¿Es preferible smail a sendmail?

1998-09-18 Thread PoNY
Saludos: Quiero enviar correo dede casa y no sé cual de los dos gestores instalar. Para traerme el correo utilizo el fetchmail y procmail para repartirlo en buzones. Leyendo la documentación del dselect ponía que smail es el mejor para Debian pero las pruebas que he realizado no

RE: Deshacer RM

1998-09-18 Thread Manuel Paz Flores
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craso error. Solo con un backup. Lo siento. La próxima vez utiliza la opción de confirmación de rm. - -Mensaje original- De: Octavio Rodriguez Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista de Linux Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha:

Re: Deshacer RM

1998-09-18 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:27:21PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Hola, Necesito ayuda urgentemente. Sin querer he borrado un directorio importante: rm -rf directorio ¿Hay alguna forma de recuperarlo? Me temo que no. Puedes leerte el Undelete-mini-HOWTO. Tal vez puedas recuperar

Re: Deshacer RM

1998-09-18 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:27:21PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Hola, Necesito ayuda urgentemente. Sin querer he borrado un directorio importante: rm -rf directorio ¿Hay alguna forma de recuperarlo? Me temo que no. Gracias, Octavio SI lo hay, pero no es

Re: Deshacer RM

1998-09-18 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, ¿Alguien puede explicarme por que no existe un 'undelete' en todos los unices? ¿Es por problemas de seguridad? ¿Como puede afectar? Gracias, Octavio

Re: Deshacer RM

1998-09-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: ¿Alguien puede explicarme por que no existe un 'undelete' en todos los unices? La verdadera razón no la sé, pero se me ocurren varias posibles. Tal vez sería poco fiable, y si no lo fuera, probablemente el empeño en que sí lo fuera obligaría

Re: Deshacer RM

1998-09-18 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:00:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: ¿Alguien puede explicarme por que no existe un 'undelete' en todos los unices? La verdadera razón no la sé... Pues yo tampoco, pero el cuento es, si no lo quería borrar...

Re: unmounting bad floppy

1998-09-18 Thread shaul
is there a way to force an unmount of a bad floppy? It failed to mount, and has gotten the idea that something is open. Is there anythign short of rebooting, or can i even try to reboot? Can it be that a bad cdrom has the same problem ? I have encountered situations when, after I had

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-18 Thread shaul
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ?

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-18 Thread john
Kent West writes: I just tried 115200 per your suggestion. The modem did not respond in any way. So I tried 38400, and the modem dials. So I guess the fast speed just couldn't handshake with the slow modem. 57600 is probably the fastest speed your 14.4 modem can handle. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-18 Thread john
Kent West writes: I changed the speed in /etc/ppp/peers/provider from 115000 to 14400. Try 38400. It should work and will give you better throughput. I still can't ping anything,... What does your 'plog' output look like new? Do you have your ISP's DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf? -- John

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-18 Thread Jack Kern
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 02:27:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: At 10:03 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: I've been reading the thread so it seems that you were trying this as root (ie, no file permissions problems). What speed did you set the serial port to in chatscript? Mine is 115200 (to a 28.8

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-18 Thread King Lee
Hello, I am going to set up a mail server on Debian (1.3) and have read some conflicting reports on the various pros and cons of sendmail, qmail, and smail. Can someone give me a recommendation on one of those MTAs and why? Thanks King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel questions

1998-09-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Remo == Remo Badii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remo Why does the original kernel have permissions -rwxr-xr-x, while Remo the new one (vmlinuz-2.0.34) has -rw-r--r--? The kernel does not need to be executable. Since the file system is a kernel module, and the file system and the

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched through Debian package lists nothing even mentions COBOL. I personally doubt that sucha beast exists. Ive never actually heard of anyone who actually LIKES COBOL. A quick Deja News search reveals:

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-18 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:48:48AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up or ip-down script itself (tested by throwing an echo

Port Fw in the kernal

1998-09-18 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Greetings. I've reinstalled debian 2.0, including the ipchains, ipfwadm, and ipportfw. The ipfwadm seems to work, as the commands are accepted, but nothing seems to work. Also, anything I type in ipportfw bombs, saying setsocket isn;t available. After reading all the documentation, I'm

Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Alvaro Reguly
Hi there .. I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to step 3 (Install) dselect freeks (nice ANSI there :)) complaing about hard disk space, but the thing is I have 2gb+ free space .. Method is FTP. What do you

How to send mail with POP/sendmail?

1998-09-18 Thread Stefan Kluth
Hi, I am trying to send (and receive) mail from a Mac using Eudora (a mail program which talks POP to a POP server). Receiving works fine, but I have trouble sending, only sending mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. I get the following in the syslog from sendmail for one of the failed attempts to

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-18 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I have just installed a Mylex BT958UW scsi card. It has connectors internally for 50 and 68 pin. Can I have devices hooked up to these both at the same time. ie a cdrom to the 50 pin and a hard drive to the 68 pin. Thanks Alot Rick

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Filipe wrote: I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder. You didn't install using the debian

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread mjv
That's too easy :) Are there any dependencies I should know about? Thanks, Mike Stef wrote: I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive on the parallel port so I can start installing packages

hamm ppp questions

1998-09-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
This is a fresh install of 2.0 on a new computer. When I put my static local ip address in pppconfig ppp wouldn't start. The modem connected, login and password were ok but then after several ConfReq/ConfAck messages it gave up. When I changed to noipdefault the connection was established but

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Jim McCloskey
Carl Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | The program never worked well even after I got that fixed, so I | ended up removing it later. Really? It works nicely on my system (Debian 1.3). I use it daily to listen to radio from Ireland, Jim

Re: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On 16 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Lowe writes: You didn't send this to the right place. All the bottom of every message you received was: Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Which is utterly useless to someone running Eudora under Windows, as

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread James Dietrich
I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, RealPlayer

Re: hamm ppp questions

1998-09-18 Thread john
Rick Pasotto writes: When I put my static local ip address in pppconfig ppp wouldn't start. The modem connected, login and password were ok but then after several ConfReq/ConfAck messages it gave up. Please try this again and send me copies of /etc/ppp/peers/provider and the resulting log.

RE: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-18 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
-Original Message- From: Michael Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 6:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: REMOVE!!! On 16 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Lowe writes: You didn't send this to the

Re: Basic question from a Debian new boy

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I can tell, any given application in the Debian distribution is embedded in one of the *.deb files with any number of other applications. Is there a document available that tells which apps are contained in which *.deb

New install problems

1998-09-18 Thread EGRET Lures
Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb) Drive C is a 3.2gb IDE (master) and the new drive(D) 5.1GB (slave). Drive C is dual boot DOS and NT. The bios allows booting from D. Earlier this week before I received the new

installation: hard disk partion segmentation fault

1998-09-18 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
I'm trying to install for the first time on a 486DX33, AMIBIOS 2.3, 8M RAM, 170M HD. As I step through setup, I get to the 'Partition a Hard Disk' step. I select next and am offered the single choice of /dev/hda. I select it, the screen quickly shows a segmentation fault, says its determining

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-18 Thread Ivan Kohler
Hello, On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Alexander List wrote: Hi! I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). I thought about the following ways to do this: 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped

a basic kernel

1998-09-18 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Dear fellow users! I am a newbie, but a week ago enthusiacstically compiled my first kernel. that's amazing. the thing is, it's a process so complex that I fear to touch the makefiles or play with them. I wanted to ask, whether somebody can recommend me an old kernel that have some basic

joystick

1998-09-18 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I want to use my joystick here in linux. How can i do that? or where can i found information? Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-18 Thread Matt Porter
On 17 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Porter writes: My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up or ip-down script itself (tested by throwing an echo command in there). Not a valid test. These scripts are run with stdin and stdout connected to

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread John Larkin
Joey Hess wrote Mario Filipe wrote: I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder. You didn't

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-18 Thread Joel Rowbottom
I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped regularly from mysql Radiator can authenticate from password files and/or MYSQL databases and others. It also

Re: tob problems

1998-09-18 Thread Jim Pick
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have used tob before, but today I get a segmentation fault every time I want to do a -fullcount of -full backup. It ends like this: - current-tss.cr3 = 00641000, %cr3 = 00641000 *pde =

Re: Debian install

1998-09-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: LILO supports booting from either of the hard disks connected to the Primary IDE controller To be precise, booting is a two stage process with respect to LILO. The first stage loads the boot loader and that can be from anywhere,

Re: How to send mail with POP/sendmail?

1998-09-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Stefan Kluth wrote: Sep 17 17:01:39 persil tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [128.3.5.53] Sep 17 17:01:39 persil sendmail[2062]: RAA02062: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=bbrmac1.lbl.gov [128.3.5.53], reject=550

Re: Installation of ipx

1998-09-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Horst Fleischer wrote: Hallo! 1) I have some problems trying to install the IPX -package for the NCPFS-Support for Novell - Netware Servers. I tried to install and afterwards to configure these 2 packages several times with DSELECT but I always get the same

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
one possibility- from: http://service.real.com/help/player/unix3.0/upgrade.html When you upgrade your Web browser, you may lose the configuration information for RealAudio Player. Refer to Quick Start for detailed instructions for configuring Netscape Navigator 2.0 and 3.0. To

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
On 17-Sep-98 John Larkin wrote: I've noticed that realplayer is really stupid when it comes to shared libraries. Try adding /usr/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you use bash. Chances are you don't have a LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
On 18-Sep-98 James Dietrich wrote: I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) and everything worked just fine. However,

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
This seems to be the error message that rvplayer gives in response to just about every difficulty---very unhelpful. Yes! When I had this problem (or at least a problem that resulted in the same error-message), it turned out to be because rvplayer couldn't find the relevant libraries

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
I had similar problems when I installed it, and I spent quite a while figuring the problem out. I finally concluded the the major problem is their insistance on calling them shared library files. That implies that they are the same as the system shared library files, but it appears the

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
On 18-Sep-98 John Larkin wrote: Joey Hess wrote Mario Filipe wrote: I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested

problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread bianxu
I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 1. Installation with disk I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe into DOS directory. when I started install.bat

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Vanecek
Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be for insmod? Trust that I'm familiar with Linux, but still very new. (This is my

Re: About realplayer - SOLVED

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
Actually I didn't! But then when things went wrong i looked for it but couldn't find it... (I think I need new glasses or something!) Just solved the problem: I installed the package and now everything is ok! Thanks for the help! Mario Filipe [EMAIL

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Vanecek
Your problem must be perplexing. I just installed a machine last night with floppies with nary a problem. There may be something in the way your box is reading the floppy drive during boot. I used rawrite to create the rescue disk, driver disk, and the five bin disks, then stuck the rescue in the

Re: a basic kernel

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Vanecek
I seem to remember that you can rebuild a kernal, and rename it. Then you can set lilo to boot off that, and if it screws up, you can reset lilo to boot off your stable kernal. That way you can cut your teeth on the latest kernal technology. Anyone have any more details on that? Mike Alexander

Hardware reference

1998-09-18 Thread Tom Malloy
A friends company just gave me three old 486s in exchange for my helping them with their mail server and firewall. Anyway they each have network cards, so I want to set up a small network in my apartment. They are HP Ethertwist PC link 16 #27247-60001 I can not find any reference to them at

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread James Dietrich
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:21:07AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: On 18-Sep-98 James Dietrich wrote: I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of

Re: joystick

1998-09-18 Thread servis
*- Phillip Neumann wrote about joystick | | | I want to use my joystick here in linux. How can i do that? or where can | i found information? | See http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/ I use it with the 2.0.35 kernel but it also works with the 2.1.x series. You can compile as

Proposed-updates subdir?

1998-09-18 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates subdirectory is for? Yes, I know it's for proposed updates ;-), but what for what dist? Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new incoming type of subdir so that the files are checked and then moved into Hamm or

Re: tob problems

1998-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 17 Sep 1998, Jim Pick wrote: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have used tob before, but today I get a segmentation fault every time I want to do a -fullcount of -full backup. It ends like this: -

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be for insmod? If you start your installation from the rescue disk, you will get

Re: New install problems

1998-09-18 Thread dsb3
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, EGRET Lures wrote: Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb) With the bios set to boot from D all that appears is LI and the systems hangs. from the lilo documentation (actually taken from

RE: cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)

1998-09-18 Thread Hank Fay
Stuart, in Win98, you need to set the gateway and DSN addresses of the client. The gateway is the local network address of the inside NIC on your cable modem box. The DNS addresses are those of the ISP (24.129.x.xx)or whatever. That much I know; I'm still stuck on one-way

Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Adam Greene
What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc??

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 02:52:15PM -0300, Adam Greene wrote: What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc?? hmm well... I have no idea :) What is this standard? Is there a pointer to it? If the standard is

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: Hi there .. I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to step 3 (Install) dselect freeks (nice ANSI there :)) complaing about hard disk space, but the thing is I have 2gb+

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 1. Installation with disk I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe into DOS

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 1. Installation with disk I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe into DOS

Can't reconnect after ISP disconnected me

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
I was connected via ppp to my ISP and doing large download (dselect's ftp of a bunch of packages). The ISP has a three-hour-at-a-time limit, so it disconnected me mid-download. dselect is willing to pick up where it left off, but when I try to pon to reconnect, I'm not getting reconnected. The

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [stuff deleted] Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. Try a fresh format on all 7 floppies (full format, not the quick format). All it takes is one flakey sector on the floppy to torpedo you. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas

Can't reconnect after ISP disconnected me

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
Never mind: I'm an idiot. I forgot I was using a connection other than the standard provider. I tried pon acu and the connection came right up. Thanks anyway. I was connected via ppp to my ISP and doing large download (dselect's ftp of a bunch of packages). The ISP has a three-hour-at-a-time

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
At 08:53 AM 9/18/1998 -0400, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [stuff deleted] Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. I assume you have the 5 or 6 images (resc1440.bin, etc) in a directory on a DOS (or Win9x/NT) machine. You also need rawrite2.exe (or the older

Re: Proposed-updates subdir?

1998-09-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: :Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates : subdirectory is for? : :Yes, I know it's for proposed updates ;-), but what for what dist? : Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new incoming : type of

gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Person, Rod
Hey All, I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these programs but here's the rub.. mc say to use this. gzip -d mcfile | tar -xf - I have also tried

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hey All, I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these programs but here's the rub.. mc is definatly a .deb, and I thinkthe others may well be. If they are, then you're much

installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, got a new disk for my slackware linux system, and wanted to give debian a try on my production system is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having trouble with my floppy-device and since i already have a running linux system, i want to install the new

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Shaleh
1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs. 2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need the hyphen before its arguments. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs. 2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need the hyphen before its arguments. or, more simply, tar -zxvf my_targz.tar.gz the z option (not in some other unix version) causes gzip compression/

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Default Debian Reader
When i do this it asks for the file system type? mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip hmm, it also gives me same message when i do mount /dev/hdc /cdrom i can't mount devices anymore...ouch..i konw there is easy answer to this i just forget. On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, mjv wrote: That's too easy :) Are there any

make-kpkg and modules

1998-09-18 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Manoj, As I wrote in the previous message, I have recompiled the kernel successfully but I included the pcmcia support in it, as well as IDE_CD and NLS_XXX, while now I realize these should all be modules. Indeed, there are entries for all of them in the default Debian 2.0

Ctr-Alt-Delete not cleanly unmounting

1998-09-18 Thread Sean Johnson
Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told upon subsequent reboot of linux that the partition was not cleanly unmounted, and then have to sit through esfchk. If I type shutdown -r now, this does not happen. It seems to me that there must be something wrong with the way

Re: Ctr-Alt-Delete not cleanly unmounting

1998-09-18 Thread Shaleh
Quite simply: DO NOT DO THIS!!! To reboot type: reboot. D othis while logged in as root. to shutdown the machine type: shutdown -h now. again as root. Sean Johnson wrote: Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told upon subsequent reboot of linux that the

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
When i do this it asks for the file system type? mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip /mnt is a directory with no files. You must mount to an existing directory, which really should be empty. try: mkdir /zip mount /dev/sda4 /zip -t msdos (i'm assuming you're using a dos formatted zip) rick --

Re: Ctr-Alt-Delete not cleanly unmounting

1998-09-18 Thread Gergely Madarasz
Quite simply: DO NOT DO THIS!!! There should be no problem with CAD, if it is set up properly it should do a clean reboot, and it is set up properly by default. Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told upon subsequent reboot of linux that the partition was

DPT Scsi Host Controller

1998-09-18 Thread Shane S.
Hi there, On the server that I am installing the debian linux, it has a DTP Scsi Host Controller PM 2012A. After reviewing the harware compatibility list on the debian site, I noticed that this type of controller is support. However during installation, in the configuring the driver

Re: Emacs 20

1998-09-18 Thread Martin Schulze
This does not belong to debian-admin but to debian-user, I've forwarded it. Flint wrote: Emaccs 20 has posed a prblem to install. Assumed it is related to video problem. Have Diamond Stealth II S220 with Rendition Verite Chipset, hoping some one knows of released driver or one under test.

printcap entry for ip adress printer, and filter for 5MP

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
nuts. I've tried to print again, and my printcap is part of what was lost in the partition table fiasco. Unfortuneately, i don't remember how I figured it out, and can't figure out the options again from printcap. That and what i did figure out before was a little flaky, and i never got

Re: installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD drive. Someone mailed me, I

Re: installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD drive. Someone mailed me,

Samba: Passwords to print??

1998-09-18 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello, Can I let everyone in my office print to a Samba printer share, and not have them authentic as a user. I would rather allow every IP in my Domain/Subnet to print without asking for passwords. And then I can deny the rest of the world. Again, I only want to do this for printers, not all

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 10-Sep-1998, Adam Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc?? Probably the usual: Wait for a concrete proposal. Wait until someone actually uses it.

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
How big is your /tmp partition? (or is it /var/tmp?) - At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: Hi there .. I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
James Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) and everything worked just fine.

Re: cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)

1998-09-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Stuart: I also have a cable modem with @HOME. They are relativley easy to get working. Set the ip of the nic they gave you to 24.1.106.xxx. Then set the netmask to 255.255.255.0. The gateway is 24.1.106.1. Then use the DNS servers they gave you. They should have given you a name for

X Windows Startup

1998-09-18 Thread Andy Bierlair
Hello I am a new Linux user in Debian 2.0 i wanted to install a few things including X WIndows. i can enter the XWIN setup in the beginning and set up screen, graphic card, etc... now debian wanted to launch X WINdows once again, and then i got my problem ! The whole stuff is hanging. i

Rescue Disk

1998-09-18 Thread johnk
Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for creating a rescue disk after installation. I had a problem with my floppy during the install and it could not create one, now the floppy is fixed and I would like to make one. Thanks in advance. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread mjv
That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted fine. Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with squeezing

Re: How to send mail with POP/sendmail?

1998-09-18 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Stefan Kluth wrote: Sep 17 17:01:39 persil tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [128.3.5.53] Sep 17 17:01:39 persil sendmail[2062]: RAA02062: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=[EMAIL

gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
just try tar -xzvf filename.gz this will take care of everything at once. Hey All, I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these programs

Big troubles with DSELECT

1998-09-18 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, While trying to upgrade to HAMM, something really bad happened. Ran the autoup.sh and things just didn't work out. It seems that not all the Libs were properly replaced. While trying to upgrade the system with DSELECT I got the below errors. Any ideas on where I should take it

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Alvaro Reguly
Date forwarded: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:11:52 -0300 Date sent: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Forwarded by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Dselect Freeking ... Forwarded to: [EMAIL

Re: Proposed-updates subdir?

1998-09-18 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 18 Sep, Randy Edwards wrote: Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates subdirectory is for? Yes, I know it's for proposed updates ;-), but what for what dist? Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new incoming type of subdir so that the files are

[off-topic] out of mailing lists .....

1998-09-18 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Sorry, about this mail, but is the second or third time that I stop from getting mail from debian-user, debian-devel and debian-changes mailing lists! To resolve it I need to subscribe again! :( Had this happened to someone else !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

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