a couple of weeks ago I reported a problem with the web site:
I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/
The Name, Description, and Maintainer fields of some of the packages
are
empty, trying to download such a package results in an Unknown URL error.
Ray
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns
the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even
when you do it several times). 'ps a' still shows no xdm process.
I see - it
OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I
get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server.
A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hiding?
2. I can find the server in the list, but of course, when I kill it xdm
restarts it.
D. I remember
Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has
some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much
fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the
trick. I'm still not sure why the start/stop script didn't work. Maybe it
will
What can I do about this?
dpkg --list 'ncurses*' | egrep -v '^un'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersion
Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the command which available in any of the debian releases?
Here's a simple shell script I've installed in /usr/local/bin to perform
the same task (thanks Jon). I'm afraid I don't know if it will be in
Version 1.1.
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Stephen Early wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I
get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server.
A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hiding?
C == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
C I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to
C allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout
C with minicom or send faxes?
C I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't want to add users to a
C dialout group just to
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
I did find hints that the
I think `net' would be a good group name for this.
Rob Browning writes:
C == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
C I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to
C allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout
C with minicom or send faxes?
C I'm
Package: lpr
Version: 5.9-11
After quite a long dive in the lpr sources I found the reason that we
can't remove jobs in a remote queue. First, our /etc/hosts was like
this:
1.2.3.4 fully.qualified.domain.name hostname
Inverting the columns to be like this
1.2.3.4 hostname
Hi,
I just upgraded my R93 system to unstable-elf with help of the nice perlscript
someone posted here, and mucho struggling with dependencies :-) I didn't
like dselect (I apologise for this:), so upgrading by hand was a little slow,
but without any big problems. Some packages needed to be
Craig Sanders said:
On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can we make that dialout, please? Something already present and used
by (at least) dip and efax.
I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to allow users
to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to
On one of the computer systems here, I am suddenly unable to use the Debian
installation disks.
Details:
I am using a boot floppy made from a file dated something like May 4.
It boots version 1.3.95.
The boot seems to go OK; i.e., the kernel loads without any obvious problems.
Then I insert the
Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45:
e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X
server for each VC, which will take a lot of memory.
Isn't there a problem with the lock file?
Carlos
Thanks to all who answered my question about 3D cards.
Has anyone managed to operate a system with more than 128MB RAM? I'm
interested in configurations of 1/4 and 1/2 Gigabyte of physical RAM.
Thanks
Bruce
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X.
M-C-- and M-C-+.
2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup.
In my graphics drivers section I have:
ACCEL
Virtual 1024 768
Hi,
I'd really like to have mouse functionality with mc, and especially,
emacs; I think I have the right stuff installed, but the applications
don't hear the mouse at all. I have a mostly 1.1 system, upgraded in
place from a 0.93r6. All base packages are newest versions, except for
those that
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Why don't you just make
/etc/cron.weekly/wuftpd be empty or not executable, and copy it to the
cron.daily directory ?
Don't make it nonexecutable, or run-parts will complain. Making it
empty is good though.
Guy
Debian will eventually need U.S. 501(c)(3) tax status. If anyone's willing
to work on that for us, it would be a great help.
Thanks
Bruce
Does debian 1.1 observe the arrangement of the Linux kernel with
regards to include files etc? ie should there be symlinks /usr/include
to include and asm subdirectories in /usr/src/linux?
I appear to have a directory /usr/include/linux which is NOT
a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. It
In general, I think the beta 1.1 installation lacks severely in this
regard. There is an item on the menu to add the modules. However, it
does not run correctly and gives a ton of error messages saying it
cannot find the /etc/modules file (when it is there!), and will not
allow the
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X.
The Left-Ctrl, Left-Alt, and the + or - on the numeric keyboard.
2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup.
In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config look for the
Bruce Perens writes (Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)):
Absolutely. If Bruce finds some time the dpkg and dselect ought also be
modified to show up a small WARNING message.
Those are Ian Jackson's programs.
Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the level of
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type
command:
#!/bin/bash
type -path $*
I'm glad
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
I did find hints that the
Hi,
I am expiriencing a problem that I don't know how to solve.
masca[~]$ xtet42
[1] 769
masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'
The problem is that the library is there:
masca[~]$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 10 15:43
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has
some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much
fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the
trick. I'm still not sure why
I had also reported this problem with module configuration a week (?) ago, but
have not heard anything about corrections to the installation program. Is
this being worked on?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 16 15:20:55 1996
Resent-Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:10:25 +0200
Old-Return-Path:
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) 0) {
I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it's not
documented. Also it has no effect at all, though it returns 0.
It's not in
Erick Branderhorst writes (find question (and xargs)):
this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
because it is very debian related too:
I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remove the
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
I did find hints that the
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome writes (Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1
installation notes.)):
...
[ dselect in Tk/Ctk ]
I think this would be a very interesting (and useful) project, that
could be worked in a distributed group fashion, just like the whole
Debian. Of course, I'm
I did another pass on the modconf program over the past two days, and
it should work better now (or perhaps I should say it should work). I will
incorporate this into a new root floppy tomorrow - that task may overflow
into part of Saturday.
Until the release is done, I am reading little list
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
I did find hints that the default
Stephen Early writes (Re: X Windows):
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns
the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even
when you do it several times). 'ps
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
masca[~]$ xtet42
[1] 769
masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'
Probably it's an a.out program. Type 'file xtet42' to find out. You
could recompile it or install xcompat.
Guy
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't
handle shell builtins like one would expect which would. For example:
which test
returns nothing. While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian
system.
ok, the next version of
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at devices.tex. There's
LOTS and LOTS of stuff that's not
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45:
e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X
server for each VC, which will take a lot of memory.
Isn't there
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the level of
support in the Description, so that people see it in dselect.
Easiest and obviously most reasonable suggestion ! 8-)
Greetings,
Steffen
-
Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _
Rick Macdonald writes (Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs):
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) 0) {
I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it's not
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at
On the subject on which, why not use:
-- which script for bash starts --
/bin/tcsh
# or where-ever tcsh is
which $*
# or what-ever prints all input parameters in tcsh
-- which script for bash ends --
As you all surely understand I'm not well versed in the writing of shell
scripts, but
Hi,
I have just installed mgetty for the first time
When I convert received faxes using the package g3topbm.
Then when viewing either with xv or postscript,
the page appears about half the size in length and the characters are
compressed to half their sizes
Any one know how to fix this problem?
check out http://web.nmsu.edu/~emacha/debian.html
got the source code for which. Compiles fine under linux, and someone
could put it in debian-utils, or whatever...
(my $.02 worth, ;) )
-Frank
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
I would say
Hi there,
can't get XFree running on an ATI-Mach-64 card. I don't know for sure
what kind of Mach64 card it is, but it's got 2MB VRAM. When I start
XF86_Mach64, I get junk on the screen: most of the pixels are white,
but there are thin vertical stripes (a couple of inches high/long) of
black.
On 15 May 1996 12:15:39 +0200, Kai Grossjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Kai Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 (I know that it's
Kai unstable and maybe I should start with a stable release first,
Kai but I have already learned a few things and I think I should be
Kai able to
/etc/cron.daily/find looks like this:
#! /bin/sh
#
# cron script to update the `find.codes' database.
#
# Written by Ian A. Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED].
su nobody -c cd / updatedb 2/dev/null
but the nobody entry in /etc/passwd looks like this:
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/dev/null
and it
Olaf == Olaf Erb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Olaf the system is more
Olaf sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66)
Olaf with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11
Olaf completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed
Olaf down during emacs-startup,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
which. It's just a bash shell script that calls
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
Is there a reason debian does not ship with /dev/random and /dev/urandom
mknodded? (mknod /dev/random c 1 8 ; mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 and they work
fine however)
No. Report it as a bug against base. Or
Billy Chow writes:
Olaf sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66)
Olaf with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11
Olaf completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed
Olaf down during emacs-startup, too, but not like now. That's the
Olaf price we
There has been some helpful discussion of the setting up of X11.
Perhaps this is a good time to ask some of mine.
1. How can I get the command C-g in emacs to work under X11 the same
as it does in a console? Several times my machine or screen seemed to
lock up when I used this command three
Dale Scheetz wrote:
I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
I did find hints that the default mode could be
Bruce Perens writes:
and the system is more sluggish.
I suggest you build a custom kernel as soon as possible. Please tell us
if that helps. The installation kernel is a bit too generic, I fear.
Uhhm, I never touched the debian bootdisks :) It was 1.3.100, now
pre2.04 ELF compiled with all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rick Is this a problem with the cron job from the findutils package or the
Rick passwd file from the base package?
With the passwd file. There is a : missing at the end of the nobody entry.
It should be
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:
Has this
What do I have to put in the MemBase line?
Someone with an ATI GX Mach64 2MB - ramdac ati68860 Rev B, and
clock ati18818-1/ICS2595, reported that he used: 8MB Aperature at 0xa000
I think this is supposed to be listed in the XF86Config file as
MemBase 0xa000
This is only an inference,
This bug was in the passwd file from the base package.
It can be fixed by replacing the nobody line in /etc/passwd with this entry:
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:
Hope that helps.
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: lpr
Version: 5.9-11
Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 May 1996 14:24:
Rick Macdonald writes (Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs):
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
if
I've just installed 0.93R6, and it appears that everything is in
a.out format. Is this correct?
I've downloaded some packages from non-free, like ncftp, seyon, and
xv. These, however, are in ELF format. E.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:561]% file xv
xv: ELF 32-bit LSB
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