When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my
/var/log/ppp.log
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: send (ATDT7454342^M)
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote:
For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT*
buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com).
I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their
secure on-line form, they charged my
Aaron Walker wrote:
When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my
/var/log/ppp.log
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 06:53:10PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs,
is root.
I guess not then. Can't hurt though. I like to have syslog dump
everything to a virtual console (makes it easy to debug things)
and that means
I have just switched from RedHat 4.2 (gee, it seems I preface all my
mail to this list with that...grin) and am having a problem accessing
my tape drive (a Conner DDS-2 SCSI drive) The drive responds to the mt
commands I have issued (ie, mt tell, mt datcompression, mt rewind, etc)
but I have been
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone have a configured printcap entry and/or /etc/magic file
configured for a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 6L printer and MagicFilter?
Use the script 'magicfilterconfig', and select the driver 'ljet4'.
- Sten Anderson
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When I invoke 'slrn --spool' I have no newsgroups listed. I'm sure it's
something simple but I'm missing it.
This is becoming a FAQ. :-)
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README.slrnpull.gz
Read this file. Specifically:
Setting up a minimal .slrnrc
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost
effectiveness
of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux
seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short
supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to
Hi,
My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system
onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of
the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now.
I use my system to recieve mail using fetchmail.
What I want to know is, can I
I am sorry for this. I didn't see the extra TO: field before I sent.
I wish I had a life outside Quake.
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On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape
debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for
linux?
There's a version of communicator for linux
My two cents: I've always liked the Infomagic CD set (Linux
Developer's Resource). I've bought them quite regularly since they
started doing them. The only problem I ever had was with one that I
bought through a suspicious reseller at a local computer show; it
had two disc 2's and no disc 1. I
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote:
essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for
debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from
being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? ..
Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. I
can force it to do normal text, but I can not get it to do anything when
in X, such as printing in Netscape or StarOffice. I installed the
apsfilter, but I fear It does not work right for me. Any suggestions,
help or
Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on
CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the
pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors?
I ordered from linux system
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP
dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT,
that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own.
Any attempt at
Hail,
My name is demon bear but you may call me Eric if you wish. I have
a linux system elsewhere which needs some serious updating. I already
have the new Linux 1.3. What I am looking for are the packages
necessary to set up a usable X-windows system( hehe).
What other packages do you
I'm not sure that I'm doing this right, as I am new to the list thing, so bear
with me.
2: I am also requesting suggestions for a study guide/brain candy
type book on TCP/IP networking. If any of the Linux/*nix gurus or
senior system administrators would make a suggestion
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a .forward file with the following line:
|IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
#mario
This used to work under sendmail. Now, I just replaced sendmail
with smail and I can't get my email
Well, the bo base install disks make /var/log/ppp.log world readable
(why?) so that anyone using the system can then see the password.
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs,
is root.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Unfortunatly due to the way tin works, leafnode doesn't see which group
you enter for the first time, so you can't use tin with leafnode.
This may be fixed in the leafnode currently in hamm. I know that an
experimental leafnode package with version 1.0.pl6 had this
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aaron Walker wrote:
When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my
/var/log/ppp.log
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE)
Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy
Tim Thomson wrote:
It says I have 5Mb free, but 91Mb-80Mb = 11Mb! Can I change it so it
reserves say, 2Mb instead?
tune2fs -m 2 /dev/hda1
Is it safe to do this?
What could go wrong?
The man page for tune2fs warns:
Never use tune2fs on a read/write mounted filesystem to
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system
onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of
the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now.
I use my system to recieve mail using
You need to modify the /etc/lilo.conf file and add a startup parameter of
mem=128m
It's pretty much, that simple...
hope it helps...
-Dave.
On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this
one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of
I'm not sure if this is a Linux problem, or common to telnet in
general. I haven't run into it until installing Debian though, so
here it is:
Telnet has two modes, linemode, and charactermode. It defaults to
linemode if the other side will handle it. This cooks some characters
and does some extra
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for
debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from
Well, you can hit the archives at www.debian.org and search
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 22:21:03 EST, Daniel Martin wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote:
essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for
debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from
being implemented? Or does a search function plan
Hi,
I've been trying to copy files off a dying hard drive, using my Linux
system.
I mount the drive using mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
If I do something that causes an error, I get lots of lines of:
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 {
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. I
can force it to do normal text, but I can not get it to do anything when
in X, such as printing in Netscape or StarOffice. I installed the
apsfilter, but I fear It does not work
I am rebuilding my Debian/Linux box after moving from 1.1 to 1.3.
Somewhere along the line between my new system and my correspondents in
the outside world, my From: mail header is getting altered. I don't know
what is causing it. Perhaps the smail in Deb 1.1 is different from
the one that
Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as
well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it
because a magazine review said it worked with OS's other than Windows (and
cheap and fast and generally highly recommended). I now have this
This mail is from my old uni-account. I'm having massive problems
with my new private email address, from which any mail to debian.org
is refused for an entry in the badmailfrom list. Please?... Thank
you.
Andreas.
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
(this one is the risky method)
sync
mount -n -o remount,ro /
tune2fs whatever
mount -n -o remount,rw /
Worked!!! (had to go to maintence mode).
Thanks a lot!!!
What does the volume name you can set do?
Doing this reminded me of a problem I
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Brinsfield, Sean wrote:
I'm new to the Linux scene, actually want to get into the Linux scene
and have two copies that I could start out with, Debian 1.3.1 and
Caldera OpenLinux Standard. Please tell me which flavor would be best
for a newbie and why. I'm excited about
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:29:21PM -0800, G. Crimp@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
wrote:
With my old system, I told mutt to strip off the existing From: field
and add the custom header
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Name
In the past this worked marvelously. With my new system however,
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 09:30:05AM +0100, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote:
This mail is from my old uni-account. I'm having massive problems
with my new private email address, from which any mail to debian.org
is refused for an entry in the badmailfrom list. Please?... Thank
Yes, t-online.de is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy...
I subscribed here about .. 2 months ago.. since then i had
to unsubscribe as i've been to busy lately..
When i unsubscribed, i was told that an error occurered, and
i was never even on the mailing list.. ok, i thought,
Hi Damien!
I subscribed here about .. 2 months ago.. since then i had
to unsubscribe as i've been to busy lately..
When i unsubscribed, i was told that an error occurered, and
i was never even on the mailing list.. ok, i thought, it's
fine, i'm not getting any more mail, it's taken
Hi,
Is this a normal behaviour?
I have smartlist installed and my /etc/aliases was rm by
smailconfig, causing my list not working.
Ok! the fix is simple. Just put the lines again, but ...
[]s,
Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but
Alexander Stavitsky wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote:
For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT*
buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com).
I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their
Hi all,
Since i upgraded to login_970616-1.deb
i noticed two weird things:
- user that logs in through xdm cannot be detected
by 'who' command, while users that log in during
an X session, through 'telnet localhost' are
displayed as usual.
- Login from the 'command line level' (level 2
Hi!
When using apsfilter for printing to an ethernet printer the
input filter 'if=..apsfilter...' is _not_ run. This has to do with the
fact that normally the printer spooler does the filtering. But if I
mention the printer itself in the printcap file, like
:lp=:\
Hi,
I'm trying to get aliases with smail. Even the smailconfig
generated file /etc/aliases don't fit the mkaliases likes.
After renaming /etc/aliases, I had tried:
# mksort /etc/aliases.tmp | mkline /etc/aliases
# mkaliases
and the result is:
/usr/sbin/mkaliases:
I just purchased a Mystique 220 4mb card. I am trying to run accelx 4.1
w/ it. X locks up occasionally when switching from a V/C to X and when
I load some high graphic themes in Enlightenment (alien). Has anyone
seen and fixed this?? Suggestions?
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Hi,
I installed the kernel source 2.0.32. I just executed what the
README file tells me to do, but when I start make menuconfig things go
wrong. Why doesn't it find the include files ???
The first thing make does is compiling the
file lxdialog.c, so gcc is invoked by make. lxdialog.c
Timothy Hospedales wrote:
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost
effectiveness
of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux
seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short
supply and so linux would probably
Hi.
Do you know if there is any good word processor
for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least,
like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it?
I also have another question. I finally recompiled
the kernel (I needed it to support my soundcard).
When finally I could recompile the kernel
G., [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as
well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it
because a magazine review said it worked with OS's other than Windows (and
cheap and fast and generally highly
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Àlex Maneu wrote:
Do you know if there is any good word processor
for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least,
like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it?
You can buy a WordPerfect version for Linux. Applixware is a WYSIWYG word
processor that you can also
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On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote:
I have an IP address of 56.88.7.156 on my network at work. My printer
IP address (HP Jetdirect card) is 192.0.0.192. How can I talk to it?
You need a kernel with IP_ALIAS enabled.
Then add a new network
Hi,
I don't know what apsfilter does, but you probably need to write a
script to call the apsfilter files. I'm using magicfilter to print
postscript files to a non-postscript printer on the network. Printing
to lp calls my input filter remote-filter which pipes the output
from magicfilter to
# dpkg -i perl_5.004.04-3.deb
(Reading database ... 14672 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace perl 5.004.04-3 (using perl_5.004.04-3.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl ...
Setting up perl (5.004.04-3) ...
dpkg: error processing perl (--install):
subprocess
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Hi.
Do you know if there is any good
Well... The PPP Server is almost working, still having one problem.
When connecting to the Debian box with WIN95, Debian keeps giving a PAP
authentication failure for username
and then proceeds to disconnect WIN95. I don't have Shadow passwords
enabled and the name and password is valid.
G. H. wrote:
Well... The PPP Server is almost working, still having one problem.
When connecting to the Debian box with WIN95, Debian keeps giving a PAP
authentication failure for username
and then proceeds to disconnect WIN95. I don't have Shadow passwords
enabled and the name and
I'm getting a new computer, and I have some is this supported
questions...I've referred to the hardware how-to, bu some of this stuff
is bleeding-edge so I couldn't find it. If anyone knows the answers to
the following, I'd appreciate it.
The computers are HP (for a variety of reasons):
Are the
Most AGP are not supported in Xfree86. Other X's do have support.
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On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 07:52:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Pann McCuaig wrote:
When I invoke 'slrn --spool' I have no newsgroups listed. I'm sure it's
something simple but I'm missing it.
This is becoming a FAQ. :-)
README.slrnpull.gz
Read this file. Specifically:
Setting up a
Hi,
Is perl-base installed and configured?
manoj
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Andrew Akins wrote:
3) Pentium II processor.
Should be fine, as it can execute the same instructions as a Pentium.
Will
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, ?lex Maneu wrote:
Hi.
Do you know if there is any good word processor
for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least,
like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it?
WordPerfect 7.0 is available from Corel ($$).
The StarOffice suite is available on CD-ROM from
from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
:On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 09:30:05AM +0100, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote:
: This mail is from my old uni-account. I'm having massive problems
: with my new private email address, from which any mail to debian.org
: is refused for an entry in the badmailfrom list.
I ran into the 1FA Boot problem after loading ver 1.3 Base System. The
system would boot fine from floppy, but not from harddisk (it just sat at
1FA: until a floppy was put in and the F key was pressed). After reading
a couple of replies to a similar problem I tried changing the
/etc/lilo.conf
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# mkaliases
and the result is:
/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases
What is going wrong here? Some help, please.
mkaliases is not necessary for a plain-text alias file. You caqn get
rid of this
george bonser wrote,
1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives
No linux supports ATA33 as far as I know. If you can put the drives in
EIDE mode (as most will), Linux will work fine.
There is a patch (I forget where, but it's out there) for the kernel to
support them. I tried it, but my
On 30 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is perl-base installed and configured?
Yes, of course.
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Alexander LIST wrote:
On 30 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is perl-base installed and configured?
Yes, of course.
Looking at the messages posted earlier, I was pretty sure of this myself.
Then I'd suggest putting a bunch of echo statements in
Hi,
I've used imap on a redhat system and it keeps the mailbox file under
/var/spool/mail intact, which allows me to switch between an IMAP client
and using PINE.
I installed the debian imapd package, and although it does keep the
mailbox file _somewhere_ because old messages still are
Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, ?lex Maneu wrote:
Hi.
Do you know if there is any good word processor
for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least,
like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it?
WordPerfect 7.0 is available from Corel ($$).
Check out
Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone out there know where I can get libgif2? Preferably in .deb
form?
Apparently I need it to be able to install KDE
It is part of kdesupport package. Unfortunatly, the other kde
packages needs a package libgif2 which is not provided by
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Could you look at the slrnpull spool directory in /var, and see if there
appear to be articles in it?
$ ls -R /var/spool/slrnpull/news
agora or orst pdxpnw
ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora: Permission denied
ls:
Pann McCuaig wrote:
ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora: Permission denied
I can view the articles with less. And anytime I run
'slrnpull -h hermes.rdrop.com' out of ip-up, if there are _any_
articles pulled down, I can no longer see a list of newsgroups until I
run 'slrnpull --expire'.
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 11:34:20AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
Is your realname mentioned in /etc/passwd?
No, and I think it was on the Debian/Linux 1.1 system. Is this
significant enough to cause the From: field to be changed.
Anyways you can set any From line by putting such a line in
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:33:35 CST, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
G., [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as
well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it
because a magazine review said it worked with
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