Re: Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups.
Pedro Sanchez wrote: After this, /etc/group is ok, with user-name added where appropriate. However, when user-name logs in and types groups he gets, $ groups user-name dialout Where is dip? In fact, I tested by adding user-name to more groups but to my surprise groups always returns the same two groups! Odd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/groups joey dialout cdrom floppy tape dos users pub network Were you running X? I think you have to exit X and restart after adding a group. You may have to log out and back in even if you're just on the console, for the changes to take effect, but I'm not sure about that. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Several Q's
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: No switches on the mouse and the XF86Config file is bare. I believe I used XF86Setup and it's various mouse options to try to get the middle button to work with no luck. Some mice require that you hold the middle mouse button down during powerup. This switches them into three-buton mode. Annoying, but it may not be annoying enough to make you buy a new mouse... Sincerely, Raymond Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said there'd be snow at Christmas; They said there'd be peace on Earth. Halelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell; The Christmas we get we deserve. -ELP, I Believe in Father Christmas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Several Q's
Larry Gariepy wrote: Matthew, The problem with your mouse might not be your mouse, but the way that it is configured. I have had to jump through all of the mouse hoops a lot recently to get mine to work. A possible solution is that there might be a switch on the bottom of the mouse that you can flip, then reboot the machine, and see if it works. If not, you will have to mess with XF86Config. If you don't have a switch on the bottom, or if that doesn't fix the problem, then email this list again, and we'll go from there. No switches on the mouse and the XF86Config file is bare. I believe I used XF86Setup and it's various mouse options to try to get the middle button to work with no luck. Did you try reading through the 3-button-mouse howto in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Spreadsheets
Hi, Two questions: 1. Is the spreadsheet wingz available for debian - I couldn't find it. Or is there a spreadsheet which allows the importation of wingz files? 2. Which spreadsheet to people recommend? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice libc5
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote, I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with 5.4.33. The next magic question, is are you using hamm or bo, and should it make a difference? I'm using bo, but I don't think that will be a problem if you keep a copy of libc5 (not libc5-dev) when using hamm (I'm about to do the upgrade here, which will require a downgrade from 5.4.33-6 to 5.4.33-3, but I was using StarOffice before 5.4.33-6 came out.) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Several Q's
On 11 Dec 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: [stuff removed] Did you try reading through the 3-button-mouse howto in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini? I'd like to thank everyone who answered my request for information. The fix was easy; hold down button 1 during boot and set the protocol to MouseSystems... and the documentation was on my system all along. The more I use Linux, the more I am amazed at the quality... Maybe x86 HW isn't that bad after all... Thankx again. __ Matthew Majka -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
whoops, this should have gone to the list too. -- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that is the last command in .xinitrc. The problem is more likely the use of 's. Every program started in .xinitrc should have appended EXCEPT the window manager. Doesn't a /bin/sh stick around if you don't use exec? Or did that change at some point? I think I put exec in my .xsession before the windowmanager when I first installed debian (buzz) to make the /bin/sh go away, and it's been there ever since. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Motherboard with Adaptec 2940
Hi All, I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI controller. A local newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI controller. Does Debian support such motherboard? The manufacturer has a web site @ http://www.iwill.com.tw I appreciate it if someone could tell me pros and cons after used the board. Thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian V Bonini wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:59 -0500 ): |What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a |floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the |.xsession file that resides in /root. Please HELP |Thanks |-Brian, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Why don't you just log in with your user account and su to or even login as root? You can also wait for the X server to start up and then hit Ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a console... I could add to this that in order to stop xdm from starting up at boot time, you need to edit the file /etc/X11/config (as root). Change the line start-xdm to no-start-xdm. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups.
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 07:18:16PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Where is dip? In fact, I tested by adding user-name to more groups but to my surprise groups always returns the same two groups! Odd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/groups joey dialout cdrom floppy tape dos users pub network Were you running X? I think you have to exit X and restart after adding a group. You may have to log out and back in even if you're just on the console, for the changes to take effect, but I'm not sure about that. You do. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to use debian-cd
Is there anyone using debian-cd who would be willing to provide some basic instructions on how to use it (or point me to some?) Specifically, after installing debian-cd-1.0 on a Debian-1.3.1R6 system, I don't understand which vars need to be configured to make mount the iso filesystem in the right place (the default seems to write in my system's / directory and die with an error??). Also, I noticed that the script does not pick up important variables like ARCH for some reason. If I type the command on the shell prompt, it works, but it doesn't when called inside cd_functions.sh, but instead comes up blank... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whoops, this should have gone to the list too. -- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [ I said: ] It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that is the last command in .xinitrc. The problem is more likely the use of 's. Every program started in .xinitrc should have appended EXCEPT the window manager. Doesn't a /bin/sh stick around if you don't use exec? Or did that change at some point? I think I put exec in my .xsession before the windowmanager when I first installed debian (buzz) to make the /bin/sh go away, and it's been there ever since. Yes, by using exec to launch a command from a script, the process associated with the script (/bin/sh) is replaced by the process associated with the command. This saves a few system resources, since the script process is not laying sleeping in the background for no purpose. The program pstree is an excellent tool to see the effect of this. However, the improvement of performance by this is barely measurable. I am simply arguing that while it is generally a good idea to uses exec, it is not that important, and certainly not required. In fact it might give you some unexpected effects, if exec is used on anything else than the last command in a script. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mailing list for free electronics software
I have created a mailing list for discussion about free electronics software for Unix, especially Linux FreeBSD. To subscribe, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where fes means free electronics software) with the command subscribe in the text. The submission address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dataplot: NIST 1 million lines of code, since 1978
Mike Fleming has brought together a series of presentations at the Washington Statistical Society. The theme has been public-domain software, including our usual friends in statistics and Linux like R (S+ clone), octave (Mathlab clone), LaTeX. Beyond the packages many of us have heard of, this week James J. Filliben of the Statistical Engineering Division of the U.S. National Institute of Standards (NIST) presented software continually developed since they first introduced it in 1978 (yes, that's 20 years). That software is DATAPLOT. Three people work on dataplot full time at NIST. They have 1 million lines of code in the program, 17 MB of binaries, and 2000 pages of documentation. They have 70 statistical distributions, probably more than the statistical bastions SAS, SPSS and BMDP. They contain most every experimental design in Box and Jenkins. Their software does Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), time series analysis, process control, reliability. Their front end is Tcl/Tk and they have extensive graphics. This program is very popular at NIST. Why haven't we heard of dataplot? NIST didn't want government software competing with commercial software. Of course, the bastion SAS was developed under extensive funding by federal and state governments until someone carted off with it. Indeed, Robert Morrison at Oklahoma State University still has the 72,000 IBM cards for SAS. While James Filliben has Unix and Linux versions of dataplot, he learned this week about RedHat and Debian. Mike Flemming tells me that the dataplot team is now interested in having a debian version. Mike has tried to use the Linux version of dataplot and says he has difficulty with some libraries on Linux but can run dataplot on a Sun, so forming a debian package may take a little work. I will give Mike Flemming the address of the Prospective-Packages maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], which Mike will forward to James Filliben, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dataplot has the web page http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot.html Oh, yes, it is free, public-domain with some U.S. Government copyright. NIST has produced a product which best suits its purposes and probably does not want to use another product, unlike the massive geographical program Grass developed over decades by another US government agency. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AMD K6
I was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with running the K6 and Debian Linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: AMD K6
I am running one on one of my machines ... no problems. On 12-Dec-97 Fenrick wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with running the K6 and Debian Linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AMD K6
Hi, I have heard of some problems with AMD K6 Anyone to comment? The reason is because I have a K6 200 right beside me. :) regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
permission denied
I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a particular file look like -rwxr-xr-x 901 root size Install Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get permission denied. What gives? I have no idea where to look. ebt - have fun -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cfdisk partion errors
hi, i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any ways to correct or edit partition errors? allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cfdisk partion errors
butch wrote: hi, i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any ways to correct or edit partition errors? allan Few months ago, I tried using cfdisk to set the linux partition (2GB), and both linux and msdos fdisk denied to run and I have to low-level format my SCSI HD to rectify the problem. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with booting after moving from 128 to 64M
I had my system working fine for about 2 months but lately I have been experiencing problems. I initially thought it had to do with dirty filesystems. Now I have excluded that possibility. Now I wanted to test memory (128M) by removing 64M at a time and changing the lilo.conf mem statement. After I have done that the computer does not boot anymore. It stops after line VFS: mount root If I replace all 128M it boots fine, but it does not work with any combinations of 64 Megs Any clues? // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. Thanks a lot for such a quick answer. I have another question... I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x SCSI CDROM on an Adaptec 1505. Could I have any problem to use them on the Debian distribution ? I promise that it is my last question :-) Is CD-recorder also SCSI? If yes, then there is only a question whether SCSI host adapter is supported. Adaptec is generally not the best choice for Linux, but this particular card seems to be supprted for already some time and I would not expect a problem with it. Refer to SCSI-HOWTO for more information. The Philips CDD2600 works fine for me (on a symbios/ncr810.) It is autodetected by cdwrite. If you have problems writing cd's, investigate into the controller, the wiring and termination. IIRC my CDD2600 is jumpered to terminate the SCSI bus. You may want to change that if the Pioneer already does that (or change the Pioneer.) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: permission denied
Elaina Beth Tillinghast wrote: I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a particular file look like -rwxr-xr-x 901 root size Install Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get permission denied. What gives? I have no idea where to look. It's probably a script. Therefore it's quite likely that you have a problem with permissions on something the script is trying to run. If it is not a script, I have no idea. If it is, the first line probably says what shell process is to run the script. It might say `#! /bin/bash' or `#! /usr/bin/perl'. Check the permissions of that executable. If that is OK, start debugging the script itself. If it's a shell script (/bin/bash or /bin/sh) put `set -x' near the top; if it's a perl script, I don't know; perhaps someone else could suggest something. The object is to see what command in the script is failing. If you can't do it that way, check the permissions of every command the script tries to run. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. The Chipset has a problem that there is no one porting X86 to it. If you read the READMEs that come from the X development group they do mention this problem. So the problem is not Debian support but X support. I think the problem was made worse initially because the chip maker was unwilling to give information about the chip. I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x SCSI CDROM on an Adaptec 1505. Could I have any problem to use them on the Debian distribution ? I promise that it is my last question :-) Its is not so much a question of a distribution as is a question of Linux drivers being available. The only difference that has impacted me directly was that someone has wriiten a filter for Red Hat that allows remote printing with the normal lpr without resorting to other fancy ways of trying to accomplish this but otherwise its 99.9% the issue of linux drivers. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP! Taper Seg Faults on Restore!!!
Help, I need to restore a file from a Taper 6.7.4 backup and when I try a restore Taper seg faults as soon as I select any file for restore. I need to get a file off the backup ASAP! Is there any other program that can read the tapes. I am using the ftape driver to write to an QIC-80 Extra cartridge. The backup went without a hitch last week. Please Help! Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...
Interesting, I am running perl version 5.004.04-2 also, but when I do perl -v I get: This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit. --ken Adrenolin [~]$perl -v perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). This is perl, version 5.004_02 Thanx --Rob -- __ Ken Lauffenburger / /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / D e b i a n G N U \ \/ / / / __ __ __ \ / / / / / / _ \ / / / / / \ ...Look out Bill, / /___ / / / / ) // (_/ / / /\ \ here comes... (__)(_/ (_/ (_/ \/ (_/ \_) http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CHoose OS v0.80 - Tale of Woe
On 97/12/11 at 08:25 AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote:
Hello,
Think CHOS is the greatest thing since chocolate ice cream. I have it partially
configured but can't boot all OSs on several partitions. Obviously it's a case
of cockpit trouble on my part. I've tried all I can do to get all three
bootable partitions to boot with only partial success. Here's the sad tale:
Running Debian Linux i586 box with two 1.6 GByte EIDE hard drives. Before I was
using the OS/2 loader and lilo which worked fine for selecting the partition to
boot. The actual partitions are:
1. * /dev/hda2 - linux OS mounted as / (Use entire drive for linux)
2. /dev/hdb6 - linux OS mounted as /mnt/deb (Use for file storage only)
3. * /dev/hdb7 - linux OS mounted as /mnt/debb (Emergency linux partition)
4. * /dev/hdb8 - OS/2 OS mounted as /mnt/os2 (HPFS)
* = bootable OSs
The names for the three bootable partitions I would use for CHOS would be:
/dev/hda2 = Linux A (there are 2 kernels here /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.old)
/dev/hdb7 = Linux B
/dev/hdb8 = OS/2
Right now the only kernel that will load is /boot/vmlinuz.old. /boot/vmlinuz
will not load. Also using vchos I couldn't get /dev/hdb7 or /dev/hdb8 to load
no matter what I tried. It's probably something dumb I'm overlooking.
Please help or point me to where I can get help.
My /etc/chos.conf file is: (before I tried other OSs)
snip
# BACKGOUND
background=dump:/boot/bg/chos.bin
# MENUPOSITION
menupos=21,16
# TIMERPOSITION
timerpos=24,3
# FILE SETTINGS
#
#
# IMAGES
#
##
bootsect DOS {
color=lightblue
image=/dev/hda1
}
linux Linux {
color=blue
image=/vmlinuz
}
linux Old Linux {
color=red
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
}
snip
I also tried image=/boot/vmlinux under Linux with no success (no boot).
Old Linux boots fine. I don't use DOS at all so I can simply elininate that
part of the file.
Regards,
--
Victor Torrico
-- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia --
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dselect
Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files, right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some errors, I need to add like a packages header or something, any ideas? Also does anyone know of a online manual that explains installing new packages, binary and source to debian? Thanxz, Bud Anyone comments, suggetions or flames goto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP Aliasing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two different addresses. Any pointers on how to do this? Roll a kernel with ip-alias included or as a module (in the latter case make sure the module is loaded) and use the normal ifconfig commands on the magic names eth0:0, eth0:1,... to configure additional IP adresses on the same physical device. See also kernel-source/Documentation/networking/alias.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNJE3OVptA0IhBm0NAQFlDwL/WH7SWvwWK2vtiZisECJ304uDkBkotdw4 1yzjRy/ljjC4OzWPKi6GAJKqZkMolVnBie0umu9gnq14oavpkGQBuZzmWx4cA4hq PhuUDvz/HgkqXPfFOD2c7JR64SOZlKME =PVMo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups.
That's it. I have to logout and login again for the new groups to take effect. I wasn't using X, just the console. Thank you for your answers. P. Sanchez -- In message Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups., [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 07:18:16PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Where is dip? In fact, I tested by adding user-name to more groups but to my surprise groups always returns the same two groups! Odd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/groups joey dialout cdrom floppy tape dos users pub network Were you running X? I think you have to exit X and restart after adding a group. You may have to log out and back in even if you're just on the console, for the changes to take effect, but I'm not sure about that. You do. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Motherboard with Adaptec 2940
I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI controller. A local newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI controller. Does Debian support such motherboard? The manufacturer has a web site @ http://www.iwill.com.tw I appreciate it if someone could tell me pros and cons after used the board. Hi. I myself considered buying MB with on-board SCSI adapter, though it was Asus P2L97-DS and AIR P6LDX-S. The AIC7880 SCSI chip (the one used in 2940UW) is supported by linux, but you can always expect any surprise from Adaptec - a little change in SCSI BIOS and you are out of luck (at lest for a while). In any case BusLogic SCSI adapters are *MUCH* better supported. So the only PRO is that you save one PCI slot for something else. The CONS are: worse supported adapter, practically impossible to attach any external devices. (MB doesn't have external scsi slot, you can daisy-chain the connector from the internal one, but SCSI bus length limitations would not allow you to attach no more than one external device, if you are lucky.) Length restrictions also apply for the case of PCI adapter and though more easily fulfilled with the same number of devices, any serious system should consider having 2 SCSI adapters (if you do not plan to use IDE at all), and not only for SCSI bus length reasons. So, the real alternatives are: SCSI MB with another PCI (Adaptec, mixing two brands of adapters is probably not good idea) SCSI controler and non-SCSI MB with 2 BusLogic Adapters. The second is much better, and cost only about $150 more. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Socket question? Network unreachable
I have a simple socket program. I've compiled it with gcc on Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and Red Had (Biltmore 2.0.30) and I keep getting Network is unreachable. Running gdb reveals the connect call is not working. After stepping over the connect, errno = 101. Network is unreachable is displayed by perror and the program exits. This is a small program that runs fine under SunOS 4.1.3. The only thing I had to do to the program was change the include paths from sys/ to linux/. My Linux box IP 140.117.43.69 Netmask 255.255.224.0 Network 140.117.32.0 Broadcast 140.117.63.225 Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem might be. I don't know what to look for at the moment. The only thing I can think of is the above IPs are not correct. I can ping and telnet to the target which has the server this socket program is to connect to. I look in the arp table and it has a complete entry. Would arp be able to figure out everything if the above IPs we not right? Thanks in advance for any advice. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files, right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some errors, I need to add like a packages header or something, any ideas? The first floppy must contain a Packages file, but you really don't want to do it this way. If you must add packages to your system via floppy disk, use dpkg and install them one at a time. Also does anyone know of a online manual that explains installing new packages, binary and source to debian? You might take a look at my new book. You can download the html version from http://www.linuxpress.com. (the html version is freely distributable) Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian User's Guide_-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail gone made
Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail. Coming in this morning, there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd. Apparently smail was no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail begain appearing. But Every message is accompanied by an error message like this: Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu by eyry.econ.iastate.edu with bsmtp id m0xgQQN-001GvWC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.92 1997-Feb-9 #2); Fri, 12 Dec 1997 02:26:19 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 02:26:19 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: real-hawk Subject: mail failed, sending to address owner Reference: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Failed addresses follow: -| -user ... failed: unknown user /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal ... failed: transport file: failed to open output file: No such file or directory |- Message text follows: | Received: from zen.via.ecp.fr ([138.195.130.71]) by eyry.econ.iastate.edu with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0xgQPs-001Gvga (Debian Smail-3.2.0.92 1997-Feb-9 #2); Fri, 12 Dec 1997 02:25:48 -0600 (CST) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by zen.via.ecp.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA01421 for lyx-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 08:39:43 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 02:40:01 -0500 From: David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Lehigh University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LyX Developers List lyx@via.ecp.fr Subject: dlj0-971212 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lyx@via.ecp.fr [body not included] what in the world is a reference to /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal doing in the package? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Interesting, I am running perl version 5.004.04-2 also, but when I do perl -v I get: This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit. --ken Adrenolin [~]$perl -v perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). This is perl, version 5.004_02 Ahh, did the original poster remember to install perl-base as well? -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mirroring hamm question
Not sure if this is the right list to ask this question, but here goes. The gods of bandwidth have smiled upon me at work, and I am able to create a local mirror of the Debian FTP site. I'm currently just mirroring /debian/hamm. When I use this mirror machine as an FTP server for dselect, and point it at the root of my hamm mirror, dselect is able to get the package lists successfully (I ask for main, contrib, non-free). However, when it comes to fetching the package files themselves, it is unable to find them because it is looking for them in a subdirectory called dists (e.g. /xxx/dists/main/binary-i386/yadda-yadda-yadda). This dists directory exists in /debian, but not in /debian/hamm itself. When I try setting up dselect to point to this parent directory (which contains just dists and hamm), it is unable to find the package lists. My work-around is to create hamm/dists, which contains symlinks called unstable, contrib, and non-free, which point to hamm, hamm/contrib, and hamm/non-free respectively. Here's an illustration of my mirror's directory structure: debian/ dists/ (I added this by hand) contrib - ../hamm/contrib non-free - ../hamm/non-free unstable - ../hamm hamm/ Mirror of ftp.debian.org:/debian/hamm dists/ (I had to add this to get package fetching to work) contrib - ../contrib non-free - ../non-free unstable - ../hamm How is this *supposed* to be done? Do I need more in /debian than just dists and hamm? -- [ cae @ jpmorgan.com | Caleb Epstein | JP Morgan Co., Incorporated ] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files, right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some errors, I need to add like a packages header or something, any ideas? The first floppy must contain a Packages file, but you really don't want to do it this way. If you must add packages to your system via floppy disk, use dpkg and install them one at a time. Strictly speaking, dselect doesn't need a Packages file. dselect can get this information by scanning a directory with packages, if a Packages file is unavailable. If your get your distribution from floppies, it is most likely incomplete (that would require a lot of floppies), thus the Packages file from the distribution does not coreespond to the packages you have. I recommend that you first copy all your packages to a directory on the harddisk, and then let dselect scan this directory. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
newbie questions...Help!
Hi, I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition) everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next? I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out? what packages should i get to start me off, how (after downloading them with win95) do i get the files on a debian readable floppy, and after that how do i install, use them? how can i look at the contents of my hd? something like dir in dos would be nice? whats this x windows thing, and how do i get, install, use it? how do i change my username and password? how do i log on as super-user? and more and more and more sorry about the newbie'ness of these questions but i have no idea what i am doing... Thanks Rick Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ (Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is there a Debian specific published manual
Hi: Inquiry was made regarding published (I assumed commercial) books/ manuals on Debian. A reply from Fuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED], indicated some of the debian website things, whiich are indispensible. Beyond the HOWTOs, files in /usr/doc/... Dale Scheetz has written a book specifc to Debian. It primarily treats installation. I wish I had had it when I began installing Debian. I have not connection to Dale, nor Linux Press other than I bought the book and think it is worth the purchase price. The Debian Linux User's Guide by Dale Scheetz with Official Debian Linux binary and source CDs + a third CD with useful other goodies Price: $37.95 + shipping It comes with 30 days telephone support. I was told that Dale does the support. He has been a developer and his email help to me has been invaluable. Email support by whoever might reply from the list remains free. It is published by Linux Press, POB 220 Penngrove CA 94951, Voice: (707)773 4916 FAX: (707)765 1431 http://www.linuxpress.com The webpage has a copy of the text in html format that may be downloaded, under very mild restrictions that protect the print copyright. --David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | As me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia ammonium nitrate fuel oil cocaine assassinate counterfeit destabilize -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...
Pure Energy hat gesagt: // Pure Energy wrote: Hmm same thing here aswell. I'm running stable but have a few hamm packages installed. This i get running everyperl script and some (including adduser) just core dump.. *ANY* help in this would be appreciated. Adrenolin [~]$perl -v perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). This is perl, version 5.004_02 Had the same problem a while ago. Updateing the locale-packets solved it here. -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AMD K6
I have heard of some problems with AMD K6 Anyone to comment? The reason is because I have a K6 200 right beside me. :) There was a minor bug that was fixed some months ago. In repeated compiles, it would attempt to execute an occasional instruction twice. THis has been fixed, and all of the current chips do not have this problem. the change occurs at stepping b9733 or so. If set to compile 100 times, it would typically fail on a few. Also, there were some problems with people not supplying proper voltages, etc. Many older motherboards don't support the k6 voltages. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail Server?
Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a client across the border. He has asked me about a separate mail server (on top of the web/cgi server with the Net connection) to offload some of the duties of the main server. I'm a little confused as to how exactly I would accomplish this. I know it's possible. I'm familiar with PPP, and I've set up the one server to communicate on the Net (with a little help from the HOWTO... :)... but how would I have all incoming mail sent to the second computer for processing etc? Thanks in advance. Dave Robinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
more on that smail problem
hmm, I now also noticed that there is a file @ in my home directory, which is a symbolic link to the current message in exmh. I don't think this used to be the case. and after a reboot, the smail daemon had to be manually started again. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail gone made
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail. Coming in this morning, there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd. Apparently smail was no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail begain appearing. But Every message is accompanied by an error message like this: I had to rerun smail-config and specify using a daemon instead of an inet.d entry. (I got that from reading debian-devel.) But, apparently you were already using a daemon; there's obviously something here I don't understand, but try what I did anyway. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: newbie questions...Help!
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote: Hi, I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition) everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next? I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out? what packages should i get to start me off, how (after downloading them with win95) do i get the files on a debian readable floppy, and after that how do i install, use them? how can i look at the contents of my hd? something like dir in dos would be nice? whats this x windows thing, and how do i get, install, use it? how do i change my username and password? how do i log on as super-user? and more and more and more sorry about the newbie'ness of these questions but i have no idea what i am doing... Thanks Rick Most of your questions are not Debian specific (straight *nix stuff). I recommend that you get a book on general Unix systems (something like Unix for Dummies, which is actually well written dispite the derogatory title). You would also benefit from reading Matt Welsh's book Running Linux. For the Debian installation questions I can recommend my own book The Debian User's Guide which is available in html from http://www.linuxpress.com For instance, getting your CD-ROM mounted will depend more on the controler than the drive. (although the Mitsumi drive typically uses a proprietary controler, I believe that the drivers disk includes it) Hope this helps. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian User's Guide_-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail gone made
David Guadine wrotem, I had to rerun smail-config and specify using a daemon instead of an inet.d entry. (I got that from reading debian-devel.) But, apparently you were already using a daemon; there's obviously something here I don't understand, but try what I did anyway. Just tried this, but no dice. I'm still getting the error messages. But I find the reference to /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal suspicious, as I don't think debian packages use /usr/local at all, do they? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian on Aptiva
Folks, Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM Aptiva L5H? I have a user here that wants to get one, but only if Linux will install and run with little hassle. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word. Andrew Jackson ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux User's Guide HAS ONLY EMAIL SUPPORT!
Dale and all My apologies to Dale Sheetz and to the list. I was really OFF BASE in my remark about 'Phone support' for this book. I was wrong, and the sooner that is fixed the better. --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | As me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta Force bomb Iran Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil cocaine assassinate counterfeit destabilize -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DCE for Linux?
Here at BNL, we have the RHIC project ( a super collider ) going online in '99. The folks that are specing out what to do with the data (50MB/min for 4000 hrs/yr) are using big Sparc SMP iron, and HPSS, a big tape farm to hold the raw data. The data first goes to a 30TB cache of fiber-channel drives, then spools to the tapes. They are looking to incorporate Linux as nodes on this monster. HPSS is based on DCE/DFS, so I was asked to find a DCE product for Linux. Does anyone have pointers, or, even better, experience? Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word. Andrew Jackson ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Socket question? Network unreachable
Without seeing the program, it's hard to tell. I suspect that you have a big-endian/little-endian problem. Try getting the addr with gethostbyname or convert the ip-addr directly with inet_addr. jim -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 8:53 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:Socket question? Network unreachable I have a simple socket program. I've compiled it with gcc on Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and Red Had (Biltmore 2.0.30) and I keep getting Network is unreachable. Running gdb reveals the connect call is not working. After stepping over the connect, errno = 101. Network is unreachable is displayed by perror and the program exits. This is a small program that runs fine under SunOS 4.1.3. The only thing I had to do to the program was change the include paths from sys/ to linux/. My Linux box IP 140.117.43.69 Netmask 255.255.224.0 Network 140.117.32.0 Broadcast 140.117.63.225 Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem might be. I don't know what to look for at the moment. The only thing I can think of is the above IPs are not correct. I can ping and telnet to the target which has the server this socket program is to connect to. I look in the arp table and it has a complete entry. Would arp be able to figure out everything if the above IPs we not right? Thanks in advance for any advice. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail Server?
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Robinet David Jeremy wrote: Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a client across the border. He has asked me about a separate mail server (on top of the web/cgi server with the Net connection) to offload some of the duties of the main server. I'm a little confused as to how exactly I would accomplish this. I know it's possible. I'm familiar with PPP, and I've set up the one server to communicate on the Net (with a little help from the HOWTO... :)... but how would I have all incoming mail sent to the second computer for processing etc? When I send mail through my ISP, I direct pine's smtp to the mail server (by name, ie mail.polaris.net) my ISP askes me to use. I assume that smail/sendmail on other machines on the local net would be pointed at that server as well. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian User's Guide_-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Socket question? Network unreachable
Brian Hutchinson wrote: I have a simple socket program. I've compiled it with gcc on Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and Red Had (Biltmore 2.0.30) and I keep getting Network is unreachable. Running gdb reveals the connect call is not working. After stepping over the connect, errno = 101. Network is unreachable is displayed by perror and the program exits. This is a small program that runs fine under SunOS 4.1.3. The only thing I had to do to the program was change the include paths from sys/ to linux/. My Linux box IP 140.117.43.69 Netmask 255.255.224.0 Network 140.117.32.0 Broadcast 140.117.63.225 Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem might be. I don't know what to look for at the moment. The only thing I can think of is the above IPs are not correct. I can ping and telnet to the target which has the server this socket program is to connect to. I look in the arp table and it has a complete entry. Would arp be able to figure out everything if the above IPs we not right? Thanks in advance for any advice. When you set up your sockaddr_in do you make sure to use htonl() to convert the IP address to network byte order? I bet you don't! Your program would work on a Sun because Sparc uses big-endian numbers (which are therefore *already* in network byte order) while Intel x86 uses little-endian numbers which must be re-ordered using htonl(). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: permission denied
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Elaina Beth Tillinghast wrote: : I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a : particular file look like : -rwxr-xr-x 901 root size Install : Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get : permission denied. What gives? I have no idea where to look. : : ebt - have fun : Most likely the CD is mounted with the noexec flag. You may remount the cd and omit the noexec flag, or if the file is a shell script (which most Install programs tend to be) just use sh/bash/whatever to run it (sh Install) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Mail Server?
If there is a second dedicated IP address, you would use MX records in the DNS to do it. Otherwise, if there is only one IP address, you can use rinetd. On 12-Dec-97 Robinet David Jeremy wrote: Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a client across the border. He has asked me about a separate mail server (on top of the web/cgi server with the Net connection) to offload some of the duties of the main server. I'm a little confused as to how exactly I would accomplish this. I know it's possible. I'm familiar with PPP, and I've set up the one server to communicate on the Net (with a little help from the HOWTO... :)... but how would I have all incoming mail sent to the second computer for processing etc? Thanks in advance. Dave Robinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New Mirror :)
I have set up a US Debian mirror ftp site in E. Lansing, Michigan: ftp://debian.egr.msu.edu/debian It should be quite fast, as it is on 100mb to Fiber, then out to the world- which last time I checked was a T3 down to Ann Arbor. This site will be up 24-7, (minus the morning of the 29th of Decemeber), and as long as it doesn't cause serious problems with our network and security. Please email me if you notice any problems or have suggestions. Enjoy! Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: newbie questions...Help!
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote: I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out? Take a look at the settings for the drive under Win95. what packages should i get to start me off, how (after downloading them with win95) do i get the files on a debian readable floppy, and after that how do i install, use them? how can i look at the contents of my hd? something like dir in dos would be nice? try ls -- roughly the equivalent of dir in dos. whats this x windows thing, and how do i get, install, use it? Nifty stuff. You get it from wherever you get debian -- it comes prepackaged. Just select the right package based on your video card. how do i change my username and password? adduser and passwd how do i log on as super-user? su I'd recommend you hit http://www.linux.org and take a look at the howto's and beginner's guides there. Specifically check out http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/DOS-to-Linux-HOWTO.html for information on making the migration from dos to linux. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |The problem with computers: | || | rivendell[501] [~] love me | | bash: love: command not found | | rivendell[502] [~] hug me| | bash: hug: command not found | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. The Chipset has a problem that there is no one porting X86 to it. If you read the READMEs that come from the X development group they do mention this problem. So the problem is not Debian support but X support. I think the problem was made worse initially because the chip maker was unwilling to give information about the chip. Hi. May be I am mistaken, but this chipset is listed as supported (with acceleration) even in Xfree86-3.3. I myself use similar Alpine chip with no problems. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question re: ViewSonic 15G S3 video card...
Hello all... I have a ViewSonic 15G monitor and an older JAX 8241 video card with an S3 805 chipset. I've got the boot magazine disk version of Debian installed on my 586 and so far everything's working great, except for I'm trying to get XFree86 up and running and am beating my brains out here trying to come up with the correct modeline combination for this monitor and card. I keep getting the squashed mode when X starts 'cause I'm obviously not getting the correct modeline set up. Does anybody out there have a similar combination they would be willing to share their modeline settings for? I'm very new at this. I think I've probably edited XF86Config at least 73 times by now, still not getting it right. TIA -- Steve Morrill Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Pub key id: 0xF2459FCD Debian LINUX Where I really want to go today! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I can't get the screen back the way it was!
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I can't get the screen back the way it was!
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? Some more details would be helpful. As is, your question is very vague and it's hard to offer any suggestions. For instance, what window manager are you using? What exactly is not in place? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zgv (libc6)
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this: red# zgv svgalib: FATAL internal error: Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. Normally I'd suggest sending something like this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I've already reported the bug so don't bother :-) --sample email-- Package: zgv Version: 2.8-2 red# zgv svgalib: FATAL internal error: Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. I have a ... video card , the relevant bits of /etc/vga/libvga.config are attached below. BTW I got this running ... and ... [bits of libvga.conf] --sample email-- Thanks Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible about booting from an extended partition? I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone then by misinformation are you talking about my assertions with respect to the BIOS design (and indeed design evolution) upon the overall filesystem design, or rather my (admitted) failure to even mention that there are new BIOS designs that do not themselves impose this scheme, or both? Your misinformation was that: - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing about partitions and doesn't care either). It does have the 1024 cylinders problem though. - DOS, Windows and OS/2 don't see other primary partitions than the one they booted from (not true - DOS and Windows see other primary DOS partitions just fine, and OS/2 won't even boot when they are present and not hidden). As I understand it, (at least with DOS/windows/OS2), you can only see one primary partition _per disk_. This was also what various HOWTO's seemed to say. The fact that windows (95 and NT) cannot use partitions properly - they *require* that they are on the first primary partition on a disk - means that partitioning is _alot_ of hard work (trust me - I've spent a week reinstalling things and messing around). One feature I look for in a design is easy modification in the future (which is normally always needed for one reason or another). Most things designed by MS or to do with an IBM-PC are not. This ain't a flame - it's just fact: - BIOS date problems - compared with Unix which will eventually hit a problem 60 years after it's birth) - IRQ cascading - only now going 32-bit (cf Mac/Atari/Amiga - 32/16bit since introduction) - FAT filesystem - VFAT (and even NTFS IIRC) - upper/lower case confusion - allowing spaces in filename - *completely* *braindead* The PC wasn't badly designed - it just wasn't designed. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: umsdos
Jason Ish said I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers, even though I know it isn't a suggested practice. What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I have a up and running Debian system to make a new kernel and what not. Thanks for any info or pointers to info. Jason I've asked the same myself, and got some feedback: - Forwarded message from Giuliano Procida - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Aug 23 15:02:52 1997 To: Martin Str|mberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UMSDOS support for boot-floppies Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:02:48 +0100 From: Giuliano Procida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have done this already. However, there are bugs in UMSDOS [yes, the Linux kernel] which make it impossible to use reliably. In particular there is one bug of unknown origin that completely crashes Linux (it never returns from a syscall). This bug is triggered during dpkg -i ncurses-term* . Another bug caused dpkg -i libc* to fail [but this has been isolated]. For the moment, I have suspended further development work on UMSDOS support. It is possible that the UMSDOS stuff may be cleaned up when it is converted to work with new dcache scheme in the 2.1 kernels. If you are interested in my work to date, please feel free to take a look at ftp://hilfy.magd.cam.ac.uk/pub/ boot-floppies/*patch* and current/PROBLEMS . I can make a more recent patch available if you are interested. Giuliano. - End of forwarded message from Giuliano Procida - Please note that this info is somewhat dated, but the ftp directory is still there. There might be some info in the debian-user mailing list archives as well. HTH, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Spreadsheets
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding Spreadsheets of 05:42 PM -0800 1997-12-11, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Two questions: 1. Is the spreadsheet wingz available for debian - I couldn't find it. Or is there a spreadsheet which allows the importation of wingz files? There's a Linux version of Wingz, see http://www.wingz.com/linux/linux.html, but there's no Debian installer package. - -- Joel Espy Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.espy.org/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org/ Apple Flavored Unixhttp://www.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 iQCVAwUBNJGOFwoYIlYX1XaBAQEsIAP9E49y6ddHO0Kmbf2EZN1RI1lZzu/+uCSH oI0wpcJH1EV/OLmtYFEAPkKo9T+2GH8WzcLQasMGw6vaAQz+ANylbtq2y5tYGjBj e5D7rMxHr90MyuvGNFfBrs6Qvv24bUJWrtq3MLAB39pHS3Anrlo5753IVvkTUoGS Kg9p1dI89PA= =cIm/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mail delivery error message
Hi, Two days ago I began getting the following error messages when I responded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I did twice. The standard mailing list footer is on the mail, it appears to come from the mailing-list, but the From: address reads Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It's pretty confusing to me. Who's mail delivery software is generating this error message? ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED](is this debian?)?) What is the cause of this error message? (some procmail recipe? specifically how was it triggered?) What corrective action can I take? (clueless, but I'd like this to stop) David Stern confused look bin24sO2Bq1g0.bin Description: message David Stern StarOffice 4.0 for Linux Beta Install Guide http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/
RE: Partitioning
-- From: Adrian Bridgett[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 1:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:Re: Partitioning On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible about booting from an extended partition? I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone then by misinformation are you talking about my assertions with respect to the BIOS design (and indeed design evolution) upon the overall filesystem design, or rather my (admitted) failure to even mention that there are new BIOS designs that do not themselves impose this scheme, or both? Your misinformation was that: - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing about partitions and doesn't care either). It does have the 1024 cylinders problem though. - DOS, Windows and OS/2 don't see other primary partitions than the one they booted from (not true - DOS and Windows see other primary DOS partitions just fine, and OS/2 won't even boot when they are present and not hidden). As I understand it, (at least with DOS/windows/OS2), you can only see one primary partition _per disk_. This was also what various HOWTO's seemed to say. The fact that windows (95 and NT) cannot use partitions properly - they *require* that they are on the first primary partition on a disk - means that partitioning is _alot_ of hard work (trust me - I've spent a week reinstalling things and messing around). One feature I look for in a design is easy modification in the future (which is normally always needed for one reason or another). Most things designed by MS or to do with an IBM-PC are not. This ain't a flame - it's just fact: - BIOS date problems - compared with Unix which will eventually hit a problem 60 years after it's birth) - IRQ cascading - only now going 32-bit (cf Mac/Atari/Amiga - 32/16bit since introduction) - FAT filesystem - VFAT (and even NTFS IIRC) - upper/lower case confusion - allowing spaces in filename - *completely* *braindead* Umm... all unix (even xenix) allow spaces in filenames... that's not a bug, it's a feature. The PC wasn't badly designed - it just wasn't designed. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files, right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some errors, I need to add like a packages header or something, any ideas? That info is also inside the .deb package. If its just a few packages, I use dpkg Put deb file on hard drive, cd to same directory, then dpkg -i pkgname.deb This installs and extracts the info and changes the files recording the state of packages ( this is in /var/lib/dpkg ) It won't install if there are dependency,etc. problems. Sometimes you need to install something else first. Also does anyone know of a online manual that explains installing new packages, binary and source to debian? man dpkg , man dselect. dpkg --help . Try some of the things listed in the dpkg --help, just to see what happens. Eg dpkg -l libc5 lists status of package libc5 After an install, I never use dselect again, I find it too difficult. dpkg is easier. G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect
On 12 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files, right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some errors, I need to add like a packages header or something, any ideas? The first floppy must contain a Packages file, but you really don't want to do it this way. If you must add packages to your system via floppy disk, use dpkg and install them one at a time. Strictly speaking, dselect doesn't need a Packages file. dselect can get this information by scanning a directory with packages, if a Packages file is unavailable. If your get your distribution from floppies, it is most likely incomplete (that would require a lot of floppies), thus the Packages file from the distribution does not coreespond to the packages you have. I recommend that you first copy all your packages to a directory on the harddisk, and then let dselect scan this directory. This is true, it can read all the .debs for the info. But I remember once having problems getting that to work. Probably just me , but it was confusing. Deity is supposed to fix things. I have half a perl/tk hack to make things easier, also there are a couple of other things , someone put a python/tk tool in experimental a couple of months back. Havent checked it out though. If its one or two packages, just use dpkg. G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cfdisk partion errors
I had some problems like this, where fdisk and cfdisk could no longer deal with my disk. I posted somewhere and this wonderful fellow A. E. Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) answered. He wrote fdisk3 . Some times it can read broken tables , get the good info and spit out a clean one. It worked like a charm for me. I don't know if there is a debian package. I can't remeber where to get it. Probably takes 20 second web search or just go to sunsite. On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Lawrence wrote: butch wrote: hi, i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any ways to correct or edit partition errors? allan Few months ago, I tried using cfdisk to set the linux partition (2GB), and both linux and msdos fdisk denied to run and I have to low-level format my SCSI HD to rectify the problem. G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: newbie questions...Help!
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote: Hi, I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition) everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next? I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out? what packages should i get to start me off, how (after downloading them with win95) do i get the files on a debian readable floppy, and after that how do i install, use them? I don't understand, if you installed already , didn't you select a bunch of packges ? whats this x windows thing, and how do i get, install, use it? Via dselect. It can sometimes be problematic , sometimes smooth. see many docs at www.debian.org . Be patient looking. Also do cd /usr/doc Then pick a directory (HOWTO is a good one) cd to it and use less filename to read a file. See the linux documentation project on the debian web page. I think the users guide starts with 'ls' , etc. G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I can't get the screen back the way it was!
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? Some more details would be helpful. As is, your question is very vague and it's hard to offer any suggestions. For instance, what window manager are you using? What exactly is not in place? I smell Microsoft here. G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Motherboard with Adaptec 2940
Jimmy == Jimmy Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jimmy Hi All, I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI Jimmy controller. A local newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard Jimmy with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI controller. Does Debian Jimmy support such motherboard? The manufacturer has a web site Jimmy @ http://www.iwill.com.tw I appreciate it if someone could Jimmy tell me pros and cons after used the board. Thanks in Jimmy advance. Jimmy Lu I have this board, and use it with my K6/200 processor. I have very few complaints, but I did have to go to iwill's web site and upgrade the BIOS on the motherboard before Linux would even boot :) -- Brought to you by the letters U and Z and the number 13. What's your order? I can SuperSize that. -- TMBG Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mail delivery error message
It's Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He's been having problems with fetchmail/exim/procmail. He's aware of the problem and I think he's going to go to sendmail soon. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Several Q's
Matthew Majka wrote: I'd like to thank everyone who answered my request for information. The fix was easy; hold down button 1 during boot and set the protocol to MouseSystems... and the documentation was on my system all along. The more I use Linux, the more I am amazed at the quality... Maybe x86 HW isn't that bad after all... It should be even better: you shouldn't have to hold that button down. Use ClearDTR and ClearRTS in the Pointer section of XF86Config. (See `man 5 XF86Config' for full details.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
clueless people on debian-user
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this, and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the clueless people who mail to our personal mailboxes, there has been a clamor to shut down the news gateway and go to mailing-list-only distribution of the Debian lists. To compound the problem the news gateway has been stripping out the X-No-Archive header, and the operator is too busy to fix it for now. Also, some web archives do not honor that header at all. I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clueless people on debian-user
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this, See my reply to the post as well ! and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the clueless people who mail to our personal mailboxes, there has been a clamor to shut down the news gateway and go to mailing-list-only distribution of the Debian lists. To compound the problem the news gateway has been stripping out the X-No-Archive header, and the operator is too busy to fix it for now. Also, some web archives do not honor that header at all. I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad, but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like this. Thats not much, and Im pretty fast with the 'D' key. I think that the benefits outweigh the costs. I tend not to have an emotional reaction to spam in my inbox, but again , for me its 50 to 1 or more legitimate mail. Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via usenet ? G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clueless people on debian-user
personally I find the usenet more efficient since I don't have to download the complete messages, just the headers Manos G John Lapeyre wrote: On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this, See my reply to the post as well ! and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the clueless people who mail to our personal mailboxes, there has been a clamor to shut down the news gateway and go to mailing-list-only distribution of the Debian lists. To compound the problem the news gateway has been stripping out the X-No-Archive header, and the operator is too busy to fix it for now. Also, some web archives do not honor that header at all. I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad, but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like this. Thats not much, and Im pretty fast with the 'D' key. I think that the benefits outweigh the costs. I tend not to have an emotional reaction to spam in my inbox, but again , for me its 50 to 1 or more legitimate mail. Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via usenet ? G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clueless people on debian-user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? I agree. -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clueless people on debian-user
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes: I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad, but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like It's not that difficult to set up procmail to catch most of the spam. And we do have spamdb in hamm. Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via usenet ? I prefer to receive the lists by mail. off-topic I've recently started piping my incoming debian-user debian-devel messages through a non.mime sed filter before piping them to mail2news. Based on the tests I've run on messages in my /var/spool/news/debian/* directories this filter deletes all of the MIME cruft and appears to leave the clear text intact. You'll also note the I'm striping any existing Distribution: header. I mark all incoming messages Distribution: local when they are gatewayed to news. This is so that they won't get reposted to the group. Recently I found that some mailing list messages arrive with an existing Distribution: header. Mail2news won't overwrite an existing header. Maybe I ought to report this as a bug... Here's the filter : /^Distribution:/d /=_NextPart_/,/=_NextPart_/d /^Content-Type:.*$/d /^Content-Transfer.*$/d /charset=iso\-8859\-1/d s/=$// s/=20$// /off-topic -- _ _ Steve Kostecke| (_)_ __ _ ___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / http://kostecke.home.ml.org | | | | | | |_| | |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clueless people on debian-user
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? I agree. I agree too. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
