Re: VIM 5.0

Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update announcements. Does it currently have a maintainer? It is in beta, and the

Kernel and auto module loading.

I originally installed debian 1.3 stable version and enabled smbfs and rarp on install. I have recompiled the kernel to 2.0.32 and disabled these modules as they were not needed. I did the usual make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make modules_install, and copied the zImage file to

Re: newbie setup of ppp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes chat seems to be working fine but once I get connected this is what I see in the log is serial connection established ppp0ttyS2 SIGHUP and of course the modem hangs up Actually, you get SIGHUP _because_ the modem hung up. But that's not actually related

Re: VIM 5.0

On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update

Re: VIM 5.0

Scott McDermott hat gesagt: // Scott McDermott wrote: Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update announcements. Does it

Stopping xdm...

Greetings all, i need help in the key sequence used for stopping xdm from starting up at boot up. TIA, jd? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: I have recompiled the kernel to 2.0.32 and disabled these modules as they were not needed. I did the usual make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make modules_install, and copied the zImage file to /boot and created a symbolic pointer /vmlinuz

Re: Q2 with hamm

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 22:18:23 +0200, Jaakko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just tried 3.14a, and it somehow doesn't take -nosound or -noaudio, which make Q2 bomb because of broken sound in 2.1.88 and 2.1.89 won't compile cleanly, so here we go again :) I think all the switches-as-such are

Re: Network Card

Network card is working. Now for ppp and the internet ... -Original Message- From: Chuck Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Collin Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, March 07, 1998 1:57 PM Subject: Re: Network Card On Fri, 6

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

Thanks, It was in the modules file. I had not noticed that file, and I just checked, it is nowhwere in the docs I have. There was also a lot of unused stuff in the /lib/modules/2.0.3? directory. I am beginning to realise that debian linux is not nearly as 'user unfriendly' as people make out.

XFree86 3.3.2 package?

Hi, Any estimates on when XFree86 3.3.2 will be available as a Debian package? I need to use one of the new servers (Millenium II AGP) that is available in it. I could get it from the XSuSe site but it is linked against libc5, and I was hoping to get a libc6 linked version. Compiling it myself

Debian 2.0 unstable

Wow... this thing really is unstable. I got about 6 or so packages that said that dependency errors were floating around... sigh. Well, no big deal, right? I did what you guys said, got it installed via ftp some packages failed, no big deal. I rebooted... now Accelerated X 4.1 is

Re: XFree86 3.3.2 package?

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Any estimates on when XFree86 3.3.2 will be available as a Debian package? I need to use one of the new servers (Millenium II AGP) that is available in it. I could get it from the XSuSe site but it is linked against libc5, and I was hoping to get a

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

Fails to startup... says.. cannot solved unresolved symbols X_global_lock XUnlockMutex_fn XlockMutex_fn I am seriously considering nuking the partition and starting over. Or... should I ... gasp consider Red Hat instead? Carroll Kong On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: If some

Re: Stopping xdm...

Jesus Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i need help in the key sequence used for stopping xdm from starting up at boot up. To do it permanently, edit /etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm. My solution for when I need to do this occasionally, was to: # cd /etc/rc4.d # rm S99xdm

Re: XFree86 3.3.2 package?

Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any estimates on when XFree86 3.3.2 will be available as a Debian package? I need to use one of the new servers (Millenium II AGP) that is available in it. I could get it from the XSuSe site but it is linked against libc5, and I was hoping to get a

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

Carroll Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow... this thing really is unstable. I got about 6 or so packages that said that dependency errors were floating around... sigh. Well, no big deal, right? I did what you guys said, got it installed via ftp some packages failed, no big deal. I

Sendmail/fetchmail problems?

Is this familiar to anyone? reading message 116 of 204 (2361 bytes) .popclient: SMTP error: 451 Can't create transcript file xfWAA00603: Too many open files in system popclient: SMTP error: 451 Can't open /dev/null: Too many open files in system popclient: SMTP transaction error while fetching

Re: Sendmail/fetchmail problems?

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: Yeah, this is a problem with the kernel. It does not allow enough open files for a server that is busy. hmmm, i only noticed this since i upgraded from sendmail 8.8.8-X to the 8.8.8-9. I didnt think my system would be classified as busy... a pentium

Re: sendmail queueing problem

Hi, Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Branden [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] On Fri, Mar 06, Branden 1998 at 09:03:41PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In upgrading from bo (sendmail 8.8.5) to hamm (8.8.8), incoming AND outgoing mail seems to be getting

Re: Sendmail error: Operating system error: Error 0

Hi, I am not sure, but look at any .forward file for the user in question. (Is sendmail picky about permissions?) manoj -- Would I turn on the gas if my pal Mugsy were in there? You might, rabbit, you might! Looney Tunes, Bugs and Thugs (1954, Friz Freleng) Manoj Srivastava

Emacs20.

I get the following error message when trying to install emacs20 from hamm: emacs-install emacs20 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: byte-compiling

Re: Q2 with hamm

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 22:18:23 +0200, Jaakko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just tried 3.14a, and it somehow doesn't take -nosound or -noaudio, which make Q2 bomb because of broken sound in 2.1.88 and 2.1.89 won't compile cleanly, so here we go again :) I think all the switches-as-such

wanpipe package

Did the package wanpipe work correctly and there is somebody that use it on a Debian system? I have some problem to detect and configure the card (S508): - kernel 2.0.34 is not official and I don't know where to get it - patch don't apply on 2.0.{32,33} - kernel 2.1.89 have different naming of

Re: Linux kernel size

On Mar 7, 6:31, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Albert Dorofeev wrote: Howdy, I am wondering how big is the actual kernel of Linux? I cannot compile it with all options turned off for some reason, maybe someone can give me a ready answer? I would like to know

TIND?

What happened to TIND? It was a favorite tool, until about two months ago, it stopped working---perhaps due to conflict with some new library? Just wondering how such a useful tool just up and disappeared. Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis

Re: *.gz files

Hi All, Will wrote: Quick Newbie Question: What are *.gz files? And what can I do to read/print/view them? Ralph Winslow wrote: They're compressed files; you can zcat mumble.gz to see its content or gunzip mumble.gz to restore the mumble file to its uncompressed state. You can get the

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

I didn't see any mention of downloading the latest hamm version of libc5 _BEFORE_ you run the script. All that was mentioned was doing a clean install of 1.3.1 and then running the script. I haven't done this yet but have been reading up on it and following the discussion on the devel

XF86 3.3.2 again

Hi, If XFree86 3.3.2 does make into hamm before the freeze, will the libraries be compiled so that they will be thread safe (i.e. reentrant)? If so, will they be compiled according to the instructions given in the README in the LinuxThreads package? I plan on doing some thread programming, and

olvwm

When I use the command dpkg --purge olvwm I get the message: dpkg: error processing olvwm (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Make olvwm the default window manager [Y] Any suggestion? Thanks, Al Savio. robert havoc pennington wrote: On Sat, 7

java in Netscape

I'm running Netscape 3.01 installed by putting the package from netscapes site into /tmp and running the .deb from dselect. I also installed all the jdk-* packages using dselect, but Netscape complains that java_301 can't be found when I hit a jave site. What do I need to do to fix that? TIA

Memory leak?

Hi, I just noticed that my xload indicates a high loads on my hamm installation. Running free gives the following: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 79508 73404 6104 22504 30104 28484 -/+ buffers/cache: 14816

Re: Emacs20.

I get the following error message when trying to install emacs20 from hamm: [...] Suggestions? --David You should probably just report this bug to the emacsen-common maintainer, who is Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: XF86 3.3.2 again

If XFree86 3.3.2 does make into hamm before the freeze, will the libraries be compiled so that they will be thread safe (i.e. reentrant)? If so, will they be compiled according to the instructions given in the README in the LinuxThreads package? Yes. The Debian X libraries have been

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

Graham Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using Graham either Smail or Sendmail, Simple in sendmail. Graham What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver Graham my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of Graham these packages to

Re: Memory leak?

Since my hamm install, I have noticed that when users log out, sometimes there shell hangs. These processes then beging utilizing lots of memory and cpu. Once uptime reported a load of 4.05 from this! Killing the processes resumes a more desired load. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network

Re: XF86 3.3.2 again

On 8 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: :If XFree86 3.3.2 does make into hamm before the freeze, will the libraries :be compiled so that they will be thread safe (i.e. reentrant)? If so, :will they be compiled according to the instructions given in the README in :the LinuxThreads

Re: XF86 3.3.2 again

: Yes. The Debian X libraries have been compiled reentrantly for a long : time, IIRC. I heard that quite a few times, though I still have problems during development within the Mnemonic Project. I recompiled the libraries according to the instructions in the LinuxThreads package

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: I didn't see any mention of downloading the latest hamm version of libc5 _BEFORE_ you run the script. All that was mentioned was doing a clean install of 1.3.1 and then running the script. I haven't done this yet but have been reading up on it

broken hamm upgrade

Hello, I've been having a heck of a time upgrading a 1.3.1 bo (originally 1.2) system to hamm using autoup. Everything is installed up to libreadlineg2 in the autoup script, then libreadlineg2's post install script bombs out and leaves the system in an essentially unusable state (nearly

ip accounting and ftp

Hey, I want to have a separate rule in the ipfwadm accounting rules for ftp-transfers. I tried monitoring both ftp and ftp-data, but most of the connections made by clients for data are on random high ports. Is there a way to monitor those too? Thanks. bye, Remco -- E-mail the word

Re: Memory leak?

Hi, Since my hamm install, I have noticed that when users log out, sometimes there shell hangs. These processes then beging utilizing lots of memory and cpu. Once uptime reported a load of 4.05 from this! Killing the processes resumes a more desired load. Well, as far as I can tell (from

More pre-freeze packages?

Hi again, Will gcc 2.8.0 and libg++ 2.8.0, or even the egcs compiler distribution, be added to the hamm package list before the freeze? It would be nice to dump gcc-2.7.x from hamm since it is fairly old, and since C++ programmers, such as myself, would like to be able to use the features in

PPP/ISP Timeout

Hi all! My brother has recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on his machine, but it is not useful to him until I can install and configure some of the software he wants. I've already done some of that, by coordinating times with him to do this task. He's been trying to dial-in in the morning and

Re: More pre-freeze packages?

Will gcc 2.8.0 and libg++ 2.8.0, or even the egcs compiler distribution, be added to the hamm package list before the freeze? It would be nice to dump gcc-2.7.x from hamm since it is fairly old, and since C++ programmers, such as myself, would like to be able to use the features in

Re: broken hamm upgrade

Don Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been having a heck of a time upgrading a 1.3.1 bo (originally 1.2) system to hamm using autoup. Everything is installed up to libreadlineg2 in the autoup script, then libreadlineg2's post install script bombs out and leaves the system in an

Re: broken hamm upgrade

I got A LOT of problems when trying to upgrade, my lack of response the past few days is because I was fixing my box. :) Well, this is the 'best' way to upgrade to glibc2, unfortunately, it is a very undesirable solution. Install 1.3.R6 fresh, THEN as dselect comes up, cancel,

Re: broken hamm upgrade

I got A LOT of problems when trying to upgrade, my lack of response the past few days is because I was fixing my box. :) Well, this is the 'best' way to upgrade to glibc2, unfortunately, it is a very undesirable solution. Install 1.3.R6 fresh, THEN as dselect

Re: More pre-freeze packages?

Okay, what about upgrading the current libc-5.4.38 to libc5.4.44 :). I don't need it but it seems that should be upgraded for the sake of being complete. By the way, concerning upgrading to egcs, I installed egcs into my /usr/local directory, and haven't encountered any problems AFAIK. I even

Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

How do I get the postgresql (6.3) postmaster to start running from the start. I have tried the solutions suggested in the postgresql contrib directories for Redhat, but it does not work on my debian machine: putting it in the inittab-file or putting the postgres.init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d.

Re: More pre-freeze packages?

Okay, what about upgrading the current libc-5.4.38 to libc5.4.44 :). I don't need it but it seems that should be upgraded for the sake of being complete. This has already been reported as Bug #18066, but with severity `wishlist'. If you think it is more important that this, you can

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Johann Spies wrote: : How do I get the postgresql (6.3) postmaster to start running from the : start. I have tried the solutions suggested in the postgresql contrib : directories for Redhat, but it does not work on my debian machine: : putting it in the inittab-file or

Non-standart mirors dselect

Hi, Is it possible to use dselect (ftp method) with non-standard mirrors? Like this: ls -al /.m09/debian total 732 drwxr-xr-x 7 ftpload 512 Mar 4 21:15 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 ftpload 512 Jan 20 22:16 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpload 23118 Oct 20 19:54

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Thanks, It was in the modules file. I had not noticed that file, and I just checked, it is nowhwere in the docs I have. There was also a lot of unused stuff in the /lib/modules/2.0.3? directory. I am beginning to realise that debian linux is not

Re: broken hamm upgrade

Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: Actually, the best way to install 2.0, AFAICT and IMHO, is to use the brand-new 2.0 install disks. You can find them in the usual archives in the disks-i386 distribution. That is unquestionably the best way, if the disks work on your machine, however

HELP: TkDesk disappears

The following problem has recently begun to occur consistently with TkDesk. When I try to invoke TkDesk, the first small loading window appears, but when it disappears, the TkDesk filemanager is nowhere to be seen, altho ps indicates it is running. If I remove the .tkdesk directory and then invoke

GIMP

I just upgraded GIMP, and when I tried to run it, got: $ gimp gimp fatal error: sigsegv caught [n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process: s #0 0x400ae018 in g_stack_trace () #1 0x400addd0 in g_debug () #2 0x807e2f7 in _start () #3 0x80bd790 in _start () #4 0xbc20 in ?? () #5

New web page: Debian Resources

Hi folks! I've recognized my Debian web pages. They can now be easily accessed via http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/ There is a new web page about `Debian Resources on the Internet,' see http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/resources/ which contains links to Debian and related

Upgrade...

I am using debian 1.3R6... but i wanted to upgrade the libc since supposedly the old 5.4.34? had a lot of problems. I went to 5.4.38. Now.. when I type in who .. no one comes up... not even ttys.. (my own). Is this somehow related? And if so, how do I fix it? Carroll Kong -- E-mail

ibcs, modulo.

Trabajo con Debian 1.3.1. y esto tratando de cargar el modulo ibcs, para que pueda ejecutar programas de otros unix, mi caso es el del System V, y Solaris 2.4. Pero con la version de Kernel que tengo 2.0.3, me dice que no puede este modulo ejecutarse con este Kernel, a continuacin me

Mirror problem!

Hi, I'd like to know if there is fix for this problem that I've experience with 'mirror'. Here is the error messages: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for hamm/source/admin/apmd_2.4.orig.tar.gz (16985 bytes). Got 16985 bytes (4246 bytes/sec) 226 Transfer

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: Fails to startup... says.. cannot solved unresolved symbols X_global_lock XUnlockMutex_fn XlockMutex_fn It looks like your X server is trying to use a new library, when it expects an old one. There are a couple possible causes: 1. You have not

Re: broken hamm upgrade

Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, the best way to install 2.0, AFAICT and IMHO, is to use the brand-new 2.0 install disks. You can find them in the usual archives in the disks-i386 distribution. Would that be: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current/ And the

df

Hi, I just realize that the output from df command does not add up. The used and available columnes do not add up to be the 1024-block columne! Is it something wrong? /dev/sdc11414447 693828 647525 52% /debian/hamm -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research,

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably disagree. I have sendmail set up as : sendmail -bd -q 15m I am using a win95 machine hooked to a linux machine which is on a dialup to an ISP. I just killed ppp on the linux machine and sent mail through it from the win95

Re: df

This is probably because a certain percentage of the filesystem is reserved for root. This means that when the filesystem appears full to a regular user, root can still write to the disk. When this happens the disk shows being over 100% capacity. The reason for this is, if the root filesystem

Re: Memory leak?

Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since my hamm install, I have noticed that when users log out, sometimes there shell hangs. These processes then beging utilizing lots of memory and cpu. Once uptime reported a load of 4.05 from this! Killing the processes resumes a more desired

Re: broken hamm upgrade

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: The only thing the libreadlineg2 postinst does is ldconfig. I suggest you run ldconfig and see what error it complains about. This is most likely a dangling symlink. Removing the dangling symlink often cures the problem. If the ldconfig error is

Re: mounting win95 shares with samba.deb

Leslie Guinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian 1.3 installed on a 386 pc, and samba 1.9.17 from the msdos-386 net samba.deb. Also I added the ksmbfs.deb. Debian, Samba and win95 box work good with smbclient, but how do I mount a win95 share on my Debian linux box. I have tried smbmount

Re: Stopping xdm...

Jesus Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings all, i need help in the key sequence used for stopping xdm from starting up at boot up. Press ctrl+alt+f1 for a text console, login as root, call /etc/init.d/xdm stop. edit /etc/X11/config to disable it permanently. Jens --- [EMAIL

Re: PPP Connection

I am trying to set up a dial up ppp connection to my ISP. I did it before but I am trying to use a Boca 28.8 MV34.AI it doesn't seem to want to work. What can I do to make it work? In Win95 it is on com2. Could someone give me the exact thing to type i.e. pppd connect 'chat'

Re: Network Card

I have an NE 2000 Plug Play network card. My Bios detects it. Putting the line ne in my modules list doesn't work. How do I set it up? I have no experience with the PNP staff since I have no hardware of this kind. However, doesn't PNP hardware suggests using linux ISAPNP tool ? -- E-mail

Re: Kernel compilation

Firstly, dmesg should show a lot of the kernel messages that scrolled off to fast. Secondly; it is risky installing another instance of the same kernel version on top of the forst one, especially the modules part. My advice: before installing the new kernel (assuming 2.0.29) #

Re: df

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, iquest wrote: : Hi, : : I just realize that the output from df command does not add up. The : used : and available columnes do not add up to be the 1024-block columne! Is : it : something wrong? : : : /dev/sdc11414447 693828 647525 52%

Cgi? how to make it work? anyone?, anyone?

Everything looks good, other than the cgi craps out. have cgi supported in apache and have pearl installed. its like an out of the box install, it acts like a permissions problem but Im not to shure, I put the cgi scripts at 755 and still no go. even tried 777 but still no go. where am I missing

Re: Network Card

heres the trick with getting a plug and play network card going on your Linux box. its a little bit down and dirty but it works really good. first, get a dos boot disk and boot your computer from floppy. then use the installation disk supplied with the NE2000 card. you should have a couple of

procmail locking and demonizing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- how to get fetch/procmail working as a daemon... here's fetchmail: # .fetchmailrc 1/16/98 poll mailer.cia-g.com protocol pop3 user dmallery pass ?? mda /usr/bin/procmail -f- fetchall ane here's procmail: