On Sat, 4 May 1996, Fundamental wrote:
what package does uugetty come with?
uugetty is part of getty-ps which is not (yet?) available as a
debian-package. I use version getty_ps-2.0.7h and had to fix some
pieces to comply with the FSSTND.
Makefile:
11c11
FSSTND=-DFSSTND
---
#
bash-1.14-4.deb
diff-2.7-10.deb
findutils-4.1-9.deb
mount-2.5i-1.deb
sh-utils-1.12-5.deb
timezone-7.48-1.deb
Bash seem to be the most likely candidate for producing the errors, but
I'm not sure.
On my old (non debian) a.out System only crond and smail produce the broken
flock messages.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen)
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
[...]
/usr/bin/gs reads /etc/papersize, possibly adds the correct papersize to
the argumentlist, and then executes /usr/bin/gs-papersize.
I do not have an
Matt Birkholz said:
I do not have an /etc/papersize and I do not find it in unstable/Contents
nor in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* (neither in a package file list nor in an
installation script). It seems a pity to have gone to the trouble of
supporting /etc/papersize if it never gets created.
I have a home machine on which I would like to send mail to local users as
well as the Internet (when a PPP link is up). I used to do this by telling
smailconfig that I am an Internet site with visible name primenet.com
(my Internet Service Provider's domainname).
This produced from fields like
I am trying to set up a modem for both dialin and dialout use. I have been
unable to do this with either getty or mgetty.
If I run getty -h -w 38400 ttyS1, I cannot dialout. Kermit says
Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua1: Device or resource busy
If PPP is up when I start the getty (i.e.
Hello,
Has anybody had any experience with the supra 288i Sp internal
Speakderphone Modem. This modem comes stock with most microns and
is plug and play. I have used the following line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial:
setserial -vb /dev/cua2 irq 5 port 0x03e8 uart 16550A
if, after bootup, I do a
Most information on Debian mirrors lists three sites in Australia.
For example,
If you're looking for another Australian-specific Debian GNU/Linux
mirror site then here is a list of all the official ones:
ftp.tower.net.au /pub/linux/debian (Tower Networking P/L - Perth)
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
what package does uugetty come with?
uugetty is part of getty-ps which is not (yet?) available as a
debian-package. I use version getty_ps-2.0.7h and had to fix some
pieces to comply with the FSSTND.
Here's a suggestion:
If you're going to go to
Hi,
perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone of the Remote
Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german site mirror alway
compares different times. Any good solutions?
Greetings
Bernd
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Bernd Hi, perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone
Bernd of the Remote Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german
Bernd site mirror alway compares different times. Any good solutions?
That has been bugging me as well when I switched from ftp.debian.org to
On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: base
Date: 3 May 1996
X11 cannot find my PS/2 mouse. I assume that it should be /dev/psmouse
but it appears to be misdefined. It is defined as character type 10,
but 'cat /proc/devices' does not show a type 10 character device!
Was
On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a home machine on which I would like to send mail to local users as
well as the Internet (when a PPP link is up). I used to do this by telling
smailconfig that I am an Internet site with visible name primenet.com
(my Internet Service
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That has been bugging me as well when I switched from ftp.debian.org to some
other mirror during the hick-ups at ftp.debian.org. It would be really nice
if we could store files dates in UTC (GMT) rather than in localtime. If we
can't persuade mirror(1) (haven't
On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bernd Hi, perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone
Bernd of the Remote Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german
Bernd site mirror alway compares different times. Any good solutions?
That has been bugging me
At 11:38 AM 7/05/96 CST, you wrote:
Most information on Debian mirrors lists three sites in Australia.
For example,
If you're looking for another Australian-specific Debian GNU/Linux
mirror site then here is a list of all the official ones:
ftp.tower.net.au /pub/linux/debian
Hello.
Sorry for this off-topic topic. Thought, Debian
users might be interested in this also. Perhaps
someone has found a solution yet, other than
handtune many LaTeX-docs again or reuse the old
LaTeX-suite?
It seems to me that there has occured some
Hello,
I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The
/usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it.
I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should
support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it
display them on a Slackware
Please find enclosed my sendmail.cf file. You will have to change
mailhost to the name of your ISP's mail relay host (one that will
act as a smart host), or have an alias for it.
Using this config file, your mail will go through by SMTP, not by
UUCP: just add a `sendmail -q' to your ip-up script
Hello,
I just installed Debian 1.1: it installed fine, nice job! There are
some minor problems, though. Here is an incomplete (sorry...) list of
some problems I had while installing:
- When making a boot floppy, I inserted an unformated one, and it
failed; I used the shell in the second console
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
Hi Craig,
As an added bonus, you also get the satisfying feeling of putting
something worthwhile back into debian!
8-)
At least some preservation of config files should be done additionally
to the simple control file setup.
Maybe there should be an
Hi *!
Since upgrading from Slack 2xxx to Debian 1.1 the following
construction doesn't work any more :-(
adson$ cat test EOF
A 1
B 1
C 1
EOF
adson$ tail -f test | awk '$1 ==B'
There should be the output B 1 on stdout now, but nothing
happens. It works if I don't use the f-switch, but this is
Andreas == Andreas Wehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andreas 2.) Documents compiled with b) use more vertical space than
Andreas a), e. g. the same text is distributed on more pages. Most
Andreas annoying are hand-tuned pages from a). The command:
Andreas \setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus0.5ex
[Please fix your return address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is incomplete]
I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The
/usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it.
I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should
support) but nvi still does not
B.= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy Chow)
B. A. 2.) Documents compiled with b) use more vertical space than
B. A. a), e. g. the same text is distributed on more pages. Most
B. A. annoying are hand-tuned pages from a). The command:
B. A.\setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus0.5ex minus0.2ex} makes no
B.
In article Pine.BSD/[EMAIL PROTECTED],
gli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using Debian 1.1 beta. When I do dpkg --configure sendmail, I get a
error message saying that /etc/sendmail.cf is not avaiable. Then I do
There is a bug in sendmail-8.7.5-3.deb. Please use sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb
as soon
If you are setting up sendmail (not smail), you would run
/usr/sbin/sendmailconfig to create the sendmail.cf file. This is
a slick config script. Kudos to the author..
Tim
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What if there were no hypothetical situations?
** Disclaimer: My
Since upgrading from Slack 2xxx to Debian 1.1 the following
construction doesn't work any more :-(
adson$ cat test EOF
A 1
B 1
C 1
EOF
adson$ tail -f test | awk '$1 ==B'
There should be the output B 1 on stdout now, but nothing
happens. It works if I don't use the f-switch, but this is not
Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bernd Hi, perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone
Bernd of the Remote Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german
Bernd site mirror alway compares different times. Any good solutions?
Has anyone set up a JetDirect printer up under Debian? If so, can you
tell me *how* you got it working?
Thanks,
Tim
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What if there were no hypothetical situations?
** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
I upgraded X to ELF from .99R6, and after going through xbase, xfnt*,
xlib and some clients, xdm didn't start the server. I had to
re-decipher all the mess of xdm which I obviously had forgotten :-(
This is fixed in xbase-3.1.2-9, uploaded today.
I
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
- Xconsole is still not anywhere.
You mean the xconsole program, or the named pipe in /dev? I think that
/dev/xconsole should be managed by the syslogd package, as the default
syslogd configuration refers to it.
- Having chosen my X server and
Over the last few days, I have upgraded a (work) machine from
0.93r6 to 1.1 beta using Dale Scheetz's manual dpkg instructions.
All went smoothly except for libc4. I upgraded dpkg from aout to
elf tried again with the results below. Any ideas ?
thanks
cm
nb - After above, i patched the
Howdy. I'm seriusly confused by a problem that is showing up with my
Debian-distributed X server under Linux 1.3. I've been using various
1.3.x kernels, four different video cards and chipsets, and two
motherboards; still I can't make it work (yet).
When X starts (using either startx or xdm),
Hi. I've got a new 1.1 machine which is on a local network which
includes a Win '95 printserver with no IP address. Does anyone
know how to set up printing to such a machine? Will samba allow
printing to a machine with no IP address?
Thanks in advance.
Syrus.
Has anyone set up a JetDirect printer up under Debian? If so, can you
tell me *how* you got it working?
Yes and no. Yes in that you can print to jet.direct.card.name!raw (pardon
my SV'ishness), no in that it will always claim to be faulted.
Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In your email to me, Joe Kirby, you wrote:
Has anyone set up a JetDirect printer up under Debian? If so, can you
tell me *how* you got it working?
Yes and no. Yes in that you can print to jet.direct.card.name!raw (pardon
my SV'ishness), no in that it will always claim to be faulted.
I have (very) recently done a new install of the 1.1 beta test software
on an IBM ThinkPad 360. I had previously installed the 0.93R6 release
on the same machine, and was able to configure X without much difficulty.
After installing the 1.1 beta (which went _very_ smoothly! :), I can no longer
Sometimes, a telnet or FTP session to our Debian system does not end
correctly. I think this usually happens when someone's network connection
dies while they are still connected. When this happens (I don't think it
happens every time), their shell or FTP process does not die, but lives on
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
Hi. I've got a new 1.1 machine which is on a local network which
includes a Win '95 printserver with no IP address. Does anyone
know how to set up printing to such a machine? Will samba allow
printing to a machine with no IP address?
The
Tim,
I have tried to ask this a long time ago and never really got any
answers. If you do, would you mind copying them onto me..
Many Thanks
Martin
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Tim 'Death before Decaf' Sailer wrote:
Has anyone set up a JetDirect printer up under Debian? If so, can you
tell me *how*
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I just installed Debian 1.1: it installed fine, nice job! There are
some minor problems, though. Here is an incomplete (sorry...) list of
some problems I had while installing:
[...]
- /etc/initrunlvl is never created. How
Hi,
when I start X through xdm, I get a nice xconsole that displays all kind
of messages. When I start xconsole by hand from an X-session (or from my
.xsession-file), I don't get them. How do I get them anyway?
Maarten
ps. an 'echo testing /dev/console` shows up in the window
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when I start X through xdm, I get a nice xconsole that displays all kind
of messages. When I start xconsole by hand from an X-session (or from my
.xsession-file), I don't get them. How do I get them anyway?
Maarten
I have a similar problem, but worse:
'echo
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