NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I asked this once and I got no answers. I know there's at least one more person in this list with the same problem but we've been unable to solve it. The problem: With the lattest versions (unstable) of everything, the NIS clients are unable to read the maps from the NIS server. No errors

postgres can't find libbsd.so.1.0.0 - where / how

1997-06-02 Thread sasharma
Hello, postgres and postmaster both can't find libbsd.so.1.0.0, and I can't find this in Contents. I'm using debian 1.2 , postgres 1.01-1 (the cheapbytes distrib, files dated Jan 26 and 27) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Help: Problem in setting up network

1997-06-02 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to connect my compute to a LAN in the lab. The network card (NE2000 IRQ 03 0x300) works fine and is detecked by the kernel. After setting up all the stuff (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/sysconf/network, ...), it still cann't

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Randy Edwards wrote I read a fragment of one message somewhere that 1.3 is actually in the frozen subdirectory; is that true? If I were to make my dselect point at stable, non-free, contrib, and frozen would that cause the upgrade? Or should I wait until it's moved from frozen

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow passwords? Are you sure you're running the latest version from frozen? (i.e. 4.02-1) It's got not problem with my shadow

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
--n2rw/3z4jIqBvZU5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow passwords? Are you sure you're running the latest version

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
Does anybody have a NIS installation running ok with Debian 1.3? I would appreciate if any one can help me figure out what's going on. It works here. I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? Cheers, - Jim pgp6heaSQqBd4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote Perhaps I didn't set up shadow stuff correctly? I kind of stumbled upon it: I noticed references to it, and I typed pwconv (which I recognized from my solaris systems) and things seemed to work pretty happily (except xlock), so I figured that this was it. Is

Re: gethostby* different in libc6

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Carey Evans wrote I would prefer not to be told that www.debian.org, for example, is authoritatively known not to exist, especially if there was just a temporary problem with the name servers. Should I report this as a bug against libc6? Looks like a bug to me. Better to report

Re: Why not swap to files?

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
It's my understanding that the overhead of the filesystem (ext2, or whatever you have) as opposed to writing to a raw partition, is the advantage of dedicating a partition for swap. I usually just find a smaller drive that's laying around not doing anything and make it the swap drive ... this

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. : Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big : deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around

Re: Debian FTP Installation through Internet (fwd)

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Support is normally a module. The module must be loaded to work. Can somebody help this guy. Problem is that pppd tells him that kernel lacks PPP support - I told him that he should recompile the kernel but seems like it didn't work. I think I

Re: Help setting up a daemon

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: I've been using fetchpop to grab my mail from my ISP. I recently got diald up and working and now I want to run fetchpop as a daemon process. I've set up a script (using apmd as a guide) in /etc/init.d called fetchpop and it contains the

Re: ATI video card

1997-06-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
On Sat, 31 May 1997, John Maheu wrote: I recently upgraded my video card to a ATI 3D Xpression (PCI MACH64 GT) On bootup I notice: May 30 20:05:23 macrae1 kernel: Probing PCI hardware. May 30 20:05:23 macrae1 kernel: Warning : Unknown PCI device (1002:4754). Please read

Re: Debian FTP Installation through Internet (fwd)

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
I think he needs to load the serial driver. This was a problem in some 1.2 systems. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:14 PM 1/06/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: It works here. I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? I think he's right Jim - I did a fresh install, made sure I was using the latest versions of libc and the like and I can't setup a _slave NIS server_. I can however

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. : Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread System Account
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: Just set dselect to point at: frozen non-free contrib Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to use Bo or Frozen??? Also i am going to setup a

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to use Bo or Frozen??? frozen is actually a symlink currently pointing to bo/ In a couple of days a symlynk stable will point to the same directory

undefined reference errors when compiling tcl-7.6p2

1997-06-02 Thread Jonathan Hankins
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but I have been fooling with it for several days and can't seem to work it out. I have checked all the applicable entries in the bug archives, and RTFM'd where appropriate. For some reason, the references to the inet_ntoa and 'inet_addr get __ appended

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. If you are running xdm, you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add -bpp 16 to the command line. If you are using startx or

What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread Matt Bartley
Because I keep a (very) partial mirror of Debian on a machine at work (which is not Net connected), particularly the Packages files, I track changes to the Packages files closely. Recently I've noticed at least 2 packages have disappeared from the pre-hamm distribution. They've stayed that way

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 1 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. Actually, this is what I tried originally and it doesn't work. If you are running

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Pawel Wiecek
On May 29, 3:26pm, Pete Templin wrote: Hello, Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it, having stolen lots of

Re: shadow-login - shadow: how?

1997-06-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 1, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote I installed the shadow stuff from experimental a while back, and now I'd like to move to the newer shadow suite with 1.3. When I `dpkg -i` it though, `dpkg` tells me that shadow-login is essential, and won't let the upgrade happen. I had this to, but I don't

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-06-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Rich Morin Personally to read .pdf files from the screen I really like the acroread package. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to print, but gv worked like a charm. I can't say exactly why, but the fonts are much cleaner, and readable in acroread, for me anyways. Just a wild guess: have

CAD package for Debian?

1997-06-02 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
Are there any CAD packages similar to AutoCad for Debian/Linux? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

OMT and interaction diagrams with debian

1997-06-02 Thread Markus Diesmann
Hi, I need to construct OMT and interaction diagrams. Does anybody know of a tool available under debian for doing this? Maybe a simple flow chart software combined with a class browser, which allows me to save the class tree in an editable format is currently good enough for me. Thanks,

Re: Networking Win95, Debian Linux and Cable Modem

1997-06-02 Thread Paul Wade
1) If you don't have the IP masquerading howto, I mirror the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.wtop.com/LDP/ 2) I use the following setup to get around the above: a) I run apache on the Linux box that is connected to the Internet with cached proxy service enabled. This allows the other

Re: What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread joost witteveen
don't know about seyon, but The xoj package also no longer exists in bo/binary/games, though the Contents file for bo still shows it. There is a version of xoj in unstable/binary/games/xoj_1.01-2.deb, but it depends on libc6 so it can only be used on an hamm system. Why did the libc5

Re: keymapping, consolefont and mc

1997-06-02 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Markus Schneider wrote: I am also using bash-2.0, kbd-0.94 and de-latin1.map. I didn't set a special font. The only thing I had to do for mc to display german umlauts was to selecet Full 8 bits in the options menu under Display bits If this doesn't do what You want perhaphs

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 01, 1997 at 10:56:02PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. If you are running xdm, you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, System Account (what a cute name!:) wrote: Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to use Bo or Frozen??? Frozen, I think. BTW I always use unstable for this purpose.

Re: What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Matt Bartley wrote: The xoj package also no longer exists in bo/binary/games, though the Contents file for bo still shows it. There is a version of xoj in unstable/binary/games/xoj_1.01-2.deb, but it depends on libc6 so it can only be used on an hamm system. Why did the

Leafnode permissions

1997-06-02 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi, I`m using leafnode from 1.2.8 Iconnect CD. A damn good prog for dial-up stuff and much easier to use than the heavier cnews and INN. My problem comes from the permissions. I want to be able to fetch news using my personal account oz but no matter how I setuid the /usr/sbin/fetch

Re: Help: Problem in setting up network

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to connect my compute to a LAN in the lab. The network card (NE2000 IRQ 03 0x300) works fine and is detecked by the kernel. After setting up all the stuff (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/sysconf/network, ...), it still cann't

Re: Leafnode permissions

1997-06-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: I`m using leafnode from 1.2.8 Iconnect CD. A damn good prog for dial-up stuff and much easier to use than the heavier cnews and INN. My problem comes from the permissions. I want to be able to fetch news using my personal account oz but no matter how I

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on the client machine: ~ ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash ~ su rover su: user rover does not exist However,

problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread Magic
Hi! I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... Part of .steprc --- # Paths... IconPath /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/ PixmapPath

Re: alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-06-02 Thread Brian White
If only bug fixes could be allowed in, this would be a good idea. Unfortunately, this isn't a practical possibility. Every time a new package is uploaded to fix a bug, there is the possibility of introducing new bugs either in the patch code, other code that got added for some reason,

Possible bug in libc6...

1997-06-02 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. I recently upgraded to libc6 (dev,dbg, pic, etc) using the package from the hamm directory. (I realize this is VERY unstable stuff - I'm just glutton for punishment :-) Everything appears to be working well, although I have hit two minor snags. The first is that the new version of amd

Weird Pine/Slang/Terminal interaction?

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
Here's the scenario ... I'm forced to use Win95 by my employer. To get to my Linux boxes I use either CRT, a shareware telnet client which I really like, and F-Secure's SSH, which I also like. About the time I upgraded to 1.3, I noticed that after running Pine (in other words, not until I got to

Re: problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 2, Magic wrote I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... Are your running in 8bpp mode (256 colours) perhaps? From /usr/doc/afterstep/FAQ.gz: 3.3. Icons disappear from Wharf. What's wrong? You are most

Re: postgres can't find libbsd.so.1.0.0 - where / how

1997-06-02 Thread sasharma
OK, I went and searched each of the archives for the last 9 months, starting last Nov. and in the May (april? - near the end of the search, anyway - natch)archives I found the answer, I need to download 6.0 from the postgres site and compile. Is there a cleaner way? should I place the entire

Re: problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread Magic
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: On Jun 2, Magic wrote I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... Are your running in 8bpp mode (256 colours) perhaps? Hehhh... I forgot... It was in 16bpp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Lamar Folsom
Howdy, y'all. Before I explain the problem, let me provide a little background. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my system from 1.2 to 1.3. Rather than just switching to the frozen directory and upgrading packages, I did a full install to see if I could help test the new distribution.

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
hi Lamar, I had something similar happen to me. The problem is in your /etc/X11/Xserver file the last line should contain the following: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X The reason why you are not getting anything on tty7 is that you are not starting your xserver. I hope this helps. Just for grins

sparc port

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
What's the status on the sparc port of debian? Is there a mostly-stable-but-not-yet-released version? I'd hate to have to go back to redhat for that... --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

How to upgrade to 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Adam Klein
I get my internet access through a freenet which doesn't provide any SLIP/PPP services. This means that I have to use minicom to download packages; Is it possible to upgrade to Debian 1.3 using this method? Also, there's a 45 minute time limit and I only have a 14.4 modem. This means that it's

Laser printer

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi folks. Could anyone tell me which one of the currently available laser printers would be linux-compatible (the correct formulation would probably be gs - compatible?). I am interesting in B/W and on the lower price side. I am very confused with those Windows compatible slogans in

Re: How to upgrade to 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I get my internet access through a freenet which doesn't provide any SLIP/PPP services. This means that I have to use minicom to download packages; Is it possible to upgrade to Debian 1.3 using this method? Also, there's a 45 minute time limit and I only have a 14.4 modem. This means that

ISP connect doc.

1997-06-02 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection for Debian/Linux? Thanks! What are the software packages required for ISP connection setup? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Lamar Folsom
hi Lamar, I had something similar happen to me. The problem is in your /etc/X11/Xserver file the last line should contain the following: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X The reason why you are not getting anything on tty7 is that you are not starting your xserver. I hope this helps. Just for

Re: Laser printer

1997-06-02 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Well, for a complete discution you could switch to comp.os.linux.hardware I bought a hp 5L recently and it's cool. Any HP (or other) which understand PCL and has, say, at least 1Mb memory should do it. I suppose the Postscript ones are too expensive for you. The GDI (=windows) printers won't

Re: How to upgrade to 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get my internet access through a freenet which doesn't provide any SLIP/PPP services. This means that I have to use minicom to download packages; Also, there's a 45 minute time limit and I only have a 14.4 modem. Do you have a CD drive? Your best bet

Problems with X, reprise

1997-06-02 Thread Lamar Folsom
Hi again, y'all. Though Paul's suggestion didn't solve my problem, it _did_ remind me that /etc/X11/Xserver should be pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead of XF86_W32. After I made this change, I now get a different response from the X server: (crystalcave:merlin)~$ startx Unable to load

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
sorry lamar, look in the file Xservers in /etc/X11/xdm that is where you change it. sorry for the miss information. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: CAD package for Debian?

1997-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: Are there any CAD packages similar to AutoCad for Debian/Linux? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Bentley has a student version of MicroStation for Linux. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I have check xclocks

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Pete Templin wrote: Hello, Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it, having stolen lots of

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Roberto Magana
Use su - % [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. (The Physics Dept. University of Costa Rica.) % -- TO

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tom Lees wrote: Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it, having stolen lots of bits and pieces

Re: BIND 8.1??

1997-06-02 Thread Raja R Harinath
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 14 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: I undestand that there is a BIND 8.1 now. Why are we at 4.9.5 and there's an 8.1 out? Does naybody know? Maybe because the maintainer of the package (Robert Leslie

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Roberto, I did use su. I can't run any x programs as su, only as user paul. Any other ideas. On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Roberto Magana wrote: Use su - % [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR.

vim in a xterm, del key doesn't work.

1997-06-02 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
I'm running a 99% Debian 1.3 system. Using vim in an xterm window, the del key doesn't work (it just beeps). However using vim on a console tty, the del key works as expected. How can I get the del key to work using an xterm?? I have vim 4.6-1 installed. Thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paul McDermott wrote: Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread M BAILEY
Before you SU to root type 'xhost +' this will disable X windows access control. Remember X windows is a network program and has to authorize every user before it will let you run an application. By the way xhost + is also not the most secure way of handling this problem. Do a 'man xhost' and

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
To all the kind folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality product, thank you. I *must* agree. A year ago, I gave up trying to get a SCO Unix box (3.2v4.2) running all the Internet services I wanted. Every single service I wanted to get running was a complete

1.2 to 1.3 Upgrade - was Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm extremely happy with the way Debian 1.3, it's a huge improvement over 1.2. I'm sure you'll like it too. :-) Is there a list of improvements / changes between 1.2.x and 1.3 available? Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

DDD problems

1997-06-02 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Maybe someone can help me with a few problems I'm having with DDD. During start-up I get a whole bunch of the following: - Warning: Name: gdb_w Class: XmText FontTextWidth: no source At certian times (or mouse clicks) in the

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Pete Templin wrote: As you were doing it. Or, use a CGI, and point it at a target frame :) PS. the perl script you had there can be done without using perl: !--#include blah -- instead. Blah can !--#echo var=LAST_MODIFIED --. ^^^ Ooops, that should

Re: 1.2 to 1.3 Upgrade - was Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
I'm extremely happy with the way Debian 1.3, it's a huge improvement over 1.2. I'm sure you'll like it too. :-) Is there a list of improvements / changes between 1.2.x and 1.3 available? I'm not really aware of a list. Each package gets updated on an individual basis, so you could

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tom Lees wrote: Ooops, that should be !--#include virtual=blah --. Does that work? Or file=blah (not sure if virtual is a 1.2 extension). Otherwise, try adding XBitHack Full to .htaccess, and chmod +x the .html files. It's still showing the #includes as comments. Any

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
thanks jens, is there a way so i don't have to type the command all the time? thanks again. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Paul McDermott wrote: Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for

DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently

diald problem

1997-06-02 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
Howdy, On my system at fairly regular intervals (every couple of days) diald dies without reason. When that happens the routing table shows no sign of sl0. The pid file is left in place (which suggests that diald didn't exit cleanly). No traces are left in any of the logs. Has anybody else

Re: ISP connect doc.

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection for Debian/Linux? Thanks! http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/ISP-Hookup-HOWTO.html What are the software packages required for ISP connection setup? netstd and ppp for starters. Others might include diald, ircii, lynx,

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages

Is the libXt security hole fixed in Debian 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Farzad FARID
Is the XFree86 3.2 provided with the soon to be released Debian 1.3 free from the recently announced security hole? -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau SGIP - Publicis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Netscape problem

1997-06-02 Thread David B. Teague
Hi I'm running a 486-dx2/66, 16 MB RAM, VL Bus, 2840 SCSI disks, with Debian 1.1 I had a problem getting X up. I finally edited /etc/X11/XF86Config directly, following an example I found posted. With X runnign, I down loaded netscape, netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz,

sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread pete
I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert the .mc to .cf). Any pointers would be much

Re: sparc port

1997-06-02 Thread Eric Delaunay
stephen farrell wrote: What's the status on the sparc port of debian? Is there a mostly-stable-but-not-yet-released version? I'd hate to have to go back to redhat for that... --sf Not really :-( Only few packages are available, most of them to help in port (developers packages like

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't think you have something set up quite right (or possibly you are not correctly interpreting what you see.) Those packages which are already installed will show up in the uptodate categories with the mark ***. Those which you do not have installed show up as available with the mark __ if

Re: sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread Mark Boyns
2 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert the

Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
A Debian 1.3 pre-release user at Pixar gets this complaint when running Netscape. I think he gets the same complaint when running remote stuff with Debian doing the display. This is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, I think. Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for #C0C0C0 Warning: Cannot allocate

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Hilman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for #C0C0C0 Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Probably running on an 8-bit display. Netscape trys to get lots of colors and quickly runs out with only 8-bit display. Try

Re: ISP connect doc.

1997-06-02 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 2 Jun, Kevin Traas wrote: Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection for Debian/Linux? Thanks! http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/ISP-Hookup-HOWTO.html What are the software packages required for ISP connection setup? netstd and ppp for starters. Others

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Curt Howland
I don't disagree with you at all. However, case in point: *** Perl 5.x shows up in the dselect list. Perl 5.xxx is then downloaded and installed. Again. What might I have misconfigured? Curt- In reply to 2 Jun message from Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't think you have something

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that