Token Ring Problems

1997-03-18 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Hello! Maybe someone can help me out... I'm getting dropped packets. Is this normal ? If not, can someone suggest where to look... Here is some information which might help. Matthew Sun Mar 16 22:11:31 EST 1997 loLink

Linux The prefered os of haker pros

1997-03-18 Thread butch
Hello, I wonder if anyone read the article in todays new york times about the highly paid circle of pros at ibm who are paid very well for cracking into computer systems . there was a picture of a seedy man with a parrot on his shoulder- he uses powerfull computers powered by linux. so what

How do I Get my Server On-Line

1997-03-18 Thread Pete Poff
Hi, could anyone tell me all the steps of things I need to do and things to get to put my server on-line 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and make it so that I can telnet to it? thanks alot, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL

Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)

1997-03-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Craig Sanders wrote:' Package: less Version: 321-2 1. set the environment variable LESSOPEN in your ~/.bashrc or in /etc/profile (modify as required if you use csh or zsh or something else). export LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s 2. create a shell script called lesspipe.sh in

Re: How do I Get my Server On-Line

1997-03-18 Thread Paul Wade
Pete Poff wrote: Hi, could anyone tell me all the steps of things I need to do and things to get to put my server on-line 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and make it so that I can telnet to it? thanks alot, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal

Problems compiling gnuplot---Followup

1997-03-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I reported that in recent beta gnuplots, a core dump occured in response to set locale After installing the debian package locale-bin, the problem has apparently been solved. Even if I use the configure switch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure doesn't see -lvga. Alan Davis

Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)

1997-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: 'Craig Sanders wrote:' Package: less Version: 321-2 I'm not sure about this design. There could exist gzip files that don't have .gz endings and so on. I think a better approach is to use file(1) (and gzip?) to do this. And I sometimes like

Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set

1997-03-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages can't configure after installation in particular LaTeX (and BTW lot of related packages too...) an Pari which were of particular interest to me. After

Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set

1997-03-18 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Laurent: To fix the broken packages add /usr/X11R6/lib to your /etc/ld.so.config file and run ldconfig as root. You should then be able to install the 3 tex packages that break. MAKEDEV is broken on the December 1996 release. You can download the fixed makedev package from the debian ftp site

Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set

1997-03-18 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages can't configure after installation Let me guess.. you installed all of the packages the first time you ran

Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set

1997-03-18 Thread Paul Nelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. I have TRI-LINUX from Linux Software Labs (I believe) and I had the same problem (with the same three packages). Everything seems to work fine

Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set

1997-03-18 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. .. So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. This is unfortunately a FAQ. Someone was kind enough to write a little document about it. Point

lists.debian.org seems unreachable

1997-03-18 Thread Pete Templin
Debianers, Debian.novare.net (aka lists.debian.org) seems to be unavailable at the moment. I will check with my contacts to find out more information, but for the time being we cannot expect normal list mail to be flowing. -- Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717) 966-9656 Finger

Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)

1997-03-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: Note that the order of the case statements is important...e.g. if you don't have 'tar' before 'gz' then the gz line will catch .tar.gz files and you wont get a listing. I'm not sure about this design. The design, if i recall correctly, is

My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Debian - Leander Berwers
Hi list After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? Kind regards Leander Berwers Antwerp, Belgium

Re: SB16 with waveblaster daughterboard. What setup ?

1997-03-18 Thread Gleb Arshinov
Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Hi, before I spend my time recompiling the kernel severel Martin times: Martin Does anyone have a SB16 with a wavetable daughterboard up Martin and working ? Yes, Yamaha's DB50XG here. Martin Which driver should

Re: a question (stupid?)

1997-03-18 Thread Mike Miller
This is a related comment on X security. dpk == dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are trying to run X applications between to machines you have to set the display and xhost variables. Not to be overly picky here, but xhost is not exactly a variable. For details, see the xhost man

SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-18 Thread Markus Diesmann
We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? Markus

Lost file update-rc.d

1997-03-18 Thread Victor Torrico
Help! Somehow I lost or deleted file update-rc.d. I'm not sure whether it should go in /sbin or /usr/sbin. Would someone be really kind and eMail me a recent version of this binary file. Dpkg won't install certain packages without this file and I'm really stuck. Thanks, Victor

applixware

1997-03-18 Thread Richard Sevenich
The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method? If so I'd like to hear how smoothly the installation went. Regards,

Security Issue

1997-03-18 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if the file is owned by root. Is

A lot of errors while installing (dselecting) bo

1997-03-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm the one who frequently asks questions about installing :-(. I had have many trouble while installing Debian on a NFS-Server (see many many different postings in the past). Now I solved one problem and got two further problems :-(. For the guys who helped me solving my old problem: I

Re: What is the typical response from i-Connect?

1997-03-18 Thread Geoff R Deasey
I ordered the cdrom from cheapbytes and I made the disks and installed the floppies (this is kinda dumb, why not install off of the cdrom?) but I have not figured out how to get dselect to work. So at this point all I got off of the cd is the disks. Is this normal ? If I must use dpkg, where

SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-18 Thread Markus Diesmann
We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? Markus

Upgrading from slackware to debian

1997-03-18 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I just fdisk the thing and start all over? Any suggestions? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend

Re: sound-blaster/ide channel 2

1997-03-18 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Christopher C. Pitts wrote: Hiya Debian users! I just upgraded from Slackware 2.0 to Linux/Gnu 1.2.8 (read reformatted harddrive and installed Debian) So far things are great except for 2 things... I have a 8bit (old but stable) SoundBlaster (Factory default setup, IRQ

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:39 AM 3/18/97 +0100, Debian - Leander Berwers wrote: Hi list After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? Try hitting ^V ^O (CTRL-V CTRL-O) and it should give

Re: mt eof + Travan = Operation not permitted

1997-03-18 Thread meierrj
Jens, Ken, and any other interested parties Thank you for your able assistance with the mt(8). The secret was the need to use mt erase on a tape. This works for linux 2.06, but does not work for linux 1.2.13 (Operation not permitted). I understand that patch 56(?) addressed this

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Paul Wade
Debian - Leander Berwers wrote: Hi list After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? Kind regards Leander Berwers Antwerp, Belgium sometimes the clear

lpr: connect: No such file or directory

1997-03-18 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Hi, I just tried to install another network printer. After fiddling with /etc/printcap I got problems. To make a longer story short: I decided to dpkg -r lpr. This went fine. So I reinstalled lpr, using lpr_5.9-12.deb. After setting up rm and rp in /etc/printcap I tried lpr ... This is what I

Re: Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-18 Thread Holger Rusch
Hi, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now it is possible to start programms that uses SLang in an xterm, but they are still black an white. JH What you want is to set COLORTERM. Slang uses this to detect if JH terminal supports color, instead of trying to use termcap, becuase JH the author

Security Packages

1997-03-18 Thread Ken Gaugler
Seems like there used to be a COPS package, or something similar, that did a fairly automated security audit of one's Linux system. Can't seem to find or recollect what it was. Anyone know of a program to do this? Is it a Debian package? Thanx! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California

mail addresses not recognized on the mail host

1997-03-18 Thread Jean-Paul Lacharme
Hi, Our local network has a mail server (ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr). Any mail (sent directely or through pine) to an external server from my PC with linux reaches its aim without problem. However, any mail sent to a local user (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc) fails and generates a [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound-blaster/ide channel 2

1997-03-18 Thread Bruce Perens
I think that's hdc=cdrom. Try that on the boot command line as: boot: linux hdc=cdrom - Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Keep getting removed from list

1997-03-18 Thread John Zachary
About twice a day, I get removed from debian-users because of bounced messages. Is this happening to anyone else? I am getting mail from the list (until I am removed from it). I am getting tired of having to resubscribe over and over, and the other list I am subscribed to does not complain. It

Re: applixware

1997-03-18 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Sevenich: The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method? If so I'd like to hear how smoothly the installation

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:12:03 EST Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ishkill.ibm.com) wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can

no cdrom

1997-03-18 Thread Chris Tipney
Thanks to all those who answered my call on the missing CDROM, I followed the advice and it now works fine - briallant! It must have been an easy question everyone came up with the same answer! Cheers, Chris Tipney Hungerford, Berkshire, England

Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)

1997-03-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Jason Gunthorpe wrote:' On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: 'Craig Sanders wrote:' into less. Another bug in your script is that it doesn't support uncompressing multiple files and saving marks in each of them and hoping back and forth easily. Maybe someone can merge your approach

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Guy Maor
Debian - Leander Berwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? The simplest way is with the reset command. Guy

Module vs Prago

1997-03-18 Thread Greg Vence
What are the pro's con's of compiling into the kernal vs. loading a module? Where could I find docs on topic? Thanx -- Greg. -- Greg Vence | Debian GNU Linux KH2EA/4 | Diamond 2000 (7npw 4cpw) [EMAIL PROTECTED]| There is time for what's important

Re: applixware

1997-03-18 Thread Jason Killen
I also would like to hear. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Richard Sevenich wrote: The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method?

ftp with new debian install

1997-03-18 Thread Brian Freeze
I wrote this list last week with this question but I still have not found the answer. Problem: ftp out of the new system has major delays after username requested. All other services work fine on the system. I can ftp in with know delays. I can telnet into and out of the new system. Things

Re: Module vs Prago

1997-03-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote: What are the pro's con's of compiling into the kernal vs. loading a module? Where could I find docs on topic? Variously scattered I think. There's also the issue of loading with auto or specifically. A few thoughts to get you started on a mini-FAQ!

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread meierrj
Leander Berwers, After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? Don't more (or less) binary files. It's an ASCII thing. The American Standard Code for

Re: Keep getting removed from list

1997-03-18 Thread Tim O'Brien
About twice a day, I get removed from debian-users because of bounced messages. Is this happening to anyone else? I am getting I think that's what's happening to me too... And I have no idea why, but I'd like to find a way to fix it. Any ideas? Tim

TI PS6500/6155/6555 organizer and Linux

1997-03-18 Thread meierrj
Debians, I just purchased a Texas Instruments personal organizer (Model 6500) with kit (6555) for bidirectional serial communication (6155) to a PC. Does anyone have experience or recommendations with this model? Does anyone know of or have software to link this to Linux? Is the

yaq (yet another question)

1997-03-18 Thread d. nathan hood
ok.. update on how my system is going i can launch remote applications (xhost + machine name ) worked the machines i am connecting to are in my research lab, so people messing with my display is not a major concern to me netscape 3.01 is up and running no problems i still can't

Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian

1997-03-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 18 Mar 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I just fdisk the thing and start all over? Any suggestions? Move any packages or libraries that you wish

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-18 Thread David B. Teague
Matthew You could use chattr to make the file immutable. It is documented as chattr(1). Also see lsattr(1). -- David On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by

Problem with Smail

1997-03-18 Thread Jonathan A. Buzzard
Hi, After using Debian 0.93R6 for some 18 months, I took the opportunity of installing a bigger hard disk in my laptop to install 1.2 from the cover CD of Linux World. There where a few problems on the install, but most of the ones I found seem to have been fixed, and everything is running

Module utilities disappeared

1997-03-18 Thread Garrett Jost
I hope this question hasn't been asked before. I've been of the mailing list for awhile and can't find the answer anywhere else. I am now using the unstable Debian release with a custom-built 1.0.27 kernel. A week or two ago, I somehow lost the module utilities (modprobe, insmod, etc.) while I

Re: Linux 2.1.28

1997-03-18 Thread Richard Morin
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: 2.The pppd reports a netmask error once LCP negotiation is complete even if a netmask is provided in either of the options files. 3.The /etc/init.d/network file is not compatible between 2.1.2 and 2.1.28. A netmask

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-18 Thread Lars Hallberg
I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. So, if Your mail app is adding a from: field smail will leave it unchanged. You have to make your mail app add the right from: field (or non att all) to fix it. If You find any other solution, please tell me HTH /Lars In message [EMAIL

Re: Module utilities disappeared

1997-03-18 Thread Paul Wade
Garrett Jost wrote: I hope this question hasn't been asked before. I've been of the mailing list for awhile and can't find the answer anywhere else. I am now using the unstable Debian release with a custom-built 1.0.27 kernel. A week or two ago, I somehow lost the module utilities

Re: applixware

1997-03-18 Thread Richard Morin
Yes, I own a copy of applix. I also happen to maintain alien. Alien can easily convert the rpm's that come on the applix CD into debian packages. I took it an extra step and added a special patch file to applix for alien, which should let it convert applix using less disk space and move the

Re: Keep getting removed from list

1997-03-18 Thread Pete Templin
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: About twice a day, I get removed from debian-users because of bounced messages. Is this happening to anyone else? I am getting I think that's what's happening to me too... And I have no idea why, but I'd like to find a way to fix it. Any ideas?

RE: Linux 2.1.28

1997-03-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Richard: What I have in my /etc/init.d/network is ifconfig lo 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 When the system boots and I run a netstat, my lo network interface doesn't show up. Why?, I don't know. However when I issue a ifconfig, the lo interface shows

Re: Module vs Prago

1997-03-18 Thread Richard Morin
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote: What are the pro's con's of compiling into the kernal vs. loading a module? Smaller kernel, more memory for apps. Where could I find docs on topic? why, if you are running debian with kernel sources installed and the other linux docs, its all

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-18 Thread digger vermont
I'm using one for /home and /debian (location of .deb files). Works fine for that, however I didn't take the time to try and boot from it since I have a msdo$ partition on /hda1. digger We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W

L2 cache etc

1997-03-18 Thread A. Sinan Unur
hi, yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support and get rid of a bunch of scsi, cd-rom and ethernet drivers. anyway, after the first boot, i checked /var/adm/messages and found some unexpected diagnostics regarding the PCI bus. basically, before i built the

Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian

1997-03-18 Thread meierrj
Stig, I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I just fdisk the thing and start all over? I recently upgraded from slackware 3.0 (linux 1.2.13) to Debian (linux 2.0.6) and still have both

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-18 Thread Graeme Stewart
Jonathan A. Buzzard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now connected via modem. It delivers mail fine *except* the From: field= =2E Instead of reading [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Having read Just a thought, but what's your machine's entry in hosts? I have a similar config at home

Re: L2 cache etc

1997-03-18 Thread A. Sinan Unur
well, i hate following up my own posts like this but i forgot to mention that i have debian 1.2.6 distribution and the kernel version is 2.0.27. sorry. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote: hi, yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support and get rid of

Re: SVGATextMode?

1997-03-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! This (s. below at ~~~) is definitly wrong. SVGATextMode does not only increase the number of lines on the screen. Setting kernel vidmode results only in 80x25, 80x28 and 80x50 modes. There is no gain for your eyes in that, but: * With SVGATextMode you get all out of the expensive modern

Re: Kernel compilation problem

1997-03-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Are there any stamp-* files in the top level directory? Please try # make-kpkg clean # make-kpkg -r custom.A kernel_image and see if that works. If not, please capture the output (using script maybe) and also the listing produced by ls -als and please file a bug report

dpkg: how can I get a dependency list?

1997-03-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
A friend of mine is setting up Debian (and Linux for that matter) for the first time. He has a T1 at work and only lowly 28.8 at home. He got the base install done and then, having gained an understanding of what a debian package is, said, Ok, so now I've got my base system up. I'm going to

Re: ftp with new debian install

1997-03-18 Thread Igor Grobman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Brian Freeze wrote: I wrote this list last week with this question but I still have not found the answer. Problem: ftp out of the new system has major delays after username requested. All other services work fine on the system. I

GUI, WIMP

1997-03-18 Thread Engineering
I have installed the base system Debian 1.2.8 Linux kernel 2.0.27. What next? I do not have a distributed CD-ROM. I installed from floppies! Only one went bad. I have a Pentuim w/8M, mouse, soundboard-modem combo and SVGA. I downloaded the XFree86 files needed for installation onto a Windows 95

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-18 Thread meierrj
Matthew, I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me ... I also can rename the file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if the file is owned by root. Is this normal ? Yes.

gs, printer

1997-03-18 Thread jlillibr
I've installed version 3.33-3 of gs. Now when I print ps docs, the quarter inch is cut off. I've dug around and haven't figured out how to fix it. Anyone know? Thanks, Joe