The subject says it allI've been static for years, and now @home has
gone and changed things...I'm back up after 4 days of hell trying to figure
out what happened, but now am wondering where to tell dhcpcd what my
hostname is Can anyone shed some light?
Rich
I've been playing with this, and conferring with Andrei off list.
I was used to static entries in /etc/init.d/network...when @Home switched my
subnet to completely dynamic I had no choice but to install the DHCPCD
package.
From the command line as root...dhcpcd -h crxx-x gets me
Hi Folks,
I've quickly read the docs, but don't have the time to delve much further.
Can anyone assist me with setting up rules to allow my masq'd machines to
play netracinglive.com? They provide the ports which must be allowed, I
don't think I'm far from understanding, perhaps if I had some
I believe that our cable modems will only work with the nic that @home gave
you, hardcoded to the MAC as I recall of course I could be wrong..
Rich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: your
On 17 Sep 1997, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
I think Matrox is a good choice, though you do have to be careful. Current
support is excellent for the Millenium and the Mystique, alpha / early-beta
level for the Millenium II, and this is the first I've heard of the Mystique
I've been very happy
On 17 Sep 1997, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
--- end of quote ---
I think Matrox is a good choice, though you do have to be careful. Current
support is excellent for the Millenium and the Mystique, alpha / early-beta
level for the Millenium II, and this is the first I've heard of the Mystique
I
Hi all,
I seem to recall someone posting a way to switch from smail to qmail.
I've searched deja news without success, and was wondering if anyone could
pass me a clue.
I currently use procmail as my local delivery tool and would like to
remain doing so. I'm planning to open things up a bit with
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Was going through the logs, and came across this in my /var/log/daemon.log
Aug 28 15:17:22 joanrich tcplogd: telnet connection attempt from
van-52-1146.direct.ca
Aug 28 15:17:22 joanrich in.telnetd[10595]: connect from
van-52-1146.direct.ca
Aug 28 15:17:23
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote:
Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma
1,16bit dma5
I get messages that it is busy.
I am using 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.30.
--Jeff
Under the directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound is a file called
Readme.linux.
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Doctor Sanity wrote:
Hello Debians,
I was wondering if anyone could possibly give me any information
regarding the WAVE service that is being advertised by Roger. I've read a
while back about several people who were on the list, and I was wondering if
they
Hi folks, I'm receiving the following error when I try to do anything with
lprng. I did have a working printer setup for awhile, but in one of the
upgrades (I track unstable) something has gone amiss.
Get_local_host: hostname 'joanrich' bad
I did a search of dejanews, and came up with folks
As you can see, this message is very offtopic, but still somewhat Debian
related.
I am curious how folks who use Debian in a production environment deal
with allocating passwords.
Do you use the pwgen package and let users worry about it from there, or
do you let them choose within the confines
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:55:41 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
One wants a firewall to
1. not require logging into the firewall computer itself (TIS requires
I have an `industrial' firewall working out there, fully in the
Hi Listers,
As the proud new user of a cable modem from Rogers cable here in
Canada and I can say that the configuration was very easy. No need for
dhcpd(sp?) clients at all.
1. The ethernet device is a SMC Etherez 8416, which was supported by
SMC-Ultra in the kernel. (I think other users may
Hi folks,
I've ignored the cable access threads in the past because it didn't
pertain to me. Now, I've been fortunate enough to have been selected for
a free three month trial of rogers wave in my area (Internet access
through our cable giant Rogers). I was wondering if anyone could let me
know
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
I believe somebody else already told you you were wrong there.
But if you want a not-so-good, but much faster pdf viewer
than gv+gs-aladdin, you may want to try xpdf.
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 1997,
Hi folks,
Its a small thing, but its been bugging me for awhile now.
I start signify with the following command:
signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature
This allows me to at least get to the compose screen in pine. Oddly
there is no sig presented, and signify then dies with the following error
to the
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:12:40 -0400
From: Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: elm/smail config problem
Resent-Date: 22 May 1997 16:12:42 -
Resent-From:
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
Hi,
How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it
lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just
guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows,
modifying the XF86Config file
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
How can I switch between the different resolution settings. I know I can
switch the resolution by CRTL ALT + or - but I'm more interested on changing
the number of colors. All I see is 256 colours, but I want to be able to
switch
to higher number
On Fri, 9 May 1997, John Maheu wrote:
Hi all:
I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I want to run a P100 and
eventually a P166. Any suggestions? What about Gigabyte?
thanks
John
Hi John, I have a Gigabyte GA 586 ATE here. I suppose it is kinda dated
now, being over a year old and
mailing list manager), please contact me.
Pete
Just a sincere thank you for donating your time.
Richard Morin
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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote:
Anybody who could help?
FYI, I haven't integrated procmail in the mail delivery system.
Thanks,
Giuseppe Vacanti
According to the procmail docs, you need the following line in your
/etc/smail/transports:
local: return_path, local,
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote:
I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
Thanks...
Jim
--
Hi Jim,
Just re-install Netscape with the debian package in the
contrib
/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook.
Thought it was already there...hmmm
Thanks,
--
joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act
wish.
[ ] use-sender-not-x-sender
[ ] use-subshell-for-suspend
initial-keystroke-list = No Value Set
default-composer-hdrs= No Value Set
customized-hdrs = From: Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED
the
mail. Leafnode handles d/l the groups I read. Nice little program.
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
It was as small as the hope in a dead man's eyes.
assemble my findings for others to try if there is an
interest.
So far I've resisted the urge to change anything and dosemu is as it came
out of the .deb package, it works, just can't access my hd or do much with
it.
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED
, /usr/doc/ and
dejanews...
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
Hi folks,
I was wondering if anyone who uses diald could help me with pap
authentication. I've just changed ISP's and of course they are an Nt
shop who are changing over to solaris...
I was able to figure out my connection problems with minicom at my
old ISP , but here, it gets to the point of
that my system didn't have any holes (that you could drive a truck
though anyway) right out of the box... Thanks guys and gals!
(hmm not to open a kettle of fish, but how many female developers are
there??)
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED
on their system to learn about it. I've not yet had time to think much
about it till now.
I guess this means that somehow someone has listed my machine on a warez
list eh?? Kinda funny in a mosquito like way.
Can I leave these kidz a nice message somehow??
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote:
hi
does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i
have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only
loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks
dOn
have you tried?
startx -- -bpp 16
Richard Morin
[EMAIL
I upgraded or it happened in dselect without my really taking
notice. Going back to the stable version of binutil allowed me to compile
my now 2.1.20 kernel just fine. Quake anyone?
Richard Morin
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$_=echo '#!/usr/bin/suidperl -U\n$^I 2755aa;s=a= $ENV{HOME}/Imroot;=g;exec$_
# Get root in 30 seconds or less. Fix this hole: upgrade to perl 5.003 today..
How much disk space is needed? roughly
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED
that I've broken so many things because I didn't
read the docs first. ;-)
faxing with mgetty next on my list here
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
Goda's Truism: By the time you get to the point where you can
Hi folks, I've finally gotten around to focusing on my kernel sound
problems, and I just need some info about just how I go about applying the
patch that is mentioned in /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz
Just a little leary bout causing a larger error :-)
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED
that, then you can install the rest of
your system via ftp directly, if not, you can always save the .deb
packages to win95 and mount that partition in linux and install from
there.
Good luck
go over the intall docs it mentions all of this in better detail
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED
To follow up my own problem, isn't it funny how sending the message
triggers your mind
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
The strangest thing in all of this, is that I can, now at least, connect
with minicom and start pppd manually, which is fine, but I can't get my
mail
Hi folks, I'm still having some difficulty with my setup, but I trudge on.
No questions this time, just a request for some files so I can compare and
see for myself what I'm doin' wrong.
If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please
send me the following.
Hi listers, I'm having some major probs and I was hoping someone could
help me. diald no longer works, same for fetchmail, and other net things
Trying to connect via telnet localhost 25 fails with some output about
a refusal to connect. If I try the machine name of joanrich, I get an
error from
Afternoon listers,
Well it seems I have a little more information now to present in the
hopes someone can point me in the right direction.
Someone (the message in in windows right now...sorry) asked me if rpcinfo
-p gave any info.
Well here is what it says.
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper:
I'm d/l'ing 2.0.29 now, will tell you in a day or so if it helped me.
Thanks
for the tip Tim...
Richard Morin
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
I try to get the sound working i linux and when I do make config in th
..
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Alexander Koch wrote:
Quoting Daniel Karlsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Now I've almost got the mouse to work in X. It's only the middle button that
doesn't want to work. How do I make it work?
Somewhere when configuring X you have to choose
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know what the forcing timeout box means in dctrl? dctrl
doesn't run every time, but when it does, it has a countdown going on in
the forcing timeout box. To me, this means it is forcing the link down,
but how do I stop it from doing this?
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble here too, I hope the new modutils takes care of this, I like sound
with my quake...:-)
Rich M
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, johannes martinez wrote:
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 13:34:11 -0500
From: johannes martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re:
Evening listers,
I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of their
/etc/ppp/ppp-disconnect. I'm very happy with my first few days of diald,
but it doesn't seem to be closing cleanly, as I don't have this script
installed. Without a basic script to start from, my skills leave me at a
loss.
Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
without that package, on previous versions of debian?
Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
config my kernel for sound no problem.
Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
without that package, on previous versions of debian?
Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
config my kernel for sound no problem.
Even for your PnP board
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 20:29:34 +1000
From: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Dark Lord of Sith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AWE32 problems.
Dark Lord of Sith wrote:
I just can't get the AWE32
Sorry to carry the ppp thing on, but I just can't get it to work with pon.
I currently dial in with minicom and evoke pppd manually. Does anyone
mind if I post the output from both to see what I'm not doing right? I'll
send private if anyone volunteers to have a look.
With pon, it dials,
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:57:43 -0300 (ARST)
From: [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alex Lobkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian user list debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 13:26:20 PST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: x windows
Hello,
well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x
windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will
need to
On 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Craig writes:
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT AT ALL TO GET PPP WORKING ON DEBIAN.
More generally, it is not difficult at all to get PPP working on any of
the Linux distributions I've worked with.
It is not difficult for you or me to get PPP working. It *is*
Hi all,
I've finally risen to the next step. I've allocated enough HD space
to actually try all the packages I want to.
I d/l the base disks for 1.2.6? could be 7 and started over
installing from scratch.
Do I need any other packages to make pon work so I can FTP the rest
with dselect? Or
Sorry to bring this to the list, but I remember a post which came up in
the last couple of months about someone working on perl scripts to ping
mirrors which have debian, and output results.
I've begun to cram perl info into my mind(read that learn), and would
appreciate seeing what this person
Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with
dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only
things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am
not doing anything. This is a single user machine p100 with 32megs of
ram, and
Run, don't walk to your newstand or mailbox, and grab the Linux Journal
1997 Buyers Guide.
There is a rather favourable Product Review by Phil Hughes and
Jonathan Gross. Too bad they stuck in way in the back on page 128, but
hey
I'd like to ask why the chart on page 126 lists the target
First, run something like top to see if anything is taking up
processor time. If you notice a process using about 95% of the processor,
this would be the problem.
Should I be looking for any other problems that I might not be aware of?
Yes. Some processes can go into uninteruptable
This is a good idea, because a number of people have told me they
find the prospect of posting to debian-user intimidating, because they
expect to be flamed to a cinder by others on the list. Now, it's not
nearly that bad, but I understand where they are coming from.
Bruce
--
So
Someone mentioned to me once about there being a newsgroup version of this
list. I can't see it from my server, so I assume it's not propagated. What
server do I point my newsreader at to see it. Thanks! :)
Regards,
Kendrick
When I have trouble I turn to
http://www.dejanews.com/
It
Anyone have any comments on the stability of Netscape 3.01? In
particular, I'm curious if it runs o.k. with the lastest libc, or do I
need to continue loading Netscape with the older malloc etc.
Paul Serice
Seems fine here, although I have yet to get java or javascript
enabled
I think that this is a great idea. One of the things that keeps Slackware
alive is that fact that it is *so* easy to install (even if it is buggy and
a nightmare to maintain).
My background is this: Had my computer for a year. Never heard of
Linux until Apr'96. Started with a CD that
On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:38:13 CST Timothy Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I was once want to mirror the debian as well but I was told that
I need to have a very high speed connection to the ISP. Currently
I can have upto 28.8 via modem from my house. I'd like to know
how do
On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:38:13 CST Timothy Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I was once want to mirror the debian as well but I was told that
I need to have a very high speed connection to the ISP. Currently
I can have upto 28.8 via modem from my house. I'd like to know
how do
I am a rank beginner and I know this question will display ignorance
(perhaps terminal) but ---
Should I forget the whole program and
stay fat, dumb and happy in WIN95?
Thanks, ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From someone who's been there, prolly still is there, and will be
there for some time. ;-)
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the
directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
/dev/hda4 is currently mounted /
/dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount
I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple
others over
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the
directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
/dev/hda4 is currently mounted /
/dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount
I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple
others over to
Sorry to be back to the list so soon,
This is the error I'm getting after upgrading many packages to
frozen: (which was a joy for this novice)
Dec 5 15:33:24 joanrich init: open (/dev/console): Too many symbolic
links encountered
What have I done?
Rich M
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
TO
Hi folks, sorry to bring up a quasi newbie prob, but here goes. I had a
buzz setup with 2.0.24, and after reading various messages about dselect I
decided to go to the frozen level. Here is my trouble so far, I didn't
have dpkg-ftp, so I went and got it, only it wouldn't configure. Needed
perl,
Sorry if this is a re-post, but I don't think my orig. message got
through.
I am interested in learning how ISP's log user time on the system. Is
it simply a matter of cron scripts utilizing wtmp and ac? Or is
there a nice package which does that and more?
TIA
Rich M
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Bruce asked me to come up with something to help those new to dselect
when they come to install 1.2 .
Are you serious? You want _me_ to document dselect?
Not being an expert might be an asset. The users have my installation
manual to get them up to the login prompt, and then
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