Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-02 Thread Richard Lovison
While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page by using b or ^B. Has anyone else experienced this? My current version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use more to read a text file, everything works fine. Richard

Re: Interesting Activity for Shell commands.

1996-06-02 Thread Rob Leslie
Also perhaps how I could also start my sendmail configuration as if I only just installed it. I seem to have edited it too many times and cant put it back the right way. ie Do I deselect it, remove it and then reinstate it ? You should be able to reconfigure sendmail by running

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
BTW: When will 1.1 be released? I am uploading yet another pass at the installation floppies today. We're also dealing with some FTP site problems. I'm going to make a new stable archive this week, and will let that propogate out to all of the FTP mirrors. We then will give it a few more days of

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
I think more won't scroll back when it is reading a pipe, only when it is reading a file. Man drives it with a pipe. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a whole lot more than Dole. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-02 Thread Guy Maor
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page by using b or ^B. Has anyone else experienced this? My current version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use more to read a text file, everything works fine. more can't go

IP-forwarding

1996-06-02 Thread Lindsay Allen
IP forwarding used to work just fine and now it won't. The output of ifconfig and route _look_ ok and I can't think what is wrong. IP-forwarding was enabled in the make config, but how can I tell if it actually in the kernel? All ideas welcome. Lindsay

Re: problem with traceroute

1996-06-02 Thread Mark Eichin
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: traceroute: IP_HDRINCL: Protocol not available I've also noticed this under 1.2.13. (the same package works fine on my 1.3.79 machine, and I should really update both kernels...) There are actually a number of unstable packages that don't work under 1.2.13

Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Hi, on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the following. koko:/root ping us1by-6 PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

Re: Help. Can't boot all of a sudden.

1996-06-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using my linux box today and noticed that when I logged out on a tty the boo login prompt did not return. I then rebooted and all of a sudden the kernel stoips booting at INIT: Booting v2.61. It stops here and will go no

Re: problem with traceroute

1996-06-02 Thread Scott Barker
Mark Eichin said: There are actually a number of unstable packages that don't work under 1.2.13 -- most have explicit dependencies (diald used to, for example) but some don't. BIND, for example, needs the ip_options support that was added in 1.3 (though I've submitted a reasonably clean fix

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi, on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the following. koko:/root ping us1by-6 PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Socket

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-02 Thread Richard Lovison
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page by using b or ^B. more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like pipes for example. (man pipes the data out to the viewer so

Re: PGP MailCrypt

1996-06-02 Thread Joe Reinhardt
Derek Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ALso, is there a debian package for MailCrypt (Emacs/PGP interface)? I found a package for auto-pgp, but it appears that I have to use emacs rmail to take advantage of it... I uploaded a mailcrypt package last weekend, mailcrypt-3.4-1.all.deb. -- Joe

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Peter Tobias
Gerd Bavendiek wrote: on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the following. koko:/root ping us1by-6 PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Socket destroy

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Rob Browning
Gerd Bavendiek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the following. koko:/root ping us1by-6 PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Brian == Brian C White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package is called kernel-image. I'm still looking for this kernel-image package. Can't find it in the ls-lR files. You could also grab the raw

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Martin Konold
I do agree. You really should go for 1.1 beta. This version is supposed Then maybe the warning signs in the ftp sites should be updated? Back when I went for Debian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6, which indeed prooved less stable than unstable), as well as when I

easy convert from slackware?

1996-06-02 Thread Paul Wade
I started with slack 3 and the 1.2.13 kernel. I have since updated libraries, binutils, module utilities and the kernel (1.3.100). I have to boot 1.2.13 to make anything. I get a floating point exception when I type ps aux. I have a 386 without FPU. I thought I would try the Debian binaries. Is

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have seen this with the latest net packages in most version since 1.3.95, I think. Still happens at 1.99.8, but less so than some earlier kernels. I have yet to boot 1.99.10. Hasn't caused my any problems, but YMMV. manoj -- Bond reflected that good

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Martin Konold wrote: Why don't you try installing Debian 1.1 beta instead of 0.93R6? It's located in the unstable directory of your friendly Debian mirror site. but don't be misled by the 'unstable' name... 1.1 is now in late beta and is quite stable now. And the installation process has

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page by using b or ^B. Has anyone else experienced this? My current version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use more to read a text file, everything works fine. If I remember

Re: Self-Built Kernel Packages

1996-06-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian C. White) wrote on 30.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package is called kernel-image. You could also grab the raw source and use kernel-package package to generate your new image package. This is

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page by using b or ^B. more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like pipes for example.

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about this for a while before I do it, though. Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Martin Konold
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about this for a while before I do it, though. I vote for not deleting it but for renaming to obsolete or old. We should not remove the last stable version before 1.1 is released and

Re: Help. Can't boot all of a sudden.

1996-06-02 Thread Dale Miller
/mnt and execute MAKEDEV in /mnt/dev. Tried that but that doesn't seem to be the problem. What should mtab have in it after a shutdown? I noticed that the new quota package accesses it with the new program that makes sparse files. Could that be a problem? I didn't see anything particularly

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about this for a while before I do it, though. Lets be kind to our mirrors.. :) We also need to move the 1.1 into place when this happens. Then we need to create the next