Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: Ok! We are narrowing the field. The above command locks up the terminal big time, but... stty cs7 cstopb fixes it! Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits alone? I can put

where are the newsgroups???

1996-06-11 Thread James D. Freels
Where are the debian news groups? Have they completely shut down or do we need to resubscribe (again)? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:

Re: Problem with telnet login

1996-06-11 Thread Gerry Jensen
I remember seeing in the kernel mailing list that pre2.0.13 breaks incoming telnets. Are you by chance using this kernel? Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Brian Sulcer wrote: I recently upgraded one of our machine's base packages and other packages to the latest 1.1 versions.

Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Larry Loos
I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it needs libc.so.4. Where is it? I'm obviously a newbie to Debian and appreciate any help some

Re: sysklogd upgrade

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Richard Lovison writes (sysklogd upgrade): I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system. I proceeded to purge syslogd

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread Alexander Goldstein
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: Paul Schoenly writes (gzip and dpkg problem): ... $ dpkg --install package_x.deb ... gzip:stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) subprocess

last 1.1 upgrade problem fixed with NAG FORTRAN

1996-06-11 Thread James D. Freels
Dear Debian-Linux colleagues: A few days ago, I had mentioned in this newsgroup a problem I was having with using my commercial license of NAG Fortran on the new Debian 1.1 upgrade. I wish to report here the fix to the problem. As one might expect, the problem is due to Debian 1.1 being an

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-11 Thread eckes
Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits alone? /etc/gettydefs is used for this, but debian has no support for it.. hmm.. guess thats a login problem. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],ka.sub.org}

Re: Help wanted :-)

1996-06-11 Thread N. Salwen
I think it would be sufficient for people to list their qualifications and let the customer decide. The Better Business Bureau approach of keeping a file of complaints might also be useful.

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread llucius
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: It should be a simple fix to getty_ps; if anyone packages it for Debian this will be an easy thing to do at the same time. Yep, it looks REAL simple. It there isn't a current maintainer, I'll package it up. L.Lucius __ Y_ a_ m_ b_ o_ | The leanest,

inconsistency between base and sysvinit packages!

1996-06-11 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I tried to send this to debian-bugs, but it hasn't been delivered for 2 days, so I'm posting it here as well. Carlos --- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) --- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 2 days Date: Sun,

'nobody' doesn't exist?

1996-06-11 Thread Petri Wessman
Hmmm, I keep getting inetd[3543]: getpwnam: nobody: No such user messages on my xconsole. The 'nobody' user is defined in /etc/passwd, so what's going on? As far as I know, I'm running the latest development (unstable) release of Debian (1.1). It's not fatal, just annoying. Mostly I'm curious

Re: EMAIL! HELP!

1996-06-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Fundamental wrote: The only thing that could be the problem (?) is that i have a softlink from my mailbox in /var/spool to my home directory (because my / is full) You probably should have partitioned the disk so that /var and/or /var/spool were separate partitions. Too

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: gzip and dpkg problem): In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For reasons too complicated to explain here this means that dpkg can't do proper error trapping (it

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: gzip and dpkg problem): On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help us a lot :-). Well, I just checked and even the latest(?)

testing ...

1996-06-11 Thread Richard G. Roberto
I haven't heard anything from the list in a while, just checking to see if I'm still subscribed! Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any

Re: Problem with telnet login

1996-06-11 Thread Brian Sulcer
I remember seeing in the kernel mailing list that pre2.0.13 breaks incoming telnets. Are you by chance using this kernel? Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] It turns out that the problem was with the version of login I had installed. The maintainer pointed me to the newest version and that fixed the

superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-11 Thread Paul Wade
Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply using a Windows system as a Linux console over ethernet. How do I fix this? Paul Wsde

Linux 2.0 in Debian 1.1

1996-06-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
As Linux 2.0 already released, I think it should be included in the debain 1.1 official release.

NFS install - follow up

1996-06-11 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi again, I just noticed I didn't metion that I am running debian 1.1 (beta) and dpkg -s dpkg gives: Package: dpkg Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.2.3elf Replaces: dpkgname Pre-Depends: libc5 (=

Dselect + NFS

1996-06-11 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I have just had something strange happening to me. I tried to update some packages using dselect with the NFS option. When going into the install option I would get an error from find about not being able to find the directory. The strange thing though is that the directory was correct and the

ncr-810 support?

1996-06-11 Thread Dale Martin
It would appear that the boot disks for debian 1.1 beta don't have generic ncr-810 SCSI support - the .93 disks did. Are there alternative boot disks available with this support? I perused the installation document and saw no mention of it. Thanks, Dale

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Larry Loos wrote: I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it needs libc.so.4. Where is it? This is in the libc4

Linux 2.0 and Debian 1.1

1996-06-11 Thread jerijian
Hi, Is Linux 2.0 going to be included in Debian 1.1 once it's release? Thanks. -- Arthur D. Jerijian | Who on earth can blame them? Ah, no wonder the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered [EMAIL PROTECTED] | years of agony all for her, for

Re: superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-11 Thread Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer
In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply using a Windows system as a Linux console over ethernet. How do I fix this? Fix it? It's not really broken. The 'normal' security rules say no

dselect ( dpkg 1.2.3 (i386 elf)) unable to install 1.1

1996-06-11 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I want to upgrade my debian 1.0 to 1.1. I have installed the new dpkg (1.2.3 elf) then followed the steps in dselect. then dselect failed in the Install step with the following error: Running dpkg -iGROEB /u2/debian/binary find: /u2/debian/binary/admin/tob-0.14-1.deb: No such file or

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer
In your email to me, Larry Loos, you wrote: I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it needs libc.so.4. Where is it? I'm obviously

Re: Howto upgrade 0.93 -- 1.1

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Juhani Luhtanen writes (Howto upgrade 0.93 -- 1.1): Is there anywhere a simple step-by-step guide on how to go and upgrade one's debian? 1. Install the latest a.out dpkg from the `upgrades' directory, for example `dpkg --install dpkg-1.2.3.deb'. 2. Run dselect and go through

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Larry Loos
A list reader kindly replied: in unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-15.deb . Are you sure you're installing packages from the correct tree (_un_stable)? Packages that depend on libc4 are in the a.out binary format, which is being replaced by ELF. I received several private messages from readers

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Larry Loos wrote: I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it needs libc.so.4. Where is it? Hmm... Many packages

Re: superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-11 Thread Guy Maor
On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Paul Wade wrote: Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply using a Windows system as a Linux console over ethernet. How do I fix this? man securetty

stty vs setserial

1996-06-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
I can point setserial at a particular port, but can't seem to tell it to set the stop bits to two. I can tell stty to set the stop bits, but can only seem to use it while on the tty in question. Is there any way to point stty at the port I want changed? TIA, Dwarf

traceroute 1.1 upgrade problems

1996-06-11 Thread Zachary DeAquila
I just upgraded my 0.93 laptop to 1.1, and now traceroute doesn't work... traceroute to anyplace returns traceroute: IP_HDRINCL:Protocol not available any ideas anyone?

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Larry Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it needs libc.so.4. Where is it? Where did you get the

linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread dkklee
Would the release of debian 1.1 use the new stable Linux (v2.0)? --Derek Lee

Re: ncr-810 support?

1996-06-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] It would appear that the boot disks for debian 1.1 beta don't have ] generic ncr-810 SCSI support - the .93 disks did. Are there ] alternative boot disks available with this support? I perused the ] installation document and saw no mention of it. I ran

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Derek Lee
Rob Browning wrote: I'm not sure if it'll be packaged in time for the initial 1.1 release, but it'll certainly be available shortly thereafter. Anyway, using the new kernel-package package, it's pretty trivial to do it yourself. I am afraid I am not familiar with the kernel-package

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would the release of debian 1.1 use the new stable Linux (v2.0)? I'm not sure if it'll be packaged in time for the initial 1.1 release, but it'll certainly be available shortly thereafter. Anyway, using the new kernel-package package, it's pretty trivial to do it

Re: superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
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Trantor T130B SCSI Configuration

1996-06-11 Thread Bill Bumgarner
First, thanks to all who assisted me with the Tulip+2940 kernel-- as it turns out, debian 1.1 ships with the tulip driver as a dynamically loadable module... so, merely adding 'tulip' to /etc/modules fixes the lacking driver problem!!! [though, tulip didn't work for me-- i had to use the

FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1996-06-11 Thread Sven Rudolph
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.18 1996/06/11 19:54:00 sr1 Exp sr1 $ __ Table of Contents: 1.General Questions 1.1. What is Debian

loss of routing info with 2.0.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). route only shows the machine itself. If i manually add the missing router gateway, it works fine, but i lose this on reboot. help! :) rick

Re: stty vs setserial

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can point setserial at a particular port, but can't seem to tell it to set the stop bits to two. I can tell stty to set the stop bits, but can only seem to use it while on the tty in question. Is there any way to point stty at the port I want changed?

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am afraid I am not familiar with the kernel-package package. Is this a package to build any kernel version and install it in a debian way? Bingo. I'm using it as we speak. I'm not sure if it has made it to the unstable tree on all the mirrors yet, but

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the release of debian 1.1 use the new stable Linux (v2.0)? Yes, Debian 1.1 will ship with a 2.0 kernel. (In fact, the latest available kernel will generally be made available as the kernel-image-2.0.xx-0.deb). Austin

Re: help me?

1996-06-11 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Chris Nielsen wrote: I just downloaded what I think is Debian Linux v.93R6 And I need help installing it. I have three files called 1440_base_floppy_[1|2|3], as well as what appear to be root and boot files on my d:. I have created a seperate partition on my C:

Debian 1.1 will include the Linux 2.0 kernel

1996-06-11 Thread Bruce Perens
I see everyone wants to know. Yes, I will include the Linux 2.0 kernel in the latest boot disk set, which will be uploaded this evening. I also have a kernel-image package, although I am not the official kernel maintainer. Thanks Bruce

Re: loss of routing info with 2.0.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). route only shows the machine itself. If i manually add the missing router gateway, it works fine, but i lose this on reboot. I don't

kernel-package

1996-06-11 Thread Bruce Perens
Kernel-package seems to be in the project/experimental directory of the archive. I don't know why... Bruce

DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

1996-06-11 Thread Fritz Ilg
Hi Debian Linux users: I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail- able with this Laptop which make this attempt

Re: traceroute 1.1 upgrade problems

1996-06-11 Thread eichin
traceroute: IP_HDRINCL:Protocol not available Probably you're still running the 1.2.13 kernel, but the new traceroute uses some features only in 1.3... at least that's why I see that message.

help me?

1996-06-11 Thread Chris Nielsen
I just downloaded what I think is Debian Linux v.93R6 And I need help installing it. I have three files called 1440_base_floppy_[1|2|3], as well as what appear to be root and boot files on my d:. I have created a seperate partition on my C: for MS-DOS, and left an un-partitioned area of