Nautilus News

1998-01-28 Thread Nautilus news
.. IRAQ - Usa, attacco in febbraio La via diplomatica sembra essersi conclusa. Lo ha detto il portavoce del Dipartimento di Stato, James Rubin, a proposito della crisi irachena. Rubin ha detto che gli Usa non

Re: Nautilus News

1998-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Can someone at Debian please put a mail ban on the servers which have the audacity to put this crud in here please, and notify the administrator at the site to that effect. If I wanted a news service I would go buy a paper. -- From: Nautilus news [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Ip_alias (arrgh!)

1998-01-28 Thread Support
Yes folks its true I am not a LINUX guru, never claimed to be.. just installed the 2.0.33 and poof! there went the system.. lost all of my Modules every one of them had unresolved symbols in them.. put the old kernel back on and it works... the question is maybe its my compiler?? can somone send

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-28 Thread Steve Hsieh
I don't think so. My 1GB problem was when using a hamm system. Commenting out ULIMIT in login.defs was the only way to raise the hard limit on all accounts from what I could see. On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To anyone interested in this --

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

1998-01-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: The pppd man page mentions the tty_name option as requiring pppd to make a ppp connection using the specified device, but does not mention that pppd will then read the file /etc/ppp. README.linux and the comments in the file

Off-line newsreader

1998-01-28 Thread Ian Watkins
FB From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Barknecht) FB Subject: Re: Off-line newsreader FB If anybody else has any other suggestions I'll be glad to hear the FB For the true Forte FreeAgent type of news reader try SKIM or xagent FB available at your fav sunsite mirror in [...]/system/news/reader (?)

Re: ssh vs. rsh

1998-01-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Moved to debian-user. On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote: I'm trying to convince the sysadmins at my university to install ssh and run sshd on the main network, but they claim it isn't much more secure because you can avoid sending passwords by using rsh and can do x forwarding with

Re: ssh vs. rsh

1998-01-28 Thread maor
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:23:41 -0700. [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 X-col: - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-ID:

Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!

1998-01-28 Thread big44m3
When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and it still comes up with the same message! Could you help me with the installation of

Re: ssh vs. rsh

1998-01-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to set up connections between my linux box and my ISP like this for a few days, with no luck. I've gen'd keys for each machine, and swapped public keys, but when I ssh in to my local box from my ISP (when I'm at work, I have

PAM authentication file erratum

1998-01-28 Thread Chris
Please forgive me if this has been posted before, but I think there is a mistake in the file /etc/pam.d/other that is distributed with the standard install of debian. The file contains the service in the first field (ie. the keyword OTHER) which is not required, since it is in the conf file

I have bind installed but..

1998-01-28 Thread Debian User
hi there, I have bind-4.9.5 package installed on my debian 1.3. And I have a dynamic ip and a blah.dyndns.com domain for dyn ip. So the question is how much i can make use of binds' features? At least I know i can use nameserver 127.0.0.1 search vmlinuz.dyndns.com instead of my isp's. thanks

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

1998-01-28 Thread john
Daniel Martin writes: Really? My pppd man page covers this [/etc/ppp/options.ttySX]... Mine doesn't. My ppp is from bo, version 2.2.0f-23 My pppd is pppd version 2.2 patch level 0, on a 1.3.1 system recently upgraded with a Cheap Bytes CD. On the pppd man page source I find 'pppd.8,v 1.1.1.2

Re: Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!

1998-01-28 Thread Alex Yukhimets
When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and it still comes up with the same message! Could you help me with the

Re: Dates and postgresql / pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Albert Fluegel wrote: INSERT INTO lidmate VALUES (3157,864,'ACKERMAN','MARTHINUS THEODORUS','MNR', '','ACKERMAN','','O','M','B','','','17/06/1997','19/08/1997') ^^^ I guess, you are not an American and

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: The message you are getting appears to be a PostgreSQL message, but the syntax you are using works OK in psql. Is it possible that Python is mangling the data being sent to the backend? Can you run a debugger to check what is happening? I am

Re: Hamm fvwm2 -- new Focus behavior

1998-01-28 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I am still confused about how some functions that I define to emulate the old Focus function (which also Raised) cause focus to automatically shift back to under the mouse, but others don't. Anyhow, here is an improvement on what I last posted, and it still behaves the way the old Focus did.

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-28 Thread William D. Rendahl
Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bo and hamm are just code names. bo has been unstable when rex was stable and hamm will become stable with the next release. The names actually are names of figures from Pixar's movie Toy Story. Bruce Perens, who used to be the project leader, works

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
William == William D Rendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William How about Sid (the Happy child)? Do we want to seem evil? :) -- Brought to you by the letters U and T and the number 14. I put my feet on the Ottoman.. Empire. -- Moxy Fruvous Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-28 Thread William D. Rendahl
Ben Gertzfield wrote: William == William D Rendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William How about Sid (the Happy child)? Do we want to seem evil? :) Well, there's always Mrs. Nesbit (Buzz in drag) . . . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

switching virtual terminals from C

1998-01-28 Thread Aaron Brick
HEllo! Does anyone know of a way to change, in C, _which_ virtual terminal is currently on the screen? I just have no idea where to look for this. Thanks. Aaron Brick. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: ssh vs. rsh

1998-01-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 27-Jan-1998, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to set up connections between my linux box and my ISP like this for a few days, with no luck. I've gen'd keys for each machine, and swapped public keys, but when

dmalloc / g++

1998-01-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 05:15:45PM +, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: I was wondering if there is a C++ Garbage Collector in debian (or linux). I don't think we have one in Debian (though we do have some tools for analyzing and debugging memory allocation (checker, efence, dmalloc)).

Network interface card for Linux

1998-01-28 Thread Intelligence Quest Research INC.
Hi, I've posted some mail a few days ago on selecting a NIC that Debian/Linux would support. I do not know if that mail got to this list. So I post it again. I'd like to know if anyone here on the list would suggest which Network Interface card that I should buy and supported by

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's some code you can build on: struct termios ti; int modem; modem = open(/dev/ttyS1, O_RDWR, 0); I think it's generally necessary to do O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK to open a disconnected serial port, then set

Re: IP_ALIAS problem

1998-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
Kent Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know the trick to get ip_alias to work on debian? The how-to seems pretty simple, compile kernel, make modules ,install modules and kernel, (easy... Not!!) when I do a ifconfig eth0:1 the system returns no sutch device and modprobe of ip

Re: Network interface card for Linux

1998-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
Intelligence Quest Research INC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list would suggest which Network Interface card that I should buy and supported by Linux. Secondly, I'd like to know what do I have to do in term of building/configuring the kernel for

Threads (Was Re: Multiprocessor support)

1998-01-28 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 02:38:55PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: Debian as a distribution has nothing to do with multiprocessor support. I'm not so sure about this. I'm not really familiar with threads (any pointers to basic documentation/articles?), but I recall that it is possible to distribute

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing. I also do not know how to do this. I will have to study some more documentation to do this.

Moving Networks

1998-01-28 Thread SiMoN Strack
Hi all, I'm in the process of moving a machine from one sub net to another, and I'm trying to determine what needs to be changed. So far I have: /etc/init.d/network /etc/hostname /etc/hosts /etc/networks /etc/resolv.conf doesn't need to be changed for this case. Another file /etc/mailname also

Re: dmalloc / g++

1998-01-28 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:02:20AM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I don't think we have one in Debian (though we do have some tools for analyzing and debugging memory allocation (checker, efence, dmalloc)). Last time I tried neither efence not checker worked for g++, with libc5 nor with

(Thanks)Re: cp -a

1998-01-28 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all! I would like to thank everybody who answered my question, I could not reply before cause I'm on exams :-( Cheers, Ulisses -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Problems on Debian Instalation

1998-01-28 Thread Luis Magalhaes
When I try to install Debian, my computer blocks on the Checking 386/87 coupling. I waited a lot and nothing, i think is of my Vesa Local Bus, i have a 486 DX2 at 66Mhz, 16 Mb of Ram, and two Seagates (ST-3600A and ST-3630A). In a friend of mine house i installed the debian ok, but in my house

logoutd

1998-01-28 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi again!, Anybody had problems with it? I have experienced that one user could log in one time when it was not allowed, the daemon was running. This was an exception, always seems to work ok... Regards, Ulisses -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

New gs-aladdin package (5.10)---is it broken?

1998-01-28 Thread adavis
I have a perl script that balks on the new hamm gs-aladdin. Realizing this is a non-free package, is this something familiar? I downgraded to the old 5.03, and it works fine. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth.

fips equivalent for ext2?

1998-01-28 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all again! I have a system with many users with /home mounted on the root partition. I would to avoid this, my root partition fulls the system, and I would like to try something different than reinstall the the system with a different partition layout. Any suggestions? Thanks in

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: Hi Joost! I also upgraded to the 5.004.04-4 perl and perl-base packages this morning. While adduser still does not segfault for me, perl still segfaults and dumps core when I run either my couple hundred line mail preprocessing script on one particular

Re: Partition

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Fabian Knittel wrote: Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk (Win95B). It's buggy. What is buggy, the support from Linux for this feature or the feature itsself ? The feature itself is buggy... Don't use it! Where could I get more Information on this? I never

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Craig Sanders wrote: libc5/libc6 what's the problem with libc5 and libc6? they both work in debian. no problem, only a question mark for a newbie at installation the usual cycle with dselect is: 1. Update 2. Select 3. Install 4. Configure 5. repeat steps 3 4 until there are no

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Ok, Why i want to run many X-Sessions? It's just an old habbit - i loved the Amiga for it's WorkBench and Command-Line Interface. So i want to configure Linux in the same way. Actually i'll need a little more RAM for this. Bingo. The watchdog reboots my system. But what kind of multitasking is

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Jens Ritter wrote: You don´t have to. I always run my production system as bo (but ok, I have got an unstable system, too. That´s because I want to take part in the development.) The advantages/disadvantages of a hamm system are: 1) glibc6 2) New source format for packages 3) A lot of more

Re: SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Thanks for your help, Marcus. Of course i red all the related docu before and i set the permissions according to my needs. The problem was solved with sfxload -I sndfont. I didn't know that i have to do this every time (because of unloaded modules?) before i start TkAweMidi (which is actually

Re: Partition

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Ok, here we are Read the entire text at http://www.stiller.com/Win95D.htm SR News: Risk of data loss for large disks under Win95 WebCrawler: Some users found cross-linked clusters and used Scandisk, Norton Disk Doctor or other utilities to

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you for everyone who responded to my message. The problem was an empty date field. I had to change the empty date fields to something like '01/01/0001'. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid

Parallel linux-linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi - I have an 486 box that i would like to set up as debian linux and establish a parallel port cable connection with another linux box. Could someone suggest the best way to accomplish this please? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
Scott Ellis wrote: Maybe someone else has an easier way? Yes, there is now a script a http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the old -dev packages, and install the new stuff in the

Re: Settup Majordomo

1998-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Velez
I have the same directory permission as you, but I need to be group majordom in order to excute anything. I don't know how to find my setuid for the wrapper, if you can tell me exactly how I can't find it! I think it's set to majordom. Here is a copy of my Makefile. # current directory (where

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, my experience with the upgrade howto from debian proved to be an invaluable asset. U had to dpkg --purge the development packages manually using dpkg. That was ok. I downloaded the entire hamm distribution and I have installed the base, admin and am starting on the lib and

Re: Settup Majordomo

1998-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Steve, Here is a copy of my wrapper.c file, can you take a look at it! /* * $Source: /sources/cvsrepos/majordomo/wrapper.c,v $ * $Revision: 1.8 $ * $Date: 1997/08/27 15:01:12 $ * $Author: cwilson $ * $State: Exp $ * * $Locker: $ * */ #ifndef lint static char rcs_header[] =

Linux Kernel - Different Sources - are they the same ?

1998-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I was running the Debian Kernel 2.0.32 on my machine without ipmasquerading set. I just copied a Slackware 2.0.0 Version of vmlinux onto my debian box as it had ipmasquerading already set to on. (more from curiosity than anything else). I ran LILO, and rebooted half expecting it to fall on

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On any mirror that I could find. Try looking in oldlibs/ Tip: in directory binary-i386, type dir */package*

Re: Parallel linux-linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I have an 486 box that i would like to set up as debian linux and establish a parallel port cable connection with another linux box. Get a Laplink cable, the netstd.deb, netbase.deb packages, and the PLIP-Howto (or mini-Howto). I don't have the Howto handy right now, but I got a plip working

Re: switching virtual terminals from C

1998-01-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Brick) writes: HEllo! Does anyone know of a way to change, in C, _which_ virtual terminal is currently on the screen? I just have no idea where to look for this. Thanks. Aaron Brick. Well, the chvt command from the kbd package does this. Therefore, I'd

Re: Parallel linux-linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Gerald Wann wrote: Hi - I have an 486 box that i would like to set up as debian linux and establish a parallel port cable connection with another linux box. Could someone suggest the best way to accomplish this please? 1) Read /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.gz 2) Compile

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Scott Ellis wrote: Maybe someone else has an easier way? Yes, there is now a script a http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the old -dev

Re: Problem with mc

1998-01-28 Thread Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\)
Hi, On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Andreas Mueck (Stud.93) wrote: : I'm running hamm-Linux on a 386. Because of a small harddisk I mount the : usr-directory of a 486-System via nfs. Most programs work correctly but : starting mc i get the message

Re: PGP Which?

1998-01-28 Thread tko
Ben Pfaff writes: pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us. Otherwise, use pgp-i. Just curious, but why must a US based

Re: Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!

1998-01-28 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and it still comes up with the same message! Could you

Re: PGP Which?

1998-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Ben Pfaff writes: : : pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i : and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will : complain. : : If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us.

Re: Threads (Was Re: Multiprocessor support)

1998-01-28 Thread Steve Mayer
True, but having the threads library does not enable the kernel to handle multiple processors. Threads will allow you to make a multithreaded application that will spawn separate threads even on a single processor machine. Two different aspects I believe. My point being that the kernel itself

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Carey Evans wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's some code you can build on: struct termios ti; int modem; modem = open(/dev/ttyS1, O_RDWR, 0); I think it's generally necessary to do O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK to open a

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
Joost Kooij wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On any mirror that I could find. Try looking in oldlibs/ Tip: in directory

Perl problem

1998-01-28 Thread Karl Abrams
I am having an annoying perl problem. Whenever I run a perl script I get a set of error messages. Perl runs but the messages clutter the screen. I just installed debian 1.3 from CD and then ran dselect. The packages perl 5.003.07-10, perl-suid 5.003.07-10 wg15-locale 2-5 are

Nedit hangs system

1998-01-28 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Has anybody seen this? I have reasonably up to date hamm on a stinkpad 560. Installed nedit_5.0-3.deb. Invoking nedit works fine but then nothing works! Clearly un-acceptable. Just like using windoze; the only recourse is to hit the power switch! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other

[Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux-linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
I have an 486 box that i would like to set up as debian linux and establish a parallel port cable connection with another linux box. Hi, By the way what is the data transfer rate of such connection? Sorry to jump into your discussion, Sasha. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: [Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux-linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Hi, By the way what is the data transfer rate of such connection? Sorry to jump into your discussion, Sasha. Actually ... the PLIP_howto says that you should enjoy rates of 40 kB per second, but with my link from my Dos box to my Linux machine I only see rates from say 88 BYTES per second

Re: [Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux-linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:22:15 -0600 (CST) From: Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: [Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux-linux? Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:22:32 + Resent-From:

autoup.sh

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
A few thing... libpthread0 needs to be removed, or libc6 doesn't install libg++ needs to be removed, or libg++272 Does libc6-dev need to be installed? I'm adding it, but I don't know. I can have a hacked and working autoup.sh for ftp in about 30 mins if the machine gets upgraded correctly.. :)

looking for dns perl script

1998-01-28 Thread eugene mendoza
Hello, I am looking for perl script to convert bind ver 4 files to bind ver 8 files. The file is named-bootconf.pl. It is not on the linux cd. If anyone can send me this by mail, will be deeply appreciated. Best Regards, Eugene _ DO YOU

Re: looking for dns perl script

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote: Hello, I am looking for perl script to convert bind ver 4 files to bind ver 8 files. The file is named-bootconf.pl. It is not on the linux cd. If anyone can send me this by mail, will be deeply appreciated. Best Regards, Eugene The Debian

ZGV problem [2]

1998-01-28 Thread kestrel
I tried downgrading to the stable version of zgv after the hamm version blanked my screen and locked my system (both from pine and the command line). The stable version does the same thing. It appears the problem lies elsewhere, any help on what to do to fix this problem? G'razel the shifty-kitty

128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi == I have a system with 128Mg of RAN, but the Linux only sees 64Mg. --from dmesg Memory: 64040k/66556k available (876k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1256k data) --- what it is the problem, and what it is the solution? Thank you. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
In /etc/lilo.conf append=mem=128M On 28 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: I have a system with 128Mg of RAN, but the Linux only sees 64Mg. --from dmesg Memory: 64040k/66556k available (876k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1256k data) --- what it is the problem, and what it is

Re: ZGV problem [2]

1998-01-28 Thread B. Bell
Most likely there's a problem with your svgalib confiuration. -brad On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried downgrading to the stable version of zgv after the hamm version blanked my screen and locked my system (both from pine and the command line). The stable version does the

uptime - bad data in /var/run/utmp?

1998-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi Im my debian linux box when I do uptime the answer it is bad data in /var/run/utmp What is it the problem (and what is it the solution)? Thank you. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias

Re: uptime - bad data in /var/run/utmp?

1998-01-28 Thread Will Lowe
uptime the answer it is bad data in /var/run/utmp Have you upgraded to libc6? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: Perl problem

1998-01-28 Thread Sten Anderson
Karl Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having an annoying perl problem. Whenever I run a perl script I get a set of error messages. Perl runs but the messages clutter the screen. I just installed debian 1.3 from CD and then ran dselect. The packages perl 5.003.07-10, perl-suid

Re: uptime - bad data in /var/run/utmp?

1998-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
uptime the answer it is bad data in /var/run/utmp Have you upgraded to libc6? Yes. I have a Matrox Millenium II, and it requires the last XFree release, and it requires the upgrad to libc6. At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de

Re: Problem with mc

1998-01-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What version of mc? Already strace'd it? Version 4.1.24 is installed. I didn't strace it, this package is not installed. Running ldd on mc reports libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4000d000) libgpm.so.1 =

Re: uptime - bad data in /var/run/utmp?

1998-01-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: the answer it is bad data in /var/run/utmp Have you upgraded to libc6? Yes. Point dselect at ftp.debian.org and make SURE you've upgraded all the base and standard packages to their libc6 equivalents. Libc6 redefines some basic

SMC Ultra EtherEZ slowdown

1998-01-28 Thread David Welton
Hi, I've noticed an odd problem.. I've got a 2.0.33 machine running Debian GNU/Linux, with a: smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: SMC EtherEZ at 0x240, 00 00 C0 DE 81 E2,EEPROM IRQ 10 programmed-I/O mode. installed. It seems to work fine, but every few days, I get

Linux and ultra dma drives

1998-01-28 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, i just wanted to know about compatibility. allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: uptime - bad data in /var/run/utmp?

1998-01-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: the answer it is bad data in /var/run/utmp Have you upgraded to libc6? Yes. Point dselect at ftp.debian.org and make SURE you've upgraded all the base and standard packages to their libc6

debian and MCI paging problem...

1998-01-28 Thread david oswald
Hello all... Here's what I need to do. I have a Debian box and various processes running on it that check various platforms (hp, aix...) for different configurations that we monitor. Such as file system capacity... - once we reach 95%, we want to send a page to the right guy/gal. I don't

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-28 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks to every one who responded to my message the help is very much appreciated ... Jonathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread C.J.LAWSON
If you are booting using Lilo then you can pass boot parameters to the OS with the append command or when you see the Lilo promt (press tab at boot up??) The commmand looks someting like append=0x800 J. On 28 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi == I have a system with 128Mg

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Sorry that should be append=mem=0x800 Jonathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Linux and ultra dma drives

1998-01-28 Thread Fredrik Östlind
Hi.. Well i have been running my linuxbox on a Quantum Fireball ST 4,3Gb (ultra dma) for about four month now, and i haven't experienced any problems yet. //Fredrik ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: hi, i just wanted to know about compatibility. allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: debian and MCI paging problem...

1998-01-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
My advice to you is to not use their web interface. Somewhere they have a dial-up number for a special modem connection which uses a protocol known as IXO. Then all you need is a modem attached to the box which will be sending the pages. I can give you the software which will send a page (it

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
From: C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry that should be append=mem=0x800 Jonathan What is the meaning of 0x800? I already tried and did not work. My lilo.conf is boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20

Re: autoup.sh

1998-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: A few thing... libpthread0 needs to be removed, or libc6 doesn't install libg++ needs to be removed, or libg++272 which version of the script do you have? libpthread0 has been in the script's remove list since v0.08 you can get the latest version

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Michael Beattie
From: C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry that should be append=mem=0x800 Jonathan What is the meaning of 0x800? I already tried and did not work. My lilo.conf is boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20

Re: Problem with mc

1998-01-28 Thread James Troup
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libgpm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x4003a000) libext2fs.so.2 = /lib/libext2fs.so.2 (0x4003f000) libcom_err.so.2 = /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x4004f000) It links to both libc5 *and* libc6. This is the cause of the segfault. Maybe

Re: PAM authentication file erratum

1998-01-28 Thread James Troup
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please forgive me if this has been posted before, but I think there is a mistake in the file /etc/pam.d/other that is distributed with the standard install of debian. You're right; this is bug #10497, #10758 and #12030. It's fixed by the latest release of PAM

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
From: C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry that should be append=mem=0x800 Jonathan What is the meaning of 0x800? I already tried and did not work. Here is my lilo.conf (I also have 128MB of RAM): boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 install=/boot/boot.b

Re: Settup Majordomo

1998-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Jeffrey Velez wrote: I have the same directory permission as you, but I need to be group majordom in order to excute anything. I don't know how to find my setuid for the wrapper, if you can tell me exactly how I can't find it! I think it's set to majordom. Here is a

Re: debian and MCI paging problem...

1998-01-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
david oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message fields. Is this something that I am over

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
From: C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry that should be append=mem=0x800 Jonathan What is the meaning of 0x800? I already tried and did not work. Here is my lilo.conf (I also have 128MB of RAM): boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 install=/boot/boot.b