompatibility? IIRC, there is indeed an incompatibility between 1.09 and earlier quakes. You or they need to down- or

catch 22

1997-12-04 Thread Boateng, Ofori \(INNOLOG\)
I hope you can help me find out the origin or how we got this catch 22 phrase? I would appreciate a respomse from you. I got to you page when I did a search on catch 22 Thank you in advance. Ofori Boateng -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pioneer DR-A24X

1997-12-04 Thread Pere Camps
Krzysztof, How did you know that I was trying since yesterday to get this CD-ROM drive to work in my machine :-) My 875th sense told me. :-) It didn't halt it just would not mount. It halted for me because I mount the cdrom when I bootup... Thank you very much.

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Use the option satellite system. No - DON'T. Satellite is useful if and only if all the usernames of any account that will ever receive any mail are either mentioned in /etc/aliases or match the usernames on your smarthost. Among other things, the satellite setup makes using fetchmail

An X problem

1997-12-04 Thread Paul Rightley
I am using the current version of the stable tree (I guess Debian 1.3.1 r6). I have recently upgraded my video card from an ancient old thing to the Diamond Stealth 3000 3D. I have used both xf86config and XF86Setup to produce XF86Config files that provided some usable modes. However, if I

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Dale Martin
Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Probably this does not apply to you or it won't solve your problems (because your SCSI controller is different than mine) but I was getting SCSI timeouts with 2.0.30 and an Adaptec AHA-2940U with two hard disks and one DAT tape unit. I was unable to make

Another X problem

1997-12-04 Thread Paul Rightley
I successfully reinstalled Debian on my Thinkpad 365XD. This time I used the Oficial Debian 1.3 CD's from LSL. This worked fine with the Tecra disks (which maybe should be renamed). Thank you to all who have worked on Debian (it was sure easier to install 1.3 on this laptop than 1.2 - back

Re: An X problem

1997-12-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: XF86Config files that provided some usable modes. However, if I exit X and then restart it (with startx), my machine will hang (i.e. no keystrokes will modify I've got the same problem with the same video card, and I'm running a pretty-much

Re: network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Three people gave me the answer I was looking for. This list is a godsend. Thanks everyone... Thomas. On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: From: dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:36:32 -0500

PGP

1997-12-04 Thread Curt Howland
I notice that MIT now has a Linux build for PGP5.0 US version. I know that there is a PGP Debian package available internationally, but not on the US site. Anyone know if a U.S. PGP package for Debian will be created? Curt- -- --- Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Priss.com The

Philosophical question

1997-12-04 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
Hi all, I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would take a poll to see what Joe Debian User (or Jane Debian-User) thinks... So I bought a new machine in October, and from the outset I wanted

Re: My new project (repost)

1997-12-04 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- Keith Holler wrote: I agree with you 100%... I sat on a tech support line for 2 hours at a cost of $ 35 for networking help in Windows 95. After all of that I ended up fixing the configuration problem in my networking myself. They tried to convince me it was my new 200 MMX processor and

Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-04 Thread Scott Ellis
Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.10 1997/11/12 15:23:04 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Use the option satellite system. No - DON'T. Satellite is useful if and only if all the usernames of any account that will ever receive any mail are either mentioned in /etc/aliases or match the usernames on your smarthost. Among other

What I do now?

1997-12-04 Thread Dana Epp
Ya... its one of those days, and the subject pretty well sums it up. I forced xlib6g over xlib6, so I could install the Gimp package. I later rebooted, and now I get this everytime I do a startx.. xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' Now, this does

Re: An X problem

1997-12-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: Will, Thanks for the information (and commiseration). I will file a bug with the xfree folks. You're quite welcome. Two other notes: it seemed to work ok with (the demo version of) Accel-X. Not free, but an alternative. I ran their

Re: What I do now?

1997-12-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Dana Epp wrote: Ya... its one of those days, and the subject pretty well sums it up. I forced xlib6g over xlib6, so I could install the Gimp package. I later rebooted, and now I get this everytime I do a startx.. Bad idea, you just hosed every libc5 program on your

lilo to prepare new hd on floppyless system

1997-12-04 Thread Rick Hawkins
My new drive came, and i'm trying to do a fresh install, as some stuff got tossed in strange places a few months ago. I've already found that base-files.deb won't install onto a raw file system, so I have the .tgz untarring at the moment (gee, this maxtor is louder than i expected). ANd the

Re: What I do now?

1997-12-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Dana Epp wrote: xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' Now, this does exist. Its located in /usr/X11R6/lib so I can't figure why do an ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 and make sure the symlink's not broken.

Re: Philosophical question

1997-12-04 Thread dpk
The question below and recent email about commercializing Debian inspired me to add ammo for some, maybe information for others. If 'commercializing' is a bad word, just view it as 'clearing up some common misconceptions about linux, Debian specifically,' but anyway: I think Debian should

Re: catch 22

1997-12-04 Thread Pete Harlan
I hope you can help me find out the origin or how we got this catch 22 phrase? I would appreciate a respomse from you. I got to you page when I did a search on catch 22 Thank you in advance. Ofori Boateng Searching for catch 22 brought you to the Debian pages because of this

Apache web editting

1997-12-04 Thread Randy Edwards
What techniques do folks use for editting web pages? I use Netscape's Composer for editting and would like to let a couple of users edit the files under /var/www. I've thought about making /var/www group writeable (right now it's only group read and executable), but I was worried that may

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