Re: Tape Back-ups Was: Ftape

1998-01-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Rob,

I still haven't got ftape reinstalled here, so I don't have any new
suggestions other than that you might want to ask for help on the
'linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu' list.  Claus-Justice Heine, the ftape
author, is quite active on that list.   I understand that he has
just released a kernel patch for ftape-3.04d.

Bob

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Pure Energy wrote:

 
 
 Lets start this with a few *sighs* :/ I have now recompiled kernel 2.0.32
 fine. The compile went fine and with no errors at all. I made sure that
 ftape *was not* included. After editing the MCONFIG file and compiling
 ftape yet again it still doesn't work.. i get errors as such:
 
   ftmt: command not found 
   ftmt: /dev/qft0: Device not configured
   /usr/include/ioctls.h:23: asm/ioctls.h: No such file or directory
   /usr/include/ioctls.h:24: linux/sockios.h: No such file or directory
   In file included from /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h:30,  
 
 and too many others that i will not get into. I have fought, argued, and
 bitched at/with ftape now for months. I'm tired of it and sick of going
 over all the docs. So I have decided to give the iomega ditto 2 gig drive
 to my wife as it works great under window3.11. I have moved it there and
 she has finished a full backup of her computer with it.
 
   Now my question is Can someone tell me a good inexpensive
 (100.00 - 300.00) tape drive that *is* supported with dependable drivers
 under debian/Linux? Are there any tape drives which have drivers included
 in the kernels? What are they? The drive should be able to backup atleast
 1 gig min per tape.
 
 Thanx and sorry for the bitching :/
   --Rob
 
 PS..  My appologies to the maintainer of ftape Christian Meder as this
 is not meant to be a flame and/or complaint against him or Ftape. I will
 say that the documentation and the webpages are very well done.


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Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread Robert Moody
Hi there,

I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.

Thanks,

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Re: greenbush

1998-01-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.

Jens wrote,

 Mark, making this sort of remark is probably unethical (if you have only
 hearsay rather than person experience on which to base your accusations) and
 just plain uncool. Did you order a cdrom and never receive it? I did. And as
 soon as I sent him an email about it he sent me out the cdrom I'd ordered
 immediately, explaining that the person who'd handled shipping had been let
 go (to put it mildly) and that a lot of records had been lost, adding his
 apologies.

Also, several monhts ago, when we were converting machines here from windows, 
he simply donated a master CD pair to us.  Hearing what we were doing, he 
simply sent them.

rick

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Re: greenbush

1998-01-20 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF
No wait a minute here, I do not know any of the people involved with this
company but, I received a message from paul asking me if I wanted to wait
1 more day for some additional files and I said yes.  The the weather hit
and I have not heard any more from them. He answered every message I send
before the weather.  I have no reason to think he is anything but on the
up and up, I have heard some people complaining about him on this list.

I just wanted to know if it is the weather ?  Ever try to cut a cdrom
without electricity ?  I have heard that there are thousands of people in
that area of the country with out power.

Maybe your right and he is not playing nice with others, but I have no
first hand experience.

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote:

 On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
 
  
  Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad
  weather hit up north, have not heard from them.  I hope everyone is ok
  up there in snow land..
 
 Call up your credit card company quick.  Otherwise you'll end up the the
 rest of us - srewed out of our money by Wade Bush and company.
 
 Mark
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Re: Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
   I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
   with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
   it decides to exit for me.

Sure.  Netscrape is not particularly well-written software.  It
crashes fairly often, under Linux or Windows or whatever.


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Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-20 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF
 
  What makes RH that much simpler to use?? I find dselect simple, and
  linux == linux so config files are fairly standard.  Yet I have heard

I have been using Linux for about 5 years and am currently administering
an ISP (running Linux). I did not expect much trouble installing debian,
however the first time I had a lot of trouble with dselect.  

--Jeff


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Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-20 Thread G John Lapeyre


There is work being done on improving the installation. The
problems do arise from the great flexibility of debian.  I agree that
not trying to install everything in one pass is the way to go.  It makes
things much simpler.  In the end, I think the debian packaging system does
a good job of maintaining the integrity of the system.  There is a strict
set of rules that maintainers have to follow when making a package.  The
aim of the rules is to maintain the quality and integrity of the system.


On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:

 
 I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that
 Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat.   Maybe there are TOO MANY
 alternatives offered for a new install.
 
 Example ... try selecting cnews on a clean instll and it throws you into
 the conflict resolution screen right away.  Red Hat gives you no choice in
 the matter, if you want news transport you get inn.
 
 Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu causing
 a lot of time in conflict resolution.  About the only thing I do the
 firstr time through dselect is unselect emacs and select the MTA that I
 want and let the rest of it install from its defaults.  Then I run it a
 second time to change things.  I find that I have a LOT less trouble this
 way.
 
 On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote:
 
  What makes RH that much simpler to use?? I find dselect simple, and
  linux == linux so config files are fairly standard.  Yet I have heard
  that comment numerous times -- debian is too much of a learning curve.
  
  
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Re: Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread bhmit1
I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.

Happens here too, especially while I started into hamm, but seemed to get
better as I installed more hamm packages (still don't have all the latest 
stuff though).  For example, the java script at the four week archive at
  http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/
(ok, I just tried it with js on and it worked, *shrug*)

likes to crash netscape on me.  Also, certain menu options like to
disappear (e.g. copy link location with the right mouse button just
disappeared).  It's a good incentive for a project like (dang it... 
browser crashed) mnemonic to mature:
  http://oloon.student.utwente.nl/~mnemonic/

Enough of my complaining.  Netscape gets the job done even if it's a
poorly designed, bloated, memory/color hog.

Brandon

P.S. I hope everyone has looked at the latest from www.distributed.net.
They are working on the des project and are only expecting to take several
weeks on this one.

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xanim

1998-01-20 Thread tko
I finally tried 'xanim' and that's one slick package. While the command line
interface is fairly easy to work with, has anyone designed a menu interface so
that like 'mc' (midnight commander), one can use the arrow keys and such to
select a movie for display?

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Re: plog

1998-01-20 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 06:49:33PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote:
 
 My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog'
 nothing is printed.  And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files
 are empty.  I'm running the latest from hamm.
 
 Any ideas?

For some reason, the 'syslog.conf' file distributed with the latest
version of the 'sysklogd' package doesn't include an entry for ppp.log.
You can add the following one:

local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log

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Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-20 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 19-Jan-1998, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that
 Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat.   Maybe there are TOO MANY
 alternatives offered for a new install.
 
 Example ... try selecting cnews on a clean instll and it throws you into
 the conflict resolution screen right away.  Red Hat gives you no choice in
 the matter, if you want news transport you get inn.
 
 Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu causing
 a lot of time in conflict resolution.  About the only thing I do the
 firstr time through dselect is unselect emacs and select the MTA that I
 want and let the rest of it install from its defaults.  Then I run it a
 second time to change things.  I find that I have a LOT less trouble this
 way.

I suspect a sensible default system will fix this. You can probably
expect that future incarnations of dselect (deity) will allow support
for groupings of packages, which will have the conflicts already 
taken care of. Then you can just say I'm a newbie, give me a typical
newbie system and will get a usuable default. Once you're ready, you
can go play with the alternatives.

At the moment, Debian seems to be more popular as a second system --
once you've tried a different Linux first, or used other Unix systems
you appreciate and enjoy the flexibility of the Debian system.

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Sony VAIO Notebook

1998-01-20 Thread iquest
Hi,

  I'd like to know if there is any Debian/Linux support for Sony VAIO
Notebook
  in term of special kernel/X11/modem/etc of anykind?

  Thanks!

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Re: greenbush

1998-01-20 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
 Mark W. Blunier wrote:
  On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
  
   Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad
   weather hit up north, have not heard from them.  I hope everyone is ok
   up there in snow land.
 
  Call up your credit card company quick.  Otherwise you'll end up the the
  rest of us - srewed out of our money by Wade Bush and company.
 
 Mark, making this sort of remark is probably unethical (if you have only
 hearsay rather than person experience on which to base your accusations) and
 just plain uncool. Did you order a cdrom and never receive it? I did. And as
 soon as I sent him an email about it he sent me out the cdrom I'd ordered
 immediately, explaining that the person who'd handled shipping had been let
 go (to put it mildly) and that a lot of records had been lost, adding his
 apologies.
 
I have seen several posts from people indicating that they did not
get what they order.  I as well did not receive my full order.  I ordered
a three month subscription, After I got billed, but did not receive any
cds, I emailed him.  He said he had sent two months disks out already, but
He would send a replacement CD set out.  I received one set a few days
later, but that was It.  Any other emails I sent were unacknowledged.

Mark
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Swap Used is getting Bigger, BIGGER and B I G G E R!

1998-01-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Does anyone know why the free command would report that the swap space
used is growing? A lot? Is there a swap leak bug?

For example, no swap is being used immediately after booting the box. This
is good. Then after using various and sundry applications, AND EXITING OUT
OF THEM, the free command reports that their swap space is still being
used! 

In fact, the amount of swap space used keeps increasing instead of
leveling off. I'm reasonably certain that unless drastic measures are
taken soon, it will probably eat New Jersey. ;-)

It seems to me that swap space isn't being relinquished because the sum of
the individual swap spaces used by each process as reported by the SWAP
column of the ps -auxm command is less than the total swap space used
which the free command reports. It's like some kind of swap leak.

I've noticed this behavior with both the 2.0.30 and 2.0.32 kernels.

Thanks,
  Kingsley


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Re: AccelX on Hamm

1998-01-20 Thread Shaleh
On a related note -- what is the best way to install Accelx4.1 on a hamm
or bo system?? Last time I tried (I was running bo) it overwrote xfree's
xkb and a few other things.


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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1998-01-20 Thread wnpp

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.67 1998/01/20 04:59:47 johnie Exp $

1.  General Questions

1.1.  Before reading this document


You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.



1.2.  Purpose of this document

This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.


1.3.  Getting newer versions of this document


Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:


  o  http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html

  o  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
   packages.txt

  o  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
   packages.html


1.4.  Feedback

Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP
maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please mention to which version of this
document your comments refer.


Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages emails. A suggested subject line
reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage.
Thanks.



2.  Recent Changes

2.1.  Since version 1.66 1998/01/12


  o  New maintainer Randall Loomis mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has
   adopted bridge and bridgex.

  o  Eric Prestemon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted freelip.

  o  A.F.R. Bain mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted ftnchek and
   ratfor77.

  o  GNU R is uploaded.

  o  The xtar suite and Kmodplayer are now orphaned.

  o  Anders Hammarquist mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted knfs.

  o  The dhcp, dhcp-beta, tama (Net Tamagotchi server), wanpipe (kernel
   WAN tools) and zed (editor) packages are now available for adoption
   from Christoph Lameter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].




3.  Orphaned packages

(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)


Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you need to orphan a package

  o  when you believe that the following list is incomplete

  o  when you would like to maintain one of these packages.


Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  Kmodplayer


Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  xtar-dmotif

  o  xtar-smotif




Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  kde

  o  giflib


Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  blt


Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  ghostview

  o  libc5

  o  libc5-altdbg

  o  libc5-altdev


  o  libc6.1

  o  libc6.1-dbg

  o  libc6.1-dev

  o  libc6.1-pic

  o  libproc-dev

  o  xxgdb


Orn E. Hansen :

  o  xega

  o  xmailtool


Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  compress-package

  o  ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs

  o  psptools



Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  csh

Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  zyxel


Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  j1 (in old source format)

  o  sam


Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mh-papers

  o  term



Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  apsfilter


Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mathpad

  o  mfbasfnt


  o  wenglish


Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  xarchie

  o  bibindex




Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  fsp



Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  dld (do we still need this ?)


Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mailpgp





Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  motifnls


David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tcl74

  o  tcl75

  o  tk40

  o  tk41


Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tclx74

  o  tclx75

  o  tix40


Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  javalex

  o  java-cup

  o  rsynth



Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  courtney

  o  groupkit

  o  imgstar

  o  lee

  o  objpak

  o  pgapack

  o  premail

  o  saoimage

  o  snns

  o  tcs

  o  wily

  o  xbattle

  o  xephem-smotif



Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hyperlatex

  o  latex2rtf


Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  gettyps


Others:

  o  rc

  o  xcompat (should we drop it ?)

  o  libc4 (a.out compatibility)

















4.  Packages needing a new maintainer

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mainatiner of the package:

  o  when you would like to maintain one of the packages.


Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;

  o  scilab


Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  seyon

  o  lpr


Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  staroffice3


Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  dhcp

  o  dhcp-beta

  o  tama  (Net Tamagotchi server)

  o  wanpipe (Tools for kernel WAN functionality)

  o  zed (editor)


  o  adpkg

  o  berolist

  o  bonnie

  o  debsums

  o  defrag

  o  dhcpd

  o  floppybackup

  o  freefont

  o  fvwm95

  o  gpc

  o  gpc-doc

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Tyson Dowd said:
At the moment, Debian seems to be more popular as a second system --
once you've tried a different Linux first, or used other Unix systems
you appreciate and enjoy the flexibility of the Debian system.

I would definitly agree with that observation. I am currently setting a
freind who
has never used any unix b4 (short of logging in and using pine on his
schools system)
I am setting him up with redhat and until recently I loved RedHat.
Now that my Linux box crashed
(its a real tribute to linux...I see Win95 boxes crashing all the
time...
sometimes 2-3 times a day...where as my linux box was up 62
days and died at a major hardware failure...the last tim eit was
down was 62 days before...during a power outage!)
After problems  had with redhat (I find redhat doesn't allow much for
growth
meaning as in you are becommin gmore advanced and wanting to do more
advanced things)
Once I get a new hard drive...I am installing Debian on it.
tho..this isn't my seonc dsystem...
its my 4th (1st was only for a month  suel booting...same fo rthe
2nd...till this
dedicated one for 3rd)
-Steve


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Re: Updating the kernel via patches

1998-01-20 Thread Joel Klecker
Regarding Updating the kernel via patches of 5:14 PM +0100 1/19/98,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I
used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files

   patch-2.0.31.gz
   patch-2.0.32.gz
   patch-2.0.33.gz

The 'kernel-source-2.0.30' package already has some patches applied, which
is why the above patches won't apply cleanly.

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notes on upgrading to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
   I started with an up to date bo distribution, and used the 'upgrade'
script (version 0.11) that was posted to the list a few days ago.
It mostly worked, but there were three problems.




   After running the upgrade script, any new bashes that i start dont
work with vi keybindings, even if i run set -o vi manually.  This may
become fixed after i install more packages, i dont know.




   I had a problem with timezones.  Before, with bo, you couldnt select
the Pacific timezone, tzconfig would complain that it was ambiguous
with Pacific-New.  So, i had my timezone set to Pacific-New, and the
timezones package didnt like that.  The upgrade script exited, and it
wasnt clear wether that was a normal termination or not.  I ran tzconfig
by hand, set the timezone to Pacific, and reran the upgrade script, and
everything worked well.




   After running the upgrade script, dselect didnt work...  This was
a little scary.  I configured the package source (using the 'Access'
menu option) to use ftp.debian.org (also tried a couple of mirrors, same
problem), base directory /debian, distributions unstable, non-free, and
contrib.  It complained it couldnt find the Packages file for unstable.
If i told it to use /debian/dists/unstable for the debian directory and
get distributions main, non-free, and contrib, it could get the three
Packages files, but would fail when it actually tried to download.
It would cd to the debian directory i entered above, but then tack on
dists/unstable again.


   Sounds like the Packages-files-getting logic doesnt know about the
new ftp site directory layout.  The .deb-files-getting logic does seem
to know about the new directory layout.  The workaround was to download
the Packages files by hand, set the Access options as the first one
tried above, and then install the Packages files by hand.




   I'm downloading the rest of the packages now, we'll see how that goes.
All in all i think the upgrade went really smooth.  Good job guys!




Sebastian


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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #102

1998-01-20 Thread Christopher Roland Cabanillas
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Re: Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:55:42PM +0200, Robert Moody wrote:
 I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
 with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
 it decides to exit for me.

What files do you have under (from memory) /usr/linux-libc1/X11?
Some missing symlinks will stop Netscape from starting properly,
with a bus error or segfault.

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Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Rick Jones
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
 Any ideas? I want to install buzz to test the auto-upgrade.
 Might have to use rex disks. All the hardware I have is an IDE
 hard drive, a floppy drive, an ISA IDE controller, a Trident 8900CL
 video card, and a 486DX2-66 overdrive chip, and 16mb RAM.
 It doesn't seem to be crashing because of some hardware fault,
 just a bad kernel probe.

That's a ways back.  I had that happen.  *If* I remember correctly it
had to do with using the dma channels to access the EIDE.  I believe I
got the error from not allowing the PCI BIOS to handle the interupts for
the EIDE.  It was either that or due to using LBA instead of normal. 
One of those.  I know I fixed it in the BIOS settings pertaining to the
EIDE.


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Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[snip]
Joost wrote:
 
 When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a
 486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide
 interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom.
 
 IIRC it hung while the md driver was probing, but that's how I remember
 it, not how I understand it (I don't.) It's likely something that has to
 do with a vesa-localbus ide interface. Here at work I have a 486dx66 with
 a scsi interface + drive, no ide at all and the bo bootdisk worked just
 fine.

Hmm, I have an AMD 486DX4 with vesa local bus ide interface and had no
problem at all running the bo rescue disk.  Furthermore there is a GUS,
a Diamond stealth Pro vlb, and a Wearnes cdrom interface in the
machine.

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Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 02:48:42AM -0500, Rick Jones wrote:
 That's a ways back.  I had that happen.  *If* I remember correctly it
 had to do with using the dma channels to access the EIDE.  I believe I
 got the error from not allowing the PCI BIOS to handle the interupts for
 the EIDE.  It was either that or due to using LBA instead of normal. 
 One of those.  I know I fixed it in the BIOS settings pertaining to the
 EIDE.

Hmmm. Weird. I have block mode, LBA and all those things disabled,
and it's an ISA IDE controller. Anyway I got it running with some
special 2.0.18 boot disks on the Debian 1.1.11 CD I have.
1.1.1 seemed to have some special kernels but not special boot disks.
Working nicely now.


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problem with xman

1998-01-20 Thread tinos
Hi !
After I installed Debian-Linux on my system there is still one 
problem with xman - xman does'nt use the same quantity of manpages 
like man !
e.g. man scanf shows the manpage of scanf but xman says: no manual 
entry for scanf.
How can I update the uses database from xman so that it uses all 
manpages ??!



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A Problem Booting with Rescue Disk

1998-01-20 Thread Rob Bickel

I am trying to install Debian for the first time.  When I try to 
boot the Rescue Disk, it stops and stalls at the Hard Disk Partition
Check.  That is while booting you will have something that looks like:

Partition Check.
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3

and then it should continue booting.  I get:

Partition Check.
hda: 

And it stalls.  I have redhat and slackware on this same computer,
and they boot fine, so I know there is nothing fundamentally wrong
with the partitions.  I am at a lose about what to do because I
can't even get the rescue disk to boot.  Has anyone else ever had
this problem?

P.S.  The problem is not the floppy.  I was able to boot with the
floppy on another computer.

Rob


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lynx -show_cursor

1998-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo,

Since upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 lynx would not show the cursor on a tty.
I then tried to solve the problem by putting 

show_cursor=on

in both my ~/.lynxrc and /etc/lynx.cfg files, but that did not make any
difference.  Why?

I solved the problem by putting 

alias lynx=lynx -show_cursor

in my .bash_aliases.

But why did the changes to the config-files not work?

Johann









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Re: Netscape 3.04 Bus Error

1998-01-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 What files do you have under (from memory) /usr/linux-libc1/X11?
 Some missing symlinks will stop Netscape from starting properly,
 with a bus error or segfault.

Not the infamous xlibc bug again! :)

The path is /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11. It needs links from there to
the follow files in the libc6 X11R6 libraries.

XerrorDB
XKeysymDB
app-defaults
locales

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Re: greenbush

1998-01-20 Thread Joost Kooij

Since so many people complain about Greenbush Technologies delivery
record, here's a success story:

A friend ordered cd's from Paul Wade' company and he got them delivered
pretty fast (in days), considered that the cd's had to be sent to Europe.  

So, at times, they do get it right.

The cd's were also quite cheap, cheaper than the bo cd's some other
vendors sell (can't beat lsl et al. though.) Considering the price and the
effort he has to put in, it seems that Greenbush is not making much of a
profit from this enterprise. It may not at all be fair to expect from him
that his company can live up to highest standards.

According to Paul Wade, they had some trouble in the past with employees
and he promised to make up to customers that suffered from it. Right now,
it seems he's struck by the elements, you can't really get mad at him for
that - he's probably more inconvenienced by it himself than anybody else.

Please give the guy - and yourself - a break. If you've ordered a cd from
Greenbush in the past and it wasn't handled to full customer
satisfaction (little irony here), don't whine, but try to get your act
together yourself. Get organised, make a list of everybody to whom Paul W.
owes a cd and try to get through to him with that. I can't believe that a
constructive tone wouldn't be answered with constructive action.

On a side note, here in Holland, a while not so long there were lots of
problems with InfoMagic reported on the llocal linux user group
mailinglist. After payment no deliveries and probably worse response than
from Greenbush. So even the bigger companies occasionally have problems. 

Now if I tell you that in Holland an InfoMagic cd set with a stable debian
cd that is 3 months old (which they produce by the *thousands) costs about
as much as a (note: succesful) overseas delivery of a custom greenbush
unstable cd, you may imagine that I feel that - however bad business
record indeed - it is not very fair to write off Greenbush altogether. 

Cheers,


Joost


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Re: Updating the kernel via patches

1998-01-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:

 Regarding Updating the kernel via patches of 5:14 PM +0100 1/19/98,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I
 used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files
 
patch-2.0.31.gz
patch-2.0.32.gz
patch-2.0.33.gz
 
 The 'kernel-source-2.0.30' package already has some patches applied, which
 is why the above patches won't apply cleanly.

Get the kernel-source-*.diff.gz from the source tree inthe debian archive
and you can see what the patches are.

Cheers,


Joost


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Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:

 Hi, Craig!
 
 I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in
 Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script.  Worked fine for me.

glad to hear it.

 Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful.

worse than ever now :-). there are over 1700 packages in hamm (counting
main, contrib, non-free, and non-US)...several hundred more than in bo.

 Thank you,

you're welcome. upgrading to hamm isn't for everyone yet (not for the
faint of heart), but i'm glad my script helps those who chose to take
the plunge.

if you ran into any problems at all, please report them to
debian-testing@lists.debian.org

i would recommend to anyone who does choose to upgrade to hamm that they
take notes and report any problems to that address.

craig

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Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:05:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
 worse than ever now :-). there are over 1700 packages in hamm (counting
 main, contrib, non-free, and non-US)...several hundred more than in bo.

Just FYI, there are only 460 odd in main in buzz!
That's progress ...




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ftpproxy with dselect

1998-01-20 Thread Andrew
Here's a pretty kettle of fish: 
the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a

ftp user [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect doesn't seem to be designed with this in mind. Any suggestions? 

I've just used Craig's auto-upgrade script and I'm just hoping everything
works when I turn my computer on in the morning (:-S




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Memory problems web page?

1998-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can someone point me to the webpage that gives a list of things to
check when you get sporadic segfaults from kernel compiles and the
like?  I think I might have a defective RAM chip (ECC RAM at that) and
wanted to check out the possibilities.


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Re: Memory problems web page?

1998-01-20 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 08:32:30AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
 Can someone point me to the webpage that gives a list of things to check
 when you get sporadic segfaults from kernel compiles and the like?  I
 think I might have a defective RAM chip (ECC RAM at that) and wanted to
 check out the possibilities.

Do you mean http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ ?

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Re: ftpproxy with dselect

1998-01-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Andrew wrote:

 Here's a pretty kettle of fish: 
 the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
 because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
 username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a
 
 ftp user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 dselect doesn't seem to be designed with this in mind. Any suggestions? 

If you're up to it, you could write a little something in perl that
on one end listens to a port on your box and on the other end talks to
your isp's ftp-proxy. When a ftp client connects to it, let it connect to
the isp's proxy and that in turn to a debian ftp site. Next, just let all
the traffic pass through transparently.

If you had this, dselect wouldn't need to have to deal with proxies.

If you are up to it and you can get it to work, please contribute it to
dselect. If not, don't ask me :-)

Cheers,


Joost


 


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Re: xanim

1998-01-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I finally tried 'xanim' and that's one slick package. While the command line
 interface is fairly easy to work with, has anyone designed a menu interface so
 that like 'mc' (midnight commander), one can use the arrow keys and such to
 select a movie for display?
You could edit .mc.ext to start xanim on *.avi or *.mov files.
Or install the multimedia package. It has a nice little app, xgetfile,
that does exactly what you might want. 
From the man page:

   XGetfile  is a versatile file requester. It pops up a win­
   dow and lets the user chose a file with the mouse  or  the
   keyboard.  When  the  user selects a file, several actions
   are possible.

   As a versatile frontend to an audio file player  with  the
   assumed command name play :

xgetfile -title Please select a file to play -exec play %s -queue



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Re: Memory problems web page?

1998-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
   On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 08:32:30AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Can someone point me to the webpage that gives a list of things to check
when you get sporadic segfaults from kernel compiles and the like?  I
think I might have a defective RAM chip (ECC RAM at that) and wanted to
check out the possibilities.

   Do you mean http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ ?

Yes.  Thanks for the URL.


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Re: [FAQ] mysql

1998-01-20 Thread Frank Barknecht

Michael Sicher hat gesagt: // Michael Sicher wrote:

 i need to install mysql but the package needs libc6.

 are there any problems when removing libc5 to install libc6? (i think
 there is a faq available somewhere.)

 or is it better to compile the mysql source instead of upgrading to
 libc6?

I would recommend doing the upgrade. If you strictly follow the HOWTO
in http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html there
should be no grave problems. There even exists an automatic upgrade
script that was discussed on this list some days ago. I think I could
mail it to you if I look for it in my mail folders. Or maybe someone
else here knows the URL ...

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Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-20 Thread Fabian Knittel
Hello again,

 everything works! Now my Linux-computer starts from HD and can
communicate (by using its ethernet-card). Thanx to everyone who helped me
(especially: Stephen Gregory, Sten Anderson, Craig Sanders, Laurent
Picouleau. I hope I didn't forget anyone...). 

My last problem I had (the one I just solved...):

I used the MINIX-partition and told fstab to mount it as /boot,
started lilo (with the 'linear' option integrated in lilo.conf) and
everything went fine.

THANK YOU

 5. I'm happy because everything works (now without start-disk)
 
 Soon, that will be the case.

NOW this IS the case :-))

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 An: 'Fabian Knittel' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Betreff: RE: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM
 Datum: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 23:33
 
 From : Fabian Knittel[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Hello
 
  2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba.
 
 I don't either... :-)
 
  If I'm right you'll have to 
  declare your disk as having 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders 
  because lilo relies on the BIOS to access the kernel and your BIOS
  don't know how to handle more than 16 heads.
 
 okay...
 
 First, try what Craig Sanders suggested : add linear in your lilo.conf.
 I've never used it but according to lilo's doc it should work and it's
the
 simplest solution. What I said is useful for an installation or a
complete
 reinstallation.
   
  The only annoyance 
  will be to ensure that the kernel resides in the 1024 firs cylinders :

  just create a (small) partition there and mount it as /boot or a
slightly
  larger one and mount it as / .
 
 But all of my HD-space is already in use! From where should I get the
 'small' partition, that also has to reside in the first 1024 cylinders?
Oh!
 
 Why not use the Linux/MINIX partition (dev/hda2) ? It doesn't have to
 be at the very beginning of the disk, just somewhere in the first 1024
 cylinders...

I didn't realize how big 1024 cylinders actually are. I thought this would
only be a small amount of space (smaller than the space my swap takes
away).

 
 I've got an idea, what if I just kill this unused Linux/MINIX-partition
and
 the swap-partition and 'switch them round' (so that there is a small
space
 of 1024 cylinders infront of swap left). It would (probably) look
something
 like this:
 
Device Boot   BeginStart  End   Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/hda1   *113 8064   83  Linux native 
--
 will be mounted as /boot, should I mark it with 'bootable' ?
 
 No need to mark it bootable. Where lilo resides is to be bootable. So,
 if you put it in the MBR, no partition need to be bootable but all of
them
 can be so without problem regarding lilo linux or the BIOS.
 
 /dev/hda244   2950368+  82  Linux swap  --
now
 my swap is here
 [...]
 I'll have to tell Linux to look at hda2 for a swap partition... probably
in
 fstab, right? But  can I just change the partition while the system is
 running? I couldn't find any notes on this. 
 
 1°) create a swap file (/somewhere/whatever)
 2°) ativate it (swapon /somewhere/whatever)
 3°) deactivate swap partition (swapoff /dev/hda1)
 4°) play with fdisk (or cfdisk)
 5°) *Initialize the swap partition*
 6°) edit fstab, lilo.conf
 7°) lilo (after reboot, you can delete the swap file if you want)
 
 If you'd have more ram 1°) and 2°) wouldn't be necessary
 
 Is the following procedure possible:
 
 1. I change the partition tabel as shown above, using the cfdisk-utility
 2. I edit fstab and correct the data in there
 
 Not useful if you take /dev/hda2 as /boot
 
 3. I rerun lilo
 
 Don't forget to move te content of /boot to /dev/hda2 and then to
 mount it on /boot before (you should add it to fstab BTW)
 
 4. I change HD-info (16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders) in BIOS
 
 FIRST try linear option. If that doesn't work and you don't want to 
 reinstall, some clever solution will have to be found ;-)

I'm glad it worked with the normal method... :-)

 
 5. I'm happy because everything works (now without start-disk)
 
 Soon, that will be the case.
 
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Re: [FAQ] mysql

1998-01-20 Thread bhmit1
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:

 I would recommend doing the upgrade. If you strictly follow the HOWTO
 in http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html there
 should be no grave problems. There even exists an automatic upgrade
 script that was discussed on this list some days ago. I think I could
 mail it to you if I look for it in my mail folders. Or maybe someone
 else here knows the URL ...

{http|ftp}://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/

Take your pick.  There's also a tarball of all the debs you need.  Thanks
to Scott, Craig, and all the other developers who helped with this.

Enjoy,
Brandon

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XSuSE NVidia X server and Debian

1998-01-20 Thread Dale Smith
Greetings Debian Users,

I am in the middle of installing Debian 1.3.1 from a cd I made from the image
files.  Unfortunately, my graphics card is a Diamond Viper V330, which has the
NVidia Riva 128 chipset.  The XF86 FAQ pointed me to the SuSE web site, where
they are developing a driver.

The install is basically untaring the server and xf86config binaries from /.

My question is how will this interact with Debian's idea of who/what/where my
x-server is?  Has anyone used this (or other) server from SuSE?  What problems
did you have?

Thanks!
   Dale
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Is there a debian.cf file for X11R6.3?

1998-01-20 Thread Stephen Beer
I am trying to install  X windows X11R6.3 on a PC running debian 1.3.
Could you
tell me the correct configuration for installing it. Each operating
system has its own configuration file, but the Linux one is based on
Slackware?

Steve Beer


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Re: XSuSE NVidia X server and Debian

1998-01-20 Thread bhmit1
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Dale Smith wrote:

 The install is basically untaring the server and xf86config binaries from /.

This is a perfect job for alien, it should make a deb for you.  Note, I
have no first hand experience.

Brandon

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Re: [FAQ] mysql

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Hanson
At 15:06 Uhr +0100 20.01.1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Michael Sicher hat gesagt: // Michael Sicher wrote:

 i need to install mysql but the package needs libc6.

 are there any problems when removing libc5 to install libc6? (i think
 there is a faq available somewhere.)


Hold it! As of today, a libc5 version of mysql
(mysql_3.21.17a.beta-0bo2.deb) is  in the bo-unstable directory.

So you don't need to upgrade to libc6., unless you want to.

Scott

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Re: Is there a debian.cf file for X11R6.3?

1998-01-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.

 I am trying to install  X windows X11R6.3 on a PC running debian 1.3.
 Could you
 tell me the correct configuration for installing it. Each operating
 system has its own configuration file, but the Linux one is based on
 Slackware?

The easiest way is to also install the vga16 package, and run XF86Setup.  The 
other way is to run xf86Setup, which is text based.

rick

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Re: XSuSE NVidia X server and Debian

1998-01-20 Thread Shaleh
I untarred to /tmp, them copied over the files.  Be CAREFUL -- otherwise
you will overwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards and
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config -- both of which yu need to configure
XFree86.  I made a Cards.deb and Cards.suse and symlinked the one I
wanted to Cards.  I switch back and forth between servers.  I made the
xf86config xf86config.suse.  Otherwise it puts everything in debian
dirs.  XF86Config is stored in /etc -- no way around that.


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Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: after all,
linux is linux.  I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files,
etc... are all notably different; similar but different.

  This is like the differences between ATT/UCB unix. Yes, they are/were
both Unix, but... I wonder why it is necessary/useful to have so many
differences in the linux variations. Some are natural evolution/selection,
others seem gratitutious. Just as in the traditional Unix world, someday
there may come a time when convergence of the threads will be useful.

2) It was also noted that:
   Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu
causing a lot of time in conflict resolution.
  One good solution to this is used in most Windows packages; a set of
standard {minimal, nominal, everything} installation configurations, and a
custom option. I am not a dpkg expert, but would guess that this would not
be too hard.

Best.


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Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Dale Smith
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:58:21 -0600, you wrote:

1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: after all,
linux is linux.  I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files,
etc... are all notably different; similar but different.

  This is like the differences between ATT/UCB unix. Yes, they are/were
both Unix, but... I wonder why it is necessary/useful to have so many
differences in the linux variations.

Every distribution wants to do it the Right Way, so of course they are all
different. :)

Dale
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Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.

I don't remember the original question, but . . .  [for that matter, I don't 
remember which one was buzz.  That was 1.1, wasn't it?]

Anyway, with the paticular hardware we were using, the default kernel for 1.1 
would hang on alternate boots.  The solution was to hit reset (not power) 
after the hang, at whcih point it would boot fine.  THen compile your own 
kernel.

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Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread lucier
Addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard)
  debian-user@lists.debian.org

** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Fri, 16 Jan 1998 
22:03:55 -0500 (EST)
   
  I believe it is desirable for debian to provide a painless
 upgrade route from rex to hamm, without first upgrading to bo.

Howdy Robert..:-)

Fairly newcomer to Linux here, so hope you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind
answering a couple of basic questions for me:

does rex = rexx  (script language found in OS/2 amongst others)

What are hamm and bo?

Thanks.:-)




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Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Stephen Gregory

 2) It was also noted that:
Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu
 causing a lot of time in conflict resolution.

The first time I installed debian I installed way to much. I am hardly
a Linux newbie. I found that it was a problem with the individual
packages. There are a bunch of packages (in 1.2) that were listed as
required but weren't really. There are also some dependecies that
bug me. Some of the mime stuff complains if you don't install a
newsserver and newsreader. I don't want news on my local machine right
now, but I do want mime for email.

Now I have not done a clean install of Debian so I don't know if this
is still the case. But before Debian 2.0 is released I hope that some
of the developers go through a complete install once or twice to
insure that the default install is a fairly minimal install. I think
it would be far easier for a newbie to run dselect several times to
install all the packages they need. Then to run dselect several times
to remove all the packages they don't need. For some of us HD space is
a premium.

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X11R6 and Xterm problem

1998-01-20 Thread Russ Cook
I am running Debian Bo, kernel 2.0.30.  I recently recompiled my kernel,
making some changes related to my sound card.  I used the kernel-package,
and all went smoothly.  I have noticed a minor glitch, however, and I need
some help.

My XWindows system seems to be working well, except for Xterm.  Anything I
type from the Xterm command line is unreadable (gibberish).  Much of what
is displayed in the window in response to a command such as 'ls' is
unreadable.  Some filenames are fine, others are distorted and unreadable.
Applications such as xemacs, netscape, mosaic, etc don't display this
problem with typed commands, only Xterm.

Can anyone offer suggestions as to what may be wrong, and what I can do to
correct it.  What do I need to check?  I'm using a DFI WG-1010P PCI
Accelerator Board with 1 MB of ram, and my screen depth is 16 bpp.  It
doesn't matter what screen resolution I use with ctl-alt +, scrolling
through the defined screens.  The problem is the same.

Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.

  Russ

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Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard)
   debian-user@lists.debian.org
 
 ** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Fri, 16 Jan 1998 
 22:03:55 -0500 (EST)

   I believe it is desirable for debian to provide a painless
  upgrade route from rex to hamm, without first upgrading to bo.
 
 Howdy Robert..:-)
 
 Fairly newcomer to Linux here, so hope you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind
 answering a couple of basic questions for me:
 
 does rex = rexx  (script language found in OS/2 amongst others)

Nope, rex = Debian 1.2

 What are hamm and bo?

bo = Debian 1.3.x
hamm = What will eventually be Debian 2.0

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The president of SPI and former Debian project leader is employed at Pixar

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Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread dg
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Fairly newcomer to Linux here, so hope you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind
 answering a couple of basic questions for me:

Nothing to be ashamed! I'm a newcomer, too.

 does rex = rexx  (script language found in OS/2 amongst others)
 What are hamm and bo?

The name rex does not mean Rexx. Rexx is in fact a script language,
which is found in nearly every IBM operating system from OS/2 over OS/400
to VM/MVS. The name rex is the code name for the Debian GNU/Linux
Version 1.2.x. While bo is Version 1.3.x, and hamm is 2.?? (2.0.x or
2.1.x - I don't know how they will name it).

The code name are easier to remember and to pronouce than the version
numbers. I think this was all about it.

Bye

Daniel

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EhterLink XL PCI TPO 3C900-TPO Ethernet Card

1998-01-20 Thread Rob
Hi All,

I'm new to this, just installed debian Linux from the CD for the first
time yesterday. During the installation, it prompted me for my Ethernet
Card type. Unfortunately, I have the type of card listed in the subject
line, and this card was not in the list of available options. Does
anyone have any information regarding this card?

If there's a FAQ out there that answers this and other stupid questions
I'm most likely going to ask, please feel free to direct me to it.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Rob

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Re: EhterLink XL PCI TPO 3C900-TPO Ethernet Card

1998-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can use the 3c59x driver for this card.

Rob wrote:

 Hi All,

 I'm new to this, just installed debian Linux from the CD for the first
 time yesterday. During the installation, it prompted me for my Ethernet
 Card type. Unfortunately, I have the type of card listed in the subject
 line, and this card was not in the list of available options. Does
 anyone have any information regarding this card?

 If there's a FAQ out there that answers this and other stupid questions
 I'm most likely going to ask, please feel free to direct me to it.

 Thanks in advance for your help,
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[hamm] dpkg-ftp problems from behind the firewall

1998-01-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade my hamm installation through dselect's FTP method
of retrieving packages.  Here are some comments.

* Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are
selected?  In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages
(among the ones selected for installation) that are not already
installed?

* I am able to successfully upgrade the list of available packages by
choosing pasv FTP transfer.  But when I try to install the packages,
dselect/dpkg says that it is trying to download each of the packages. 
The download fails with a 'No such file or directory' for each of the
packages.  What is the path I should be giving dpkg-ftp?  I tried
/debian/unstable, /debian/hamm and a few others.  Is there are problem
with symbolic links?

S.
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Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Jon Bernard
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Stephen Gregory wrote:

 packages. There are a bunch of packages (in 1.2) that were listed as
 required but weren't really. There are also some dependecies that
 bug me. Some of the mime stuff complains if you don't install a

I've been installing and reinstalling debian over the past few days.  One
reason I've had to reinstall it is that I've been very confused about,
e.g., whether a package that claims to require tcl-7.4 really needs that
version, and is incompatible with tcl-7.6.  (I think expect caused me
trouble in this regard.)  The info messages in many cases could be
improved by being, well, more informative.

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Re: [hamm] dpkg-ftp problems from behind the firewall

1998-01-20 Thread David Z. Maze

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC * Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that
SC   are selected?  In other words, why doesn't it download only
SC   those packages (among the ones selected for installation) that
SC   are not already installed?

In my experience, dpkg-ftp has done The Right Thing (TM).

SC * I am able to successfully upgrade the list of available packages by
SC choosing pasv FTP transfer.  But when I try to install the packages,
SC dselect/dpkg says that it is trying to download each of the packages. 
SC The download fails with a 'No such file or directory' for each of the
SC packages.  What is the path I should be giving dpkg-ftp?  I tried
SC /debian/unstable, /debian/hamm and a few others.  Is there are problem
SC with symbolic links?

Set the Debian distribution directory to /debian, and get the
dists/unstable/main, dists/unstable/non-free, and
dists/unstable/contrib directories.

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ip-up script called multiple times

1998-01-20 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all,

I have a Debian 1.3.1 box running kernel 2.0.33 up and running.  Not
too long ago I added Diald so that I would not have to stay
connected 24-7 to the internet.  I am also using IPMasq  All seems
to work fine.  Diald starts the connection when it is needed, but
there are a few problem with it that I cannot figure out why they
are doing what they are doing.

My most puzzling problem is the ip-up script.  I have my time synced 
and the IP address ftped to my .plan file of my Linux server at work 
in ip-up.  Recently I thought it would be nice to add a little 
script that sends an epage to my pager informing me that the home 
system has connected and is online (and give the IP address).  What I 
have noticed is for each connection ip-up is run several times for 
one connection.

The day I set this up it sent out 4 pages back to back telling me
about the same IP address.  For the same connection.   That was the
worst case.  Sometimes it is only 2 or 3 times a connection.  It
holds true for the ftping of the IP address to my work server.  Once
I looked in the xferlog at work I found a similar thing.  Here is
the latest entry:

---SNIP---
Tue Jan 20 13:05:29 1998 1 ppp0151.remote.louisville.edu 15
/home/jybarb01/.plan b _ i r jybarb01 ftp 1 root 

Tue Jan 20 13:07:01 1998 1 ppp0151.remote.louisville.edu 15
/home/jybarb01/.plan b _ i r jybarb01 ftp 1 root 

Tue Jan 20 13:08:39 1998 1 ppp0151.remote.louisville.edu 15
/home/jybarb01/.plan b _ i r jybarb01 ftp 1 root 
---SNAP---

As you can see, this transfer is only a couple of minutes apart from 
the same IP address.  I have pppd setup to idle disconnect after 2 
mins.

Does anyone know why this is working like it is?  Does anyone have a 
recommendation to how to fix it?

Thanks,
--Jay
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Total Cost of Ownership

1998-01-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Does anyone know of a `Total Cost of Ownership' study (for government or
industry use) listing Linux?
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Re: ip-up script called multiple times

1998-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This is actually a problem with your ISP's equipment. Well, you may not
even be able to call it a problem, just a quirk of the protocol. Nothing
about ppp says that IP will only come up once per session. In most
configurations the LCP only comes up once per session but that's the only
guarantee you have. What's happening is that the IP layer is being brought
up and down multiple times when you connect. The only thing you could do
would be to code around it somehow, like by writing and checking a
/var/run/XXX.pid to see if a message has already been sent for that
particular instantiation of pppd. If you're curious, turn on debugging in
pppd and look in the log files. Here's a sample IP-UP fragment.

if [ -e /var/run/ip-up-ppp.pid ]
then
  lastpid=`cat /var/run/ip-up-ppp.pid`
  newpid=`cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
  if [ $lastpid = $newpid ]
  then
exit 0
  fi
fi

cp /var/run/ppp0.pid /var/run/ip-up-ppp.pid

# and so on

Jay Barbee wrote:

 Hello all,

 I have a Debian 1.3.1 box running kernel 2.0.33 up and running.  Not
 too long ago I added Diald so that I would not have to stay
 connected 24-7 to the internet.  I am also using IPMasq  All seems
 to work fine.  Diald starts the connection when it is needed, but
 there are a few problem with it that I cannot figure out why they
 are doing what they are doing.

 My most puzzling problem is the ip-up script.  I have my time synced
 and the IP address ftped to my .plan file of my Linux server at work
 in ip-up.  Recently I thought it would be nice to add a little
 script that sends an epage to my pager informing me that the home
 system has connected and is online (and give the IP address).  What I
 have noticed is for each connection ip-up is run several times for
 one connection.

 The day I set this up it sent out 4 pages back to back telling me
 about the same IP address.  For the same connection.   That was the
 worst case.  Sometimes it is only 2 or 3 times a connection.  It
 holds true for the ftping of the IP address to my work server.  Once
 I looked in the xferlog at work I found a similar thing.  Here is
 the latest entry:

 ---SNIP---
 Tue Jan 20 13:05:29 1998 1 ppp0151.remote.louisville.edu 15
 /home/jybarb01/.plan b _ i r jybarb01 ftp 1 root

 Tue Jan 20 13:07:01 1998 1 ppp0151.remote.louisville.edu 15
 /home/jybarb01/.plan b _ i r jybarb01 ftp 1 root

 Tue Jan 20 13:08:39 1998 1 ppp0151.remote.louisville.edu 15
 /home/jybarb01/.plan b _ i r jybarb01 ftp 1 root
 ---SNAP---

 As you can see, this transfer is only a couple of minutes apart from
 the same IP address.  I have pppd setup to idle disconnect after 2
 mins.

 Does anyone know why this is working like it is?  Does anyone have a
 recommendation to how to fix it?



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[Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-20 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello,
Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to
Internet at 56K.  I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel.
I use X-ISP package to connect (it displays 31.200 connected speed).
I know that when I use the same modem connecting to the same ISP
only running WinNT -- it connects at 56K.
I made sure that setserial is used with speed_vhi options when
setting up my serial ports. My pppd is 2.3 patch level two.

What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K.   And may be I am
connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem
is US Robatics external).


Thanks in advance,
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why do I get bounced mails from this list???

1998-01-20 Thread Shaleh
I receive bounces from e-mail this list is trying to deliver.  When I
send mail to this list and somewhere it can not be delivered -- I get
the bounce.  Why is this??  Why does the listserv not get the bounces. 
BTW usually qmail is the other ends mail program.


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Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-20 Thread bruce
It's not clear that SEUL will be based on Red Hat or RPM yet. The decision
got un-made.

Bruce


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Re: XSuSE NVidia X server and Debian

1998-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
   My question is how will this interact with Debian's idea of =
   who/what/where my
   x-server is?  Has anyone used this (or other) server from SuSE?  What =
   problems
   did you have?

I'm using the XSuSE Matrox Millenium II server.  Basically no
problems.  However I did have to make a link for XKB because otherwise
the keyboard was screwed up.  I don't remember what the link was
exactly or I'd tell you.


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Re: why do I get bounced mails from this list???

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote:

 I receive bounces from e-mail this list is trying to deliver.  When I
 send mail to this list and somewhere it can not be delivered -- I get
 the bounce.  Why is this??  Why does the listserv not get the bounces. 
 BTW usually qmail is the other ends mail program.

For the most part the listserv gets and handles bounces.  However, some
broken mail agents don't send bounces to the correct location, and you may
see those.  If you see a bounce from a message you send to the list, you
may wish to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a copy of the bounce
(full headers) so the problem can be traced.  I'd recomend waiting for a
few bounces though, since the listmasters may already be aware of the
problem.

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Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-20 Thread bruce
Last I heard, SEUL _will_ base on Debian. E-Linux was having a vote on which
distribution to use, and I asked them to remove Debian from consideration 
because we can't offer a project with non-free core components the same sort
of cooperation we are giving to SEUL. They can still derive from Debian
if they wish, within the terms of our license, just no special service.

Frankly, we have yet to see if any of these groups can make the system any
easier than we can on our own. So, we chose the one with the best policies
to work with.

Thanks

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STuck - FTP through Firewall

1998-01-20 Thread Cox
What is dselect passing to my ftp proxy???

I can go through the firewall manually but I need to figure out exactly what 
commands dselect is generating.

Can I monitor this somehow

I do not have man pages or anything to help me because I can not run dselect 
from ftp and I do not have the CD.


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Re: [hamm] dpkg-ftp problems from behind the firewall

1998-01-20 Thread bhmit1
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:

 * Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are
 selected?  In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages
 (among the ones selected for installation) that are not already
 installed?

I've never had a problem with dselect-ftp doing this to me.  Are you sure
all the packages haven't been upgraded (actually, they have).

 * I am able to successfully upgrade the list of available packages by
 choosing pasv FTP transfer.  But when I try to install the packages,
 dselect/dpkg says that it is trying to download each of the packages. 
 The download fails with a 'No such file or directory' for each of the
 packages.  What is the path I should be giving dpkg-ftp?  I tried
 /debian/unstable, /debian/hamm and a few others.  Is there are problem
 with symbolic links?

Please read the howto before destroying your machine (this is a promise,
not a warning).
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/

Brandon

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Re: XSuSE NVidia X server and Debian

1998-01-20 Thread Dale Smith
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:57:45 -0500, you wrote:

I untarred to /tmp, them copied over the files.  Be CAREFUL -- otherwise
you will overwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards and
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config -- both of which yu need to configure
XFree86.  I made a Cards.deb and Cards.suse and symlinked the one I
wanted to Cards.  I switch back and forth between servers.  I made the
xf86config xf86config.suse.  Otherwise it puts everything in debian
dirs.  XF86Config is stored in /etc -- no way around that.

Encouraged by the responses in this group, (and carefully looking at the .tgz
files) I went ahead and untarred them.  I ran the supplied xf86config and
guessed at my monitor setting.  Then I editied the Xserver file to point the new
server.  Works great!  Now to fine tune for my monitor (after I find out what
kind it is).

Thanks!
   Dale
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Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow.  For
example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.

Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6?  I would really
prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
passwords.

Torsten

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Re: mt setblk fails

1998-01-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am trying to read data from a DAT tape written on a foreign
 machine (probably a Sun).  I use dd to read from it, but invariably
 get 0 blocks.
 
 I am able to read a tape written by a SCO machine, but the SCO machine cannot
 read a tape I write.
 
 Following the SCSI HOWTO, I tried changing the hardware block size
 with `mt setblk 0'.  Any use of `mt setblk' always gives an I/O
 error.

Try the mt-dds command from the dds2tar package.  Maybe that command
will help here.

BTW: The 2 in dds2tar means to, not DDS2.

Torsten

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Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote:



These issues are being addressed.  For instance, developers are
considering various , typical installations.  The next version of debian
should see improvements in installation.


 1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: after all,
 linux is linux.  I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files,
 etc... are all notably different; similar but different.
 
   This is like the differences between ATT/UCB unix. Yes, they are/were
 both Unix, but... I wonder why it is necessary/useful to have so many
 differences in the linux variations. Some are natural evolution/selection,
 others seem gratitutious. Just as in the traditional Unix world, someday
 there may come a time when convergence of the threads will be useful.
 
 2) It was also noted that:
Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu
 causing a lot of time in conflict resolution.
   One good solution to this is used in most Windows packages; a set of
 standard {minimal, nominal, everything} installation configurations, and a
 custom option. I am not a dpkg expert, but would guess that this would not
 be too hard.
 
 Best.
 
 
 Dr. Gregory Guthrie
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College of Science and Technology
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   (Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
 
 
 
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Re: Newbie --Adding Programs To My Debian Base

1998-01-20 Thread IBMackey
I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about
adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program
came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use my debian gunzip
to get the first part of it unzipped. I have no idea what to do with the
program.bin. Any help is sorely appreciated.

ibm



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Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-20 Thread bruce
Thanks!

Bruce


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Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:

 Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6?  I would really
 prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
 passwords.

libc6 supports MD5 passwords (almost) transparently. There may be some
stupid programs that do things to make this transparency not full, but all
I found so far worked with MD5. Btw, libc 5.4.38 also supports md5
passwords.

Greg

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Re: Newbie --Adding Programs To My Debian Base

1998-01-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:

 I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about
 adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program
 came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use my debian gunzip
 to get the first part of it unzipped. I have no idea what to do with the
 program.bin. Any help is sorely appreciated.

Unzip it and put program.bin in /usr/local/bin/

Then make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path,  and run the program from
the command line with 

program.bin

Will


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Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:

 In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
 recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow.  For
 example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.
 
 Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6?  I would really
 prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
 passwords.

For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5
passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that
recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly.  Programs that don't
function should have bugs files against them.  The way to make a program
md5crypt aware is to pass the entire encrypted password as the salt to
crypt() instead of just the first two characters.

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Can I install debian packages on RH 5.0?

1998-01-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
Looking at debian-faq, I see that it seems to be possible to set
aside a section of disk under /usr/local for unpacking deb
packages.  Is this feasible?  I have RH 5.0 working well and don't
want to ditch it, but I should like to experiment with debian as
well.

What I am really asking is, whether a hybrid system is either
possible or desirable.  Has anyone set up such a system and does it
work well?



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Re: Can I install debian packages on RH 5.0?

1998-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
   Looking at debian-faq, I see that it seems to be possible to set
   aside a section of disk under /usr/local for unpacking deb
   packages.  Is this feasible?  I have RH 5.0 working well and don't
   want to ditch it, but I should like to experiment with debian as
   well.

You might want to look into the `alien' program, which allows RedHat
.rpm's to be converted into Debian .deb's, and vice versa.  I think
this will help you.


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Local printing on server

1998-01-20 Thread Bostjan Jerko
Hello !

I'm trying to use local printer on my server. Every time I want to print 
using lpr -Pascii name_of_file or lp -dascii name_of_file I get following
message:

   Connection refused 
job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts

I already checked hosts.lpd (ALL and localhost), hosts.allow (ALL, debian
and localhost) and hosts (localhost, debian).

Does anybody know what is the problem ?

Thanks in advance,

Bostjan


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Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-20 Thread Jens D. Baumgartner
Hi,

I took a look at the FAQ. I think you should change the way the menu is
sorted, e.g. About the FAQ in the middle of the list isn't very useful.
Also newbie question are asked before questions concerning the
installation, etc.

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Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The answer to this is not as simple as it seems. First of all, I have
observed that in both Win95 and NT, the connect speed reported can be,
interchangeably, the DTE speed and the V.34 speed. What's the max DTE speed
you've got your modem set for? I bet it's 56K, right? Now, since with
wonderful M$ software there's no way to know where it's getting that data
from unless you pay up $$$ for contract support, we can only conjecture at
how it arrives at connect speed. As far as xisp goes, I don't use it and
haven't looked at the source but since you say it's reported 31.2 and 31.2
is an actual V.34 speed (V.34 adjusts speed for line quality, but over a
fixed set of speeds, not continuously) I'm guessing that it's getting it
from the CONNECT   message which the modem issues when it
establishes a connection to the peer. The thing is, you can modify what
will be reported upon connect by configuring the modem with AT commands.
Who knows what Win95/NT gives to the modem to configure it. Based upon the
above observations though, I would tend to believe that you are in fact
connecting at 31.2.

Disappointed? You're not alone. Did you read all those articles about this
technology? Check out http://x2.usr.com/technology/overview.html and your
ISP for more details.

Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:

 Hello,
 Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to
 Internet at 56K.  I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel.
 I use X-ISP package to connect (it displays 31.200 connected speed).
 I know that when I use the same modem connecting to the same ISP
 only running WinNT -- it connects at 56K.
 I made sure that setserial is used with speed_vhi options when
 setting up my serial ports. My pppd is 2.3 patch level two.

 What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K.   And may be I am
 connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem
 is US Robatics external).

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Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-20 Thread Shaleh
The ppp setup for PAP neglects the need for user username in the
ppp_options file (or where ever /dev/modem and what not is).  And watch
out -- hamm's ppp is rather different.


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Re: Newbie --Adding Programs To My Debian Base

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:

 I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think
 about adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One
 such program came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use
 my debian gunzip to get the first part of it unzipped. I have no idea
 what to do with the program.bin. Any help is sorely appreciated.

first, check to see that the program you want isn't already packaged for
debian. chances are that it is. a debian package will always be better
than a .tar.gz binary.

if it isn't already packaged, enquire on debian-user or debian-devel to
see if someone is working on it. if so, wait until they've released it.
offer to help if you can.



finally, if all else fails, look at the alien package. it can
(sometimes) convert a .tar.gz or redhat .rpm to a .deb.  Read the alien
documentation thoroughly before trying this because alien isn't perfect
and (because of basic differences between the various distributions)
never will be perfect.

alternatively, if you are reasonably comfortable using a compiler and
editing Makefiles etc, download the sources and make your own package.
check the debian docs (/usr/doc/debian and /usr/doc/debian-policy
in particular) for info on developer packaging standards.  Look at
the sources for other debian packages for examples of how to do it.
The hello package's sole purpose is to be an example for package
developers.

craig

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Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-20 Thread Igor Grobman
 Hi,
 
 I took a look at the FAQ. I think you should change the way the menu is
 sorted, e.g. About the FAQ in the middle of the list isn't very useful.
 Also newbie question are asked before questions concerning the
 installation, etc.


Yea, I know, I've created categories as I thought of them, not in any 
particular order.  I've been thinking of reordering them, and I guess now is 
as good time as any to  rearrange it :).
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Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:

 On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
 
 For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5
 passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that
 recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly.  Programs that
 don't function should have bugs files against them.  The way to make a
 program md5crypt aware is to pass the entire encrypted password as the
 salt to crypt() instead of just the first two characters.

how do you convert a passwd/shadow file to md5 passwords? 

say i've got a shadow file full of old-style crypted passwords, how do i
convert them all to md5crypt (without having to know what the plaintext
password is)? 

craig

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Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to
 Internet at 56K.  I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel.

 What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K.   And may be I am
 connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem
 is US Robatics external).

Quick solution:

use ncftp to download a binary file from your ISP's ftp server. It will tell
you the transfer rate after finishing the download.

Some thoughts about connectspeed:

You can't relay on the speed negotiated during connect. Here in germany, a
stable connect is at most 46.000 Bytes/s. And some tests (www.cnet.com) say
the same for the US.

Most modems have some AT commands which tell them how risky(=fast) they
should connect. If the modem chooses a too high connectspeed, errors will
occur during transfer. This is no problem. The modem will decrease its
speed. But you won't notice this as you can't ask a modem about it's current
speed. The opposite case is possible as well. The modem will increase its
speed on good connects.

My guess about why you get 56k on WinNT:

You use a USR modemdriver for NT. This driver sets the above mentioned
risksetting very high. So you get a 56k connect. But the modem will
decrease its speed very soon as errors during transfer will occur often.

On Linux you use ATF to initialise your Modem. The F settings have a
rather conservativ risksetting and you get a minor connectspeed.

You could do a test:

Download a somewhat big file form your ISP's FTP Server, one time using NT
and one time using Linux. Then you can see if I am right.

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: Local printing on server

1998-01-20 Thread bhmit1
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bostjan Jerko wrote:

Connection refused 
 job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 
 attempts
 
 I already checked hosts.lpd (ALL and localhost), hosts.allow (ALL, debian
 and localhost) and hosts (localhost, debian).

/etc/printcap

Probably worth your time to install magicfilter or apsfilter (but the
latter doesn't have a maintainer anymore).

Brandon

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Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:

 how do you convert a passwd/shadow file to md5 passwords? 
 
 say i've got a shadow file full of old-style crypted passwords, how do i
 convert them all to md5crypt (without having to know what the plaintext
 password is)? 

I dont think that is possible. The best way would be to set
MD5_CRYPT_ENAB to yes and force everyone to change their passwords by
setting the expiry date... ;)

Greg

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wu-ftp, chroot doesn't work anymore

1998-01-20 Thread Paul Miller
Is chroot broken or something?  ... I just noticed that all my users can
access the whole file system over ftp.  I had it setup before so that
anyone in the 'ftponly' group was considered a guest by wu-ftp and the /./
in the home directory string denoted the root directory.  Now it doesn't
work!  Has something been upgraded which is causing this problem?  How can
I fix this?  I can send my configuration if you need it.

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Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:49:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:

 does rex = rexx  (script language found in OS/2 amongst others)
 No. 

 What are hamm and bo?
 
 They are code names for versions.  Debian normally has two (three
for a brief period after the release of a new version) distributions
available on the ftp site and mirrors - the most recent stable
version, and the unstable version that is in the development process.
Code names are assigned to these versions that do not change when the
version graduates from unstable to stable.  Buzz is the code name
for the version that was released as 1.1, rex is the name for version
1.2, bo refers to the current stable version 1.3, and is the code
name for the current unstable version that will be released as 2.0
in the near future (hopefully).

 The advantage of the code names is that the same code name is
attached to a version throughout its lifespan.

Bob


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buzz upgrade report

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi Craig,

Two problems with autoup to hamm from buzz. Mostly it works well.

Firstly, buzz (1.1.11) has dpkg 1.2.14, which doesn't have --get-selections.
Short of writing a script to do the same thing in perl, the best solution
seems to be to just upgrade dpkg beforehand to 1.4.0.8 from bo,
which also requires upgrading to libc5 5.4.33-6 (since dpkg 1.4.0.8
predepends on libc5 = 5.4.0.0, and we can't just install 1.4.0.20
straight because it's libc6).

After that everything goes pretty well.

Except that perl's postinst tries to clean up the mess in
/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux but fails, so the postinst
fails and therefore the configuration of a whole lot of other
packages fails too. I will file a bug report.


Is there a nice way to handle the dpkg upgrade problem?
It seems to be best NOT to leave the old libc5  dpkgs in
the current directory though because the script will
try to install them again and this causes problems with libc5
at least.

Hamish
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TurboTax on wine?

1998-01-20 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello,

Has anyone had any success running TurboTax on wine?

I have wine_0.0.980104-2 installed on my hamm system.
I was able to use it to install TurboTax.  Installation
seemed to go smooth and when I start it up under wine, it
almost looks ready to run, but not quite.

All the menus look fine, but the button graphics, like
the 'next' button, and the 'help' button, are kind of
scrambled.  Also the link text is the wrong size.

I tried converting the TrueType fonts installed by the
TurboTax app (*.ttf files) to *.pcf.gz files using
the freetype package and putting them in my
/usr/lib/X11/fonts directory, but so far that hasn't
worked.

It sure would be cool to do my taxes this year without
having to use windoze.

--ken


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[off topic?] NBSD - Not-So-Bad Distribution

1998-01-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
The Not-So-Bad Distribution page is at
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nsbd/

I don't know if this has been discussed before.  Are there problems with
rolling something like this into dselect?

S.
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perl module to read config files?

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders

does anyone know of a perl module to parse config files as used by gated
or the new bind 8.1?

e.g. /etc/named.conf:

options {
directory /var/named;
forward only;
forwarders {
203.16.167.1;
203.16.167.5;
};
};

zone . {
type hint;
file named.root;
};

zone localhost {
type master;
file named.local;
};

zone 127.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file named.rev-local;
};


craig

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