Re: Debian GNU/Linux in the German press!
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:19:10 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz wrote: Ah. But someone somewhere is offering them for $5 right? I know I didn't imagine that. Still even at $50 Debian is a bargain. I've cut a few official CD sets to give to various people I work with and the response has been quite favorable. Yes, there is a $5.00 1.3.0 Official CD from LSL. These are volume pressed from the original $50.00 golds. FWIW normal stamped CD's run about $1 a peice with the jewel case and 2 color silk in low (few hundred) quanity. CDR's are about $5. (And take 0.5 hours per disc to cut at X2 ) -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: choosing a linux distribution
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting from CD). What makes a machine bootable from CD-ROM drive ? Or is there something I can do to make my DC-ROM drive bootable? if your motherboard's bios supports booting from CD then you can boot from a cd drive. if not, then you can't. if it's really important to you, then you'll have to upgrade your motherboard (or upgrade the bios if you have a flash upgradeable one - unlikely, most of those can already boot from CD drives) craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect replacement?
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Linux dist. research wrote: I saw a reference to a possible future replacement for dselect. Does anyone know about this? The project is calle diety. It is intended to fix the percieved problems and inconviences the plauge dselect. Personnaly I like dselect, and I hope things don't change too much. Chip - Chip Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Xi Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Denver, CO (303)298-7478 (work) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Anyone available that I can call???
Is there anyone out there that I could call concerning my problem installing debian 1.3. I have only had one responce on my posted questions... and am no farther ahead than I was a week ago. Whats my problem??? Well ok, let's see, the installation of the base system works correctly. I can boot my Debian GNU/Linux system from harddisk, and I have a network connection. Now to the problems. I start dselect, choose ftp as access method, do an update this works, select my packages, start install. And then it stops with the dpkg-message referring to can't map /lib/libc5. I try to install the file libc5_5.4.33-3.deb using dpkg and I get a message that says version 4.23-6 is already installed. I do get other error messages trying to install other files using the dpkg -i method. I seem to get all sorts of dependency errors. So I try to install the files that the system says it depends on and end up back at the can't map /lib/libc5 error. I also get some kind of error that says that the /usr/lib/libc.so.5 file is missing. I look for it and it points to a file in lib/libc.so.5. At this point I am confused on whats right and whats wrong. After installing this thing 7 times now and always running up into the same error every single install, I don't know where to turn. The IRC are useless and I haven't gotten but one responce on this list. Does anyone know of anyone I can call for help??? If I bought a CD would it make a differnece? Am I talking to brick wall??? Tony Koehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] slakware is looking real nice right about now This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: epson Stylus 600
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: Hello, I m a new user of linux and I have a question I bought an Epson Stylus 600 and I have now idea how to print with it I would like to print both ascii and postscript files. What you need is Ghostscript, a software level postscript emmulator. The version widely available for Linux is accualy second hand from a commercial company (name?) generous (and smart) enough to routinely donate their old versions to the public. I have heard that this version has some trouble supporting the new breed of Epson printers, which is too bad. I don't know off hand who is working on our version of gs. This might be a case where going with the commercial version would be worthwhile. It is presumably more compatible with modern printers. __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone out there that I could call concerning my problem installing debian 1.3. i'm in europe, and you probably don't want to make an international call. neither would i be of much assistance here. slakware is looking real nice right about now This email originated from ourtownusa.com. as to this, i understand your frustration. slackware is not an alternative unless you're an experienced user. debian told you it wouldnt ork, while slackware would install everything and let you find out yourself. redhat is a little better, but its rpm is buggy and dependencies and conflicts act really weird. so, stick with good ole' debian, as soon as i install my system, ill be able to help others ;)) paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
POP Clients
Besides Netscape, does anyone know of a program for X, possibly similar to Windoze Eudora, that can be used as a POP3 client? The reason I ask is this: Though I can get mail using popclient and read it, my ISP requires that my domain resolve to send mail. Since they've got us all on dynamic PPP, tjobrien.traveller.com does not resolve, and I can't send mail using their server, or any other site that requires the computer connecting to the SMTP server to resolve. Any idea whether a program like this exists, or have I finally found a Debian app that I need to write? Thanks, Tim Linux 2.0.6 i486...Because reboots are for upgrades! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to install the file libc5_5.4.33-3.deb using dpkg and I get a message that says version 4.23-6 is already installed. I am sorry as I really don't know how to solve your problem but the one strange thing I have noticed is that the package you are trying to install is libc5_5.4.33-3.deb but then dpkg turns around and says the older version 4.23-6 is installed. The reason I mention this is that I saw another post that stated that 4.23-4 is in unstable whereas 4.33-3 is in stable. There may be a temporary mix up on the archive site that may cause the problem although I don't know if this would cause it. Anyway, hopefully fuelling the discussion will get other more knowledgable users involved. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-capable mail reader
Stephen Zander hat gesagt: // Stephen Zander wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Has anyone got any suggestions for an X-capable threaded mail reader that I can use with mailagent or deliver. Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( Well, let start praising our favorite mail readers. Mine is not pine but Mutt. It threads, has nice coloring, let's you select and save debian lists in special folders, reads every kind of mailbox format, mbox, mh and what else lives out there. It handles MIME, can PGP ... Well, the only thing: It is text based. If you really want clickable buttons and such, you have to look somewhere else. There exists a mutt-debian package in unstable, but it depends on libc6 which I don't have installed yet, so I compiled my own version. No problems here, and it never crashed on me. -- Yours, Frank Barknecht -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?
I just wish I could get X working at all. I upgraded to 3.3-3, and the log-in screen comes up on vty7, but when I log in olvwm crashes and core dumps. Oh well I'll keep reading commentaries and trying things. No, I didn't use XF86Seetup, I used dselect. I intend to try XF86Setup next time I'm at the machine. (one of the problems of debugging X from work to the machine at home...) Curt- http://www.Priss.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Joliet CDFS
Niklas Hoglund wrote: Hi! Anyone know if there is anyway to get linux to support the Joliet cdfs (insted of iso9660)??? You can get patches for specific kernels from http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/joliet.html It worked fine for me on 2.0.29. I've since upgraded the kernel but haven't tried getting it to work again. Presumably at some point it will be integrated into the normal kernel distributions. Evan. -- Evan Thomas Department of Physiology University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052 ph: 9344-5849 fax: 9344-5818 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with exmh
Now that I've decided pine was quite sufficient for me, does anyone know how to convert my inbox back? I couldn't see how from the man pages or the FAQ - and just concatenating the files in ~/Mail didn't work. Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-capable mail reader
Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( EXMH is much better. The latest unstable version is 2.0delta. I don't know if it's in /debian/project/experimental yet. I would recommend it over 1.6.9. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing Debian and PCMCIA
I want to install debian on a laptop. The Debian installation guide has a section called Configure Device Drivers. In it it says: There is a menu selection for PCMCIA device drivers, but you need not use it. Once your system is installed, you can install the pcmcia-cs package. But I want to use the ftp install option and the laptop's ethernet card is a PCMCIA one. Does this mean I have to install the PCMCIA device driver? If so, does it mean that later on I should deinstall this driver in order to install the pcmcia-cs package? At what stage is the pcmcia-cs package installed - as part of base? Thanks, - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?
Colin R. Telmer wrote: Sorry to continue a long thread, but you have now peaked my curiousity - why is the point of rxvt to avoid xrdb? Is that part of the reason it uses less memory? Curiousity killed the cat... Cheers. My understanding, which was supported by the man-page quote elsewhere in this thread, is that rxvt reads resource *files*, but doesn't coomunicate with the resource database (a major memory suck) Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netbios equiv. of ipxripd
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: I've a Debian box configured (at least I think) as a server for 2 subnets (it has 3 ether cards). The subnets are assigned reserved number (I've IP-masquerading working). Also, my DOS/Win3.x machines can access the Novell server transparently with ipxripd. Is there some similar daemon for netbios, so my win3.x machines can access a NT server in the backbone (connected with the 3rd card)? I can't also connect 2 machines on different subnets, because the netbios protocol isn't propagated to all cards. ---Win3.x-Win3.x-| | eth1 eth2 Linux/Samba Internet | eth0 | ---Win3.xWin3.x--| |---NT server | | |--Novell servers | first of all, i'd suggest (unless you really need your NT and Novell servers to be accessible from the net) that you should put your servers behind your linux firewall immediately, especially the NT server. There are many well-known holes in NT which can be used to either gain access or kill the machine. see http://ntsecurity.com/ and many other sites (do a search on yahoo for NT security to get started) Rule of thumb: if it doesn't need to be directly on the net, hide it behind your firewall. This may involve putting another ethernet card in your linux machine, eth3, which has only Linux machine and your router, (e.g. isdn router box if you have one). If it's just a modem link, and/or the linux box is your internet router then change the addresses on eth2 so that it is also using a private (192.168, etc) network. IMO, the only excuse for putting an NT box live on the internet is that it is running a web server and has no other use, and no other data (including login passwords for other machines in the registry). Even then I think that you'd be better off with a linux box as a web server - it'll run faster, and be more capableapache is infinitely better than IIS. There's nothing that an NT web server can do that a Linux machine can't do faster, safer, and better. But to answer your question, you don't really need a routing daemon for SMB. Just make sure that the LMHOSTS file contains the IP address of your NT server and Win3.x clients or just setup the Linux machine as the browse master (see man page and docs for nmbd). Then configure the Win3 and NT machines to use the Linux machine as WINS server. Craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X-capable mail reader
Has anyone got any suggestions for an X-capable threaded mail reader that I can use with mailagent or deliver. Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ipfwadm
I have recompiled 2.0.29 Kernel to enable IP forwarding and firewalling. When I try to configure ipfwadd it tells me: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. Does somebody have a solution for this problem. I'm not sure. You can check to see if they are compiled into the kernel you are currently running by looking at your /proc/net directory. Here's what I've got in my /proc/net directory on a system with IP forwarding, firewalling, accounting, and masquerading... boots:/proc/net# ls alias_typesip_acctip_masq_approute tcp aliasesip_autofw ip_masquerade rt_cache udp arpip_forward ip_output snmp unix devip_input rawsockstat Of course, there might be something else going on... Cheers, - Jim pgp9XU0i3Fl2P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ipfwadm
On Wed, 02 Jul 1997 16:44:00 EDT Lalovic, Drazen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have recompiled 2.0.29 Kernel to enable IP forwarding and firewalling. When I try to configure ipfwadd it tells me: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. Does somebody have a solution for this problem. What's your kernel configuration file (.config under /usr/src/linux) ? You probably have forgotten something... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
[stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] What version of the bootdisks do you have ? You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have something very wrong. I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?
Hi, A client had a terrible disk problem on their /usr partition resulting in a number of hosed files (e.g., /usr/include/ctype.h was now a HOWTO.) Is there a way to tell the system to check all files belonging to all packages and tell me which are damaged? If it could then reinstall those packages that would be great. I reinstalled all packages I noticed had corrupt files, but I'm sure I missed some. Such functionality would be useful. Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a package called dpkgcert that really helped me out - it examines every file in you system, and points out which ones differ from ones supplied in packages. Unfortunately, it needs a database of certificates that contain the per-file MD5 sums of all the packages (which I got from Klee). I haven't heard from him for a while, so I don't know where you can get the certificates. On a related note - I discovered that my disk corruption was happening because I had LBA and 32-bit modes (or something like that) enabled in my system BIOS. Gradually, over time, files would get corrupted like you mentioned. After learning on debian-user that this causes problems for some people, I turned the options off, and I haven't had any disk corruption since. This should probably be a FAQ somewhere - but I don't understand it myself. Cheers, - Jim pgpL7AO29RWtO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
Phil is on the right track. libc5... is a base package and gets installed during the base system. the other thing you could try is to dpkg --help and take a look at the force and remove options. try not to install base packages as much as possible. When installing debian you should look at the Packages file and map out a strategy on how you are going install the various packages. If you have something wrong with libc5... this file is considered the most important file on the system. If it is not working properly, you have serious problems. Good luck! I hope you still will you the debian distribution. It is one if not the most user-friendly distributons on the earth. Paul On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: [stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] What version of the bootdisks do you have ? You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have something very wrong. I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: POP Clients
Tim wrote: I can't send mail using their server, or any other site that requires the computer connecting to the SMTP server to resolve. Why not send mail yourself? Simply configure sendmail to masquerade as your ISP. Then, your sendmail handles the out-going mail with a return address to your ISP account. (I'm sending this from my Linux box at home, which is pretending to be my Linux box at home. But the home PC will be connecting to lists.debian.org to deliver to message to debian-user) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with exmh
Clint Adams wrote: Now that I've decided pine was quite sufficient for me, does anyone know how to convert my inbox back? I couldn't see how from the man pages or the FAQ - and just concatenating the files in ~/Mail didn't work. Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. In psckf's man page: BUGS Packf doesn't handle the old UUCP-style mbox format (used by SendMail). To pack messages into this format, use the script /usr/lib/mh/packmbox. This might apply here, but since I've never done it I'm not sure. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-capable mail reader
Clint Adams wrote: Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( EXMH is much better. The latest unstable version is 2.0delta. I don't know if it's in /debian/project/experimental yet. I would recommend it over 1.6.9. There's also Emacs using mh-e (and font-lock). I personally think that an editor is a natural place to be to do mail, which consists mostly of editing text (and moving messages around, which Emacs does well). As for multiple mailboxes, I *think* that's in the the range of MH's extensive capabilities. If not, use procmail to sort mail before MH ever sees it! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian and PCMCIA
Mark Phillips wrote: I want to install debian on a laptop. The Debian installation guide has a section called Configure Device Drivers. In it it says: There is a menu selection for PCMCIA device drivers, but you need not use it. Once your system is installed, you can install the pcmcia-cs package. But I want to use the ftp install option and the laptop's ethernet card is a PCMCIA one. Does this mean I have to install the PCMCIA device driver? If so, does it mean that later on I should deinstall this driver in order to install the pcmcia-cs package? At what stage is the pcmcia-cs package installed - as part of base? Thanks, - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - I installed debian on a Gateway Solo 2100 in February. I remember that I installed the base system from floppies and then grabbed pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules and installed them. In my case I used a pcmcia modem to complete the install using the ftp method so I also loaded diald, netbase, dnsutils, and bind. I'm not sure if any of this stuff is included the base install now, but when I was installing, I had to ftp these packages, tar them to floppies and install them with dpkg -i. Good Luck, --Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with exmh
Packf doesn't handle the old UUCP-style mbox format (used by SendMail). To pack messages into this format, use the script /usr/lib/mh/packmbox. IIRC, the nmh version does mbox by default instead of mmdf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS problems with Debian server and Solaris client
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems getting Solaris 2.5.1 to use the Debian NFS server. Read only file systems work fine. On read-write file we'll go the other way round in the near future ;-) but Solaris uses a new nfs Version (3) instead of 2. Perhaps you can deactivate the new nfs and only use the old one. Another thing is the new CacheFS - perhaps it helps if you deacticate it. Hope it helps Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/ pgpnr5sitQ8LC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian over NFS
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of Debian. * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg or less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. /usr should be mounted over NFS in read-only mode. I'm working on a similar set up. this is the first machine, and is supposed to become the server--though i'd like to keep it and make another one the server. the perfect solution is the nfsroot package. You can boot *everything* from the server. Per client you need only some configuration files on the server. You may also want to have a look at http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~mvuilleu/configsc1/config.html Linux Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO: Configuring Remote-Boot Workstations with Red-Hat Linux, DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/ pgpDp5gzLT0oH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine wants to install Debian on his laptop. He recently ordered the CDs and tried to install it using a CD drive attached to his parallel port. He tells me that unfortunately linux didn't recognise the parallel port, or atleast, couldn't access his CD through it. Any ideas? I'm sorry this information is a bit vague at the moment, but I haven't been able to have a personal look at it yet. My friend is actually a senior member of the mathematics department of my university and has a fair degree of influence, so it would be good to have him become a Debian user. However if he can't get Debian working soon, I suspect he will go for another distribution. that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi CD-ROM 8-( That's my problem too. It's possible to start linux form dos from the CD, but afterwards you can't access the CD-ROM. The SCSI-HOWWO mentioned that there will never be support for parallel port CD-ROMs. I'll go over a parallel ZIP drive which works with linux - or have you a better idea?? My problem is: How can I arrange Debian on a 100 MB floppy to get no dependency errors? Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/ pgpzeJdHy1JYd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD
On 2 Jul 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi CD-ROM 8-( That's my problem too. It's possible to start linux form dos from the CD, but afterwards you can't access the CD-ROM. The SCSI-HOWWO mentioned that there will never be support for parallel port CD-ROMs. I had a look at the SCSI-HOWTO and it seems to say that parallel port CDs are not currently supported: SCSI hosts that will not work : All parallel-SCSI adapters, Rancho SCSI boards, and Grass Roots SCSI boards. BusLogic FlashPoint boards, such as the BT-930/932/950, are currently unsupported. But it didn't put them in the category of SCSI hosts that will NEVER work. Doesn't this suggest that they may one day work? Where did you read that there will never be support for them? Anyway, thanks for your reply and tip about reading the SCSI-HOWTO. - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?
Joey - Seems like you may've got your answer already, but I'd like to toss this in: at some point, I don't now remember when, my rxvt stopped paying attention to X resources written as RXvt*, but would recognize them written as rxvt*, all lowercase. I'm pretty sure it was a Debian rxvt before and after, but I can't swear to it; I've built ones for /usr/local/ once or twice. I'd be curious to see if this made any difference on your system. Thanks - (And, hey, while I'm at it, thanks for all your packages and pdmenu. :-) I have, let's see, 9 packages installed on my machine, and also pdmenu being used by many people on some not-yet-Debian machines.) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Peter S Galbraith: Gee, sounds exactly like the debian version, which mentions just these features in its changelog. rxvt latest is v2.21 Joey Debian version is 2.20. I don't see anything to fix my problem Joey in the changelog for 2.21. (Another poster on this thread Joey pointed ouyt the problem is that rxvt doesn't use standard X Joey resources and parses the file directly.) My rule of bug fixing is to not bother fixing old versions, and to start with the latest version. If you find and fix a bug, where does it go? Debian only? XFree? Or at the real source where it belongs? Joey If the debian maintainer fixed it, it would be merged upstream Joey into the real source, of course (assumming the author Joey accepeted the fix). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sound problems
Hi everybody, I am using Debian since two months. Last week I decided to make use of my Soundblaster and I downloaded and compiled Kernel 2.1.43. Everything went fine until I tried it out. Some thing are working and some are not. I can use Xcdplayer or Xmixer. But I can't use /dev/audio and /dev/dsp because they are always busy. No other sound programs work too. There are no errors shown (in boot message and /dev/sndstat), and I use the same Soundblaster settings as in DOS. I also checked files in /proc/ and there seems to be no IO, IRQ or DMA conflicts. Does anybody has a solution for this problem? (Yes I have read FAQ's and Sound-HOWTO's but they couldn't help me.) Bye, Luka Pravica -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sound problems
Luka Pravica wrote: Hi everybody, I am using Debian since two months. Last week I decided to make use of my Soundblaster and I downloaded and compiled Kernel 2.1.43. Everything went fine until I tried it out. Some thing are working and some are not. I can use Xcdplayer or Xmixer. But I can't use /dev/audio and /dev/dsp because they are always busy. No other sound programs work too. There are no errors shown (in boot message and /dev/sndstat), and I use the same Soundblaster settings as in DOS. I also checked files in /proc/ and there seems to be no IO, IRQ or DMA conflicts. Does anybody has a solution for this problem? (Yes I have read FAQ's and Sound-HOWTO's but they couldn't help me.) If you have nas (network audio system) installed, try: /etc/init.d/nas stop and then see if /dev/audio and /dev/dsp are still busy. --Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sound problems
Hi everybody, I am using Debian since two months. Last week I decided to make use of my Soundblaster and I downloaded and compiled Kernel 2.1.43. Everything went fine until I tried it out. Some thing are working and some are not. I can use Xcdplayer or Xmixer. But I can't use /dev/audio and /dev/dsp because they are always busy. No other sound programs work too. There are no errors shown (in boot message and /dev/sndstat), and I use the same Soundblaster settings as in DOS. I also checked files in /proc/ and there seems to be no IO, IRQ or DMA conflicts. You might check the permissions on /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, it seem slike I had the same problem. Does anybody has a solution for this problem? (Yes I have read FAQ's and Sound-HOWTO's but they couldn't help me.) Bye, Luka Pravica -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Later Rob Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: choosing a linux distribution
CS == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CS if your motherboard's bios supports booting from CD then you can CS boot from a cd drive. if not, then you can't. And, AFAIK, the CDROM has to be on the primary IDE controller. -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ISDN in UK
olly@lfix.co.uk (Oliver Elphick) writes: I see that a new isdnutils package has been released; I would like to use ISDN, but I don't want to spend the money on buying equipment and getting a line installed until I know whether the Linux utilities will work with the UK system. I know that ISDN here is implemented differently from the way it is in the USA and I believe it is also different from that in Europe. Does anyone use ISDN in the UK with Linux? Are there any particular problems? Which of the equipment advertised in the UK is supported by isdnutils and the 2.0.30 kernel? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly I maintain the English translation of the isdn4linux FAQ. However, this doesn't mean that I have any concrete answers for you . I'm sure that isdn4linux is being used in the UK... I've seen messages to this effect on the isdn4linux mailing list. However, I don't have any information on hardware or confguration. I'd suggest getting the latest copy of the FAQ from ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/FAQ/ and checking with the mailing list for UK specific questions (and let me know the answers so they can be included in the FAQ!). Information on the mailing list is in the FAQ... or check with me if you have problems getting the FAQ via FTP. Hope this helps! Scott -- Scott Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johmsweg 9a, D-21266 Jesteburg, GermanyPGP Key ID: 90A8A14D work: Inter-Research Science Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Window Managers
How can users specify their own window managers? I.E., User A wants to run fvwm User B wants to run afterstep. I'm using xdm. thanks, joe pgpLTxky05DDP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....
Hi Tom, first of all I didn't see your reply on the list. To get as many people involved in helping with your problem it is really a good thing to discuss on the list - otherwise people simply don't hear you. By now, I'm getting the feeling that something with your set is horribly broken - your hardware or the software/installation. I think, however, we can focus on the gcc + cpp + libraries region for now, because I get the impression that dselect's install only fails because of reasons related to these packages. I'm going to show you the correct lines under dselect's select for the involved packages. Please compare them to what you get and maybe you could post the differences (or everything): *** Std develgcc 2.7.2.1-9 2.7.2.1-9 The GNU C compiler (ELF v *** Std interpre cpp 2.7.2.1-8 2.7.2.1-8 The GNU C preprocessor (E *** Req base ldso 1.8.10-21.8.10-2The Linux dynamic linker, *** Req base libc55.4.23-65.4.23-6The Linux C library versi *** Std devellibc5-dev5.4.23-65.4.23-6The Linux C library versi Oh, and you are absolutely right, it should really be easy to install a Debian system and it nearly always is. So, chin up, will work this out ;-) Regards, Andree PS: Just as I said before, you should really keep the diskussion on the list to get as many people involved as possible, so I think it would be a good idea to resend your mail to me to the list, too. -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Window Managers
In their .xinitrc On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joe Lillibridge wrote: How can users specify their own window managers? I.E., User A wants to run fvwm User B wants to run afterstep. I'm using xdm. thanks, joe George Bonser http://corsica.shorelink.com -- x hosting for $XX.XX / month. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....
Hi again, thinking a bit more of it, it might be a good idea to make an ldconfig (as root) to see what's the matter with your libraries. Maybe it even solves your problems. By the way, how much experience do you have with Linux in general? I hope this question doesn't sound rude, it's just goot to know to be able to adjust the answers accordingly. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Window Managers
I just set up and configured xdm (thanks to those who responded with advice on shadow passwords, etc.), and by default, xdm sources the $HOME/.xsession files, not $HOME/.xinitrc files. Actually, by default, my initial setup didn't source any user files. See the /etc/X11/Xsession file (read by xdm) and edit /etc/X11/config accordingly. My /etc/X11/config file now looks like: xdm-start-server start-xdm allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession There may be some Debian configuration utility for xdm, but I just added in the last three lines by hands. David In their .xinitrc On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joe Lillibridge wrote: How can users specify their own window managers? I.E., User A wants to run fvwm User B wants to run afterstep. I'm using xdm. thanks, joe http://corsica.shorelink.com -- x hosting for $XX.XX / month. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kde window manager locks up
Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Hess wrote: Victor Torrico: The newest kde window manager 0.10.01-1 locks up whenever any of the functions in the right-mouse-button pop-up are selected. Must do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to login again to cure situation. Any help appreciated. I noticed this when I was testing it, but it is pre-alpha software, and I wanted to get the package out the door, so I didn't do anything about it. I'll submit a bug report to the kde folks. I get a lockup if I try to move the kfm icon which appears on the panel or if I move an icon within kfm. I use kdeapps 0.9.02-1. Thanks for the info. Will keep my eyes open for a future debian kde package. Should I upgrade? CU Björn -- Bjoern-Bernhard Schad[EMAIL PROTECTED] GMD First --- privat -- Rudower Chaussee 5Wolfshagener Str. 79 D-12489 BerlinD-13187 Berlin fon: +49 30 6392 1834 fon: +49 30 4753150 -4/ -5 (finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
disk partitioner that handles 6.5G disk?
Hi, I noticed that neither my fdisk nor cfdisk display my 8th partition on a 6.5G Quantum BF Cyclone disk while the kernel has no trouble with it. I created the partition with cfdisk btw. Are there any know patches/ updates/ other partitioners which work with these big disks? Thanks for any help Björn -- Bjoern-Bernhard Schad[EMAIL PROTECTED] GMD First --- privat -- Rudower Chaussee 5Wolfshagener Str. 79 D-12489 BerlinD-13187 Berlin fon: +49 30 6392 1834 fon: +49 30 4753150 -4/ -5 (finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: epson Stylus 600
Hello! :) On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Britton wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: Hello, I m a new user of linux and I have a question I bought an Epson Stylus 600 and I have now idea how to print with it I would like to print both ascii and postscript files. [snip] ^_^ their old versions to the public. I have heard that this version has some trouble supporting the new breed of Epson printers, which is too bad. I don't know off hand who is working on our version of gs. This might be a case where going with the commercial version would be worthwhile. It is presumably more compatible with modern printers. I have the EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here, and after spending some time experimenting and tweaking (Hey, I was a newbie a few months ago too! :), my printer is working great under Linux. :) It prints all files (LaTeX, *.ps, Netscape print, xv (*.gif,*.jpg) etc.) with virtually no problems. :) As Britton mentioned, there might be some problems that GNU Ghostscript 3.53 might not support the new printer well. (I don't know. :) I haven't tried the old version. So, make sure you install the following with dselect: NameVersionDescription ===-==- gs-aladdin 4.03-7 Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib gsfonts 4.01-5 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter lprng 3.2.6-1lpr/lpd printer spooling system magicfilter 1.2-11 automatic printer filter. enscript1.5.0-1Converting ASCII texts to Postscript gv 3.4.3-1A PostScript and PDF viewer for X... You'll need to spend some time to configure for various software to work with your printer. For starters, read /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz (compressed) using the command: most /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz which describes the EPSON Stylus COLOR printers support in Ghostscript 4.03. The Stylus COLOR printer driver was written for older models, but they work with newer models including COLOR 500, 600 and 800, up to 720x720 dpi. (No, not 1440x720dpi with gs 4.03.) Also, the colour setup was probably optimized for older models, so they might not look good (too dark or too bright?) on your COLOR 600. (At least it is so on my 500) But worry not. Ghostscript 5.01 comes with uniprint, as well as settings for the newer printer drivers, so when the Debian package for gs 5.x comes out, colour printing under Debian will be a lot better. Also, the new uniprint supports 1440x720dpi. :) Anyway, after installing the packages, you'll need to configure /etc/printcap, magicfilter filter file, etc. If you use LaTeX, it is also recommended that you configure it to generate 180dpi, 360dpi and 720dpi fonts for printing. I think teTeX generates 300dpi fonts by default. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pcmcia-modules_2.0.29 won't install !!
I am trying to install Debian on a friend's laptop. I have the base system installed and I tried to install pcmcia-modules_2.0.29 but it failed, complaining: pcmcia-modules_2.0.29 depends on pcmcia-cs (=2.9.5-2) however: version of pcmcia-cs on system is 2.9.5-3 The version of the Kernel installed is 2.0.29 (I can't install the 2.0.30 Kernel because I only have access to the base disks until I can get it hooked up to the internet), so installing mcmcia-modules_2.0.30 doesn't help me (but it works). I don't know how to get hold of pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-2 as it is not included in the bo distribution. Hence I am stuck. Anybody know where pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-2 is? Or know of a solution? Thanks. Mark. - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet
This is really a follow up of the email I just sent. I am trying to install debian for a friend on his laptop. I have installed the base system as well as pcmcia-cs. I have configured IP addresses etc, rebooted but I still have no access to the network. The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or the only problem. Some of the errors I'm getting are: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device ... SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable ... and later on: Starting PCMCIA services: module directory /lib/modules/2.0.29/pcmcia not found. What do I need to do to get a laptop with a pcmcia ethernet card, connected to the network. Thanks, - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.01b6 for Linux is out! :)
Hello! Probably you all know about this already, but anyway: Netscape 4.01b6 is out! It is in: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.01/4.01b6/english/unix/other I am downloading it right now! Wow, over 9MB? It looks big. I sure hope it works great! Crossing my finger! (Still an hour to go before the download is completed. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
TeteX and French
Hi, I would like to know if someone tried to install the Bernard Gaulle 'french' package with TeteX. Is it possible ? How to do it ? Thanks F. LE Gall -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: cd /dev ln -s lp0 printer I think that MAKEDEV complaint is an internal-array-full in MAKEDEV problem, not a full disk. I don't know why that happens in this case. Do look in /dev for large files with the names of devices - sometimes something goes to write a device that isn't there and creates a file instead. Thanks to all who replied, but I'm still unable to print. Linking /dev/lp0 to /dev/printer didn't solve the problem. MAKEDEV is working now, but MAKEDEV printer doesn't generate /dev/printer (as I believed), but /dev/lp[0-3]. On a clean Debian machine, I get the following: otherhost ll /dev/log /dev/printer /dev/lp* srw-rw-rw- 1 root root0 Jun 27 11:54 /dev/log crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp1 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 2 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp2 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 3 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp3 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jun 27 11:54 /dev/printer ^ So /dev/printer is a socket like /dev/log, not a link. tar'ing /dev/printer and extracting it converts it to a FIFO (permissions prwxrwxrwx). I can't figure out why :-( ^ My machine, with dev/lp0 linked to /dev/printer, shows the following behaviour: myhost lpc stat lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area no daemon present myhost lpc start all lp: printing enabled lpc: connect: No such file or directory couldn't start daemon myhost ps -aux | grep lpd root 155 0.0 0.3 840 120 ? SJun 27 0:01 /usr/sbin/lpd I think lpc produces the connect error because the SOCKET /dev/printer is missing. Does anybody have any idea how to create this socket? I've looked around on my system, but could'nt find anything like mksocket or similar. mknod only supports FIFO's, Character and block devices. I'm stuck :-( Thanks Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xfree 3.3
Hello, I am looking for XFree 3.3 (I have got a matrox mystique video card) as a debian package ? Does it exist ? Where ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: On 2 Jul 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi CD-ROM 8-( But it didn't put them in the category of SCSI hosts that will NEVER work. Doesn't this suggest that they may one day work? Recently someone posted the following URL in this list: A HREF=http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.htmlLinux Paralles Port Home Page/A I had no luck with the Adaptec APA-348 and APA-358 but it was considered pre alpha. Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM7uE7lptA0IhBm0NAQH5rAL/XJo0gGvrRJ3VhifP/z3dp12Sx9QwPoEp 1DzMur0allY7q4V5iMpGYaf3WbM23t/w6teK4y/coHLY93ZU3AGv6UmyBRiDEtfw DF5B1f0t8WOOZHQFeTTldJncFC/uoxmb =oYS0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xfree 3.3
It's in unstable, and should be in stable for version 1.3.1 Shaya On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: Hello, I am looking for XFree 3.3 (I have got a matrox mystique video card) as a debian package ? Does it exist ? Where ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with exmh
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Clint Adams wrote: [] Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. In psckf's man page: BUGS Packf doesn't handle the old UUCP-style mbox format (used by SendMail). To pack messages into this format, use the script /usr/lib/mh/packmbox. This might apply here, but since I've never done it I'm not sure. Pine was able to understand both of these formats, though I think packmbox produced the format I had originally. Many thanks for the help... mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or the only problem. Just wanted to say that you are not alone. :-) I installed 2.0.30 kernel-image and pcmcia-modules, plus pcmcia-cs thru diskettes. It almost works, the cardmanager finds my ethernet card (IBM creditcard II) and tries to load the 8390-driver. But the driver complains about unresolvable symbols, some of these: netif_rx_R9117ffb8 dev_alloc_skb_R24ee337ab ether_setup_... eth_type_trans_... dev_kfree_skb_... and so on. (My PCMCIA modem-card is working though.) I've probably missed upgrading some important module. But which one? :-) -- /Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD
Mark == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paralell port CDROM player questions Check out the Linux parallel port page : http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html (It depends on your CDROM) Adrian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
I'm sorry to have missed the front of this thread. First, the version in stable is correct. The fact that an older version is in unstable is a minor problem with the archive management. Second, this version was tested on a fresh install by myself and at least one other tester, with no problems, so I am confused as to why/how this problem got started. Aside from complaining about the older version, does the package install? Sorry if I'm asking for a previous explanation... On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to install the file libc5_5.4.33-3.deb using dpkg and I get a message that says version 4.23-6 is already installed. I am sorry as I really don't know how to solve your problem but the one strange thing I have noticed is that the package you are trying to install is libc5_5.4.33-3.deb but then dpkg turns around and says the older version 4.23-6 is installed. The reason I mention this is that I saw another post that stated that 4.23-4 is in unstable whereas 4.33-3 is in stable. There may be a temporary mix up on the archive site that may cause the problem although I don't know if this would cause it. Anyway, hopefully fuelling the discussion will get other more knowledgable users involved. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
Sorry to take so long to reply. The recent point release has been taking all my time. I suspect that your problems are with the ftp method (this was not tested as extensivly as it should have been) You indicated that you have tried this 7 times. Was it from scratch each time? That is, did you start over and do a fresh install each time? Suggestion: Set up the base system. Download the new libc5 package and install it with dpkg -i libc5*.deb 21 |tee install.log. This will put all the error messages into the file intall.log. If the installation fails, send me the file. If you think it might help, you should feel free to call me, but we should be able to resolve this via e-mail. With respect to a CD. I'm fairly confident that a CD would work for you (this sounds like a problem with the ftp method of dselect) and can provide you with a 1.3.1 CD. If you are interested, let me know. On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone out there that I could call concerning my problem installing debian 1.3. I have only had one responce on my posted questions... and am no farther ahead than I was a week ago. Whats my problem??? Well ok, let's see, the installation of the base system works correctly. I can boot my Debian GNU/Linux system from harddisk, and I have a network connection. Now to the problems. I start dselect, choose ftp as access method, do an update this works, select my packages, start install. And then it stops with the dpkg-message referring to can't map /lib/libc5. I try to install the file libc5_5.4.33-3.deb using dpkg and I get a message that says version 4.23-6 is already installed. I do get other error messages trying to install other files using the dpkg -i method. I seem to get all sorts of dependency errors. So I try to install the files that the system says it depends on and end up back at the can't map /lib/libc5 error. I also get some kind of error that says that the /usr/lib/libc.so.5 file is missing. I look for it and it points to a file in lib/libc.so.5. At this point I am confused on whats right and whats wrong. After installing this thing 7 times now and always running up into the same error every single install, I don't know where to turn. The IRC are useless and I haven't gotten but one responce on this list. Does anyone know of anyone I can call for help??? If I bought a CD would it make a differnece? Am I talking to brick wall??? Tony Koehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] slakware is looking real nice right about now This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: [stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] What version of the bootdisks do you have ? You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have something very wrong. I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch. The libc5 version was updated after the last disk set, so it doesn't appear in base, and must be upgraded. There were no problems encountered during testing (in fact I just did a standard installation yesterday from the 1.3.1 archive with no problems) so I am assuming this is an ftp method problem. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What happened to fvwm95.
Greetings! My 1.3 upgrade also wiped out my /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95 file. A simple link: system.fvwm2rc95 - system.fvwm2rc95.orig-dist though, fixed the problem. Is this a bug? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Camm Maguire == The earth is one country, and mankind its citizens. Baha'u'llah -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftape question
Hello, I have a Iomega 250 floppy tape drive. I compiled ftape into the Kernel (2.0.30). But what to do to get a device /dev/ftape ??? According to the CDROM-HOWTO I have to create this entry via mknod. But what are the correct parameters. I didn't find any information neither in the HOWTO nor in the kernel package. Futhermore in Ftape-howto I found, that there is a newer version than 2.08 (which is shipped within the kernel-package) with the version number 2.09. My search on sunsite showed me Version 3.03a from May 23, 1997. Any recommendations about this drivers? Any help to this questions? Greetings Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What happened to fvwm95.
Greetings! My 1.3 upgrade also wiped out my
/etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95 file. A simple link:
system.fvwm2rc95 - system.fvwm2rc95.orig-dist
though, fixed the problem. Is this a bug?
If two people saw the same thing, then it must be a bug.
It is, however a bug that hasn't been located in the source
yet.
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Re: Anyone available that I can call???
Bruce, When I run ldconfig here is what it says ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory), skipping When I look for these files they point to: libc.so - /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there is a 5.4.23 libm.so - /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 This file also does not exist but is a 5.0.8 How would I fix this??? Tony BRFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BR Now to the problems. I start dselect, choose ftp as access method, do BR an update this works, select my packages, start install. And then BR it stops with the dpkg-message referring to can't map /lib/libc5. BRJust to see if you get lucky, become root and run ldconfig. That might BRsolve this problem. If it does not, please give us the entire text of the BRmessage when dselect quits, and tell us exactly what you are doing when BRyou get to that message. Your best bet would be to fix this problem, so BRthat you can install using dselect. BRYou are not talking to a brick wall. You do have to give us better BRinformation, though, otherwise we will have no idea of what is happening BRon your system. BRRegarding whether buying a CD would help, it might help you install BRfaster, but we give the same customer service either way. BR Thanks BR Bruce BR-- BRBruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 BRFinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. BRPGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joergen Haegg wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or the only problem. Just wanted to say that you are not alone. :-) I installed 2.0.30 kernel-image and pcmcia-modules, plus pcmcia-cs thru diskettes. It almost works, the cardmanager finds my ethernet card (IBM creditcard II) and tries to load the 8390-driver. But the driver complains about unresolvable symbols, some of these: netif_rx_R9117ffb8 dev_alloc_skb_R24ee337ab ether_setup_... eth_type_trans_... dev_kfree_skb_... I've had problems in the past with the pcmcia packages. My solution was to use both the kernel source and pcmcia source packages and build custom binaries myself. Make sure you build the modules from the kernel package. You will probably have to define some aliases in /etc/modules.conf as well. The result works great on my laptop with both a modem and ethernet card. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
Ufff, problem solved !!! Thanks to Allan Black I now understand the whole thing a bit better (hopefully). Restarting lpd didn't help; but rebooting the machine re-created my lost socket :) The only problem I still have to deal with is to cool down those users who got logged out without warning; but that is my private thing... Again, thanks to all who helped! Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where's the package for netscape communicator
There used to be a package, netscape-beta, that could be used to install communicator, it's gone now. Is there a reason it disappeared. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....
LEHi again, LEthinking a bit more of it, it might be a good idea to make an ldconfig LE(as root) to see what's the matter with your libraries. Maybe it even LEsolves your problems. LEBy the way, how much experience do you have with Linux in general? I LEhope this question doesn't sound rude, it's just goot to know to be able LEto adjust the answers accordingly. LERegards, LE Andree No its not rude I have been using linux now for some 6 months. I don't program on it and don't have any idea as to what a lot of the files are for. Now DOS another story I use Linux becuase of its ability to handle internet very well. Thats what we use it for but not having anyone in my area where I live at that knows anything about it is hard to find. Ok on ldconfig: I get these messages ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory), skipping the libc.so points to /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 but this file does not exist I have a 5.4.23 the libm.so points to /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 but this file does not exist I have a 5.0.8 What gives here?? What is ldconfig for? Tony This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Window Managers
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, David Kohel wrote: I just set up and configured xdm (thanks to those who responded with advice on shadow passwords, etc.), and by default, xdm sources the $HOME/.xsession files, not $HOME/.xinitrc files. If you use xdm, .xsession is the individual user configuration. If you just run X through startx or xinit, then .xinitrc is the file to use. Look into /etc/X11/xdm for the global Xsession and in /etc/X11/xinit for the global xinitrc. Modify the one you that is applicable and then save it as the appropriate dot file. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....
LEBy now, I'm getting the feeling that something with your set is horribly LEbroken - your hardware or the software/installation. LEI think, however, we can focus on the gcc + cpp + libraries region for LEnow, because I get the impression that dselect's install only fails LEbecause of reasons related to these packages. LEI'm going to show you the correct lines under dselect's select for the LEinvolved packages. Please compare them to what you get and maybe you LEcould post the differences (or everything): LE *** Std develgcc 2.7.2.1-9 2.7.2.1-9 The GNU C LEcompiler (ELF v Shows: 2.7.2.1-8 2.7.2.18 LE *** Std interpre cpp 2.7.2.1-8 2.7.2.1-8 The GNU C LEpreprocessor (E Shows The same here... LE *** Req base ldso 1.8.10-21.8.10-2The Linux dynamic LElinker, Shows The same here... LE *** Req base libc55.4.23-65.4.23-6The Linux C LElibrary versi Shows an install version of 5.4.23-6 with available version of 5.4.33-3 LE *** Std devellibc5-dev5.4.23-65.4.23-6The Linux C LElibrary versi Shows The same here... LERegards, LE Andree This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty
Okay, I got my error again. Note: This occurs with rxvt v2.21 (latest vsn) and rxvt 2.20 (from XFree-3.3). This is therefore not a Debian-specific problem. /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting strace rxvt [much stuff deleted] geteuid() = 1000 getegid() = 1000 getuid()= 1000 setreuid(65535, 1000) = 0 getgid()= 1000 setregid(65535, 1000) = 0 open(/dev/ptyp0, O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error) open(/dev/ptyp1, O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error) open(/dev/ptyp2, O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error) open(/dev/ptyp3, O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error) open(/dev/ptyp4, O_RDWR) = 4 access(/dev/ttyp4, R_OK|W_OK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) close(4)= 0 open(/dev/ptyp5, O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) open(/dev/ptyp6, O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [more of the same...] open(/dev/ptysf, O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) open(/dev/ptyt0, O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [more of the same...] open(/dev/ptyzf, O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ls -l /dev/pty* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 0 Jul 2 16:04 /dev/ptyp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 1 Jul 3 09:48 /dev/ptyp1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 2 Jul 2 11:06 /dev/ptyp2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 3 Jul 3 09:44 /dev/ptyp3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 4 Jul 3 09:44 /dev/ptyp4 crw-r--r-- 1 root sys2, 5 May 19 21:33 /dev/ptyp5 crw-r--r-- 1 root sys2, 6 May 19 21:33 /dev/ptyp6 crw-r--r-- 1 root sys2, 7 May 19 21:33 /dev/ptyp7 [etc...] The weirdest thing is that (1) I could open rxvt's yesterday when I left (and the PC was left untouched overnight) (2) After a few errors, the command works again. Any clues? -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF_SVGA depenpencies
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Should it not require xbase, or something like that? That DOES seem silly. No, why? They _DO_ require xbase to work, don't they? Also, should we not have a RECOMMENDATION that the user installs the 16-color X server whenever installing X (otherwise xf86setup is not I believe that Xbase requires XF86_VGA ... I think the packages are set up No it does not. Also, a requirement is rather hard. A recommendation should be enough. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Allan Black wrote: Correct. /dev/printer is created by lpd, when it starts up. The only way to create it is to restart lpd. Try: kill lpd remove /dev/printer start lpd lpd should then create /dev/printer. Hi Allan, first of all many thanks for your excellent explanation. Unfortunately, removing /dev/printer and killing /restarting lpd does not create a printer socket. Would a reboot be more helpful? Then I'd have to wait until Saturday, because the machine acts as an application server for our HP-UNIX-machines :-( Or should I re-install the lpd-package? What do you think? Thanks a lot Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
A Basic Question
Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? Alex Fan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
DWI suspect that your problems are with the ftp method (this was not tested DWas extensivly as it should have been) DWYou indicated that you have tried this 7 times. Was it from scratch each DWtime? That is, did you start over and do a fresh install each time? Yes each time was a start over... Set the Boot partition back to the dos partition first and start again. DWSuggestion: Set up the base system. Download the new libc5 package and DWinstall it with dpkg -i libc5*.deb 21 |tee install.log. This will put DWall the error messages into the file intall.log. If the installation DWfails, send me the file. Does this mean When dselect is ran skip the selectoin process and jump strait to install??? DWIf you think it might help, you should feel free to call me, but we should DWbe able to resolve this via e-mail. DWWith respect to a CD. I'm fairly confident that a CD would work for you DW(this sounds like a problem with the ftp method of dselect) and can DWprovide you with a 1.3.1 CD. If you are interested, let me know. Whats the cost here DWOn Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DW Is there anyone out there that I could call concerning my problem DW installing debian 1.3. DW DW I have only had one responce on my posted questions... and am no DW farther ahead than I was a week ago. DW DW Whats my problem??? Well ok, let's see, the installation of the base DW system DW works correctly. I can boot my Debian GNU/Linux system from DW harddisk, and I have a network connection. DW DW Now to the problems. I start dselect, choose ftp as access method, do DW an update this works, select my packages, start install. And then DW it stops with the dpkg-message referring to can't map /lib/libc5. DW DW I try to install the file libc5_5.4.33-3.deb using dpkg and I get a DW message that says version 4.23-6 is already installed. DW DW I do get other error messages trying to install other files using the DW dpkg -i method. I seem to get all sorts of dependency errors. So I DW try to install the files that the system says it depends on and end up DW back at the can't map /lib/libc5 error. I also get some kind of error DW that says that the /usr/lib/libc.so.5 file is missing. I look for it DW and it points to a file in lib/libc.so.5. DW DW At this point I am confused on whats right and whats wrong. After DW installing this thing 7 times now and always running up into the same DW error every single install, I don't know where to turn. The IRC are DW useless and I haven't gotten but one responce on this list. DW DW Does anyone know of anyone I can call for help??? If I bought a CD DW would it make a differnece? Am I talking to brick wall??? DW DW DW Tony Koehn DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] DW DW slakware is looking real nice right about now DW This email originated from ourtownusa.com. DW DW DW DW -- DW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? DW e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . DW DW DW DWDwarf DW-- DW_-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- DWaka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 DW Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road DW e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 DW_-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A Basic Question
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote: Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? Well, yes, it's a distribution. We'd like to think that it's somewhat nicer than Slackware and Redhat, tho :) ... Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A Basic Question
At 10:29 PM 7/3/97 +0900, you wrote: Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? It's a distribution, yes. It's different than Slackware and Redhat of course, but it is a distribution. The basic difference IMO, is that Debian has a better package installation/maintainance system. I'm sure there are lots of other differences, but that's the biggest one that comes to mind. Tim Linux 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or When I look for these files they point to: libc.so - /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there is a 5.4.23 libm.so - /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 This file also does not exist but is a 5.0.8 It seems sometimes that some packages fail to update soft links quite right when they install -- this happened to me the other day with libXext.so. Try this: a) mv libc.so libc.so.old mv libm.so libm.so.old (we want to remember these in case we need to fix them later) b) ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 libc.so ln -s /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 libm.so (make new soft links pointing to the files) c) try again to do whatever caused the above messages. If this works ok, you can rm the .old links. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
OOPS. See below: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: libc.so - /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there is a 5.4.23 libm.so - /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 This file also does not exist but is a 5.0.8 b) ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 libc.so ln -s /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 libm.so here's the errors: ^^ (make new soft links pointing to the files) THESE should be: ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.23 libc.so ln -s /lib/libm.so.5.0.8 libm.so The idea being to make libc/m links to the files you DO have. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
DWSuggestion: Set up the base system. Download the new libc5 package and DWinstall it with dpkg -i libc5*.deb 21 |tee install.log. This will put DWall the error messages into the file intall.log. If the installation DWfails, send me the file. Does this mean When dselect is ran skip the selectoin process and jump strait to install??? Nope. Directly to [Q]uit. Then ftp to ftp.debian.org, fetch libc5* package and install with dpkg -i. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7 ''' \() (O O) / \ \ +---oOO--(_)+ |\ __/ -- | Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | ( / +-oOO---+ \ / |__|__| ) /(_ || || | (___)ooO Ooo \___) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Too many open files: ulimits
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at /etc/lshell.conf Oh, that's it, thanks! Now one question... I have fortunes installed and fortunes-mod. With this setup if one types fortune it will try to open 74 files! (The fortunes and the .dat files plus stdio et al) I know this is not normal, but anyway, isn't 24 files a little bit low (24 is the default in lshell.conf) BTW, I modified the profile to open a single (user selectable) file (a lot of users here like cookies and the rest doesn't mind...) Thanks a lot to all of you who responded. And yes, I'll look closely to what I'm installing. Marcelo Magallon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: repartitioning
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: Of course you will have to edit /etc/fstab and probably /etc/lilo.conf plus run lilo before rebooting. Thanks to those who've replied. One last question: at the moment I've got three partitions on my drive : hda1 Win95 (hanging head in shame) hda5 Debian hda6 linux swap Ok. I've still got a gig free. If I partition this into a few linux partitions for /usr, /, /home, etc., I'll have names like: hda7 hda8 hda9 Ok. So I put those in lilo.conf and in fstab, and life's good. Now if I _delete_ hda5, do they all get bumped back up a number? Won't that confuse lilo, when it looks for vmlinuz on hda7 but the partition's been renamed to hda6? Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
OK. Remove /dev/printer and start lpd. It'll probably create the socket on its own. See why it doesn't start from one of the /etc/rc.d files. 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 MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....
Hi Tony, there we got it! Some of your library links are trashed. (ldconfig manages all shared libraries on your system and says that it can't find neither the main C library nor the math library.) Probably the fix is pretty simple: Login as root, delete the dangling links /usr/lib/libc.so and /usr/lib/libm.so. Then create new ones pointing to the available library files: /usr/lib/libc.so -- /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 /usr/lib/libm.so -- /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 In case rm and ln do not work (because of the missing links) you have to boot from the rescue disk, mount your /usr system and make the links. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: /usr/lib/libc.so -- /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 /usr/lib/libm.so -- /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 You've made the same mistake I did ... .5.4.33 and .5.0.9 are the versions the links _currently_ point to, which he doesn't have. Just make sure that you make the links to whichever versions you _do_ have, and you'll be fine. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!
I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a FAT file system, remember that the cluster size is *not* going to change. On DOS systems (I've not worked much with Win95) to get larger partitions and file systems a huge cluster size is chosen. This means that every little file is allocated as much as 8k of disk. To get around this shrink the existing file-system so that the free space is the size you want for the final DOS/Windows partition, create a file system (make it bootable if you want) and then copy your files to that partition. Once you've checked your work and are sure that everything is as you want it to be, delete the original file- system and use that space for you ext2fs. And always make a backup or two before you start... Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: (419) 529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:(419) 529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1302 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)
Next question and then I'll hopefully shut up for a day or two about this topic :-) Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with an altavista web search for the word Diety. Thanks in advance. Chip - Chip Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Xi Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Denver, CO (303)298-7478 (work) On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Britton wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Linux dist. research wrote: I saw a reference to a possible future replacement for dselect. Does anyone know about this? The project is calle diety. It is intended to fix the percieved problems and inconviences the plauge dselect. Personnaly I like dselect, and I hope things don't change too much. Chip - Chip Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Xi Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Denver, CO (303)298-7478 (work) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Hard drive crash question
Greetings, Last night I got the exciting message on my screen: scsi0: medium error on channel 0, id3, lun 0, CDB: read (6) Current Error sd08:02 sensekey medium error additional sense indicates record not found repeating many times as I tried to boot. A day ago, I got a crc check sum error on a known working kernel, and then before I got the medium errors, I had fsck troubles, and couldn't get the file system repaired. Does this look like a certain hard drive failure, or does anyone think it could be caused by something else, say bad cache, ram, etc.? I'm asking because I'd hate to return the drive to Seagate, only to find that the problem is somewhere else. I also plan on doing some separate drive testing, but wanted to get other input as well. Thanks in advance! Chip P.S. I do have backups, and, oddly enough, ordered an extra drive a couple days ago as a coincidence. Therefore, my life isn't ruined :-) - Chip Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Xi Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Denver, CO (303)298-7478 (work) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kde window manager locks up
Bjoern-Bernhard Schad: I get a lockup if I try to move the kfm icon which appears on the panel or if I move an icon within kfm. I use kdeapps 0.9.02-1. Should I upgrade? Yes, do upgrade. This bug is fixed ib kdeapps 0.10.01 -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: octave
Thanks to the many who helped yesterday. Octave complained that it needed libg++, even though it wasn't listed dependent on it. I tried to install libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb. When I did, dpkg found several packages in available that had the version field empty. I looked at the file and each of those packages had versions x:yz . I changed them to x.yz and that seemed to allow dpkg to proceed. However it then said libg++27_2.7.2.1-6 needed libc5 later than the version that was installed. So I installed libc5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb. It had a few complaints about empty version fields which I fixed the same way, and then seemed to install ok. Finally I typed octave and this time the response was segmentation fault. What should I try next? Chuck kaufman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing onto Compaq Proliant SCSI system
I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a SCSI based Compaq Proliant system, and the built in drivers cant find a hard disk to become the system disk. Has anyone managed to get Linux to run on the Compaq Proliant ?? Is the Compaq FAST SCSI adaptor a rebadged something else? John Lines -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
off topic: password strategy as an ISP
As you can see, this message is very offtopic, but still somewhat Debian related. I am curious how folks who use Debian in a production environment deal with allocating passwords. Do you use the pwgen package and let users worry about it from there, or do you let them choose within the confines of what passwd allows? I can see a lot of...no, you can't have anything that appears in the dictionary, no thats too short, you need a capital or a number in it.. or...ok, to change your password you have to telnet in...ok, telnet is...then type passwd... It is interesting. I've had ISP's who use BSD, Slackware Linux, and NT. The BSD ISP gave me a rather cryptic looking password. I had my choice with the Slackware ISP. (Debian would not have accepted my password...too simple) Likewise, the NT ISP, allowed me to choose a rather simple password. Even though hard to remember at first, the password I had with BSD was likely the most secure. TIA for sharing your strategies. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC
I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? (Note, this is a 905, not a 509.) Thanks, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Baan Business Systems -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC
Oops!!! Never mind! I did a little RTFM'ing and found what I needed! Thanks anyway, Kevin Traas -- From: Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC Date: July 3, 1997 10:42 AM I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? (Note, this is a 905, not a 509.) Thanks, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Baan Business Systems -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: octave
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to the many who helped yesterday. Octave complained that it needed libg++, even though it wasn't listed dependent on it. I tried to install libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb. When I did, dpkg found several packages in available that had the version field empty. I looked at the file and each of those packages had versions x:yz . I changed them to x.yz and that seemed to allow dpkg to proceed. However it then said libg++27_2.7.2.1-6 needed libc5 later than the version that was installed. So I installed libc5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb. It had a few complaints about empty version fields which I fixed the same way, and then seemed to install ok. Finally I typed octave and this time the response was segmentation fault. What should I try next? What version of octave are you using? -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine
The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. Of course you must first delete the /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape link and then make a new soft link to ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape and all will be well. I live off the unstable directory so this may be why Communicator works OK for me. Who knows? Cheers, Victor ps: The new Communicator is available from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a FAT file system, remember that the cluster size is *not* going to change. IIRC FIPS also refuses(-ed?) to work on non-primary partitions, '95, NT partitions etc. Partition Magic OTOH does change cluster size and supports several partition types, including ext2 (as of PM 3.0) Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Dima wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a FAT file system, remember that the cluster size is *not* going to change. IIRC FIPS also refuses(-ed?) to work on non-primary partitions, '95, NT partitions etc. Partition Magic OTOH does change cluster size and supports several partition types, including ext2 (as of PM 3.0) I don't think it support ext2, it just recognizes it. From checking their web pages, I don't see any mention of being able to resize an ext2 partition. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mh in a POP environment
I was wondering what the best way of using mh with a POP server might be? I've been a mh user (mh-e) for years at work (SunOS and Solaris) and would like to try it with my Linux machine at home (I have been using Netscape mail). Does mh POP work OK? Should I use one of the other POP packages available to transport the mail locally and then use mh from there? BTW, I'm running Debian 1.3. Thanks... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine
Hi, Victor On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. where did you find netscape-beta package installer ? It's gone !!! Unfortunately i purged netscape-beta from my computer before checking is it available or not. Can you tell where it's located ? sincerely OK ps i would be very grateful if you can send it to me via MIME-attachment. Promise to put it on my page... thanks a lot in advance -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: octave
So I installed libc5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb. Nope, install libc5_, not libc5-dev_ The -dev version means developer, and is for use in compiling programs, not executing them. Thanks 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 MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
