dselect y segundo CD

1998-09-11 Thread arco
Hola: Al actualizar el dselect ya sea normalmente o con el multi-cd hay paquetes, del segundo CD (hamm), que están en le directorio correspondiente pero no me aparecen en la lista. Por ejemplo el XV o el Xanim ¿cometo algun error? o es normal. Muchas Gracias y un saludo. --

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-11 Thread R . LLoret
-- == Ricardo Lloret [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

dselect y segundo CD

1998-09-11 Thread R . Lloret
Hola: Cuando actualizo los paquetes del segundo cd en hamm con dselect, no me aparecen muchos paquetes que sui están en el directorio. Por ejemplo Xanim o Xv. Tanto con la opción normal como con el multicd de Datom. Es normal uq algunos no aparezcan o cometo algún error. Gracias y un saludo.

dselect

1998-09-11 Thread R . Lloret
Hola: Al acatualizar los paquetes con dselect hay varios que no me aparecen, del segundo cd (hamm), a pesr de estar en los directorios. Por ejemplo Xanim y Xv (hay mas) ¿cometo algun error? o es normal Gracias y un saludo -- ==

No-te-escapes Como-un-niñato con la Morcilla

1998-09-11 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
Esto va de lo del Asunto: Netscape Communicator (Mozilla); en adelante, NCM. Yo creía que ya el NCM se podía distribuir más o menos libremente, pero he aquí que en la Debian 2.0 (hamm) me vuelvo a encontrar el paquete netscape4.deb que sólo es un instalador, y hay que poner el archivo en

El uultimo nuucleo 2.0 es inestable?

1998-09-11 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
La pregunta del Asunto: viene porque he encontrado en stable (hamm) el kernel-*-2.0.34, y el último por ahora (hoy viernes 11/IX/98 a las 14:52), o sea, el 2.0.35, en unstable (slink). ¿No eran los núcleos x.y.z estables si y % 2 == 0 [o sea: si el 2º número era par], y por tanto todos los 2.0.X

Re: El login no me gusta mucho

1998-09-11 Thread Antonio Castro
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: Hola a todos. Tengo una duda sobre algo que siempre me da la sensacion que ha ido mal en mi ordenador. Se trata de que cuando hago un login desde la consola, si el PC esta teniendo ya mucha carga de tareas (sobre todo cuando el HD esta trabajando

Re: No-te-escapes Como-un-niñato con la Morcilla

1998-09-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: Yo creía que ya el NCM se podía distribuir más o menos libremente, pero he aquí que en la Debian 2.0 (hamm) me vuelvo a encontrar el paquete netscape4.deb que sólo es un instalador, y hay que poner el archivo en ${TMPDIR:/tmp}, etc. Eso es

compressed archives

1998-09-11 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, I'm a bit confused about the use of tar and/or gzip/gunzip. If I understand it well, a .gz file is just a file compressed with gzip, and I should just use the command gunzip foo.gz to uncompress it; then, a .tar is an archived file, and to untar them, just use tar - whatever. If the

Re: compressed archives

1998-09-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Horacio M.G. wrote: I'm a bit confused about the use of tar and/or gzip/gunzip. If I understand it well, a .gz file is just a file compressed with gzip, and I should just use the command gunzip foo.gz to uncompress it; then, a .tar is an archived file, and to untar them,

Re: El uultimo nuucleo 2.0 es inestable?

1998-09-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: La pregunta del Asunto: viene porque he encontrado en stable (hamm) el kernel-*-2.0.34, y el último por ahora (hoy viernes 11/IX/98 a las 14:52), o sea, el 2.0.35, en unstable (slink). ¿No eran los núcleos x.y.z estables si y % 2 == 0 [o

[Fwd: Configuracion XFree86 (fwd)]

1998-09-11 Thread Richard Hidalgo
No habeís recibido esté mensaje?. Es respuesta a tí, Juan Carlos, que me pediste la salida de startx. Por favor, te/os agradezco que me ayudes/eis porque me está causando graves inconvenientes y no sé como narices resolverlo Un saludo Rich ---BeginMessage--- Juan Carlos Muro escribió: Con eso,

Re: dselect (disculpas)

1998-09-11 Thread R . Lloret
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 01:57:14PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola: Al acatualizar los paquetes con dselect hay varios que no me aparecen, del segundo cd (hamm), a pesr de estar en los directorios. Por ejemplo Xanim y Xv (hay mas) ¿cometo algun error? o es normal Siento no

Re: El uultimo nuucleo 2.0 es inestable?

1998-09-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Los paquetes no van a stable o a unstable según sean estables de origen o no (de otra forma, debería estar el núcleo 2.1.121 en unstable :-). Por regla general, todos los paquetes nuevos van a unstable. Creo que el núcleo 2.0.35 salió muy poco antes de que saliera Debian 2.0, pero como la

xscreesaver

1998-09-11 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hola, Hace poco le esta pasando algo raro a mi computador. Cuando ejecuto el programa ´backgroud propeties´ de gnome, y elijo un scrennsaver, al esperar los x min para que aparezca este, la pantalla se vuelve negra. Es mas, en un costado de mi pantalla hay una luz verde que indoca que la

Re: Los tcp wrappers

1998-09-11 Thread J . Parera
Hola, Si no recuerdo mal, lo que tenias tú hace que inetd arranque el leafnode de forma directa. Correcto. Si quieres usar el tcpd (tcp-wrapper) debes especificarlo en el inetd.conf como servidor. El otro argumento (/usr/bin/leafnode) es el argumento con el que arrancas el tcpd. tcpd únicamente

lpq no abre conexión con lp@localhost

1998-09-11 Thread J . Parera
Hola, el filtro para mi impresora (hp dj 690c) lo creé con el MagicFilter y me ha funcionado siempre correctamente, pero hoy he decidido añadir tres impresoras extra para imprimir PostScript en modos econofast, normal y optima como en W95. Cosa que pueden comprobar en el printcap que les adjunto,

KDE (era: Re: compressed archives)

1998-09-11 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 11 Sep 98, at 17:44, Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Horacio M.G. wrote: I'm a bit... bla, bla... p.s. Yo no tengo mucho problema con el inglés pero los demás a lo mejor sí :-) Perdonadme por el mensaje en inglés, iba dirigido a la lista de debian en inglés pero me debí

Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
See section 6.27.7 of the NET-3-HOWTO for some helpful information. I did this before I installed ethernet by using slattach + ifconfig to set up the connection. With 16550A UARTs I was able to get a 115.2 kbaud serial speed. slattach is in the netbase package and I don't recall if that is in

renamed my server now Samba doesn't work

1998-09-11 Thread Keith
I accidentally renamed my server and now ,Samba in particular, does not work anymore. I removed Samba and reloaded it but it still does not work. Any suggestions. Keith

problem with squid

1998-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
I use a squid cache, and I've lately been noticing that lots of web wervers out there have stopped responding to pings. I guess becuase of the various security holes related to pinging with large packetsand so forth. Since squid tries to ping a host before it connects to it, this makes squid not

kde

1998-09-11 Thread Default Debian Reader
Can someone tell me where i could find the .deb of kde?

0xc0

1998-09-11 Thread Default Debian Reader
Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?

Re: kde

1998-09-11 Thread servis
*- Default Debian Reader wrote about kde | Can someone tell me where i could find the .deb of kde? | Try going to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and using the package searches. I entered kde and got back about 20 packages with kde in their name. You should find what you are looking for

Re: Log monitoring GUI program

1998-09-11 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: interface to manage/interpret/flag all the logging coming in. Has anyone heard of such a package? Especially a debianised one? There are two that I know of, XLogMaster and XLogMonitor. Try:

Re: 0xc0

1998-09-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: : Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers? First, install the doc-iana package. I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book) but if you are referring to the Type Of Service field, 0xc0 is not a valid choice. [

Re: 0xc0

1998-09-11 Thread Default Debian Reader
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: : Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers? First, install the doc-iana package. I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book) That book was copyright 1994, i

Re: 0xc0

1998-09-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: [ snip ] : : Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers? : : First, install the doc-iana package. : : I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book) : That book was copyright 1994, i imagine it was printed

Install can't make boot disk

1998-09-11 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what the error is and I know the floppy is good because I just formatted it under Win98 and can

Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Andreas Nolda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so | that I can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base | system installed) to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) | using the FTP or the NFS access methods? | |

GNOME it doesn't want to come out and play?

1998-09-11 Thread john mcpeek
Hi all, Your mission should you have nothing else going on is .. I just installed various GNOME packages. Every one of the GNOME progs gives me the error /etc/im_palette.pal does not exist. I installed just about everything on the planet for GNOME not to mention that dselect was happy with

X install ERROR

1998-09-11 Thread BOB'S MAIL
I AM NEW. It is getting better. I see more than the S prompt once in a while! Installed the Linux system (CD's) again tonight that I configured with dselect configure. I am using an Intel 740 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator chip (set). Under dselect configue I tried to set the video adaptor

Server name, how-to change forward

1998-09-11 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I need to change the name of my machine. I changed `/etc/hostname' and during startup it waits for several minutes after having displayed: starting printer spooler: lpd (finally it reboots, but it suggests something is wrong...) BTW: During hamm installation I was asked several times about the

Re: Install can't make boot disk

1998-09-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Rich wrote: I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what the error is and I know the floppy is good because I just formatted it under Win98

Re: yp and nfs not registered?

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I got nfs mounting to work, but the yp stuff still doesn't work. I just make hosts.allow = all and hosts.deny = blank. What do I have to do to add NIS to portmapper? Read /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz It might have to do with the

trouble with HDD

1998-09-11 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic, but I can find no solution to it: I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip drive (also IDE) as a secondary slave. Both seem to be recognized and detected by the BIOS, and even detected by

Re: Server name, how-to change forward

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm not sure what all the relevant files are, but I expect you could locate all of them using the rgrep (recursive grep) package. Something like: cd /etc rgrep old_host_name * At 09:20 AM 9/11/98 +0200, you wrote: I need to change the name of my machine. I changed `/etc/hostname' and

Re: trouble with HDD

1998-09-11 Thread PJ Barbera
What kind of motherboard are you using ?? (brand) Peter Barbera Horacio M.G. wrote: Hi there, my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic, but I can find no solution to it: I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip drive (also IDE) as a

Re: X install ERROR

1998-09-11 Thread M.C. Vernon
_X11 TranSocket UNIX Connect:can't connect: err no=111 giving up XINIT:connection refused (err no. 111): unable to connect to X server XINIT: no such process (err no 3): Server error. Looks to me like you haven't configured an X server at all. 1. What do I do?

linux

1998-09-11 Thread W.N. Beukers
dear sirs, I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory. I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux. Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the minimum required packages (to ask as mailserver) and MS-dos. Which packages do i need ???

Re: linux

1998-09-11 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: You have enough space. My recommendation would be to setup a 32 megabyte swap partition and use the rest for linux and the packages. Peter -Original Message- From: W.N. Beukers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday,

Re: linux

1998-09-11 Thread Lars Steinke
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, W.N. Beukers wrote: dear sirs, I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory. I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux. Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the minimum required packages (to ask as

Re: linux

1998-09-11 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hay Will. no dos - But if this young man goes out and gets a used 40 - 100 meg HD he can put the swap area on the second HD, therefore having enough space for DOS. Thats what I think, but I have known to be wrong on more than a few occasions. Peter -Original Message- From: Will Lowe

Re: renamed my server now Samba doesn't work

1998-09-11 Thread peloy
What exactly does not work? peloy.- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I accidentally renamed my server and now ,Samba in particular, does not work anymore. I removed Samba and reloaded it but it still does not work. Any suggestions. Keith

Re: SAMBA: multiple connections, same login

1998-09-11 Thread tko
bmorgan writes: I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've got several users connecting to the samba server for IP printing to jet-direct boxes. Right now, I've got my SMB.CONF file set so that it

HELP!! keep me Debian.......

1998-09-11 Thread Person, Rod
Hi all, I'm haveing major problems. After I decided to switch to KDE, I've had nothing but problems. For one binutils 2.9 will not install now matter what I do and it would uninstall either. When I try I get the error. write error locking to directory!! directory or file does not exist.

Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains

1998-09-11 Thread Gene McCulley
Rick == Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rick The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his Rick firewall. In my case, telling my customer to change his configuration is not and acceptable option. I need my sendmail to be more forgiving. Peter == Peter

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Brian Sheehan wrote: i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) Unlike Viglen's Envy 17ES, it's unable to perform adequately at 1280x1024, managing only 60Hz which is really flickery. 1152x864 is

Re: HELP!! keep me Debian.......

1998-09-11 Thread Lars Steinke
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Person, Rod wrote: Hi all, I'm haveing major problems. After I decided to switch to KDE, I've had nothing but problems. For one binutils 2.9 will not install now matter what I do and it would uninstall either. When I try I get the error. write error locking to

Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains

1998-09-11 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:30:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org, Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains Rick ==

Re: linux

1998-09-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory. I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux. Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the minimum required packages (to ask as mailserver) and MS-dos. Which packages do i need ??? More

Re: VIM with GUI support

1998-09-11 Thread Guido Bozzetto
I have made a package of VIM with GUI and python support. You can grab it for download at ftp://ftp.shorelink.com/pub/software/ Let me know if you would like any additional options and if it works ok for you. You can invoke it as gvim or as vim -g to get gui support. George Bonser

Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains

1998-09-11 Thread Gene McCulley
Rick == Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rick No problem... add this to your sendmail.mc and regenerate: Rick FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl you may also wish to Rick add FEATURE(accept_unqualified_senders)dnl to allow those Rick b0rked clients using HELO host

group administrator

1998-09-11 Thread Daniel ANDRE
Hello! I wonder to know what is a group administrator (seen in passwd man page) and wether it is supported by debian. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRIS Technologies Tel.: +33 (0)3 20 65 85 80 155 rue Jules Delcenserie, Bat B3 Fax.: +33 (0)3 20 65 85 81 59700 MARCQ en BAROEUL, FRANCE

Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Chris Mc.
I hope someone can give me an idea what I'm doing wrong: I inherited an old Toshiba T1850C notebook. (80386) I used the lowmem rescue disk to start the process. I created three partitions on the hard drive: hda1 = 90 Meg type 83 hda2 = 20 Meg type 82 hda3 = 6 Meg type 81 Following the prompts,

Minimum IT Requirements

1998-09-11 Thread Ken Archer
As a member of the local Linux Users Group, I am writing a course outline for a 12-week Linux course that our group is sponsoring. It is aimed at producing Linux-qualified entry-level personnel for corporate IT departments. I am looking for input from IT department administrators as to what

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Configuring root file ... MINIX-fs: bad root directory '.' entry Unable to mount the temporary root partition! Ive never used a lowmem setup, but as a wild guess, does it need a mkfs.minix run on it first? --

Re: Error Initializing swap partition on lowmem install

1998-09-11 Thread Tercero
Thanks bunches! The system is up and running. I think something to this end should be put in the installation guide, or one of the many faq. I had a little trouble using vi, but after an hour of trials, i finally convinces vi to display a /. all went well, and now I am looking for the man

Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the newer kernels? It works to a point, with lilo allowing input from the serial port, and the initial kernel messages going to the port, but right after it initializes the swap, all I/O stops at the serial port. When the system is

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Gilbert Laycock wrote: Pete I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be... Odd isn't it. I finally compared my /etc/X11/Xresources with the one from the distribution. I had *VT100.Translations: #override KeyDelete:

Help with debug message

1998-09-11 Thread Jieyao
Hi, Can anyone give a clue on the following error in /var/log/debug The whole file is filled with this error and it's taking up a big chunk of the disk space. Sep 8 18:01:13 radon kernel: ARP: arp called for own IP address Sep 8 18:01:57 radon last message repeated 24 times -- Jieyao [EMAIL

Copying files over samba

1998-09-11 Thread Jieyao
Hi, I am thinking of doing something as follows... I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice versa. I was thinking of

Re: Install can't make boot disk

1998-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, Hi. Can you shorten your lines please. I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what the

Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-11 Thread Michele Bini
Dear Debian users, how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed) to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS access methods? ppp / slip links are very slow. If you

RE: Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
From: Tim Sailer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 9:18 AM Subject: Serial Console Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the newer kernels? It works to a point, with lilo allowing input from the serial port, and the initial kernel

Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm

1998-09-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:23:54AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: You don't happen to be using xbase 3.3.2.2-1 somehow, do you? That version did exactly what you describe. However, it has since been fixed (in 3.3.2.2-2, released on 15 July). It's also possible you used xbase 3.3.2.2-1 at

Ctrl-Alt-Minus on Laptop

1998-09-11 Thread Kent West
Anyone know how to change resolution/screen size on a laptop that doesn't have a separate numeric keypad? I can lock the number keys on that are imbedded in the alpha keys, but that still doesn't let me do the Ctrl-Alt-Minus key combo. Nothing I've tried has worked. Is there another way to change

Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes

1998-09-11 Thread Jonathan Jefferies
Recently picked up a copy of Debian 2.0 from CheaperBytes discount place, 4 cdrom set. My question(s): Has anyone else purchased the Cheaper Bytes CD's? And is the version being distributed by Cheaper Bytes the same in layout etc as that which DebIan have on the net? When installing I run

Re: Copying files over samba

1998-09-11 Thread servis
*- Jieyao wrote about Copying files over samba | Hi, | | I am thinking of doing something as follows... | | I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. | I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want | some data files on the win95

smail question

1998-09-11 Thread Marlon Urias
Recently we had the problem that the smail server did not properly mount /var/spool/mail/ from the spool server. This caused all incoming mail to either be lost or put into the errors directory. My question is: How did smail know not to use the local /var/spol/mail and what did smail do with the

PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Greeting everyone, Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Would it be possible to configure it in such a way so when I call home say two times in a row, pon would be executed automaticaly and ip-up ( I did

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Shaleh
I have been contemplating this. If you could get a program to answer the modem line, when you call it picks up and then hangs up, it launches ppp (similar to using something in the ip-down script). Should be do-able. Lazar Fleysher wrote: Greeting everyone, Very often, I have to work on

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Simon Holgate
Quick qustion. What is the size of your floppy drive? If you have a 1.44MB drive then use the lowmem.bin floppy image. There are problems with this (as you may have seen from the many recent postings re: the lowmem installation problems - check the archive.) If you are using the 1.2MB install do

Re: Hamm Low Memory Installation From 1.2 MB Floppy

1998-09-11 Thread Simon Holgate
Mark, I haven't done a 1.2MB install so please bear with me :) I think that you need the 6 1.2 images plus the 1.2 rescue image and lowmemrd (which I think is ram disk) and rawrite.exe if you're writing the floppies from DOS. I think (though the install guide is pretty vague about the

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Greg Vence
Me too. What I considered is using CallerID(ANI). However, if you call from inside a PBX, anybody calling the house could do it. If you've got a cell phone, this could work. I've got one. : I've also got ISDN, therefore, I get DNIS (which line was being called). Using the 'unlisted' nubmer

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Jim Crumley
Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Would it be possible to configure it in such a way so when I call home say two times in a row, pon would be executed automaticaly and ip-up ( I did it already)

A question on runlevels

1998-09-11 Thread Steve Tremblett
I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debian 2.0 doesn't install any default runlevels - just /etc/init.d. I've always

domainname

1998-09-11 Thread Default Debian Reader
I want to change my login message to host login: but rightnow my host is my full ip dns entry, jkeatnig.static.execpc.com. I would like it to jsut show up as jkeating. If i change it with the hostname command it works but then when i sned mail it says [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not the whole address,

Firewall problem

1998-09-11 Thread Christopher Fury
I'm trying to setup a local lan at my house with a firewall to allow access to the outside world. I've followed the Firewall-FAQ and I can't seem to see what I've done wrong... Maybe somebody can tell me. I'm running Debian 2.0. I have the following network options set in my kernel: x x

Re: Firewall problem

1998-09-11 Thread Default Debian Reader
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Christopher Fury wrote: I'm trying to setup a local lan at my house with a firewall to allow access to the outside world. I've followed the Firewall-FAQ and I can't seem to see what I've done wrong... Maybe somebody can tell me. I'm running Debian 2.0. I have

How to get a screenshot?

1998-09-11 Thread Eric House
I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually to convert it to a .gif file. I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to Snapshot (on Solaris), for example? Thanks, --Eric House

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Greeting everyone, Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Hmm well personally I DO want my computer online all the time whether I am

Re: Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the newer kernels? Yes, I have ;) You mean the 2.1.x kernels I presume? I'll talk about that. BTW, there is a backport of the 2.1.x serial console stuff to 2.0.x at

Re: A question on runlevels

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Tremblett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debian 2.0

More Samba headaches

1998-09-11 Thread Brian Morgan
Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works great. 1 problem now: All of a sudden, nobody can print with the existing windows printer

Install can't find hd on PS/2 (not MCA)

1998-09-11 Thread Curt Daugaard
I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on a model 35 PS/2, using the lowmem option. The boot messages indicate the standard ide0 interface is found (0x1f0, irq 14), but the system never is able to read the drive (message status=0xff, times out). I've tried two different drives, both of which I know to

Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes

1998-09-11 Thread Jim Crumley
Recently picked up a copy of Debian 2.0 from CheaperBytes discount place, 4 cdrom set. My question(s): Has anyone else purchased the Cheaper Bytes CD's? And is the version being distributed by Cheaper Bytes the same in layout etc as that which DebIan have on the net? I have that

Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes

1998-09-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
My question(s): Has anyone else purchased the Cheaper Bytes CD's? And is the version being distributed by Cheaper Bytes the same in layout etc as that which DebIan have on the net? The non-free, contrib and non-US sections are on a different CD from the main distribution---that's the

Installation troubles

1998-09-11 Thread Brian Sheehan
I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large root partition (primary), two smaller logical ones (for /home and /etc) and a

Re: Installation troubles

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large root