Re: ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: [Since I got no answer last time, I am trying again on this query] The basic question is: is IP-forwarding on in the default kernel, and how does one tell, or does one have to build a custom kernel to do routing? -- In gereral, how does one tell

Re: Installing Java JDK 1.1.5 on Debian 1.1?

1998-05-29 Thread Marcus Johnson
Yeeehaa! I tried the JDK 1.1.5v7 on Debian 1.1 and javac actually executed out of the box, with no configuration! Maybe that sounds like no big deal, but I count that as an enormous victory after fumbling around with 1.1.5v5 for quite a while. I'll report back after more testing if there's any

Re: ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: The basic question is: is IP-forwarding on in the default kernel No. , and how does one tell look at /boot/config-kernel-version, included in every kernel-image-xxx package of debian. (N.B. This inlcudes kernel-image-xxx packages

do I need to ifconfig as well as netroute?

1998-05-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all! My IP address is 192.168.37.2 My friends IP addresses are 10.x.y.z I want to be able to ping them/have them telnet to me etc. Is doing route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev eth0 OK or do I need to do something with ifconfig? At the moment things look like this: [EMAIL

Installation

1998-05-29 Thread Bouden Mahmoud
I have a big problem installing the debian linux 1.3 from floppy. The machine is a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I use floppy to install linux. The rescue disket is OK and the system display the boot: prompt. After hitting Enter, system display some messages, then clear screen, display MGA Matrox CopyWrite

Re: do I need to ifconfig as well as netroute?

1998-05-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: My IP address is 192.168.37.2 My friends IP addresses are 10.x.y.z I want to be able to ping them/have them telnet to me etc. I assume, you live on the same ethernet wire ? You want ip aliasing. You need a free ip address in the

Re: fvwm window shadows don't move...

1998-05-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 11:19:02AM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: Hello: I just installed Debian/GNU 1.3.1, I've got pretty much everything going as I want it. On problem, though, is as follows: I'm using fvwm2 as a window manager under XFree86. When I click and hold the left mouse

Re: NE2000 on hamm

1998-05-29 Thread Marcelo E. Laurenti
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Tomas Petersson wrote: Hello, I'm installing hamm. In bo there was a driver for NE2000 networkcard, but this is not the case in the hamm installation. Do I have to change my card or is the another solution, can I use the old driver? /Tomas Petersson Look better, I

WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms

1998-05-29 Thread timothy
Anyone know how to get something like, xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white to be the command that gets spawned from WindowMaker's XShells-Xterm, instead of the ugly default xterm? Thanks in advance, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-May-98 Time:

LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Michael Roark
I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know how to get something like, xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white to be the command that gets spawned from WindowMaker's XShells-Xterm, instead of the ugly default xterm? Thanks in advance, Timothy Three solutions: 1) decide that the default xterm isn't

Re: LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michael Roark wrote: I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? There's a problem with your lilo configuration. Take a look

Re: LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's the 'FM' for you (excerpted from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz): LILO start message - - - - - - - - - When LILO loads itself, it displays the word LILO. Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be

Re: I need an HTML Editor

1998-05-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, The PSGMLK package for Emacs provides a context sensitive mode for any SGML DTD, including HTML. It parses the DTD, so it can offer a choice of all valid tags at any point, or all valid attributes of any tag. Very hard to write broken

Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms

1998-05-29 Thread timothy
Cool! Thanks alot! Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file? man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :( Timothy Three solutions: 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all. 2) Modify Xresources to make the xterm that appears with

Re: getting news from multiple servers

1998-05-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 28 May 1998 21:27:31 - lgunman writes: Currently, when reading USENET news, I start up my ppp connection and read off of my ISP's news (NNTP) server. But, there are some newsgroups that are specific to my school, maintained on my school's NNTP news server. I would like to read

Re: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Marcus Johnson writes: * I did ftp the Bryne jdk1.1.5-v5-glibc.tar files, untarred them and tried to set them up. Forgive my (perhaps appalling) ignorance, but I think I'm not sure if I need to set a symbolic link or add to my path or maybe it simply

RE: Pon - when am i connected?

1998-05-29 Thread tony mollica
You can use the ip-up and ip-down scripts located in /etc/ppp. The ip-up script is run when a ppp connection is successfully made. Parameters are passed to this script that can be used to echo the connection data wherever you want (tty, ttyp0, etc). You can use ip-down script to display a

NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Tim O'Brien
I was wondering.. If I make a change to /etc/exports to export a different directory as an NFS mount, what do I have to do to get /etc/exports read again so the new mount will become available? I tried just changing the file, no results. The only thing I found that works is rebooting. I

Re: Howto install libc6?

1998-05-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You shouldn't try upgrading from libc5 to libc6 using dselect. Go to http://www.debian.org, Developer's Corner, and read libc5-libc6 Mini Howto. Then get the upgrade script mentioned in the same place and run it first Hi, As of yesterday

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Michael Roark
Thus spake Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I was wondering.. If I make a change to /etc/exports to export a different directory as an NFS mount, what do I have to do to get /etc/exports read again so the new mount will become available? I tried just changing the file, no results. The only

Re: LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread C.J.LAWSON
If I understand right, you have just installed a large disk... The problem is most probably with your bios hdd detection setup (believe it or not) .. Try setting it to auto-detect if you have a motherboard which would allow you to change the setting ... alternatively try different settings NORMAL

LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, Michael Eithor your bios does not support disks over 528mb (

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's the 'FM' for you (excerpted from the rpc.mountd man page): SIGNALS When receiving a SIGHUP, mountd will re-read the exports file. Note that to make export changes take effect, you have to send nfsd a SIGHUP as well. Ie. you should run 'killall -HUP rpc.mountd

Re: LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Michael Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? I once had this problem. Here is my (now working)

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Greg Norris
I *believe* that kill -HUP pid_of_nfsd will do the trick... On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:45:40PM -0500, Tim O'Brien wrote: I was wondering.. If I make a change to /etc/exports to export a different directory as an NFS mount, what do I have to do to get /etc/exports read again so the new mount

Re: I need an HTML Editor

1998-05-29 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the name of the .deb file that provides the PSGMLK package? I can not find it in hamm or slink, and can't find a reference in the emacs info file. It sounds like a package I want to have available. psgml is yet another reason why emacs

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Ossama Othman
I think that you are better off doing a: /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload instead of kill -HUPing the daemons individually. It would be equivalent, but I believe using the script in /etc/init.d is more desireable. -Ossama

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TO == Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TO I was wondering.. If I make a change to /etc/exports to export a TO different directory as an NFS mount, what do I have to do to get TO /etc/exports read again so the new mount will become available? TO I tried just changing the file, no

Re: I need an HTML Editor

1998-05-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the name of the .deb file that provides the PSGMLK package? I can not find it in hamm or slink, and can't find a reference in the emacs info file. It sounds like a package I want to have available.

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I managed to find the old jdk 1.1.3v2 .debs which can be installed on bo (libc5 systems). I've put them into my public_html directory on master.debian.org - note that although I am a debian maintainer, I do not maintain nor never have maintened the jdk

Re: directory tree and .deb's

1998-05-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
G. Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I determine the destination directory of a package from the Packages file. My objective is to calculate the disk storage requirement for all (or a preselected subset of) packages by destination directory. Where can I find this information without

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

1998-05-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Here's the 'FM' for you (excerpted from the rpc.mountd man page): SIGNALS When receiving a SIGHUP, mountd will re-read the exports file. Note that to make export changes take effect, you have to

low throughput on PPP link

1998-05-29 Thread Xiangyang Ha
Currently we are building two Debian boxes(2.0.30) running as routers with a PPP link in between. Things are mostly going fine except the link throughput. 56kbps is the best it gets while we are expecting over 100kbps since we are using the 16550A UART serial cards. Here's the details: ==

Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cool! Thanks alot! Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file? man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :( Timothy Three solutions: 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all. 2) Modify Xresources

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