MTA's en Debian (era Re: RePresentacion...)

1998-06-12 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Hola: On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 04:34:26PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Tomas Guemes wrote: Pues nada que creo que no he conseguido enmascarar con sendmail el nombre de usuario de mi maquina con el de mi cuenta de correo y por si no sale bien

Re: MTA's en Debian (era Re: RePresentacion...)

1998-06-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 06:47:14PM -0500, Roberto Ruiz wrote: Se me hace que este es de todos cuando empezamos, yo tambien hubiese tenido estos problemas de no usar pine, pero cuando trataba de usar cualquier otro MUA, salía mal mi dirección de retorno. En realidad me referia a como hacer

Re: Binstats (antes: Supuesto sobre dselect)

1998-06-12 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Juan Ignacio Llona wrote: (Es que el binstats me acaba de decir que tengo 120 librerías sin usar en mi sistema, y eso duele) Binstats? En que paquete se encuentra este programa? Hasta mas bits, -- - Jose Luis Trivintilde;o

Sobre Hotline

1998-06-12 Thread Eladio A. Maqueda
Hay un programa en Mac (y ahora en Winxx) que se llama Hotline, es una especie de News, Irc y algo más (no lo he usado pero creo que es así). Ahora la pregunta, aunque primero más antecedentes: Tengo un Debian 1.3.1 con un firewall con servidor proxy de telnet, ftp, www, news, y algún servicio

Re: libpthread (y libreadline2)

1998-06-12 Thread Jose Miguel Gurpegui
Santiago Vila wrote: Mmm, pues sí :-) No debes desinstalar bash, porque es esencial, y puedes hacer el sistema completamente inutilizable si lo intentas. La solución es actualizar libreadline2 a la versión que hay en oldlibs. Entonces ya puedes instalar libreadlineg2, que es la de hamm.

Error de compilacion

1998-06-12 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Compilando un programa obtengo: $ make ld: INFO 31: libGLU.so specified in the libSgm.so.1's liblist cannot be found or does not match the one specified in the link-line -- NON-QUICKSTART ld: INFO 31: libGL.so specified in the libSgm.so.1's liblist cannot be found or does not match the one

Re: Compilacion del kernel 2.0.34 con emulacion scsi no va.

1998-06-12 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: El caso es que no tiene ninguna. Lo que falta por indicar es soporte SCSI para que: disco duro, cdrom, misc, tape? Creo que proceso de compilacion ve que nada va a usar SCSI asi que no lo pone... creo. Si que tengo. la grabadora de CD es IDE/ATAPI pero tengo un ZIp

Re: Error de compilacion

1998-06-12 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Con -L/usr/lib no funciona, y es extraño lo que ocurre. Al parecer la libreria libSgm.so.1 (que no es mas que un link a libSgm.so) tiene una lista de librerias a las que llama, entre ellas libGL.so y libGLU.so Estas estan en /usr/lib asi que no me explico por que no las coge. Me imagino que el

Make xconfig

1998-06-12 Thread J. Parera
Al hacer un make xconfig las opciones que te da por defecto son las que hay actualmente en el kernel? Y si no es asi, como puedo saber que opciones tengo en este momento en el kernel? Saludos, J. Parera P.D. No tengo página de manual para las isapnptools, que debo hacer para utilizarlas? Lo

Re: Error de compilacion

1998-06-12 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: ¿Quien se supone que tiene que ejecutar ldconfig? El postinst del paquete cuando es llamado con el argumento configure. [ Si se ha instalado la biblioteca a mano, entonces también habría que ejecutar

Re: Make xconfig

1998-06-12 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, J. Parera wrote: Al hacer un make xconfig las opciones que te da por defecto son las que hay actualmente en el kernel? No, las que hay en el .config anterior en el mismo directorio, si lo hay. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: y2k subcontracting arrangements

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sally Pesiri (HQ) wrote: Please feel free to call us if you are looking for an option to Your y2k projects for clients or yourself. Thank you, Sally Pesiri You do realize that your Word attachment file is nearly 400k in size. Sending a message with a 400k M$ Word

Re: Sound with wine

1998-06-12 Thread danair
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble getting sound to work under wine. I've installd libwine0.0.971116_0.0.980601-1.deb and wine_0.0.980601-1.deb from slink. I downloaded the files ossfree38s9-linux20x.tar.gz and ossfree38s-linux20x.README and follow the instructions in this README.

Re: dselect ftp problem - the solution

1998-06-12 Thread Norbert Veber
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:03:17AM +0800, Ivan wrote: Many thanks - Norbert in particular Changing the options file to initiate ppp on the ISP machine - I just inserted the line $ ppp that line was in the scripts provided by your isp, was it not? That is why I didnt understand why it

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
forest wrote: I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, including man. Why? You need to tell us what error messages the system says when you try to run these commands. IIRC, the manpages and man-db packages are not by default installed unless you select them (Can

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ian Stuart wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: Hi, A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount three things, what should they be called? I know /mnt, but that

Re: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Francois Gouget wrote: Hi, I downloaded Hamm last night from fp.mi.us.debian.org and I got quite a lot of package download problems. Packages that seem to have moved between the ime I selected them and the time I downloaded them. Anyway, I have a lot of package

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-12 Thread George R
On 06/11/98 at 07:16 PM, Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: forest wrote: I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, including man. Why? You need to tell us what error messages the system says when you try to run these commands. IIRC, the manpages and man-db packages

any cvs users out there? (and bug #22392)

1998-06-12 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, We use cvs for managing the source code of a multi developer project. On 13, May 1998 after a frozen update I discovered a new cvs feature/bug and filed a bug report (#22392). I haven't heard much about it since then so I thought I would ask the other users if anybody has the same problem

Re: Missing packages?

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What missing package causes the following in source configure scripts?: 'checking for working makeinfo.. missing' Thanks, Timothy I checked a couple of configure scripts I had on hand, but they didn't have a reference to 'makeinfo'. This apparently

Re: X-windows on a Valuepoint

1998-06-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this: # /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers [snip comments in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers] :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X the last line is particularly important,also,check the location of X,it may be different on your

gnus

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BH When I press DEL (from either buffer) I get an error message that BH the buffer is read only. How can I make the article scroll back one BH page? With the point in the summary buffer, this should work. What does C-h k DEL say? You don't have a

Re: Permission problem with FTE

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Matthew Myers wrote: I use the FTE editor quite a bit for programming and html, but I have to use it as root. I would prefer to be able to use it in my normal account. When I try to execute FTE as anyone else but root it gives me this error message: open: Permission Denied Failed to

Re: HTTP mirrors

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:03:55PM +0930, Mark Mickan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I don't know how up to date it is, but there is another Australian http mirror at http://ftp.it.com.au/ftp/ (I think). They also have non-US. They used to be very fast, but I've been finding their

Kernel 2.0.34, mc 4.1.35

1998-06-12 Thread Eddie Seymour
Just installed kernel 2.0.34 (had 2.0.33-9) in hamm/frozen and nls_iso8859-1 failed to load. Finally put it ahead of cp_437 in modules and it loaded after this. Was fine in 2.0.33-9. Is there an oddity with my hamm/frozen? Also have Midnight Commander 4.1.35 with Pause after run active. If I run

Re: Missing packages?

1998-06-12 Thread Johnie Ingram
What missing package causes the following in source configure scripts?: 'checking for working makeinfo.. missing' The makeinfo comes in tetex-bin, part of the tetex suite. - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _Debian GNU Johnie

Re: HTTP mirrors

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Sorry to bring this up, but can someone suggest an up-to-date HTTP mirror? http://www.debian.org/~jgg/mastersourcelist This has some of the mirrors I know about (~20) Try llug.sep.bnl.gov, and try ftp1 a bit later, johnie might not have it

RE: HTTP mirrors

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Mark Mickan wrote: I don't know how up to date it is, but there is another Australian http mirror at http://ftp.it.com.au/ftp/ (I think). They also have non-US. They used to be very fast, but I've been finding their ftp site very slow lately, but YMMV. I can't vouch for

Re: upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best route for something like this? I have simulated a

Re: X11 not installing on debian 2.0

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Morgan wrote: I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' When I go to the x11

Re: upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kendrick Myatt wrote: I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best route for something like this? My personal opinion is not to

PCI cards not found...

1998-06-12 Thread Rift
Okay, I'm not very experienced with linux... Here's my problem I have a Creative graphics blaster exxtreme, and a voodoo2. trying to run Xwindows. I found a XServer for the permedia2 chip on the exxtreme that specifically supports it, however when running startx I get ' NO GLINT/PERMEDIA CARDS

Re: libc5 vs. libc6

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Morgan wrote: I'm having trouble setting up xwindows in debian 2.0. I install Xwindows as an option when installing debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.33), but get error messages all over the place about missing libraries when I type xdm or startx. In running dselect, I see that I have libc6

route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Needed: best method for directing inbound requests for anon ftp requests to a server located on a box other than the one that dials up my ISP. I have two Linux machines ethernetted, and running IP masquerading with ipfwadm. One of the boxs is equipped with a modem to dial my ISP (for dynamic IP

Re: X11 not installing on debian 2.0

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' This

Re: XFree86

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dennis Dixon wrote: Thanks to the numerous responses I received from my posting (June 9, 10:04) regarding setting up XFree86 on my Debian 1.3 O/S. Below is what I think I'm supposed to do. Possibly, someone could verify if this is correct. First, let's make sure I understand the

Mirror suggestion

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
It would be helpful if the README.mirrors file, which lists the official Debian mirrors could provide information on NFS or HTTP sites as well as FTP mirrors. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-12 Thread 5nl7jph
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Mirroring hamm for install...

1998-06-12 Thread mike
Reply-To: Hi, I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have some questions now. First, my situation: 1. Nightly running: wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \ *-alpha*,*-m68k*,*-powerpc*,*-sparc*,*source* a. Because I'm

Netscape

1998-06-12 Thread Michael Beattie
hmmm, Please call me stupid, but how do I go about increasing the font size in netscape? (Kinda hard to read at 1024x758 on a 14) I know this has been discussed before on the list, but I cannot for the life of me find it in the archives. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL

Re: Netscape

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Michael Beattie wrote: hmmm, Please call me stupid, but how do I go about increasing the font size in netscape? (Kinda hard to read at 1024x758 on a 14) I know this has been discussed before on the list, but I cannot for the life of me find it in the archives.

Debian for the mac?

1998-06-12 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Is there a debian distribution for the macintosh. A friend is trying to install redhat on his mac - I'd recommend debian except I'm not sure there is a debian version for the mac? If there is one, is it any good? Cheers, Mark.

epic100

1998-06-12 Thread Dr. Juergen Schnack
Hi, I am running linux 2.0.30 on a dual pentium II machine. Last friday I installed a smc ethernet card using the SMC EPIC/100 83C170 Ethernet Controller. The driver epic100, see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html does fine, but the card reports Jun 12 07:36:45 obelix kernel:

Siemens Celsius 1000 Motherboard and Matrox Millinium II (AGP)

1998-06-12 Thread Karsten Bolding
Before I order two new machines I would like be sure that I can actually use them. Does anybody have any experience with this motherboard. It has Audio and UW-SCSI on board. Also is a Matrox Millinium II using AGP supported by XFree. Yours Karsten Bolding -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:13:40PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Needed: best method for directing inbound requests for anon ftp requests to a server located on a box other than the one that dials up my ISP. I have two Linux machines ethernetted, and running IP masquerading with ipfwadm. One

X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread Jeff Shilt
There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. This is my ld.so.conf: /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat

Re: gnus

1998-06-12 Thread Bruce Mardle
Ugg. It's too early in the morning to think about Emacs vs BS/DEL issues. My problem is if I start gnus when there is no new mail, I get an empty Groups buffer. If I try C-u RET in that case, I get the response No group on current line. If I have new mail, I can go back and look at old

Stealth 3D 3000 - solved

1998-06-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi everyone, I wrote: [...] I reinstalled debian 1.3.1, using the XF86_S3V server. I am using xdm to login. Every so many times the machine hangs when terminating the

Scalable fonts in Netscape

1998-06-12 Thread Yury Onischuck
Hello, Problem: Netscape does not save font properties for fonts other then default two for every encoding. Environment: Linux-i386, Netscape Communicator 4.04, XFree86 3.3.1 X font server with xfsft add-ons (truetype rendering). By default, all fonts in the list are set as non-scalable. Let's

Incoming ppp calls

1998-06-12 Thread Ramon Nieva
Hi, Recently I upgraded my bo system to hamm. Since then, my incoming ppp/pap connections are refused. In bo I had to delete the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file but now, with the same configuration, when setting up the ppp connection, syslog sais that there is no valid pap-secrets file available.

Re: xserver and Matrox Mistique

1998-06-12 Thread dg
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: I have a Mystique 220 4mb card. I have no problems w/ XFree86_SVGA. Both bo and hamm/slink. This is probably a misconfigured monitor settings problem. Michael Roark wrote: I have just finished an install (1.3.1) on a machine with a Matrox

Re: Debian vs. W95 (was: Money where mouth...)

1998-06-12 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, The main issue is that of controllability and observability; with W95 there is a hierarchy of pre-defined GUI interfaces to pre-defined functionalities. Often the details of their functions, or constraints, are not well defined (publically). Yeah, I know this feeling too... My main

Re: X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread aqy6633
There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. You are using hamm, right? My guess would be that the programs you install are

Re: epic100

1998-06-12 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Dr. Juergen Schnack wrote: I am running linux 2.0.30 on a dual pentium II machine. Last friday I installed a smc ethernet card using the SMC EPIC/100 83C170 Ethernet Controller. The driver epic100, see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html does fine, but

Re: epic100

1998-06-12 Thread Dr. Juergen Schnack
Thank you for the hint, I got the same already. But I think, it is not the driver itself because that I had already, must be something with pci. Anyway, it is running with 2.0.34. Best regards, Juergen -- * *

Help, I've messed up my system

1998-06-12 Thread Adrian Monk
Err, this is embarassing. I had a perfectly working 2.0 system, but because I have now opened a second ISP account with Demon I decided to have a look for scripts on the Demon ftp site. I duly found a package for Slackware, and decided to unzip and untar it to see what scripts it contained

Re: Help, I've messed up my system

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:35:11 GMT, Adrian Monk wrote: 2) If I try to log in as user account atheris I get a column of 1000.1000 instead of atheris.atheris (although if I do ls -la ^ Anyone know how to fix this self-inflicted grief? Obviously somewhere Slackware has altered permissions or

Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread Max Lawson
Hi ! I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an install-guru) I was told that I could order CDs from 'Hamm'. My question is: does somebody know when the release will/should/may happen ??

Re: Debian for the mac?

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
Hi, Is there a debian distribution for the macintosh. A friend is trying to install redhat on his mac - I'd recommend debian except I'm not sure there is a debian version for the mac? If there is one, is it any good? Try going to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-powerpc/

Re: X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread aqy6633
I saw your message about libc5 and libc6 to another user. I've also had trouble with this. Everytime I try to install libc5, it says it conflicts with libc6, and disables libc6 and all other packeages that depend on it when running dselect. Is there a way around this? I'm still trying to

KHOROS on Debian Problems

1998-06-12 Thread Jim Harsh
Hi, I think most of these problems are with my debian installation but thought I'd ask both groups. I have a AMD K6-233 running Debian 2.0.32(hamm). I've installed KHOROS 2.2 from the CD and cantata, craftsman and guise runs fine, almost. 1) When opening any khoros window with a dialog box, I

Re: [ debian-user-request ] libXpm and wine

1998-06-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am looking for libXpm in order to compile the source version od wine (its newer then the one in the debian package) is there a debian package of libXpm? because i couldn't find one. id not, does anyone know where i can find a binary version and how to install it? (i think there is one

Re[2]: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an IP from your ISP for the second machine, then you can do it, and you don't need masquerading at all. If not, then it's trouble. I don't have one for it; I just get one dynamically assigned number for the dialup box. The ftp server box is

Re: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could run a port redirector on the FTP control port (21) on the dialup machine, which redirects connections to your FTP server. Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the term port

Re: Help, I've messed up my system

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adrian Monk wrote: Err, this is embarassing. I had a perfectly working 2.0 system, but because I have now opened a second ISP account with Demon I decided to have a look for scripts on the Demon ftp site. I duly found a package for Slackware, and decided to unzip and untar it to see

Re: Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Max Lawson wrote: Hi ! I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an install-guru) I was told that I could order CDs from 'Hamm'. My question is: does somebody know when the release

Re: cd writers linux

1998-06-12 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 9 Jun 98 00:43:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Miller) wrote: hmmm... I think rewritable discs are magnetic and they can only be read on other CD-RW drives or DVD drives. No, they still use a laser like conventional CD-R drives. As far as I understand it, the layer that the pits are burned

Re: KHOROS on Debian Problems

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, So my question is: what is and where or how do I get libfl.a? libfl.a is a fast lexical analyzer library meaning that it should be part of the flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) package. The function yywrap is in libfl.a I can't help you witht the other two problems you mentioned, sorry.

Re[2]: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some tools like redir and socket that do this in the net section. I have had good results with redir. Thanks for these tips. I'll pass along a URL sent me by another list subscriber, which seems promising in this regard:

where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only hamm). George

Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know what the following means: Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sns = f0 4 Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: ASC=44 ASCQ=ad Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3c 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00

Re: where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only hamm). George Apt isn't in

Re: where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only

Re: Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread Max Lawson
Thanx for the infos. Max I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an install-guru) I was told that I could order CDs from 'Hamm'. My question is: does somebody know when the

user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments concerning security. So I tried as a user with no root privileges and no

Re: Mirroring hamm for install...

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:46:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reply-To: Hi, I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have some questions now. First, my situation: 1. Nightly running: wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \

user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
George, I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk

Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-12 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Ossama, I get similar errors on my system when the tape heads are dirty. I do nightly backups and about every two months I need to clean the tape heads to get rid of errors like these. Hope this helps, Bernt. -- Bernt T. Hansen- Norang Consulting Incorporated --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Great! Thanks! I was afraid something might be wrong. Although I can't get information from mt any more. I'll probably have to reboot. Thanks again. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public:

Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Mark A. Zottola
I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online documentation, FAQs, etc. I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. Partition D holds the Debian distribution and Partition E is

Printing on the stairs

1998-06-12 Thread Matthew Myers
How do I prevent the stairstep effect when printing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
After installing xwindows CORRECTLY this time, I'm now unable to start it using startx. It gives me the following error message: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed I've already gone through the XF86Setup interface, and everything seemed to configure correctly there. It appears now that

quotas

1998-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
The `quota' command isn't quite doing what I think it should. I've added the appropriate lines to /etc/fstab, run `quotacheck -av', run `quotaon -av' and `edquota' for the users who need them, but typing `quota user' (as root) always results in the message Disk quotas for user user (uid UID):

Re: startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Brian, Check where the symbolic link /usr/X11R6/bin/X points to. According to your error, it looks as though it is pointing to XF86_NONE which isn't a valid X server. It should be linked to an X server such as XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, etc... What type of video card is installed in the machine?

I cannot install nntp, cnews under debian1.3.1 :(

1998-06-12 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed debian 1.3.1 (stable) on my Pentium machine. I cannot install 'nntp' server. I have tried: #dpkg -i nntp_1.5.12.1-1.deb Selecting previously deselected package nntp. (Reading database ... 81776 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nntp (from

Re: Printing on the stairs

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Matthew, This would usually depend on the type of printer you have. Download the magicfilter package and install for your type of printer. This should help out. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Myers wrote: How do I prevent the stairstep effect when printing? -- To

Re: startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
Check where the symbolic link /usr/X11R6/bin/X points to. According to your error, it looks as though it is pointing to XF86_NONE which isn't a valid X server. It should be linked to an X server such as XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, etc... What type of video card is installed in the machine? This

Re: gnus

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BH == Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BH However, it appears that gnus wants the opposite from the Debian BH standard. BS will scroll back one page. Now that I know that, I BH don't care if gnus thinks it's backwards - it will work for me. Add this to your .gnus . Sorry, don't know

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:02:47PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. um 644...thats um... owner: rwx group: r other: r ? I don't know my octal modes..forgive me :)

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in : /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that : after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments : concerning security. So I tried

gcc: libs/scicos.a: No such file or directory

1998-06-12 Thread Jan Krupa
I would like to compile scilab-2.3.1 under Linux machine, Debian-1.3.1, kernel 2.0.34 (32). I unziped and and untared the file scilab2.3.1-src.tar.gz (tar xzvf scilab*.tzr.gz). Then typed './configure -with-gnu' and next 'make all'. The compiling process failed with the following message:

Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online : documentation, FAQs, etc. : : I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. : Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. : :

Re: Incoming ppp calls

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RN == Ramon Nieva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RN Recently I upgraded my bo system to hamm. Since then, my incoming RN ppp/pap connections are refused. [...] RN When using the standard pap-secrets file I get, using an account in RN /etc/passwd, authentication refused. I believe in the new

Re: where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread Chris Reed
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org

Re: Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:18:07AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Max Lawson wrote: Hi ! I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an install-guru) I was told that I could order CDs

can't load library 'libf2c.so.0'

1998-06-12 Thread Jan Krupa
When I invoke 'scilab' I got the warning: can't load library 'libf2c.so.0' , but the library libf2c.so.2 exists but does not exist libf2c.so.0. When I tried to install f2c: dpkg -i f2c_960717-0.deb (Reading database ... 78820 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace

FTP File system

1998-06-12 Thread fealvar
Hi, does anyone know about a kernel based FTP-file system, a mean something like nfs or smbfs but against an ftp server. Thanks. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compañia de Telecomunicaciones de Chile. Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado

Re: startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : This might sound like a dumb question, but how do you check where a symbolic link : points to? I understand what you're talking about, and I can see X in the : /usr/X11R6/bin directory, but I don't know what to do from there to get it to point : to my

VIM

1998-06-12 Thread timothy
Whenever I use vim to edit files, when I am done there is a whateverfilename~ file in the directory. What are these files with the tilde for? If they aren't important, how do I make vim not leave them lying around all the time? Because its insanely annoying to have to delete zillions of filename~

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