Re: ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-21 Thread Christian Meder
On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. here is a transcript of a typical session : bash ftp lebrun Connected to lebrun.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de. 220 lebrun FTP server (Version

Re: (Fwd) What is System.map for ?

1997-04-21 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:17:02 - Martin Bialasinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have build a custom kernel.deb package and successfully installed it. The package also installed a System.map file. Obviously this file has some symbol to memaddress infos and is different in a kernel with

Re: ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-21 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Thank ! It was that. But the file is neither in the base file (base1_3.tgz) nor in base-passwd. (on ftp.debian.org) Are you sure this gets corrected soon ? Else it should be reported. bye, Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Christian Meder wrote: On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote I

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: Actually i thought that teTeX was supposed to and is the solution for what you seem to recognize as Debian's confused TeX direction!? IMHO the fact that teTeX has become part of Debian is a major reason to consider installing Debian. I suppose that

Case of the dissapearing backspace

1997-04-21 Thread Chad Zimmerman
Ok, here is an interesting little problem that litterly poped out of nowhere. I had the vga16 server running for a while.. when I installed the svga server and configured it.. everything looked fine. Then I tried my backspace.. it doesn't work at all.. it beeps at me and adds a ~ for everythime

Re: RFC: Stacker 133 compatablilty...

1997-04-21 Thread dthayer
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jeff Greeson wrote: I bet this has been debated before, but how does the Trinity Works' Stacker 133 perform with 2.0.30 of Debian? FYI, the Stacker 133 is a AMD 5x86/133 that fits in a 486 chip socket. I installed one a couple of weeks ago. I had one kernel panic

Afterstep and Debian: WOW! (fwd)

1997-04-21 Thread Paul Seelig
---BeginMessage--- I just installed Afterstep, and I love it. Kudos to the authors! My only complaint goes out to whoever is managing the Debian package. The package available on ftp.us.debian.org is very outdated, and doesn't work well at all. I would be willing to take over package

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. web2c-7.0 is the state of the art.

New package/maintainer.

1997-04-21 Thread Tomislav Vujec
I decided to volunteer for debian project. So far I made a package rnetscape for remote controlling netscape navigator through X protocol. As I understood dpkg/debian documentation, I have to ask for an account at master to upload this package. Is this the place to ask? Regards, -- Tomislav

how to generate Packages.gz ?

1997-04-21 Thread Steve Hsieh
I am trying to create my own local directory of debian packages. Can someone tell me what the command is to generate the Package.gz and Contents.gz files? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-21 Thread Richard Sharman
Dave Cinege writes: Until recently I just used the built-in serial ports, which are 16650a limited to 115000 bps. I have recently bought a Byte Runner card and am talking to the Bitsurfr at 230400 bps. Have I noticed a big Aaaa! And you are using this with linux? Are you sure

NTeX: Check it out.

1997-04-21 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de:/mathB/lst3/langbein/ntex.html It seems to be working well. It installs `dpkg` compatibly. (I can use `dpkg --status` to get information about the various packages within NTeX.) -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg

Tx chipset

1997-04-21 Thread John Foster
Has anyone tried the new Tx chipset with Debian? I'm looking at the new Tyan MB. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
First, 430HX does cache more than 64MB RAM subject to your motherboard have an extra Tag RAM. It is the Tag RAM problem, not the chipset problem. Only 430VX and 430TX not cache more than 64MB RAM. Second, it is the BIOS limitation that make Linux not find more than 64MB RAM, though there is a

QPOPPER Will Not Work

1997-04-21 Thread Don Brady
Well I spent most of the evening trying to get qpopper to work. (The current package). First it complains that it cannot write to /var/spool/pop. So I make var/spool/pop writeable by all (hardly seems desirable). Then it complains that the password is wrong. Or that the lock file is still

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-21 Thread Dave Cinege
On 21 Apr 1997 03:58:51 -, Richard Sharman wrote: Dave Cinege writes: Until recently I just used the built-in serial ports, which are 16650a limited to 115000 bps. I have recently bought a Byte Runner card and am talking to the Bitsurfr at 230400 bps. Have I noticed a big

Specifications of Monitor HP98754A?

1997-04-21 Thread Helmut Lanzendoerfer
Hi there, I got an old workstation monitor. The monitor is an HP 98754A monitor. But I have no technical description. Can someone help me to get the technical properties of this monitor to use it with XFree86? horizontal frequency: ?? vertical frequenecy: ?? Or can someone send me his XFConfig

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 20, 1997 at 03:17:06PM -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: No, it's irq2; I had to set the jumper myself. What you wrote is just the defaults. I ran OS/2 previous to Linux, and you can't share irqs like that under OS/2. :) Well all I can tell you is I'm running 4 16450s cua0 to

offix: no icon for file type

1997-04-21 Thread Markus Diesmann
I installed the offix package. But when starting files. I get a long list like: files: can't read icon for type XFM files: can't read icon for type asciireadme files: can't read icon for type asciiread.me files: can't read icon for type asciiREADME files: can't read icon for type asciiREADME*

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-21 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the

Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-21 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Brian White wrote: Some details: Debian 1.2 (based on Infomagic Dec'96, various upgrades) netscape_3.01-4.deb used as installer for: netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz It's configured (under options etc) to use disk cache; it creates the directory

Re: how to generate Packages.gz ?

1997-04-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: I am trying to create my own local directory of debian packages. Can someone tell me what the command is to generate the Package.gz and Contents.gz files? For the packages file you need dpkg-scanpackages. To use this, you will need the override file

Re: Specifications of Monitor HP98754A?

1997-04-21 Thread Helmut Lanzendoerfer
Helmut Lanzendoerfer wrote: Hi there, I got an old workstation monitor. The monitor is an HP 98754A monitor. But I have no technical description. Can someone help me to get the technical properties of this monitor to use it with XFree86? horizontal frequency: ?? vertical

Re: RFC: Stacker 133 compatablilty...

1997-04-21 Thread branden
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jeff Greeson wrote: I bet this has been debated before, but how does the Trinity Works' Stacker 133 perform with 2.0.30 of Debian? FYI, the Stacker 133 is a AMD 5x86/133 that fits in a 486 chip socket. I installed one

running procmail automatically from smail, and a question about POP

1997-04-21 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to ask this - I have looked around and can't seem to find the answer. I've got a lot of linux experience, but I only recently had to start dealing with mail being delivered to my local machines. I would like procmail to be run automatically

Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-21 Thread Brian White
Wrong : the cache is under ~/.netscape/cache On my machine, it is actually under ~/.netscape-cache. I haven't bothered to investigate why. Thank you Brian. While you're at it, is it normal that nescape continaly complains : 'cannot convert string 'FALSE' to type boolean' ? Does anyone else

tcpdump tokenring, works.

1997-04-21 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I was able to get tcpdump to work on a tokenring network, on my debian system. :) If anyone would like this, or I should place it somewhere...let me know. Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On the subject of debian mailing lists...

1997-04-21 Thread Todd Harper
Is there a way to check if I am or am not subscribed to a particular debian mailing list? I would hate to find out the hard way that I have been accidentally removed or re-added to a list due to a mail server problem. Cheers, -- Todd HarperDamn it Smithers, this isn't rocket

Debian 1.2 rescue disk hangs during boot

1997-04-21 Thread Jay Maynard
I'm setting up my second system with Linux. It runs Red Hat 4.0 fine, but when I try to install Debian 1.2 (from teh December 1996 InfoMagic CD-ROM), the rescue floppy hangs at boot time. If I specify no boot parms, it hangs in probing the cm206 driver; if I tell the cm206 driver an address where

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-21 Thread Christoph Best
Hi again, I have something for the dselect etc. wish list: We would like to be able to put the packages in an unpacked state on a read-only NFS disk and then automagically create symlinks from the system directories to the NFS disk on our target systems that form a cluster. This of course makes

Problem with talk(d)

1997-04-21 Thread Alexander Lazarevic
Hi! There seems to be a problem with my talk(d). When I try to talk to somebody on a different machine (local works) I get no connection with talk and ytalk gives the following errors: Ytalk Error find_daemon: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused sendit:

Re: tcpdump tokenring, works.

1997-04-21 Thread Matthew Tebbens
To get tcpdump to work with tokenring: get the following files: ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap-0.3.tar.Z ftp.ee.lbl.gov/tcpdump-3.3.tar.Z ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/tcpdump-3.3-tokenring.gz (patchs libpcap tcpdump) place all in temp dir, uncompress and extract. READ tcpdump-3.3-tokenring, about the patch.(be

Re: netstd_2.13-1 ( READ THIS!!! or you /etc/inetd.conf will suffer )

1997-04-21 Thread Jim Pick
It is one of the removal scripts of CVS, *DO NOT* remove cvs as it will wipe inetd.conf :( Only to clarify this ... It's only valid for the versions CVS 1.9-{1,2,3} (all versions only in unstable). If you have one of these versions installed edit the cvs.postrm in

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
On 21 Apr 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: web2c-7.0 is the state of the art. Which in turn contains lots of improvements by Thomas Esser who does designe teTeX. The upcoming teTeX release will be based on web2c-7.0 or later. So the development of teTeX and web2c are actually strongly related to

Problems with SVGA Xserver and ct65530 chipset

1997-04-21 Thread Marc-Oliver Gewaltig
Hi, I have upgraded my 486DX2-66 Notebook to Debian 1.3h from a german linux distribution with a 2.0.8 kernel. My previous version of the X server was XFree 3.1.2 and was running fine. I have a ct 65530 chipset with 512 MB RAM which had only very limited support on my old X server. After the

Re: QPOPPER Will Not Work

1997-04-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I spent most of the evening trying to get qpopper to work. (The current package). First it complains that it cannot write to /var/spool/pop. So I make var/spool/pop writeable by all (hardly seems desirable). Then it

Van Jacobson: pathchar - a new tool for characterizing Internet paths

1997-04-21 Thread Bill Wohler
I would be interested in such a Debian package when the software described below becomes available. Perhaps it could be added to its brethren in netstd? --- Forwarded Message Subject: pathchar - a new tool for characterizing Internet paths From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Van Jacobson)

[Fwd: Critical Times article on Linux]

1997-04-21 Thread Michael Iles
Bruce Perens wrote, The Times, a respected British newspaper, published an article that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition. For those interested (I just HAD to read this...) you can find it at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?1723766 ( -

Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters

1997-04-21 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
I need to know if these two adapters are supported by Linux. For the 2940, the SCSI HOWTO says 294x support requires a new version of the driver, what does this mean? About the 3940 I found no reference. I'd appreciate any info you can give on this. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product

Re: Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters

1997-04-21 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: I need to know if these two adapters are supported by Linux. For the 2940, the SCSI HOWTO says 294x support requires a new version of the driver, what does this mean? About the 3940 I found no reference. I'd appreciate any info you can give on this. Thank you, I

URGENT: 586 assumptions?

1997-04-21 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Are there vital packages (like libc maybe?) that are compiled with the assumption of a Pentium processor? I've lately (approximately but not exactly since I upgraded to libc 5.4.2x) started having machine failures with untrappable divide-by-zero errors. The machine is a 3 year old 486/33,

Re: ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-21 Thread Alex Romosan
make sure that whatever shell your users use is listed in /etc/shells. for some strange reason /bin/tcsh is not there by default. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and

Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?

1997-04-21 Thread joost witteveen
Why is this URGENT? although quite a few people use 486's none have reported problems like your's so it isn't all that urgent I think. But, to give more info about your question: I used to have a CYRIX 486, that gave me floating point errors. This apparently was due to a bug in the CYRIX

Re: Change Keyboard configuration after installation???

1997-04-21 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Hong Huang wrote: I remember Keyboard got configured during installation. My question is: is it possible to change the keyboard configuration after installation? Yes, it is. By using the 'loadkeys'-program. Use it to change your keyboard layout. Put in somewhere in your

Re: ftpd rejects all users ! (SOLVED)

1997-04-21 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
The base distribution for bo does not include the file /etc/shells , that defines the authorized login shells That causes ftpd to reject the users (they don't have a qualified login shell). Thank you all for your help !! Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word