Re: /etc/printcap set up

Hi John Kloss; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: lp|Laser Jet:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :pl#64:\ :sh: Now the Printing-HOWTO said to add a text filter for just plain lpr'ing, that is, a simple command with no options, like

Re: controller scsi 3130B data technologies

Hi Maurizio Marini; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, I apologize for asking something that has yet been answered; I'm trying to install 1.3. My computer is equipped with a controller 3130 B and kernel on boot doesn't recognize disks (0 scsi host). Someone can help me? bYeZ

Re: Window-manager?

Here is another vote for the WindowMaker. I also use afterstep as my second window manager, which is very similar in looks to the windowMaker. Both are reasonably fast, look good and , as far as I can tell stable. Damir -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

wmaker_0.12.3-0.4 install scripts ...

Hi, all -- I was wondering if anybody else has yet installed the latest (as of Jan 24 98) package of wmaker (ver. 0.12.3-0.4). I had some problems with the install scripts; one I'm sure is a bug - somewher along in the install process, I got an error saying that the 'ldconfing' command is not

Re: smail 3.2.0.100-4, won't accept mail form port25 no more

Hi Neilen Marais; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am not an expert so I apologize if this is a waste of the bandwidth. I got my smail_3.2.0.100-2 to work with fetchmail after I had given sendmail the *full* name of my machine mybox.mydomain.net (when it asks something about the 'other

Re: netscape4

Hi Dennis Drapeau; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, I am wondering which version of netscape the install wrapper for hamm uses. I have downloaded communicator 4.04 (communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz) and the install script exits with a version compatability.

/etc/alternatives problems?

Hi, all -- I have tried the elvis package from hamm, didn't like it that much and settled on vim as my editor...Now, someplace between the install-deinstall-install of these two packages my /etc/alternatives/vi, vi.1.gz, ex, ex.1.gz, input, input.1.gz, editor, editor.1.gz, view and view.1.gz

Xsuse servers and Debian

Hi, all -- I am using PCI version of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] video card w. 4 Mb of memory. X is working under libc6 system and xerver-mach64_3.3.1-2.deb package. However, when starting the server I get a message (in that text output just prior to X showing up (using startx)) that Xserver and PCI

Re: Moving to libc6 X

Hi Oleg Krivosheev; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, All what is the best way to move from libc5 based X (3.3-4) to libc6 ? Is there a particular order of upgrades? I already have libc6-2.0.6 and related stuff from hamm installed. regards OK Well, FWIW I upgraded all

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

Hi Marcus Brinkmann; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery (how can you do this - using

Re: HELP! Netscape under hamm??

Well, I've just installed the latest communicator (4.04) using the netscape install script without any problems...I've just installed all the packages netscape install script calls for, including libc5 and libg++27 from /hamm/hamm/binary-i386/oldlibs But, this report is based only on an hour of

Smail and Fetchmail combo

I feel really stupid for asking this, but I don't know how to proceed with this thing: I posted the other day about my problems with new smail package from hamm on two different problems: -one was solved by editing /etc/smail/config to get rid of the extra white space in the script -the other one

Re: Netscape debianized

Catalin Popescu wrote: Does it exist a debianized Netscape? If not, how am I supposed to install it? under /usr/local/bin ? Thanks, There is a netscape4_4.0-6.deb *install* script -you still have to fetch the communicator tarball from the ftp.netscape.com. This script is very usefull if

Wmaker (hamm) and menu pkg.

I'm having a bit of a problem with the 'automagically' generated menus for the WindowMaker in hamm dist. I'd like to have slrn and mutt running under rxvt rather than default xterm window. My /etc/X11/wmaker/menu.hook starts with the warning :Do not edit this file.., so my question is: will I

Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

Yup, this took care of this little problem. I still have problems with my fetchmail, though. In this (new) version of the smail a new (?) variable is added to the /etc/smail/config file named 'more_hostnames' wher it includes 'localhost'. My guess would be that should take care of the earlier

new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

When installing smail package, the only remaining package in hamm dist was 3.2.0.100-1, so I installed thinking it had solved previous problems with /etc/inetd.conf file. Well, the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf is *not* commented out, and I still get the same (?) message that fetchmail sees the

Re: Yet Another libc5-libc6 question..

Yes, I did exactly that: put both packages on the same dpkg --install line (thanks to Scott Ellis for responding within an hour of my original post). Everything installed cleanly and the system works as expected. Next hurdle seems to be installing of the libc6-dev to be able to compile my own

Yet Another libc5-libc6 question..

Hi, everyone -- I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still came out empty-handed: I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6 library. Next step was to try and upgrade to

Re: WinNT 4.0 + Debian Linux -- advice needed

Many thanks to Brian Skreeg, Hamish Moffatt and Torsten Hilbrich for thaking the time to answer my question. I have, after reading all sorts of winNT/linux mini-HOWTOs installed LILO onto the /dev/sdb5 (root) partition and copied it over to the file on the WinNT disk, and now I can boot Linux from

Re: Installing WinNT on new hard drive

This may not be exact information you are looking for, but just my two cents: WinNT will *not* destroy and/or damage any other partition. I know there has been cases with different results, but I have at one point had WinNT3.51 *sharing* (as in 'WinNT was a subdirectory' of the OS/2 Warp) a *HPFS*

WinNT 4.0 + Debian Linux -- advice needed

Hi, everybody -- I know this type of question must have been asked before but I can't find a real answer: I've installed WinNT4.0 on /dev/sda (first, 540Mb SCSI drive) and Debian Linux 1.3.1 on /dev/sdb (sdb5 for root thru sdb9 for home fs) in that order. At the moment I use a floppy to boot

Re: Installing

Hi James Scheiderich; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Pro Audio Spectrum 16 with Scsi port Adaptec 2840 scsi controller Then it returnd this: scsi0: BRKADRINT error (0x1): Illegal Host Access Kernel Panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1,seadd 0x0

Re: Mysteriously Unsubscribed

Hi Mark Phillips; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, Either this list has gone suddenly silent since about the 10th of December, or I have been mysteriously unsubscribed from debian-user-digest. I suspect the latter and have just sent off an email to be subscribed again. This

FastSCSI Card recommendations

G'day everybody -- I decided to invest into new computer, and since I already have two SCSI-2 HD's (Quantum and IBM), I'd like to keep them. My current system is VLB-based so I have to buy a new card for PCI-based pentium class system. I am looking into choosing between three diff adapters at

Re: printing

Hi Pere Camps; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Is there any tool anywhere where I can tell what printer do I have and where is it and then the program takes care of everything, or do I have to read everything there's to know about printcaps and magicfilters? Did you try running

Re: kernel-source-2.0.32...?

Hi Martin Stromberg; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I haven't seen the kernel-source-2.0.32... package yet. Does anybody know where it is? Any particular reasoning against picking up 'virgin' kernel source from any of the sites that carry it ( for example ftp.kernel.org)? I've done that

Kernel error messages- pls. help (II)

G'day -- I am not sure if my last message has made it to the list (I've gotten an error message from smtp at aol(?) that debian-user doesn't accept the mail w. attachments...So, please forgive me if I'm repeating myself. Now; to the problem at hand: while browsing the Net, at the one of the

Kernel error message(s)-pls help...

Hi, everyone -- I have a problem that goes way beyond my knowledge of linux: while downloading a gnuplot example page in Netscape3.04 running on machine from debian1.3 tree sources) whole server crashed - completely closed down and threw me back to the command line on a virtual console (X is

xfree86 and ttyp1 from :0

Hi, everyone -- a quick sanity check: I have noticed that after using X-windows as a user and getting back out of the X and logging off completely, my next login message reads that the last login as a user xxx was from ttyp1 from :0. This doesn't happen if I'm only using console mode and log in

Mutt_0.84-0 doesn't send

Hi, everybody -- I have installed new mutt package compiled for libc5 (THANKS to Ray for keeping us with libc5 in mind!), ver. 0.84-0, and all was running fine so I deleted my old package 0.74-3. BUT, I didn't try to send an Email and sure enough that is the only function I can not get to work. I

Re: Which news reader to use?

Hi Paul Serice; unless Mutt is confused,on Sep 25, you wrote : Richard Heestand wrote: I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it takes about 5 minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms windows trumpet by about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn.

elvis and x11

hi, all -- a quick question: is it only me or is it impossible to start the x11 version of elvis editor from the fvwm and afterstep menus? Note: executing vi -G x11 works from the xterm or from the rxvt, and exec xterm -n vi -e vi works from the menus (pop-up root menu!), but exec vi -G x11

Re: Debian 1.3 / Adaptec 284x VLB - problem

Hi Benjamin de Coninck Owe; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 28, you wrote : I am trying to install debian 1.3 om my pc: ALI motherboard Phoenix BIOS 4.03 I486 DX4 - 100MhZ Adaptec 2840A / 42A I am having trouble. Booting the rescuedisk at boot prompt I write: boot: linux

Re: Bash upgrade,Netscape helpers...

Hi Brian K Servis; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 25, you wrote : Regardless of the status of libc6, the change over to 1.3.x or 1.3 Rev x, the desire to keep changes to the stable tree to a minimum, or whatever, this needs to be upgraded NOW. I have had a few other apps crap out on this

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

Hi Dieter Rohlfing; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 22, you wrote : Hi Mark, thanks a lot for your reply. The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the main hardware components: - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM - Adaptec

Q: Rolodex-type app

Greetings ; I'm trying to find some decent x11-based app for names and addresses; sort of like a Xrolodex idea. I know Debian is packaging addressbook, is anyone using it? And does anyone have any other suggestions (based on your own experience Thanks, DamirN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: bashrc bash-profile Problem

Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 10, you wrote : snip I included the .sd.sh script in my .bash-profile script: # Staroffice source $HOME/.sd.sh this way it worked in the Suse Distibution. But now it only works if i start i.e. swriter from the initial xterm

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

Hi, everyone -- I am having the same problem as the original poster; my kerneld (yes, I _do_ have _only_ auto enabled in /etc/conf.modules) doesn't want to mount the floppy in msdos automagically. However, when I do (as root) insmod /lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/fat.o ;followed by insmod

Re: Gimp compiled w. libc5

On Aug 2, Ben Gertzfield wrote My gimp package in hamm runs 'strip' on the resultant gimp binary. Try that. :) Or, just install the proper Debian gimp package. libc6 is incredibly easy to install; just try installing that! (You don't need the -dev packages :) Thanks to you and others

Gimp compiled w. libc5

Hi, everybody -- I just compiled and installed non-debianized Gimp-0.99.10 program. Installation went without any problems, everything is tucked under /usr/local tree and it is working. However, my /usr/local/bin/gimp file is (I think) too big -4.8Mb almost. I ran ./configure script as is in the

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

Hi, everyone ; I'm just trying to keep you guys posted; I've tried using the stock (off Debian u.s. ftp site) rescue disk image instead of the specially made one; with no success: the error message is exactly the same, and my floppy drive light doesn't come on after it is asking for the rescue

Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

Hi -- I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( and based on 2.0.30 kernel). (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) Installation goes smoothly through setting up a color display,

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

Igor Grobman wrote: I was hit by this problem once. What happens is the system reads the floppy drive (you see the light come on) and at the same time displays this message. If you hit enter before the light comes off, the drive would be unreadable, hence the error message. Try waiting

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