Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-09 Thread dfederman
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi all I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find

Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 02:38:52PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is

Re: Mail is Slow to send

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I use smail/pine for reading mail. When I send out a message it can take a couple of minutes before pine lets me do more reading. Is this normal, or do I have something misconfigured? I chose option 1 on the smail config, but do not have a smart

Re: telnet and ftp

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Robert Eckard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box. When attempted, it says something like connection refused from server. Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem? Well, this also explains your mail problem. I assume that you have

Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is there a change so that it can automount

vt100 On a wyse terminal

1998-01-09 Thread Michael Beattie
Hi, I am trying to get an old Wyse terminal going on my linux box, all is well, but I have not been able to get keys like PageUp, PageDown, Home and End to work. The Function Keys were another story, they were comparitively easy. strings like {ESC}OP, {ESC}OQ, {ESC}OR etc. The place I found

Re: What about a Linux key?

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello PC users! What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those Window 95 keys on all new keyboards ? They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch virtual consoles, leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative for

Re: vt100 On a wyse terminal

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am trying to get an old Wyse terminal going on my linux box, all is well, but I have not been able to get keys like PageUp, PageDown, Home and End to work. The Function Keys were another story, they were comparitively easy. strings like {ESC}OP,

ipaliasing

1998-01-09 Thread dan
What's the best way to recompile debian to support multiple ips? I've installed debian and have not been ablt to find the ip_alias module. Does anyone know where this can be found? Daniel DeSantis Network Ops Stratos Internet Group, Inc. attachment: winmail.dat

compiling gnome-0.11?

1998-01-09 Thread Brian K Servis
Hello gnomers, I am trying to compile gnome-0.11 and am running into trouble. This is the last error messages and text from the compile. /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o gnome-score-helper gnome-score-helper.o ../libgnome/libgnome.la -lgdk -lglib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext

Re: IP-Masq (was Re: ms explo

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Thomson
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: I'm wondering if running Debian has made this an easier process. I've read 100s of messages lately prior to trying this and practically none of the users with problems were Deb users. I would think they're all the same, but still, I found it incredibly

Re: XFree86 setup problems

1998-01-09 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Thanks, I installed the xserver-S3v server, since that is the chipset that my (S3 Virge) graphics card has; does it also have these features? Greg At 09:48 PM 1/8/98 +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Hi, If you have not already installed xserver-vga16 package, please do

[offtopic] Debian ISP in LA area?

1998-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Later this month I will be in LA for two weeks on business, and I would like to find an ISP to dial up to (14.4k modem connection) to check my email back here in Australia. Any Debian users running ISPs in the LA area? Specifically, wherever is a local call from Hollywood. (I don't follow the

SVGA Web Browser?

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, Has anyone heard of a Web browser that uses the svgalibs (or some other method), rather than X-Win? I have a 100meg hard drive, and have about 10meg free, so I don't really want to install X-win, plus I only have a 386SX, so X-win is rather slow. I have been using lynx for awhile, and just

mounting win95 partition was Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread AJT60
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: /dev/fd0/floppy/msdos msdos user,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy/ext2 ext2 user,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy/vfat vfat user,rw 0 0 Speaking of which, I

Re: mounting win95 partition was Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda1/win95 vfat[can't remember the rest] on startup, it always complains about vfat being an unsupported fs. Yet mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95 works okay. Do I have to compile vfat support directly into the kernel

Re: Mail is Slow to send

1998-01-09 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I use smail/pine for reading mail. When I send out a message it can take a couple of minutes before pine lets me do more reading. Is this normal, or do I have something misconfigured? I chose option 1 on the smail config, but do not have a smart

Re: mounting win95 partition was Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: /dev/fd0/floppy/msdos msdos user,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy/ext2 ext2 user,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy/vfat vfat user,rw 0

Trying to get debian to see over 64 meg of RAM

1998-01-09 Thread Timothy G. Wells
Greetings, I would like to have 128 meg in my debian box but it won't recognize it. I don't see any options during the make config process and the computer physically does see the memory. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Tim -- Timothy

Re: SVGA Web Browser?

1998-01-09 Thread Michael Stutz
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: Has anyone heard of a Web browser that uses the svgalibs (or some other method), rather than X-Win? I have a 100meg hard drive, and have about 10meg free, so I don't really want to install X-win, plus I only have a 386SX, so X-win is rather slow. Such a

Re: IP-Masq (was Re: ms explo

1998-01-09 Thread John Spence
I've just been through the same thing with IP Masquerading. I created a file in /etc/rc.boot (I don't know whether that was the right place or not!) marked it as executable. It contained the following: Why not just put the module names in /etc/modules? It's a lot easier. hmm..

Re: PPP not finsihing connection for Earthlink

1998-01-09 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, However, I get the LCP problem where they are being sent but not received. I put LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE 30 in my options file and have upped it all the way to 150, but I still don't get any LCP's received. Finally after 30 - 60 seconds the modem

Re: Trying to get debian to see over 64 meg of RAM

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Timothy G. Wells wrote: I would like to have 128 meg in my debian box but it won't recognize it. I don't see any options during the make config process and the computer physically does see the memory. You need an append mem=128M line in lilo.config. Check the

Explorer...

1998-01-09 Thread Pure Energy
Today i'd figured i'd try the Explorer package out. No go.. It just spilled out the following. Any one else run into this? Any suggestions? Adrenolin [~]$explorer explorer: error in loading shared libraries /lib/libqt.so.1: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual Explorer package and dependent

new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

1998-01-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
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

gs v.5.10

1998-01-09 Thread G. Crimp
I am preparing to install ghostscript and ghostview on my system. If anyone can help with the following questions I'd appreciate it. On my Deb 1.3.1 CD are available gs v3.33-5 gsfonts v.4.01-5 zlib1 v.1.0.4-7 (already

Re: gs v.5.10

1998-01-09 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:32:32PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: I am preparing to install ghostscript and ghostview on my system. If anyone can help with the following questions I'd appreciate it. Forgat to ask. If I download the newer ghostsc, will the ver. 4.01-7 fonts do or do I need

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

1998-01-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: 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

misc questions: screen, version notation

1998-01-09 Thread G. Crimp
I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come part and parcel

Re: Mail is Slow to send

1998-01-09 Thread Pure Energy
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote: In your /etc/pine.conf.fixed (or /etc/pine.conf or ~/.pinerc), your smtp-server setting is probably blank; set it to localhost: # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail.

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

1998-01-09 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, 9 January 1998 2:37 pm Subject: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems When installing smail package, the only remaining package in hamm dist was

Re: misc questions: screen, version notation

1998-01-09 Thread Asher Haig
G. Crimp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/8/98 10:51 PM I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to me to be pretty much the same thing as

Re: misc questions: screen, version notation

1998-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
G. Crimp wrote: I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that

Colors

1998-01-09 Thread Colson E.
I want to have colors under X. For that, I have tried to install x term color of the Slackware's Distribution. But there's a problem. Have you an other idea, please. By advance. Eric.

Why use pgp?

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, I've installed pgp-i, to see what it's about. I've noticed many people have pgp signatures in their messages, and some offer the signature via finger. I know why you would want to use it to send encrypted messages, but why do you want to sign your messages? I read that it's so you know what

Re: Internet access with Debian --long reply

1998-01-09 Thread Jameson Burt
Hi guys, I have expected just a problem, I want to conect on the internet with my Debian. I have configured the file /etc/ppp.chatscript, so that i have writing my provider's phone number, my login and pass But when i lauch ppp i don't know what i shall do. Please help me so that i

Fetchmail and Procmail. (Fixed pine)

1998-01-09 Thread Ender Wigin
Hi, BTW I fixed Pine to all those who might have the Mailbox Lock problem the solution is to su -c chmod 1777 /tmp Now for the problem ... I have procmail installed and I configured it with the .forward file as the mail-filtering FAQ sugjested ... to no avail ... I was wondering if some nice

Re: vt100 On a wyse terminal

1998-01-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 01:32:01PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Hi, I am trying to get an old Wyse terminal going on my linux box, all is well, but I have not been able to get keys like PageUp, PageDown, Home and End to work. The Function Keys were another story, they were comparitively easy.

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
I hope this is the final version for a while. The script works here on a freshly installed bo. Watch out for line folding. --- cut here --- #! /bin/sh # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (hamm). # based on Scott Ellis' excellent Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO # document at

Re: Colors

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Colson E. wrote: I want to have colors under X. For that, I have tried to install x term color of the Slackware's Distribution. But there's a problem. Have you an other idea, please. Install the debian xbase package, which includes the standard color xterm as

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. If I recall arightly, this is a problem with the version of DOS you are utilizing for dosemu. The DOS kernel that seems to come with dosemu doesn't support network drives. (Is it a sort of OpenDos lite, or

Re: Why use pgp?

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: I know why you would want to use it to send encrypted messages, but why do you want to sign your messages? Well, we use it to sign other things. Like, for example, when I upload a new debian package, I sign it so that the people who run

Re: lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?

1998-01-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:26:17PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print. The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported. How can I disable ppa, and print? You

Re: Why use pgp?

1998-01-09 Thread Dan Hugo
Will Lowe wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: I know why you would want to use it to send encrypted messages, but why do you want to sign your messages? Well, we use it to sign other things. Like, for example, when I upload a new debian package, I sign it so that the

XINETD don't start

1998-01-09 Thread Guido Bozzetto
I've installed the xinetd package but at the boot time don't start. I've 2 machines : 1) Debian 1.3.1.r6 with: # dpkg -l xinetd ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii xinetd 2.1.7-3xinetd

Debian and the MANPATH variable

1998-01-09 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi, I've solved quite all the problems I had with my server/clients running Debian:-) I now have a little trouble with the MANPATH environment variable... I have set up my clients so that I can mount several servers quite the same way: /home is splitted into several parts, each belonging to a

Re: Why use pgp?

1998-01-09 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 12:44:10AM -0800, Dan Hugo wrote: Will Lowe wrote: Well, we use it to sign other things. Like, for example, when I upload a new debian package, I sign it so that the people who run ftp.debian.org (and eventually you) know that that package really came from me

Re: XINETD don't start

1998-01-09 Thread Peter Bodnar
Guido Bozzetto wrote: I've installed the xinetd package but at the boot time don't start. ...skip... with the same problem, xinetd starts if run then manualy from the prompt but don't start automaticaly at boot. The problem is on the startup script /etc/init.d/xinetd : #!/bin/sh # #

Re: Debian and the MANPATH variable

1998-01-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I've solved quite all the problems I had with my server/clients running Debian:-) I now have a little trouble with the MANPATH environment variable... [ ... snip ... ] The only problem that remain is that I _don't_ want to include the servers' man directories in the client's

Re: XFree86 setup problems

1998-01-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
The XF86Setup utility only comes with the xserver-vga16 package. The VGA16 server in the xserver-vga16 package should work with any video card, so that is why the X based configuration utility comes only with it. Since I want to use higher resolutions and more colors than plain VGA can offer, I

Re: Why use pgp?

1998-01-09 Thread Chuma Agbodike
How about the so called Certificate Authorities? Should one use them ? And if am paranoid should I trust them ? What if I impersonate someone and give out keys under their name ? I read something about such issues long ago , but still don't understand. Chuma Dan Hugo wrote: Will Lowe wrote:

Re: Fetchmail and Procmail. (Fixed pine)

1998-01-09 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Ender Wigin wrote: Hi, BTW I fixed Pine to all those who might have the Mailbox Lock problem the solution is to su -c chmod 1777 /tmp Now for the problem ... I have procmail installed and I configured it with the .forward file as the mail-filtering FAQ sugjested ...

Slow mail throughput

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, Is this list supposed keep messages for six hours before sending them? I sent a message at five tonight, and it has just been recieved (at 11pm). I don't think it's the list, I'm pretty sure it's my email provider (usa.net). I seem to be having a few problems with connecting to them today.

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: I hope this is the final version for a while. The script works here on a freshly installed bo. Watch out for line folding. # sanity check that we are in the right place [ -f base/libc6_* ] || exit 9 9 is already used for perl_base failure.

Re: fetchmail procmail

1998-01-09 Thread Florian Helbing
Hi, well I dont know the mail filtering FAQ and so on but if u want procmail to process your mail: As far as I know procmail usese a file called .procmailrc in you $HOME for the rules. So the rules should be there not in .forward. The .forward is just for sending the mail to procmail in case

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

1998-01-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, my answers to smailconfig when first installing: 1-internet site (SMTP via TCP/IP) 2-visible name: inforamp.net 3-other visible names: none 4-smarthost: inforamp.net 5-use inforamp.net for all mail that doesn't have to be delivered locally

Re: IP-Masq (was Re: ms explo

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Thomson
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: I'm wondering If I'm going to have to load any. I just succesfully ran WS_FTP from the pretty looking machine and I know I haven't loaded the ftp module. It (ip_masq_ftp.o) isn't being loaded from anywhere that I can find it. Maybe WS_FTP is configured

Upgrading to unstable

1998-01-09 Thread Brian Skreeg
Upgrading to unstable used to be easy. Login, get list, choose yer kit, install. Play. Lovely. The current unstable tree seems impossible to me to upgrade to without horrid dependancy stuff creeping in everywhere. My main problem seems to be with lib6g+ (or something similar), tk4.2 (I

Re: Upgrading to unstable

1998-01-09 Thread dpk
This reason why it is more difficult is that when upgrading from stable - unstable: you are upgrading from libc5 - libc6. Have you followed the steps in the mini-HOWTO for this? You can find it at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html.tar.gz Thanks, Dennis -- dpk

Re: Colors

1998-01-09 Thread dpk
You don't need color xterms for this. You can get it to work with just 'xterm' by adding the following line to your Xdefaults/Xresources (personal choice and opinion), which can be either your personal or global file: xterm*customization:-color Once I added that, 'ls --color', etc.

A cheap PCI Ethernet card that works?

1998-01-09 Thread Britton
Is there such a thing? I have a PCI card from KTI networks, but I can't make it work with any of the existing drivers, the tech rep thinks the card has it's own interface (not cloning a more common card), and the engineer who was supposedly going to get in touch with me hasn't. Also, why does

xfree86.config probles

1998-01-09 Thread Chris Keathley Keathley
While running dselect and installing x, it asks me if I want to create a config file and I say yes. Then it shoots me into a graphics mode which takes a long time to load and then when loaded the config screens seem real sluggish and my computer sounds like its going to have a hernia. Is my

Re: lilo

1998-01-09 Thread tko
Rainer Dorsch writes: I wanted to install Win95 on the slave disk on my IDE system (/dev/hdb). To make sure, that Linux (on /dev/hda) is not damaged, I did the following 1. Remove hda 2. Configure hdb as master 3. Install Win95 4. Insert hda again 5. Configured win95 disk as hdb 6.

compiling a kernel

1998-01-09 Thread Nils Sandmann
Hi, first of all I'd like to thank all of you for helping me finding out what didn't work with my linux installation. (The installation couldn't find my harddisk because it uses tha MCA bus architecture). You've helped me very much! But I still have a problem: There are patches for MCA in

Burning a CD

1998-01-09 Thread Stephen Carpenter
As I mentioned previously...im a convert to debian linux. My next step is to start using it at home. I am no where at work...and looking for some info gettin gdebian isn't a problem here... we have T-1's and T-3s up the ass. In fact I installed on my 486 via FTP in a coupla hours. anyway...I

Re: Yet Another libc5-libc6 question..

1998-01-09 Thread Neilen Marais
kernel-source package that libc6-dev depends on is going to be available this week, or alternatively, can I *safely* force the libc6-dev to install with 2.0.32_2.0.32-1 kernel source? Yeah, sure, just make sure /usr/include/linux is a symlink pointing to /usr/src/linux/include/linux, and that

Re: Yet Another libc5-libc6 question..

1998-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 02:13:41AM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: But IMHO its silly keeping seperate headers... Why not just leave the links to /usr/src/linux/include? /usr/src/linux is anyway the standard location for the kernel, and it makes sense to always use your current kernel's

exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed

1998-01-09 Thread Irmund Thum
What is wrong wih my debian configuration since I get the error: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed when I try startx? XF86Setup works well but wants to write to /etc/X11/XF86Config and copying (not moving) the XF86Config from /etc to /usr/X11R6/bin/ doesn't help. I'm stuck at this point

questions about pppd (fwd)

1998-01-09 Thread Pete Templin
(A forwarded message, due to mailer problems...) -- please forward this to the mailing list for me, thanks Fuz we have gotten the pppd daemon to start correctly using pon and poff scripts but we note that now that we ppp support compiled in verses in modules the ppp.o module always tries to

Re: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed

1998-01-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
If you have your XF86Config set up ok, please check /etc/X11/Xserver. Read the comments in that file and replace XF86_NONE with your correct X server. For example I use XF86_SVGA since I have a Matrox card. The correct location of XF86Config is /etc/X11/XF86Config. Any other reference to it

Re: xfree86.config probles

1998-01-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
While running dselect and installing x, it asks me if I want to create a config file and I say yes. Then it shoots me into a graphics mode which takes a long time to load and then when loaded the config screens seem real sluggish and my computer sounds like its going to have a hernia. Is

Re: compiling gnome-0.11?

1998-01-09 Thread Brian K Servis
Brian K Servis writes: Hello gnomers, I am trying to compile gnome-0.11 and am running into trouble. This is the last error messages and text from the compile. /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o gnome-score-helper gnome-score-helper.o ../libgnome/libgnome.la -lgdk -lglib

[Q] How to install everything libc6

1998-01-09 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, On December 19 I downloaded (to a CD) everything in Hamm/binary-i386 And created the floppy disks later on (from the same place). When I installed the base installation it put binaries compiled with libc5. When I was prompted with DSELECT screen I select an option to update the existing

Re: PPP not finsihing connection for Earthlink

1998-01-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
To quote from the pppd man page: lcp-echo-failure n If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. If this happens, pppd will terminate the

Re: PPP not finsihing connection for Earthlink

1998-01-09 Thread Bill Vinson
This problem existed before that line was entered... The PPP Howto seemed to mention this might fix it. However all it seems to do is prolong how long I will wait for the return LCP echo. However, it never comes. I have tried this with both Earthlink and IBM.net and it happens with both of

Re: [Q] How to install everything libc6

1998-01-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: When I installed the base installation it put binaries compiled with libc5. Bruce is still working on the libc6 boot/base disks. I'm hoping they will be out sometime next week. The ones in hamm are probably copies of the current stable

mgetty-voice with USR Sportster 56K

1998-01-09 Thread Dave Burnett
Greetings, I have been trying to install mgetty-sendfax with voice extensions on a PC with a USR Sportster 56K voice/fax modem. The machine has the Debian 1.3.1 release installed and I have installed the mgetty 1.1.8-1 packages from bo. With the lack of documentation for

Re: compiling gnome-0.11?

1998-01-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I have not compiled Gnome myself but your Makefile seems to lack -lXpm even though it's needed. Brian K Servis writes: [cut] Now I am getting this error: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o htmltest test.o ../gtk-xmhtml/libgtkxmhtml.la -lgtk -lgdk -lglib -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib

bug in new smail?

1998-01-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I upgraded to the new smail, and got the message unexpected end of attribute in /etc/smail/config when sending messages. This completely eliminated the ability to send or receive messages. I downgraded to the stable version, force-reconfigured, and have things running again. Has anyone else

Re: bug in new smail?

1998-01-09 Thread Pure Energy
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: I upgraded to the new smail, and got the message unexpected end of attribute in /etc/smail/config when sending messages. This completely eliminated the { (really [$sender_host_addr])}} }\ else {${if

Debian 2.0?

1998-01-09 Thread Mike Garfias
Any idea when 2.0 will be out? I'm tempted to start playing with the unstable release, but was hoping to avoid that. I'm just sick of having to download and compile all the packages that available for glibc (which I don't have). Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Upgrade to libc6...

1998-01-09 Thread Michael \[badpixel/bad sector\]
Hi! Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package, or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Ok ... but I just have a little problem (i think!) :) the libc6 package conflicts with libc5,and when i

Re: Upgrade to libc6...

1998-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: : Hi! : : Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package, : or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... : : http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html : : Ok ... but I just have a little

Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Douglas Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is there a change so that it can automount

Re: Upgrade to libc6...

1998-01-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: Hi! Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package, or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Ok ... but I just have a little

Re: Fetchmail and Procmail. (Fixed pine)

1998-01-09 Thread Jeremy Worley
Ender Now for the problem ... I have procmail installed and I Ender configured it with the .forward file as the mail-filtering Ender FAQ sugjested ... to no avail ... I was wondering if some Ender nice person who has Fetchmail getting the mail and Procmail Ender sorting it

Re: lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?

1998-01-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:26:17PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print. The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported. How can I disable ppa, and print? Two

APPEND

1998-01-09 Thread Kaoru Sato
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inconsistency between server and config file?

1998-01-09 Thread Alan Su
All this talk about setting up the X server got me wondering. So, I checked it out, and it seems that there's some kind of inconsistency on my machine: :11:31 [1] alsu (alsu):/home/alsu - ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X :lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 11 23:31 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -

install image too large for floppy

1998-01-09 Thread Eric White
I'd like to install from floppies, but some of the disk images are larger than 1.44 mb. Resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin both copy to my hd at 1,474,560 bytes. Formatting a HD floppy give me 1,457,663 bytes available. Any help? Thanks

Re: install image too large for floppy

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Sailer
Eric White wrote: I'd like to install from floppies, but some of the disk images are larger than 1.44 mb. Resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin both copy to my hd at 1,474,560 bytes. Formatting a HD floppy give me 1,457,663 bytes available. Any help? Sure.. use the 'rawrite' program or dd (if

FW: [Q] How to install everything libc6

1998-01-09 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
I am sorry, I am forwading the mail again, but I had a problem with my mail that all the messages that were not directed to debian-alpha were deleted. So if there were any answeres to my question -- I did not see them. -- From: Vladislav Papayan x285 Sent: Friday, January 09, 1998

LILO stopped working

1998-01-09 Thread Bruce Jackson
I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I rebooted and LILO would not work. It prints LI on the screen and then freezes. I have not rebooted my computer in a few weeks and much has changed. I am running 2.0.33 with LILO 20-0.1. I have tried running LILO off of a

Re: install image too large for floppy

1998-01-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, this is because these are disk images, not files to be written to an already formatted disk. The formatting itself consumes disk space. You can't copy these files to the disk. You must use rawwrite (or some equivalent program). 1,474,560 is indeed the raw capacity of a 1.44mb floppy. Eric

Good Linux books??

1998-01-09 Thread Rick
Hi, I am looking for some good books, that introduce linux and provide a good reference for the begginer, but will still be a usefull reference later on. I am unsure about the 'xxx for dummies' books, as i have recently found at my cost, they assume you really are dumb and the first half focuses

help w/ lilo 20

1998-01-09 Thread Shaleh
How do I make lilo use a chain loader to boot windows on hdc. hda == linux hdb == cdrom hdc == win95 boots to linux, in lilo 19 i could tpye win95 at the lilo prompt and boot winders. But I do not understand how to set v20 up. Thanks for the help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Fetchmail and Procmail. (Fixed pine)

1998-01-09 Thread Jaakko
Hi, BTW I fixed Pine to all those who might have the Mailbox Lock problem the solution is to su -c chmod 1777 /tmp Now for the problem ... I have procmail installed and I configured it with the .forward file as the mail-filtering FAQ sugjested ... to no avail ... I was wondering if some

Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

1998-01-09 Thread Jaakko
My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded 60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through a couple of passes of

Supported New Technology

1998-01-09 Thread James Scheiderich
Hi, I have Debian Linux 1.3.1 that cam,e from the Boot disc. I have recently got a Micron Xku PII-266. I have looked over the LINUX compatibility site and was wondering when if there may be support for: Yamaha OPL3-SAx Sound card. It is on the mother board

mke2fs

1998-01-09 Thread Nils Sandmann
Hi, I've got a IBM PS/2 and tere were some problems with the harddik. I got round this by creating the partions by hand. But I've got a problem: If have to use mke2fs to install a file system and I know what to write for parameters. (I'm a very unexperienced user) Thanks, Nils Sandmann -- PGP

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