Re: Replacing CPP with GCC

1996-11-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Edward Urenda wrote:

 I had installed the cpp package in lieu of installing gcc.  I find myself
 getting more into programming and will require gcc.
 
 I have tried to avoid using deseled, opting to choose dpkg -i instead.
 How can I remove cpp without breaking any dependencies and replace it with
 gcc, since the two cannot coexist.
 
You can do this one of two ways (There may actually be more ways than
this):

dpkg -i --force-conflicts /path-to-package/gcc*.deb
dpkg --purge cpp

or

dpkg --purge --force-depends cpp
dpkg -i /path-to-package/gcc*.deb

Hope this helps,

Dwarf

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Re: Replacing CPP with GCC

1996-11-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi,

 You can do this one of two ways (There may actually be more ways than
 this):

 dpkg -i --force-conflicts /path-to-package/gcc*.deb
 dpkg --purge cpp

You can even NOT do it, since gcc Depends: on cpp. Actually it would have
deleted cpp already if it conflicts with gcc.

Greetings
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Re: VFAT32 support?

1996-11-27 Thread Daniel Stringfield
  Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the
  microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release?
  
  lawrence,
 
 I would strongly doubt it.  vfat used to be just a superset of the fat 
 filesystem so it was too difficult to add support.  vfat32, on the 
 otherhand, is a big jump considering the fact that most dos utilities 
 won't work with it either.

Its a FULL 32 bit FAT..  they are trying *really* hard to make everybody
run NT, whether the person knows it or not. :)  (NT and 95 look almost
identical now, and are merging utilities back and forth..HMMM...)

You CAN however NOT install the vfat32 on the system, and use the old
win95 vfat.  

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Re: More Gnus problems

1996-11-27 Thread Rob Browning
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Here is my .gnus file: (BTW, should I put this stuff in .gnus, or
 .emacs, or does it matter?):

Don't know.  All my stuff's in my .emacs monstrosity.

A couple of things.  The folder that you want mail to go in to in your
home directory may (or may not) need to already exist, so you might
try deleting it if it does exist, or adding it if it doesn't, and see
what happens.

Also, I've had a couple of cases where by starting up with a slightly
bogus config file, I caused gnus to write a .newsrc.eld or .newsrc
file that caused all future launches to fail, even though I fixed the
problem.  You should probably try a rm .newsrc* and then run emacs and
gnus and see if that helps.

I believe this is partially related to the fact that gnus actually
writes the server configuration paths, etc into the rc file the first
time it opens the server, and it never changes them again.  This can
be a problem if you change them in your .emacs file.  The only way
currently to propagate that change AFAIK is to manually edit the
.newsrc* files, or delete the files and let gnus rebuild them.

WARNING: deleting the .newsrc* files will lose all your state
information about articles you have read or marked as important, etc.

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Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(

1996-11-27 Thread Rob Browning
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm starting to think there are serious problems with my mail setup, and
 I have no clue as to whether they are related or not :(
 Thanks again

You could also have a leftover (stale) lock file that's tripping
everyone up.

Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :)

501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail
total 59
drwxrwsr-t   2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 ..
-rw---   1 user1mail0 Nov 28  1995 user1
-rw---   1 user2mail0 Nov 21 01:43 user2
-rw---   1 root mail56691 Nov 26 06:50 root

# ls -al /var/spool/mqueue
total 2
drwx--   2 root root 1024 Nov 26 15:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 ..
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Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(

1996-11-27 Thread Rob Browning
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message
 approxamately 5 min after doing echo test | mail lars at any given
 terminal:

Are you runnning sendmail, or smail?

 Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml...
 nnml: Reading incoming mail...
 Getting mail from /root/.gnus-crash-box...
 Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.)

This is what happens when gnus encounters a problem moving your mail
from your /usr/spool/mail box to your local directory.  You can get
things back in a reasonable state by moving the ~/.gnus-crash-box file
to another namYou should check its contents to make sure you didn't
lose anything important.

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soft windows

1996-11-27 Thread Fundamental
Can debian handle dual processors and does debian (or any linux) have a
windows/win95 emulator?

thanks

Sahua,

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Re: soft windows

1996-11-27 Thread Lawrence Chim
Fundamental wrote:
 
 Can debian handle dual processors and does debian (or any linux) have a
 windows/win95 emulator?
 

dual processors - yes, you need to compile the kernel by yourself
windows 3.1 - yes with wine (free) or WABI ($200)
windows 95  - NO

lawrence,


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Re: shadow password

1996-11-27 Thread Roger Endo
   
   root:x:0:root,your loginname
   ...
  I don't like that.  It seems unsafe to me.  There's gotta be
  a better solution
  
  Currently, I am putting in special users in /etc/suauth
  but I only know the syntax for making su ask for the current
  users passwd, and not root's.  Would like to prompt it to
  ask for root's password.  Workaround anyone?
  
  Roger Endo
 
 
 yep, its safer to but the usernames in suauth
 
 looks like (file /etc/suauth):
 
 root:ALL EXCEPT login1,login2:DENY
 
 or
 
 root:ALL EXCEPT login1,login2,GROUP root:DENY
 
 watch out! keyword GROUP let the parser know that all words behind GROUP
 are group names - only the : escapes.
 the examples let the users login1 and login2 and all users in group root
 (2nd examp.) to get root access by enter the roots password, all others
 will receive the message access denied.
 
 root:login1:NOPASS
 root:login2:OWNPASS
 root:ALL EXCEPT login3:DENY
 
 let the user login1 get root access without passwd
 the user login2 have to put in his own passwd and
 the user login3 have to use the root passwd all other user cant get in
 
 so if you want the users login1 login2 and login3 to be promted for the
 root password you use:
 
 root:ALL EXCEPT login1,login2,login3:DENY
 
 hope that helps
 
ciao Helmuth (irc: Pvppet)
 
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OK to chmod 640 suauth?  What other files in the debian distribution
in /etc can be made more unreadable by the world?  Seems like a shell
user can learn a lot by snooping around in /etc (i.e hosts.deny, hosts.allow)

Thanks,
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Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)

1996-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Ooops. I just bounced this post, hoping elm would let me edit it. :-(

I tried Linux 2.1.13, and found that start-stop-daemons,
which Debian uses extensively during bootup, did not work,
and possibly some other scripts. Hence 2.1.13 was useless
and I am back to 2.1.10. Has anyone else experienced this?


thanks,
Hamish


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bo seems to be empty on master?

1996-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
bo always seems to be empty on master; nothing in the directory.
Is this just me? Running ncftp, on this SPARC/Solaris ..


hamish


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Re: Mailing lists back up

1996-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
 The mailing lists are back up. A spam filter is in place. If you post from
 an address the list doesn't recognize, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will
 mail you a copy of the list rules, and will insist that you send it AGREE
 before it will let you post.

I just noticed this. I wonder if perhaps the wording could be made
a little friendlier; I found it a bit intimidating, especially about
the $1000 fine. What if someone takes a dislike to me and can
argue in court that my mail was spam? The mail filter also
assumes guilt rather than innocence. :-( I haven't noticed their
being any spam problems on this list anyway to date .. ?



thanks,
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Re: aztcd driver needs DOS to initialize sound card IDE port?

1996-11-27 Thread Alberto Brizio
Bruce Perens wrote:
 
 From: Alberto Brizio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Here is the problem, the Sound Card. For the aztcd driver to work, it
  needs that the IDE port of the Sound Card be initialized, so the best
  way I've found (many thanks to Prof. Zimmermann) is to use loadlin after
  booting DOS setting up the Sound Card IDE controller this way.
 
 I've copied this message to Werner Zimmerman, the driver author.  What
 sound cards exhibit this problem? 

My sound card is a MAD16PRO, it's based on the OPTi 82c929 chip and
has 4 connectors for CD-ROM, a standard IDE, a Panasonic, a Sony and
... damn', I can't remember now. 
This SC is sometimes known as a SoundStorm and I suppose it's quite 
the same as the Turtle Beach Tropez. The manufacturer is PRIMAX.

BTW I've not tried to setup the sound module yet: can anybody give me
some hints about it? The Sound-HOWTO says this card is supported but
it is not clear if I've got to pass some options. 
I don't want to recompile the kernel.

 I have a Wearnes controller (someone
 at Orchid crossed out the word Wearnes on the printed circuit card and
 packed it in the box with my Orchid 3110) and it does not exhibit this
 problem.
 
 Thanks
 
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Re: Mailing lists back up

1996-11-27 Thread Juri P Pakaste

(I don't think this has very much to do with debian-devel, so I
removed it from the headers)

 HM == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 HM I just noticed this. I wonder if perhaps the wording could be
 HM made a little friendlier; I found it a bit intimidating,
 HM especially about the $1000 fine. What if someone takes a dislike

I think the $1000 fine is quite OK; but I think it should indicate who
the fee should be payed to. Debian Project? List maintainer?

 HM to me and can argue in court that my mail was spam? The mail

There is a $1000 charge for commercial advertising, etc. I think
that's pretty clear.

 HM filter also assumes guilt rather than innocence. :-( I haven't
 HM noticed their being any spam problems on this list anyway to date
 HM .. ?

There have been at least two or three messages (that I saw, I might
have skipped some others) in the last couple of weeks.

I think the filter is a _very_ good idea.

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Re: Managing a network of Debian machines?

1996-11-27 Thread Volker Ossenkopf

Nelson Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: What's the right solution? Assume disk is cheap, bandwidth is fairly
: cheap, but sysadmin time is really expensive. If Debian could provide
: some solution, it would be a big help to Linux administrators.

The solution running here is:
1) /, /etc, /var in one partition locally on each machine. Configuration
is still too machine dependent.
2) /usr mounted via NFS. The disk really hosting the /usr files is
a DEC-Alpha but each Linux machine could serve as well. 
3) /usr/local is a symbolic link to /local on each machine. Here, machine
specific applications are stored. They should not be touched by 
Debian packages.

Due to the strict separation between configuration files and
programs in Debian, this works quite well. All programs except
for those installed in /usr/local have to be maintained only 
centrally. The netload due to the program loading on execution
is still relatively small compared to the load produced by 
the real data which are also often treated via NFSi here.

Hope this helps.
Best regards -- Volker



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Re: Odd X message

1996-11-27 Thread Stephen Early
Guy Maor writes:
  Add this to your XF86Config file:
  
  Section Modules
  Load pex5.so
  Load xie.so
  EndSection

Alternatively, if you don't use PEX and XIE then don't add the Load
lines. Save yourself a bit of memory...

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Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.

1996-11-27 Thread ugs
I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12.  Everything seems to be
working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's
weren't disabled for a reason.

Thanks
Paul


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ATAPI CDROM errors

1996-11-27 Thread Michael Laing
The ATAPI 6X CDROM on my Sharp 9080 notebook seems to work OK but
generates the following errors:

hdc: packet command error: status=0x51
hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
hdc: code: 0x70  key: 0x05  asc: 0x20  ascq: 0x00

I always get them when I mount the CDROM, and occasionally thereafter. I
usually get several sets.

Can anyone point me in th right direction?

Thanks,

Michael


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Netscape - bus error

1996-11-27 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Hi.

I want to install Netscape in my Debian-Linux 486DX2 (66Mhz).

I had obtained from my CD destribution, and from the archives the

netscape_3.01-1.deb
and
netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz 

then I try to install dpkg -i netscape_3.01-1.deb and all works fine
(no error messages), but when I try to run netscape I obtain the
following output:

$ netscape

unable to obtain ... (I do not remenber exactly something about colors)

unable to obtain ...

bus error
$

Can you help me?

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Re: Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)

1996-11-27 Thread Johnie Ingram
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Hamish Ooops. I just bounced this post, hoping elm would let me edit
Hamish it. :-( I tried Linux 2.1.13, and found that
Hamish start-stop-daemons, which Debian uses extensively during
Hamish bootup, did not work, and possibly some other scripts. Hence
Hamish 2.1.13 was useless and I am back to 2.1.10. Has anyone else
Hamish experienced this?

Yes, the exact same thing happened to me, apparently because 2.1.13
does not understand the #!/usr/sbin/perl -- line in the script.  No
script which gives an argument to its processor works with that
kernel.

Miraculously, almost everything will work normally if you change the
line to #!/usr/bin/perl.  Seems like start-stop-daemon is the only
key script that gives arguments to its processor.

This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug
or a feature.  (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified,
mabye things like #!/usr/bin/perl -w and #!/usr/bin/make -f are
unsupported now?)

 
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qmail compatible MUA

1996-11-27 Thread charlie
Hi,
I am looking at using qmail as a replacement for smail/sendmail.
I am using now on a sun workstation for testing, and it seems to work fine.
My question is does anyone know of a reader that can access the maildir files 
(that
is the qmail-preferred way of storing mail)? Right now I must use mailfile 
format
for the MUA's that I have.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Shell scripts (first line -- what is that called?)

1996-11-27 Thread William Burrow
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Johnie Ingram wrote:

 This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug
 or a feature.  (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified,
 mabye things like #!/usr/bin/perl -w and #!/usr/bin/make -f are
 unsupported now?)

Is this not the realm of the shell?  I know that the kernel looks at the 
start of an executable to support Java, but it should not be changing it.  

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Re: Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)

1996-11-27 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johnie Ingram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Hamish Ooops. I just bounced this post, hoping elm would let me edit
Hamish it. :-( I tried Linux 2.1.13, and found that
Hamish start-stop-daemons, which Debian uses extensively during
Hamish bootup, did not work, and possibly some other scripts. Hence
Hamish 2.1.13 was useless and I am back to 2.1.10. Has anyone else
Hamish experienced this?

Yes, the exact same thing happened to me, apparently because 2.1.13
does not understand the #!/usr/sbin/perl -- line in the script.  No
script which gives an argument to its processor works with that
kernel.

Miraculously, almost everything will work normally if you change the
line to #!/usr/bin/perl.  Seems like start-stop-daemon is the only
key script that gives arguments to its processor.

This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug
or a feature.  (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified,
mabye things like #!/usr/bin/perl -w and #!/usr/bin/make -f are
unsupported now?)

 
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My guess is that Perl has moved - the canonical location has possibly
moved from /sbin (very restricted in terms of who can use it) to /bin
(any user) to avoid all the suid problems ?? Just my thought.

Andy
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Re: displaying pgp public key and xface in finger info???

1996-11-27 Thread Magic
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Andrew Y Ng wrote:

   What file do I put my PGP public key in to have it displayed in my
 finger info in Debian Linux?

~/.pgpkey

c u...
Magic
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Re: Mailing lists back up

1996-11-27 Thread Bruce Perens
The $1000 charge for advertising (it's not really a fine) is a donation to
Debian's still-in-formation corporation, Software in the Public Interest. 
I doubt I'll be collecting it any time soon, it's mostly a strategy to put
off spammers.

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Re: Shell scripts (first line -- what is that called?)

1996-11-27 Thread Bruce Perens
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Johnie Ingram wrote:
 This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug
 or a feature.  (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified,
 mabye things like #!/usr/bin/perl -w and #!/usr/bin/make -f are
 unsupported now?)

Nope. It's just a bug. By the way, the #! is called the magic number.
I don't know a canonical name for the rest of the line, although I've
called it the interpreter command.

From: William Burrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Is this not the realm of the shell?  I know that the kernel looks at the 
 start of an executable to support Java, but it should not be changing it.  

The kernel looks for #! as the first two bytes in any executable. If it
finds them, it considers the rest of the line as arguments to exec(), and
adds the pathname of the file you actually exec-ed at the end.
So, if file foo has this line #! /bin/sh -v, what is actually executed
is /bin/sh -v ./foo.

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Re: Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)

1996-11-27 Thread Johnie Ingram
Andrew == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Johnie  Yes, the exact same thing happened to me, apparently because
Johnie 2.1.13 does not understand the #!/usr/sbin/perl -- line in the
Johnie script.  No script which gives an argument to its processor works

Andrew My guess is that Perl has moved - the canonical location has
Andrew possibly moved from /sbin (very restricted in terms of who can
Andrew use it) to /bin (any user) to avoid all the suid problems ??
Andrew Just my thought.

Sorry -- I mistyped that.  The line really says #!/usr/bin/perl --.

My theory is the problem lies in changes to fs/binfmt_script.c.  Every
script with extra stuff after the interpreter filename now fails with
something like bash: no such file (I don't remember exactly -- I'm
back to 2.0.25 now).
 
I was going to test the theory by replacing binfmt_script.c with the
2.0.25 version, but make-kpkg didn't work under 2.1.13, and by the
time I re-liloed and booted the stable kernel, the heat of the moment
had passed   :-)

 
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Re: Netscape - bus error

1996-11-27 Thread Brian C. White
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
 
 Hi.
 
 I want to install Netscape in my Debian-Linux 486DX2 (66Mhz).
 $ netscape
 
 unable to obtain ... (I do not remenber exactly something about colors)
 
 unable to obtain ...
 
 bus error
 $
 
 Can you help me?

Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its display.  Try doing
netscape -ncols 64 and see if the unable to obtain erros go
away.  If not, try numbers smaller than 64 or close some applications
that are using lots of colors.  If the bus error goes away, you should
report this as a bug to Netscape (see how to give feedback under the
help menu).
 
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DOS -- Linux

1996-11-27 Thread Matthew Hewitt

I am running Debian 1.1.  I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS
6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can
use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for
MSDOS?  I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported
directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort
of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS
or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. 


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Re: DOS -- Linux

1996-11-27 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
I have heard that there is an SMB client for DOS.  Check out:

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/

Also look at:

  http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/docs/smb_serv/html/smb_se-2.html#clients

Good luck.

Chris -)-

On Nov 27, 11:29am, Matthew Hewitt wrote:
 Subject: DOS -- Linux
: 
: I am running Debian 1.1.  I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS
: 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I
: can use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing
: for MSDOS?  I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux
: exported directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a
: Diskless(will sort of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this?
: Or is there a PC-NFS or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. 
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dftp and some problems

1996-11-27 Thread Muralynd

  Woops.. caught the spamfilter (Only mildly annoying)
 
  here is the original
 
   Okay, I fsck'd up bad :) Instead of doing the smart thing and deleting 
  Dos/WFWG (Actually, I need to keep dos until I get the BBS up under 
  Linux) then making all my drives ext2 I just used one.
  
   /dev/hda is fat-16 (Dos C:)
   /dev/hdb is (was) fat-16 (Dos D:  but now mounted on /usr as ext2)
   /dev/hdc1 ext2 mounted as /
   /dev/hdc2 swap (30 Megs)
  
  okay, now I have most everything fixed.. mostly :)  How the *#$)(#$ do 
  I use ftp to install the stuff I want?
  
   I have net access over a dialup PPP link, I have pppd in /usr/sbin and 
  the ppp modules load when I boot.
  
   The modem is there, everything is the same as before but I can't connect 
  (I have to reboot into dos/windoze to use winsock)
  
   I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but 
  I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything 
  is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and 
  /usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are in /usr/sbin 
  though)
  
   Feeling a little stupid for crashing my system (Wouldn't do anything 
  except dump core because I filled the disk and didn't catch it in time)

   Mike
 
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Re: dftp and some problems

1996-11-27 Thread Brian C. White
I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but
   I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything
   is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and
   /usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are in /usr/sbin
   though)

If you are using dselect, then you mean dpkg-ftp as opposed to dftp
which is a self-contained program.
 
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Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.

1996-11-27 Thread Philippe Troin

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:30:56 CST ugs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12.  Everything seems to 
 be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those 
 vt's weren't disabled for a reason. 

No, no problem with it.
Go ahead.

Phil.


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Odd problem with XFree 3.2

1996-11-27 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi:

I recently installed the XFree 3.2 packages from unstable in my machine.  
Although most things seem to work fine, I'm experimenting a very odd problem 
with the xrdb command.

If I run

  xrdb -merge .Xresources

I get the message:

xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE 
-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=naoma -DSERVERHOST=naoma 
-DSRVR_naoma -DDISPLAY_NUM=0 -DCLIENTHOST=naoma -DCLNT_naoma -DVERSION=11 
-DREVISION=0 -DVENDOR=The XFree86 Project, Inc -DVNDR_The_XFree86_Project__In
c -DRELEASE=3200 -DNUM_SCREENS=1 -DEXT_XFree86_DGA -DEXT_XFree86_Misc 
-DEXT_XFree86_VidModeExtension -DEXT_DOUBLE_BUFFER -DEXT_RECORD -DEXT_XC_MISC 
-DEXT_XKEYBOARD -DEXT_SYNC -DEXT_MIT_SCREEN_SAVER -DEXT_MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD 
-DEXT_BIG_REQUESTS -DEXT_XTEST -DEXT_XInputExtension -DEXT_MIT_SHM -DEXT_SHAPE 
-DSCREEN_NUM=0 -DWIDTH=1024 -DHEIGHT=768 -DX_RESOLUTION=2951 
-DY_RESOLUTION=2954 -DPLANES=8 -DBITS_PER_RGB=6 -DCLASS=PseudoColor 
-DCLASS_PseudoColor=34 -DCOLOR -DCLASS_PseudoColor_8=34 
-DCLASS_DirectColor_8=35 -DCLASS_GrayScale_8=36 -DCLASS_StaticColor_8=37 
-DCLASS_TrueColor_8=38 -DCLASS_StaticGray_8=39'

This seems like xrdb is not being able to find the C preprocessor as /lib/cpp, 
even despite the fact that /lib/cpp is a valid link to /usr/bin/cpp.  However, 
if I try

   xrdb -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional'-merge .Xresources

this works just fine (???).

But, after this, there is something really strange.  If, after issuing the 
last command, I issue a new

   xrdb -merge .Xresources

it works fine (!!!).  

Summarizing, xrdb fails when I use it for the first time, but after specifying 
the C preprocessor's path once, it starts working correctly.

Any ideas of what may be happening?

M. S.

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Re: DOS -- Linux

1996-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
I am running Debian 1.1.  I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS
6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can
use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for
MSDOS?  I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported
directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort
of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS
or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. 

I believe (though I haven't done it myself) that there is a DOS component of
WFWG which you can run without Windows to allow use of WFWG networked drives
and printers.  I believe that you can access this using the

net /start

command which starts the WFWG networking before you actually run Windows.  I
had a friend who set a bunch of 286's up to a 486 like this a while ago.  I
think the service is called workstation or something similar.  Look at the
options for the  net  command.

Adam


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innd mmap

1996-11-27 Thread Craig Sanders

my news box is regularly throttling with the log message File exists
writing symlinking article file -- throttling.

I've found a relevant section in /usr/doc/news/inn-faq-5, which
describes the problem and also has a fix (run 'ctlinnd renumber'), but
this is only a patchup job...in a couple of days the problem has occured
again.

extract from the inn faq part 5:

 QUESTION: I'm running INN 1.4, and the server throttles itself, saying
 File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling.  Why?  I
 have no clue, other than to note that the message is being emitted
 while innd/art.c tries to link a crossposted group.
 
 ANSWER:  Innd wrote the article to comp/foo/123 and then tried to
 symlink it to alt/bar/128 and found that the symlink failed with errno
 == EEXIST.  This generally only happens when your active file does not
 match your file/directory use.  The three most common cases of that are:
 
 Trying to use MMAP on Ultrix
 Trying to use MMAP on Linux
 Some strange interaction with tind.
 
 If you are using Ultrix or Linux, turn off MMAP. You don't have a
 choice in this. The Ultrix mmap() function does something completely
 different than the Sun/BSD mmap() function. The Linux function gives
 you some of the functionality that Sun/BSD mmap() function has, but
 not enough. (The Linux people expect to have it fully up to spec
 eventually, yeah right.)

Is this still true for linux?

is it a kernel or a libc problem?

Has inn for debian been compiled with MMAP turned off?  If not, should
this be reported as a bug against inn? 

Craig


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Re: DOS -- Linux

1996-11-27 Thread Bruce Perens
There is indeed a MS DOS for Workgroups product. You need Microfoft's
free TCP/IP stack from their FTP site on top of this.

If you have 8MB and at least a 486 on the client systems, run Windows 95
on them and boot it in DOS mode most of the time. You'd really only have
to boot Windows mode to do configuration. It's a lot easier to find all
of the pieces that way, since they are all on the Win 95 CD, and they
are newer versions. Most of the work of running WFWG was getting all of
the parts together. 

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DEFRAG for ext2fs

1996-11-27 Thread GREENE KENNETH ADAM
I found a program on SUNSITE (in system/filesystems) for 
defragmenting disks under Linux, and I was wondering if anyone has 
compiled it.  I tried, but the compiler says function FIRST_INODE (or something 
close to that, sorry but the code is at home and I'm at school) is 
undefined.  What it really is a #define statement that expands, but 
it requires a parameter, and I am not sure what it wants, and I don't 
want to experiment on my system.  Has anyone fixed it, compiled it, 
or otherwise made it available??


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Re: DOS -- Linux

1996-11-27 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Matthew Hewitt wrote:

 
 I am running Debian 1.1.  I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS
 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can
 use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for
 MSDOS?  I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported
 directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort
 of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS
 or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. 

LANtastic will connect to a lan manager or wfwg server, which is what
SAMBA is.


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