Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
. The gateway was set up after approval by Bruce. How about mangling the From headers in the news postings? Would be a lot nicer, and of course, a lot less Spam for people. That is, if that's what's causing the problems here. Regards -- This message is Copyright (C) 1997 by Karl

Re: DEBIAN ANNOUNCES $1000 GRANT TO GNOME PROJECT

1997-12-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
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Re: problem with /proc info

1997-06-09 Thread Karl Ferguson
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Re: Problems with serial ports? (longish life story)

1997-05-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
. P.S. What package is the command lsdev from. It's in the sysutils package from the utils section. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Problems with serial ports? (longish life story)

1997-05-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
0 0040-005f vga+ 03c0-03df Any of you have any ideas of how to stop me going bald? (don't take that literally:) -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL

Re: 1.3 installation report.

1997-05-20 Thread Karl Ferguson
server) locally and no user details. /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s servername gives a whole lot of errors as well. -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: 1.3 installation report.

1997-05-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 02:09 PM 18/05/97 -0500, Guy Maor wrote: This might be because the + entry is not at the end? (5634, 8734) I plan to release a new passwd package today which fixes this. I'm pretty sure I tried putting +:: in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow - still no success there I think. -- Karl

Re: 1.3 installation report.

1997-05-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
this out - it's baffling me, I *know* I can login alright and I'm fingerable. -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

1.3 installation report.

1997-05-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
via ssh fine). -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

How to kill a process...

1996-09-28 Thread Karl Ferguson
some suggestions other than rebooting? :-) Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au

Bug#4466: NE2000 clone not detected

1996-09-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
Ultra card doesnt get detected at bootup when I installed Debian 1.1.6 to test the distribution - I loaded the module and it found it fine. Hope that helps. ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Bug#4264: DIP/PPP support incorrect.

1996-08-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
. ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/

SCSI errors.

1996-08-06 Thread Karl Ferguson
- Suggestions? ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/

Unarj 2.41a-4 uploaded

1996-06-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
Date: 30 Jun 96 15:46 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: unarj Version: 2.41a-4 Binary: unarj Architecture: i386 source Description: unarj: Unarj unarchive utility. Changes: unarj: Fixed indented long description bug. Files

Bug#3447: Wu-ftpd prompts for installation of /home/ftp twice

1996-06-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
:~] This may not be a serious bug, but it shouldn't ask me twice :-) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760) [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776

Re: Ummm... what is 'buzz'?

1996-06-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
of buzz which'll have newer packages installed as they're released. ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760) [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-2446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776

Re: origin and pronunciation of Debian

1996-06-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
, Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I know it's pronounced deb-ian because it was named after Debra and Ian Murdock who founded the project. Everytime I say deee-beean I get a shiver up my spine :-) shiver ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760

Re: ftp.debian.org?

1996-01-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote: Just logged into ftp.debian.org with my mirror script manually and it was about to delete ALL my files. I manually ftp'd in there and the only directory under there was ftpadmin with a few files in it. Where has the whole of the Debian

Bug#2078: bind not working properly

1996-01-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
once I created the domain - it logged to the syslog that it loaded fine with such and such a serial number (normal). ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor - Tower Internet Services. | Internet Providers and | Tel: +61-9-316-3036

ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
before it was going to delete everything here... ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor - Tower Internet Services. | Internet Providers and | Tel: +61-9-316-3036 Fax: +61-9-381-3909| Networking Solutions |

The new LILO not working?

1995-12-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
debian on the for a cdrom install perhaps. In any case is anyone else seeing the problem with the new lilo/mbr packages from the development trre under base that I've just got? -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor - Tower Internet Services

man wont install?

1995-12-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
. Is that actually meant to be right, and we're still waiting on a new man package? Or is it a mistake in the conflicts for libgdbm1? Regs -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor - Tower Internet Services. | Internet

Re: dip/CSLIP trouble (again)

1995-12-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
See if it works OK in non-compressed mode. I think the compression module is buggy at the moment. That will probably go away once Simon, our new kernel maintainer, is up to speed. It's a little less dain-bramaged, but it still doesn't work. It's just not executing ifconfig or route for

Bug#2041: efax errors on installation

1995-12-17 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: efax Version: 07a-3 Efax gives this message upon installation: - (Reading database ... 11345 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace efax (using efax-07a-3.deb) ... Unpacking replacement efax ... Setting up efax ... The efax package has been installed on

Bug#2041: efax errors on installation

1995-12-17 Thread Karl Ferguson
Karl Ferguson writes: Karl /var/lib/dpkg/info/efax.postinst: [: too many arguments - Weird. I tested this a bit yesterday while I implemented it, and of course tested the installation on my box before I shipped efax --- in short, it doesn't do this on my computer. Can you trigger

Re: ALPHA-TEST permissions

1995-12-17 Thread Karl Ferguson
Well, we appear to have two options. We can (1) leave the development release in an unreadable directory, as it is at present; or (2) move the development release back into a readable directory, making it clear that it's still under development. Personally, I prefer (2). I don't want to

Bug#1992: w has invalid option

1995-12-09 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: procps Version: 0.97-4 Hi.. With the manual page for w it talks about the option -n, however the -n option fails with w at the prompt - hence: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:~] w -n w: illegal option -- n usage: w: [ -hi ] [user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:~] Regards, ...Karl --

Re: 1.0 on Infomagic CD

1995-12-08 Thread Karl Ferguson
Someone told me that Infomagic has announced a CD containing Debian 1.0, available in about a week. This would be a real disaster, since 1.0 is far from ready for anyone but a developer to use it. I will contact Infomagic, and I think we'd better write an announcement to linux-announce after

Bug#1925: rusers causes segmentation fault

1995-11-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: netstd Version: 1.22-1 myrddin:~$ rusers garfield.chu.cam.ac. gdm1000 gdm1000 gdm1000 turing.chu.cam.ac.uk djs1012 Segmentation fault $ rusers garfield.chu.cam.ac. gdm1000 gdm1000 gdm1000 turing.chu.cam.ac.uk djs1012 tickle.chu.cam.ac.uk apw24 myrddin.chu.cam.ac.u sde1000

Re: unarj-2.41a-1 uploaded. (fwd)

1995-11-28 Thread Karl Ferguson
Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 29 12:47:39 1995 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 23:42:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert K Jung) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unarj-2.41a-1 uploaded. (fwd) I'd suggest that we get a slightly more formal

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
As I said in my reply too, I think it'll be a good idea as well. I'll make a systool package and encorporate the utilities I've just released in it. Sound good? Yes :-). Peter Ok, that's settled then. IanM: Could you delete the procinfo, memtest and bogo packages before moving

Bug#1902: manpage for wtmp wrong

1995-11-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: manpages Version: 1.8-1 Hi... (I'm being picky, but...) According to the Contents file, wtmp is located in /etc - which it is. However, the wtmp manpage says it's in /var/adm. I'd say this would be a manpages problem rather than a base problem... Oh while I'm at it, I'm not sure but

Lha copyright?

1995-11-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi... I have finished a Debian distribution of LHA from sunsite. Now since the documentation is in Japanese I'm not exactly sure if it's copyright and under what conditions it's to be distributed. Would this go into the normal 1.0 distribution, contrib or non-free area? Or would it just not be

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
With all due respect, I fail to see any value in being able to calculate BogoMips from the command line. The uptime command provides accurate system load information in a much more useful format. The BogoMips calculation just wastes CPU cycles, which is certainly not something you would

Re: innd won't start on my ELF converted machine

1995-11-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
I am sending this to the devel list, assuming that not many others have converted to ELF yet. Anyway, the subject says alot. I have had innd running on my system for sometime. After loading all of the new ELF and A.OUT libs, innd doesn't start. I get a message in the log that says:

Returned mail (fwd)

1995-11-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 23 20:18:43 1995 From: Mail Router (smail 2.9 dl,da,fa,tu,po,qf,lo,dbm 03/23/95 43) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23 Nov 95 12:18:28 GMT Subject: Returned mail To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mail could not be

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

1995-11-22 Thread Karl Ferguson
It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false Ok, that's fine but doing an ls -l majordomo in /var/lib produces this: drwxrwsr-x 4 101 majordom 1024 Nov 22 02:24

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

1995-11-22 Thread Karl Ferguson
It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false What is supposed to happen is that the preinst creates a group and user for majordomo; files are supposed to be in the .deb file owned by

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

1995-11-21 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: majordomo Version: 1.93-1 Hi... It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false Ok, that's fine but doing an ls -l majordomo in /var/lib produces this: drwxrwsr-x 4 101

Bug#1875: sudo problem

1995-11-20 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: sudo Version: 2.0pl1-20 Craig Sanders writes: BTW, where should I send bug reports to? debian-user isn't the right place, of course. Read /usr/doc/bug-reporting.txt |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for

aout-* packages

1995-11-17 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi.. Are these new aout-* packages going to stay the same name forever? And also, are there going to be elf-* packages under the debian-1.0 tree too? It's a little confusing having aout-gcc-2.6.3-4.deb and gcc-2.7.0-2.deb - is the 2.7 ELF? I think I read a little about this before

Re: md5sum passwords

1995-11-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
A mixed solution may be possible, supplying DES (from both a US and a non-US site) to those who require YP support. I'm still not in favor of Debian doing this alone in the Linux community, though. [stuff deleted] Longer passwords, while they may preclude compatablility with other

Bug#1837: ncftp timeout is too short

1995-11-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: ncftp Version: 2.1.0-1 The `ncftp' program has a tendency to be too impatient; it won't wait more than 30 seconds for a command to complete. This is because the default timeout is this short. A more suitable value might be 2 or 3 minutes. Alternatively, the host is not

Bug#1838: ypbind shouldnt start with ypserv

1995-11-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: netstd Version: 1.21-1 Hi... When running a NIS server, ypbind also starts on the machine that ypserv is running on. The ypbind daemon doesnt really need to run at all IMO, I killed it and it appears to be working normally. Regards, ...Karl -- |

Re: man pages for accouting package

1995-10-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
I am planning on adapting the information in the /usr/doc/accounting texinfo page to a series of `man' pages in the acct package. Some might argue that this is redundant and therefore wastes disk space and introduces the chance for errors. Others might argue that this is a useful complement

Bug#1733: ncftp problems

1995-10-22 Thread Karl Ferguson
Firstly, if I a transfer (say from ftp.debian.org) is aborted halfway through, attempting to get the same file produces the incorrect message `Already have foo', and I have to use `-f'. Ever thought of the -C instead of -f? ncftp 2.2.0 is out now in any case - I wonder if the author has

Bug#1542: adduser: doesnt create dirs

1995-10-04 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: adduser Version: 1.94 Hi again.. This isnt a bug - more a note... If I create a directory in /etc/skel where adduser copies the default files for new accounts in there it doesn't create the directory. Would it be good to have this feature? ie: public_html directories etc etc...

Bug#1524: Minicom conficts with lrzsz

1995-10-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: minicom Version: 1.71-1 Hi... Just tried to install the new minicom, and noticed it wont install becuase the lrzsz package is installed... Why is this? Is it not possible to dial out one one line and for a person that calls your system to sz a file? Regards ...Karl --