Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

[Thomas Baetzler]

Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> 
> > From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems
> > > that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot
> > > the machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. 

> Hi.  It may not be possible to do this, but here is a way to work
> around the problem:
> 
> From the xlogin prompt, you can switch to a virtual console by 
> C-A-F2 (or C-A-F3, etc.).  From a console login prompt, C-A-DEL 
> works.  All you have to do is make sure you have not disallowed 
> this in your X configuration.

The way we have handled this at a customer installation is that
we created a user "shutdown" who was privileded to run shutdown.

HTH,
-- 
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libpaper?

[David C. Winters]

I was having some problems with procmail and the new lists' headers (which
appear to be ironed out), so I haven't been able to see much of the content
of the list for a little while--so I'm apologizing if this has been
mentioned already.

The gs and ghostscript packages depend on the libpaper package, which is
currently listed as unavailable.  Is there a problem with it, or is it
somewhere other than in stable, non-free, or contrib?

Thanks.


David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Error in cron.daily/standard

[John Plate]

Hi

The /etc/cron.daily/standard file contains statements for maintenance
of /tmp and /var/tmp. These will work as intended.

I do not have access to the error reporting tools. Sorry if this is a
FAQ. 
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Re: smail does virtual domains?

[Daniel Stringfield]

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:

> 
>  Hi all,
> 
>  I'm seriously considering changing to sendmail or perhaps qmail, or 
> whatever. One of the reasons is that I need virtual e-mail domains. Does 
> smail handle this? Is is reasonable to use it for this? How about qmail?
> Are there plans to packaging it in .deb format?
> 
>  I'm really afraid of sendmail, not for the config files, but because 
> of the security leaks that appear every day; hopefully qmail/smail are 
> better or, at least, less popular among hackers.

>From what I know of mailers in general, qmail or smail is still
susceptable to hacking.  I don't know much in the way of sendmail hacking,
vs other mailer hacking, so someone correct me if I am wrong.
I think that its more of sendmail getting a bad aura due to its popularity
in MOST platforms out there...


Daniel
==
http:/www.jax-inter.net/users/servo
Organizer of Jax-LUG! Email me for details!

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Kernel Installation Issues

[Jim Worthington]

1)Boot Message - I get the following message when booting:


Oct  8 17:10:10 hercules syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
Oct  8 17:10:11 hercules kernel: Cannot find map file.

What is a map file?  
Where is it supposed to be?
How do I get rid of the message?

2) Where is the /boot/psdatabase file used?

I manually installed a new kernel (no debian package) and need to know
if it was done correctly.  After compiling the 2.0.13 pnp patched
kernel, I did the following:

a) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zimage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.13-pnp

b) cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.13-pnp

c) I then re-linked /vmlinuz and /System.map to point to the newly added
files in /boot.  I then ran lilo and rebooted.  

It's working, but there are some loose ends that I am concerned about.  
I've had the "cannot find map file" message since day 1, so it's not
related to installing the new kernel.

The /boot/psdatabase file is linked to /boot/psdatabase-2.0.0.  I
couldn't find any corresponding files in the newly compiled kernel
directory structure.  It would seem that I should have a
psdatabase-2.0.13-pnp as well.

Jim

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syslogd appears to be greedy

[Alan Eugene Davis]

According to top, syslogd is using over 80% of cputime.  
When I run another memory-hungry application, this immediately drops. 
This was never noted until recently.
I now note syslogd, which was to have been replaced by the
sysklogd package, is still installed.

Using sysklogd 1.3-11; don't remember the version of syslogd.

 
Alan Davis

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SECURE?? [Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X? ]

[Lukas Nellen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Here comes a small tcl/tk script which will appear under the xdm screen and 
> give the opportunity to halt, reboot or go to a console session (ie kill xdm).

As far as I understand TCL/Tk, those script give everybody with access to the 
screen immediate root access. As far as I can tell, tkmgr doesn't terminate 
when the user logs on. 

If that is indeed the case, the problem is the `send' command of Tk, which 
allows any Tk application to send TCL commands to any other on the same screen. 
I don't know if recent version of TCL/Tk check for more than the absence of a 
xhost list (and therefore enforce xauth authentication). That means a little 
script along the lines of
#!/usr/bin/whish
send tkmgr exec {rm -rf /}
can cause quite a bit of inconvenience. 

The minimum thing you could do is to disable the send command in Tk using
rename send {}
Then it is your decision if you trust this to be secure or not...

Cheers,
Lukas

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Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Syrus Nemat-Nasser  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> >sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems
>> > that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the
>> > machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I know this is a Good Idea
>> > (tm) but we are running dual-boot systems and this is a requirement so
>> > that students can switch back to DOS when then need.
>
>Hi.  It may not be possible to do this, but here is a way to work
>around the problem:
>
>>From the xlogin prompt, you can switch to a virtual console by C-A-F2 (or
>C-A-F3, etc.).  From a console login prompt, C-A-DEL works.  All you have
>to do is make sure you have not disallowed this in your X configuration.

If you check /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources, you'll see a couple of keys
defined:

xlogin*login.translations: #override\
CtrlR: abort-display()\n\
F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
CtrlReturn: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
Return: set-session-argument() finish-field()

As you can see Ctrl-R is abort-display, which kills the xdm server. If
you then set up things so that after that xdm terminates a shutdown -r now
is executed, you're set.

It would also be possible to define Ctrl-Alt-Del for this, ofcourse. Only
I don't know what the definition of that would look like, probably something
like CtrlMetaDelete: abort-display or so.

The easiest way is then to create a script in /usr/local/bin called say lxdm,
that looks like this:

#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/X11/xdm --nodaemon
/sbin/shutdown -r now
sleep 10

And then you call this from /etc/inittab in runlevel 5:

x5:5:respawn:/usr/local/bin/lxdm

Instead of the standard xdm, so turn off the standard xdm first.

All this results in Ctrl-R at the xdm prompt rebooting the machine!

Mike.
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twm menu config

[Balderdash]

Hey all,
Anybody out there using twm who knows how to get it to execute a
program from a popup menu?
I'm trying something like:

Menu "myapps" {
"My Applications"  f.title
"chess"f.exec xboard
}

Apparently, sh (BASH, in my case) can't run binary executables.  I have
found that sh -c some_executable will run some_executable from a prompt
(I used the fortune program to test this), but I can't find a way to
pass the -c to sh in the f.exec function call.  I have also tried:
f.exec $(xboard) 
it complains about the $ sign, so I tried enclosing it in quotes, then
it didn't work at all.

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   ^ ** ^ from too much
   |  analysis."
 -_  _-   - Ancient 
   ^^ Fremen Saying
#include 
#include 

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time problems (forwarded)

[Bruce Perens]

Kevin is one of two people who are currently _still_ unable to post, so
I am forwarding his message. :-(

From: Account for Debian group  mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I use a program call "nist - timestanderization under Linux" by Frank
Brokken.  This program works well for maintaining the clocks on my
systems.  The program gets the time information from a standard on the
Internet and and updates the system time.  Then you run the "clock -w"
command to update the CMOS clock.

This has worked fine on all my systems until I tried to run it on the new
Debian box I just put together.  When it updates the CMOS clock it sets
the year to somewhere in the 21st century and the rest of the time
information is all screwed up as well.  What needs to change to make this
utility work properly?

Thanks,

Ken Rea



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Can't do setuid

[Jim Worthington]

I need the ability to run my dialing script as root since the script
makes hostname, domainname, and /etc/resolv changes.  

It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability.  Is this a
feature that I can turn on through a configuration file?

Do all Linux distributions (Slackware, Redhat, etc) have this
restriction?  Which distributions allow suid?

Where does the restriction take place (the kernel or an executable
file)?

Suid programs work on Sun Unix, but it don't seem to work here:

   -rws--x--x   1 root users1413 Oct  8 14:18 dial-att

   > dial-att
   Can't do setuid

At present I have to su to root in order to dial.  This is an
inconvenience and will not work for other user accounts.  I am aware of
the programs available that perform the equivalent of setuid but the
issue here is why isn't the setuid function implemented (apparantly)?

Jim

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Debian hangs during install

[John McLaren]

Help Needed!

After looking around for a 486 to dedicate to linux, a 5-year-old
"ex-bleeding-edge" server became available cheaply, containing an
EISA mb and Ultrastor 22CA EISA ESDI cacheing controller running
two Micropolis drives--seemed like a good buy at the time
(performs flawlessly on dos/windows).

I turned off cacheing and shadowing and started to load the latest
Debian boot/root disks.  All seemed to go as per the book--hard
drive/controller identified ok etc--until it found 1 scsi host,
identified as an Ultrastor 24F.  Not surprisingly, it could get no
response, eventually tried to reset it, and hung at:
   "US14F: reset: called"

Is there some simple command or parameter to give at the "boot:"
prompt which will stop the program looking for scsi hardware?  All
I could find in help files were suggestions for what to do if your
installed scsi card wasn't found--not the other way 'round!

Thanks


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 we would be too simple to understand it"


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O'clocking P6-180 to P6-200... safe?

[Ricardo Kleemann]

 
Hi guys,
 
Many of us are out trying to buy/put together a Pro200 system... However,
I've run into a bit of trouble I suspect many others also have.
 
The P6-200 is OUT OF STOCK! Back-ordered everywhere I've checked. I've had
some decent price quotes, but then they say they don't have it in stock!
 
However, it seems the Pro-180 is available (and is cheaper).
 
So, the question, should/could I overclock it to 200 (or more)? What would
be the steps to overclocking a P6?
 
I plan on getting the Intel Venus M/B, so how would I set it up to use
a P180 but run it at 200mhz?
 
Thanks,
Ricardo

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smail does virtual domains?

[Nelson Posse Lago]

 Hi all,

 I'm seriously considering changing to sendmail or perhaps qmail, or 
whatever. One of the reasons is that I need virtual e-mail domains. Does 
smail handle this? Is is reasonable to use it for this? How about qmail?
Are there plans to packaging it in .deb format?

 I'm really afraid of sendmail, not for the config files, but because 
of the security leaks that appear every day; hopefully qmail/smail are 
better or, at least, less popular among hackers.

TIA
Nelson
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Re: netscape

[Brian C. White]

> I selected netscape package in dselect and put netscape-v30tar.gz.

Where did you put the .tar.gz archive?


> But it still doesn't work!!

What exactly did the Netscape package say when you tried to install it?


> I decompressed manually but when i type netscape in the directory, it
> does not find the application whereas it is in.

Try "./netscape".  This isn't how you want to run it, though.


> Any suggestion?

Capture the output from

dpkg --install netscape-3.0-1.deb

and include it in your next email.
 
  Brian
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Test - Can't post to list fron Linux (n2vwz account test)

[Jim Worthington]

Test - Please Ignore

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Re: sbpcd module

[salwen]

I have the following in /etc/modules

sbpcd.o sbpcd=0x230,1 

(I have a soundblaster at 0x220) and everything seems to work fine.

Good luck,
Nathan

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netscape

[besnard]

I selected netscape package in dselect and put netscape-v30tar.gz.

But it still doesn't work!!

I decompressed manually but when i type netscape in the directory, it
does not find the application whereas it is in.

Any suggestion?

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Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

[J.A.vanderMost]

>
>I don't know terribly much about X. Someone else please help this user.
>
>   Thanks
>
>   Bruce
>
>From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Hello,
>> 
>>  sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems
>> that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the
>> machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I know this is a Good Idea
>> (tm) but we are running dual-boot systems and this is a requirement so
>> that students can switch back to DOS when then need.
>> 
>>  Basically, if we can't find a way of doing this we have to
>> remove Linux and we lose the chance of introducing it into the Dept.
>> 
>>  Please let me know if you have any idea on how to get C-A-Del
>> to work at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I have checked the HOWTO's but
>> to no avail.
>> 
>>  Thanks,
>> 
>>  Arrigo

This is what I do at home:

At the xdm prompt, press Ctrl-R (^R), this will stop the xdm program and
return you to the last virtual terminal you used.
Then press Ctrl-Alt-Del.

So it's Ctrl-R Ctrl-Alt-Del

Hope this helps,
Jeroen van der Most

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C-A-Del and X

[Arrigo Triulzi]

Hello all,

thanks for responding via e-mail, I am now on the list, just
didn't have the time to do this before.

I think the optimal solution is the Tcl/Tk script, I cannot
set the uid for a shutdown because the room is "open access" and the
last thing I want is a bunch of students playing tricks on each other.

Thanks to all for helping,

Ciao,

Arrigo

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Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

[Volker Ossenkopf]

: From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > Hello,
: > 
: > sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems
: > that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the
: > machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I know this is a Good Idea
: > (tm) but we are running dual-boot systems and this is a requirement so
: > that students can switch back to DOS when then need.
: > 
: > Basically, if we can't find a way of doing this we have to
: > remove Linux and we lose the chance of introducing it into the Dept.
: > 
: > Please let me know if you have any idea on how to get C-A-Del
: > to work at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I have checked the HOWTO's but
: > to no avail.

We use the following solution here:
1. Creat a user "shutdown" or "reboot".
2. Give him a password.
3. Change /etc/passwd so that a) his user id is equal to root, 
b) his home directory is some safe place
c) his default shell is /sbin/sysdown
4. sysdown has to be a script that calls shutdown, e.g.
  #!/bin/sh
  /sbin/shutdown -h now
5. create a file .xsession.linux in his home directory which calls sysdown.

Attention! In this solution, everybody who knows the shutdown-passwd
can shutdown the machine even from a remote system.

Hope this meets your needs.

Best regards -- Volker


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   Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324
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Re: failure notice

[Larry 'Daffy' Daffner]

-> I need to upgrade ghostscript in order to have a driver for an Epson
-> Stylus Color 500.  I see that there is a gs in the "non-free" area,
-> which makes sense since Aladdin distributes newer versions under a
-> more restrictive license than the GNU one.

Doesn't the current free version have the escp2 driver? I remember
using it with my AP3250 and the GNU gs, however maybe it doesn't
support color?

-> When I tried using "dpkg -i" on this non-free gs...deb file, I got an
-> error because the current version of gs-fonts is too old.  However,
-> there doesn't appear to be a corresponding version of gs-fonts in the
-> "non-free" area.

The fonts for the new gs are in the rex (unstable) directory, under
the text category.  Crossed me up when I tried installing the non-free
gs for the first time too.

It's probably an issue that non-free packages can depend on unstable
packages.  Maybe there needs to be non-free/stable and
non-free/unstable?  I know that at least one other non-free package
(libtiff-gif?) depends on an unstable package (libtiff?).  Any
thoughts?

-Larry

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Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

[Philippe Troin]

On Mon, 07 Oct 1996 12:43:00 PDT Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I don't know terribly much about X. Someone else please help this user.

Here it comes...

> From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Hello,
> > 
> > sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems
> > that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the
> > machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I know this is a Good Idea
> > (tm) but we are running dual-boot systems and this is a requirement so
> > that students can switch back to DOS when then need.
> > 
> > Basically, if we can't find a way of doing this we have to
> > remove Linux and we lose the chance of introducing it into the Dept.
> > 
> > Please let me know if you have any idea on how to get C-A-Del
> > to work at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I have checked the HOWTO's but
> > to no avail.

I won't suggest to you to enable CTRL-ALT-DEL. It doesn't work because under X, 
the server has full control over the keyboard, and the CRTL-ALT-DEL doesn't 
reach init (which normally does whatever you want, generally a reboot).
As we're under X, let's be gooey (GUI).
Here comes a small tcl/tk script which will appear under the xdm screen and 
give the opportunity to halt, reboot or go to a console session (ie kill xdm).
I had it installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/tkmgr, it it sits better in 
/usr/local/. Also included are the new Xsetup_0 and XStartup_0 
scripts to be put in /etc/X11/xdm (they're pretty close to the original).
BTW, that means that you want to install the tcl and tk package (any version 
will do, only the runtime packages are needed).

Hope that helps.

Phil.

PS: I've cc'ed this to the list as I think quite a few people might be 
interested.


scriptwdHCuwREYH.script
Description: tkmgr


scriptsDnF6vJ1CT.script
Description: Xsetup_0


scriptip7XajfnyR.script
Description: Xstartup_0

Re: Most recent Beta of SVGA X Server

[Hamish Moffatt]

> 
> Is there any possibility of someone making a deb file of the most
> recent beta of SVGA Server for X (beta G).  The reason I ask is that I
> have a TGUI9440AGi that is not supported at all except in the recent
> betas...

Same story with the S3 Trio64V+.

> If someone would tell me how, I would be willing to do it.

The official policy is only to package the release versions.
It's relatively simple to upgrade your proper packaged installation
to the beta; just extract the beta over the top. dpkg won't mind ..

hamish

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Re: Any Linux books that focus on Debian?

[Lars Wirzenius]

CoB SysAdmin:
> I'm interested in getting a book on adminstering Linux systems, but just
> about *every* book I look at focuses on Slackware. *Blech!*.
> 
> Are there any books that focus on Debian?

Blatant self-promotion dept.: The Linux System Administrators'
Guide (SAG), my book, is not specific to any Linux distribution,
although it does contain traces of all the distributions I've
personally used during these four years.

Fair warning dept.: It doesn't cover too many things (actually,
it covers very few things), but it tries to be thorough about
what it does cover. Oh, and it contains a joke. You have been
warned.

URL dept.: . The announcement
contains the table of contents, so you can see if it has what
you want before you download and print.

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Any Linux books that focus on Debian?

[Joe Emenaker]

I'm interested in getting a book on adminstering Linux systems, but just
about *every* book I look at focuses on Slackware. *Blech!*.

Are there any books that focus on Debian?

- Joe

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Re: problems with X

[Chris R. Martin]

On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Stephen Early wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> >I have installed Debian 1.1.9 and xbase, xlib, xserver-svga, and fvwm
> >packages. I chose during xbase to use xdm to start x.. and during boot-up
> >I see the message "starting xdm".. however typing "xdm" at a root prompt
> >doesn't do anything. I tried xinit and got the following output:
> 
> If you use xdm to start an X server, then the server should start
> automatically when you boot. If it doesn't then there's something
> wrong. You shouldn't have to type 'xdm' at any prompt.
> 
> >TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111
> >giving up.
> >xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> >xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> This is the clue. For some reason, the X server is unable to create
> the Unix-domain socket to listen for local connections. This could be
> because you don't have Unix-domain sockets in your kernel (I don't
> know whether this is a configuration option anymore) or because there
> is something up with the /tmp/.X11-unix directory.
> 
> Try deleting /tmp/.X11-unix (and everything under it) and starting the
> server.

My /tmp directory was empty.

I should point out that the output above is what I get when I type "xinit"
at a root prompt. typing "X" gives me a seg. fault, and "xdm" does
nothing.

Additional: I added the 75dpi, 100dpi, and PEX fonts in addition to
fntbase -- I still get the above errors (the font messages have largely
disappeared though).

Please, someone help me start X!!

Chris.

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Re: failure notice

[Bruce Perens]

Sorry, I was hacking the server while it was still plugged in. Zap!
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failure notice

[danny]

Forwarded message:
> From postmaster  Mon Oct  7 16:20:35 1996
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 7 Oct 1996 23:30:04 -
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: failure notice
> 
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at primer.i-connect.net.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> /home/Debian/bruce/Scripts/MailingListReceive: syntax error near unexpected 
> token `else'
> /home/Debian/bruce/Scripts/MailingListReceive: 
> /home/Debian/bruce/Scripts/MailingListReceive: line 11: `else if [ -f 
> "${EXT%%-request}/dist" ]; then'
> 
> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
> 
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: (qmail 24529 invoked from smtpd); 7 Oct 1996 23:30:02 -
> Received: from cgl.ucsf.EDU (@128.218.27.20)
>   by master.debian.org with SMTP; 7 Oct 1996 23:30:02 -
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> cgl.ucsf.EDU (8.6.12/GSC4.25) with SMTP
>   id QAA03289 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 
> 16:20:29 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>   id AA17390; Mon, 7 Oct 96 16:20:27 PDT
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Non-free gs
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 96 16:20:25 PDT
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> I need to upgrade ghostscript in order to have a driver for an Epson
> Stylus Color 500.  I see that there is a gs in the "non-free" area,
> which makes sense since Aladdin distributes newer versions under a
> more restrictive license than the GNU one.
> 
> When I tried using "dpkg -i" on this non-free gs...deb file, I got an
> error because the current version of gs-fonts is too old.  However,
> there doesn't appear to be a corresponding version of gs-fonts in the
> "non-free" area.
> 
> How should I proceed?  Should I use dpkg to completely remove the old gs
> package (2.62, I think), and then install the new one (hoping it
> includes fonts).  Should I get the sources for the very lates gs,
> compile and install them in the /usr/local hierarchy?  The latter
> option also requires building/installing jpeg, png, zlibs and other
> stuff.
> 
> Looking forward to suggestions.
> 
> 
> 
> Danny Heap, UCSF,  California St., Room 102, SF CA, 94122
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], voice: (415) 476-8910, fax: (415) 476-1508
> 
> 
> 
> 

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