Not able to get Debian packages using FTP

1997-12-25 Thread Arihant
Hi There, I had successfully installed the base system on my Intel PC.Now I run DSELECT, FTP access, give ftp site : ftp.debian.org; debian dir: /pub/debian;download dir: debian etc, I get this error : NET::FTP:bad host name 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP

Re: Xfree86 question

1997-12-25 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? You do that with your monitor... it has functions on it, to make it

Re[2]: Xfree86 question

1997-12-25 Thread Sen Nagata
there's 'the linux explorer' -- not really like m$'s file manager... http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer/ at some point around Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:16:14 -0800 (PST) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: FileRunner does a nice job. On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Hi!

a single command

1997-12-25 Thread Aaron Walker
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't

Re: a single command

1997-12-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but

Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM

1997-12-25 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 04:58:29PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 from a backpack cd. I get a message saying that /dev/bpcd is not a block device. I have selected the cdrom module in the device install. Any Ideas? You need to also select the module for the

Re: a single command

1997-12-25 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:10:35PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps

Re: dselect ftp upgrade

1997-12-25 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: I would like to upgrade to libc6 and I tried to do so via dselect ftp, but I can not find the unstable or hamm directory at ftp.debian and dselect just quits on me. Can someone tell me how to upgrade packages via ftp. I am also insearch of an

PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Thanks to everyone who helped me before!... Now I have a somewhat more complicated looking problem. :(. I'm trying to dial into my ISP using PPP. (At this point I haven't done any extra configuration besides network config info that the debian setup asks for). In X, I startup minicom, dial, and

PPP Dialup

1997-12-25 Thread Will Lowe
PS: Merry Christmas everyone! :) And also to you. Now, as for the ppp problem: which version of pppd are you using? the one from stable or unstable? It seems that you're able to dial ok, and you have a routine worked out for starting up ppp on the remote machine, so you ought to make this

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Timothy Hospedales wrote: In X, I startup minicom, dial, and login manually. It then tells me that it has started PPP and to start my PPP, whereupon it starts displaying the usual garbage. I open a bash term and type pppd, and it starts displaying its garbage. I open another bash term, and

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? Thanks, Timothy You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget minicom.

virtual hosts with Apache

1997-12-25 Thread Aaron Walker
I just setup Apache and I want to be able to have virtual hosts. My host name is speedy and I want it to show up in netscape as amwalker.speedy.net. How do I do this. I read the docs at the apache site,but it did not work. Thanks for your help. --

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread bhmit1
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? \r Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL

menu in fvwm?

1997-12-25 Thread bhmit1
Simple question: Can the results of the menu program be used in plain fvwm? If so, what are the lines to add to my .fvwmrc? Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds

libc info

1997-12-25 Thread John Spence
Hi all. I've just been browsing the GNU site trying to find out what the differences in the C libraries are and i could find no mention of libc5, libc6 or glibc. I know that Debian is in the process of moving to libc6 and that RH has already (somewhat shakily) moved to glibc. Is libc6 just

Re: NFS

1997-12-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:48:48AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: 1) What is in your /etc/exports? # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /usr/local/rising *.rising.com.au(rw) 2) also, debian runs a

Re: NFS

1997-12-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: When I have NFS problems, I resort to using 'showmount -e system.com' from each machine to the other, just to make sure what is exported is what I think it is.. bash-2.00# showmount yodeller mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not

Re: libc info

1997-12-25 Thread Adam Shand
I've just been browsing the GNU site trying to find out what the differences in the C libraries are and i could find no mention of libc5, libc6 or glibc. My understanding isn't complete, and may in fact be downright wrong, but I believe that libc6 is the second GNU libc and that libc4 (the

debian install not recognizing cdrom

1997-12-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to install Debian 1.2.10 but can't get it to access my cdrom. I have a Soundblaster cdrom, which is recognised by Redhat as sbpcd. I've installed the rescue disk and the driver disk and the shell prompt says that /dev/sbpcd is available; however when I try to mount the cdrom it says

Re: a single command

1997-12-25 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but

Re: NFS

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: When I have NFS problems, I resort to using 'showmount -e system.com' from each machine to the other, just to make sure what is exported is what I think it is.. bash-2.00# showmount yodeller mount

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Timothy Hospedales wrote: Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? you would include \r in the string you are sending. Just FYI,

Re: windows

1997-12-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. It's important, to be able to keep time in nanoseconds on a computer... and as we all know, 1601 is an important date ;-) Now

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-12-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jan Francsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux. When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right Directory. Evrytime I do so,

a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...

1997-12-25 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I have a hypothetical situation ... and it's corrlaly questions... If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and printers... What if one of the machines was a windows machine...? What if they

Re: Windows internals

1997-12-25 Thread Tonetti.doc, R. Tonetti
At 18:41 23-12-97 +1100, you wrote: If you thought Unix's handling of the date, being seconds since Jan 1, 1970, in a 32 bit value, was weird, I quote your from the Win32 API help: The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601.

Re: a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...

1997-12-25 Thread tps
On Dec 25, Kevin J Poorman wrote Hi, I have a hypothetical situation ... and it's corrlaly questions... If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and printers... What if one of the machines

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-25 Thread Johnie Ingram
Boris == Boris D Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Does anybody working on the egcs package? If not, I would like Boris to try. The egcs package is currently being maintained by Galen Hazelwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Binaries for i386, sparc, and powerpc architecures are in

PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I made to try out everyone's suggestions for getting my PPP dialup to work. The first thing that happened is t hat when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then

Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM

1997-12-25 Thread Brian Schramm
Adam Klein wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 04:58:29PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 from a backpack cd. I get a message saying that /dev/bpcd is not a block device. I have selected the cdrom module in the device install. Any Ideas? You need to also

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-25 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: The first thing that happened is that when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then nothing would detect the modem on /dev/ttyS0.

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-25 Thread bruce
Just as an aside, people with dynamic IP can use the dynamic IP DNS service offered by Monolith, and then other systems will always be able to find you whatever your IP is. It's free. Check out http://www.ml.org/ . I am using this to provide DNS for my laptop ricochet wireless modem. Finger

Amanda for Debian?

1997-12-25 Thread Stan Brown
I can't seem to find a debian package for amanda (backup software from University of MD), so I thought I would just build it. Unfortuntely it core dumps during configure with the folowing error message: checking whether /sbin/dump supports -E for estimates...

Matrox Millenium II vs. #9 Revolution 3D

1997-12-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. I am about to get a new P II system and had to decide on many alterantives available. My current concern is what video card would suit me the best. I have no doubt that I would go with AGP one (even not for the sake of performance, but to save PCI slot :) and my current choice is between

Re: Debian on Aptiva

1997-12-25 Thread Mark Montague
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: 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. My girlfriend has Debian running on an Aptiva, but it's not an L5H. I think it's an S9C.

Is HP Office Jet Series 500 All In One Printer Supported?

1997-12-25 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have been given an HP Office Jet Series 500, Model 500 All in One combination printer, fax, copier, scanner. Is anyone successfully using this model printer under Linux? If so, what driver do you use? Thanks. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word