Re: Problem

1996-08-30 Thread Ken Gaugler
At 04:37 PM 8/29/96 +0300, you wrote: Hello there!!! I have a problem. I have a RedHat CD and installed linux, but i have a problem with my AHA-2940 in the kernel 1.2.13 (it's not supported) I get kernel 2.0.0 and compiled it for my system with all common options: AHA-2940 support, SLIP, PPP,

Need new web sites for Debian

1996-08-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Debian needs a new web server, or servers. If your site can run WWW host aliases (we use www.debian.org), can serve about 300MB of stuff, has a working mirror program, and doesn't mind the bandwidth, please write to me. We maintain the master copy of our web site on our internal system

Need Help

1996-08-30 Thread ottmj
Hi! I want to become one of the enlightened, and start using Linux. I've downloaded the Dedian Linux 1.1, and made my floppies with rawrite2. I have no special partitions now. Win95 is just installed on the whole 853M HD. The Dedian instructions indicate that setting up Linux and Linux Swap

Re: minimal system

1996-08-30 Thread Mike Taylor
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Mike Candy List wrote: can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap If this were my system, I would install linux, but not X. You didn't say, but I suspect that you are also low on

Re: ELF or a.out?

1996-08-30 Thread Sven Rudolph
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Niels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some packages, among them workbone and symlinks, still provide an a.out binary in /usr/bin/, but no dependency on libc4 (workbone even depends on libc5...). I suggest to report this as bugs for the corresponding packages. (Unless

Debian v. 1.1.5 crashes..

1996-08-30 Thread Kjell Martin Myksvoll
Hello, After installing Debian v. 1.1.5 it seems to work well enough, but since the kernel that comes with it is not configured exactly as I would like, I tried to configure my own kernel using the kernel-source kit (v. 2.0.6). It compiled and booted fine, but when doing volumious disk accesses

Re: mailing list

1996-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, if you prefer, you can use GNUS. For me, procmail dumps debian-user into the file incoming/mail.lists.debian-user.spool, GNUS automatically adds those messages to a special mail folder, 'mail.lists.debian-user', which looks just like a newsgroup. I

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
If one needs a server that is not included (or the version included is inadequate) in the current non-Beta XFree86, you need only get the _server_ (not the support files), unpack it into /usr/local, and modify the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver to point to it. X11 is a big package, and it seems a

RE: help ?

1996-08-30 Thread wb2oyc
Shankar, - That's it; here the system hangs. This looks like it might be the auto-config setting in the setserial script. There is a caution there about using it, but I've never had any trouble with it myself. However, I do edit the file and turn off the auto.

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On 26 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?? Why double the work. This was an ad for the debianized version. Oh I am sorry. I misunderstood. I've been keeping a debianized version of squid since squid 1.0.3 at

Re: Need Help

1996-08-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I want to become one of the enlightened, and start using Linux. I've downloaded the Dedian Linux 1.1, and made my floppies with rawrite2. I have no special partitions now. Win95 is just installed on the whole 853M HD. The Dedian

Re: How to debianize packages?

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
While it is considered a little crude, it is possible to convert tar files into debian packages... You should look at the debian packaging instructions for how to do it right (which will fill in the gaps in this explanation) but then you'll find that if you do: mkdir x cd x

Re: NIS vs. NYS question?

1996-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dirk Luetjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a small problem integrating a new debian system into an existing bad maintained network. I installed the NIS package, everything so far is ok. ypbind connects to an NIS-Server, but to the wrong one. So I wanted

Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should do the following. 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to comp.os.linux.* No, *please* don't do this with, for example, linux.dev.kernel. It has enough junk in it as it is; spreading

Re: ELF or a.out?

1996-08-30 Thread Michael Meskes
Niels writes: Some packages, among them workbone and symlinks, still provide an a.out binary in /usr/bin/, but no dependency on libc4 (workbone even depends on libc5...). symlinks is ELF for some time now. Just look for version 1.0-3. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_

dselect ftp through fire-wall

1996-08-30 Thread Martin Fehlhaber
I sure hope this is not a FAQ... How is it possible to use the ftp access from within dselect to reach through a fire-wall system? Alternatives? Thanx, -- Martin Fehlhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
Last time I ran into it, it turned out that for *legitimate* salts, the linux crypt() was compatible, but for out-of-range ones, there were differing results. An easy way to test is to use perl. For example: solaris2.4+% perl -e 'print crypt(pass, ab).\n' abccBcrPOxnLU solaris2.4+% perl -e

chat problems

1996-08-30 Thread John Ross
Linux novice question: The chat program cannot find my modem, and as far as I can tell, there are no command line switches to force it to use /dev/modem or /dev/cua1. Since I'm using minicom to write this post, I'm quite sure my modem works just fine. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

perl/tk

1996-08-30 Thread Dirk Bernhardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! I have a problem with perl and perl/tk: == bash$ cat tktest.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use diagnostics; use strict; use Tk; my $main = new MainWindow; $main-Label(-text = 'Hello, world!')-pack;

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i'm a bit snowed under at work and am finding it difficult to keep up with my mail. when we last spoke on this subject you were going to release your interim version of the squid package. Yeah, though I waited for an

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-30 Thread Randall Shutt
On Aug 29, 8:15pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: Subject: Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans? If one needs a server that is not included (or the version included is inadequate) in the current non-Beta XFree86, you need only get the _server_ (not the support files), unpack it into /usr/local, and modify

Re: dselect ftp through fire-wall

1996-08-30 Thread Shaya Potter
It really depends on what firewall you are using. Where I am we are using TIS's (the maker's of the Firewall Toolkit) Gauntlet firewall, it allows for transparent access if you make the firewall the default gateway of your computer. However, if your firewall doesn't allow transparent access,

Re: dselect ftp through fire-wall

1996-08-30 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Martin Fehlhaber wrote: I sure hope this is not a FAQ... How is it possible to use the ftp access from within dselect to reach through a fire-wall system? Alternatives? Some firewalls allow you to log in with a coded login/passwd pair so it can make the proxified

RE: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-30 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Dale, What I was looking for was more like what Gerry suggested. I also tried your suggestion on the LINES environment variable with little success. This is a REALLY DUMB terminal. Have you tried stty rows 24? Is the syntax for this structure documented in the bash manual page? Can I put

Re: Need Help

1996-08-30 Thread ottmj
Syrus, On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I want to become one of the enlightened, and start using Linux. I've downloaded the Dedian Linux 1.1, and made my floppies with rawrite2. I have no special partitions now. Win95 is just installed on the whole 853M HD. The Dedian

Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-08-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], : Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I think we should do the following. : : 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to :comp.os.linux.* : : No, *please* don't do this with, for

writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
hello, i am trying to print to /dev/stderr from within gawk (print $0 /dev/stderr) but i get the following error: gawk: cmd. line:30: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to `/dev/stderr' (Permission denied) i know there is something wrong with the permission, i can redirect if i do it as

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-30 Thread renald loignon
Here's what I have in /ect/profile to do what I think you want; --cut- TTYTYPE=`tty|cut -f 3 -d /|grep -f - /etc/ttytype|cut -f 1 -d ` if [ $TTYTYPE = ]; then : else TERM=$TTYTYPE fi unset TTYTYPE

RE: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Casper BodenCummins wrote: Have you tried stty rows 24? Wow! That actually fixes lynx! It even took care of the pre and post line trash that was being left behind before. Joe, however is still exhibiting some very strange behavior. First, if I try to scroll across a line

Gcc won't compile :-(

1996-08-30 Thread marcus hightower
i get an error when I try to compile a simple hello world C program. It says that it can't find a crt0.o file. i think i need to link some lib to something else but I could not find any documents showing all the things that should be linked. Can anyone help.

Re: perl/tk

1996-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
Dirk Bernhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ii perl5.003-2 ii perl-tk b11.02-2 What can I do? I'm pretty sure you have incompatible versions of perl and perl-tk. I believe that perl-tk b11.02-3 is the first version compatible with perl 5.003. You can get this version

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: i am trying to print to /dev/stderr from within gawk (print $0 /dev/stderr) but i get the following error: gawk: cmd. line:30: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to `/dev/stderr' (Permission denied) That should work, for example gawk

Re: chat problems

1996-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ross) writes: The chat program cannot find my modem, and as far as I can tell, there are no command line switches to force it to use /dev/modem or /dev/cua1. Chat only reads from standard input and writes to standard output. pppd just launches it with it's standard

Source Packages

1996-08-30 Thread Haakan Ardoe
Hi, how does the source packages work? If I understand everyting right I am supposed to unpack them with dpkg-source -x file.dsc. But then I need the file.dsc file, which not seems to be included in any of the availble source packages. Where can I find or generate them?

Re: Gcc won't compile :-(

1996-08-30 Thread Shaya Potter
Just wondering, are you compiling it as an aout program, when I did dpgk -S on the filename, the only place I saw it was in libc4-dev. Try installing that, it may solve your problem. Don't know why you are compiling it as aout though, compile it as ELF. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
That should work, for example gawk '{print $0 /dev/stderr;}' copies its input to stderr. It's not a permissions problem; /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd/n are implemented internally by gawk. They're not really files on the system. Well, actually /dev/fd/n really is a symlink into the

Debian Color-ls Command?

1996-08-30 Thread Chris Westwood
This may be one for the Debian FAQ--apologies in advance if you've been there before--but I haven't seen an answer to it yet. I switched from Slackware (2.3) to Debian just a couple of days ago, and can't seem to get color (that's *colour* here in the UK) listings by default. Simply typing ls

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: i've tried: echo test | gawk '{print $0 /dev/stderr;}' and echo test | gawk '{print $0 /dev/fd/2;}' and both give me the same error: gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to `/dev/fd/2' (Permission denied) Check

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
Check that /dev/fd is a symbolic link to /proc/self/fd. Check that /proc is mounted. The permissions to /proc are determined by the kernel, so there's really no way that they could be wrong. Guy the links were okay, the problem is elsewhere. if i telnet into the machine and log in as alex

Re: Debian Color-ls Command?

1996-08-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Chris Westwood wrote: This may be one for the Debian FAQ--apologies in advance if you've been there before--but I haven't seen an answer to it yet. I switched from Slackware (2.3) to Debian just a couple of days ago, and can't seem to get color (that's *colour* here in

Re: UPDATE: deb-view.el 1.2: emacs tool for browsing deb files!

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
w3 can be found via anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/elisp/w3. More usefully, w3 can be found in the binary-i386/net/w3-el_2.2.25-4.deb on any debian mirror...

Re: Extended memory?

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
limit on 8086, 8088, and 80186-based systems. (yes, there _was_ an 80186 chip; it just wasn't widely used in the same way that the 8088, 80286, 80386, and 80486 were.) ... Actually, the 186 is probably *more* used than the others, just not in home-user pc's: * many X terminals used

Debian Color-ls Command?

1996-08-30 Thread Ken Gaugler
Resent-Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:09:23 - Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: user From: Chris Westwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Debian Color-ls Command? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:51:11 +

Re: dselect ftp through fire-wall

1996-08-30 Thread Brian C. White
I sure hope this is not a FAQ... How is it possible to use the ftp access from within dselect to reach through a fire-wall system? Alternatives? I don't know about dpkg-ftp, but 'dftp' can run through a firewall. The only firewall I ever tested it with was the Eagle Secure Gateway, but I