2. My X server is not recognizing Backspace in Motif programs such as
Netscape Navigator 3.0. I grabbed the XKeysymDB from the Netscape
tar.gz file on ftp.netscape.com and diff'd it with the one in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and there appear to be no relevant differences.
The problem is
From: Harald Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My problem is that many mails does NOT have the debian-list in
the To: field, and filter %$# with Cc:.. oh well.. just
a couple of hundred articles each month =)
Let's not forget that this list is gatewayed to ham radio (packet radio),
where they are not
I had this problem too. I changed my mouse type to microsoft in
XF86Config and turned off CordMiddle, and everything worked fine.
Greg
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Richard Sevenich wrote:
I just installed Debian 1.1 on a machineand need some help on a problem:
I am using fvwm2 as the window
From: Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my root password is ... say toto. when i try to login
with password totoxxx, it works. The xdm login
only compares characters from the begining, to the end of
the password. is it normal ???
It shouldn't be that way for your root password as
Lindsay Allen wrote:
AND THEN... go back to your 386 and run make install, make modules, make
modules_install
make modules will take an hour. I am puzzled as to why I should not just
continue with the chroot idea and do the while job that way.
I learned a lot out of this, so many
I'm trying to get IP aliasing going on my brand-spankin' new Debian 1.1 box.
It doesn't appear to be compiled in, and I couldn't find it in
/lib/modules/current/ipv4.
So, my last recourse is to compile a new kernel. However, the thing I'm
afraid of is not compiling in some feature that is in
Hello,
A couple questions on NIS and shadow passwd support... has anyone
succesfully compiled the yppasswdd w/ shadow support?? I got the
experimental shadow package (along with source..) and it works fine,
like a charm...
On the yppasswdd man page, shadow support is mentioned, but the
Are there such tools in Debian packages?
Not that I know of.
If not, what do you recommend me
(I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize?
Here's a short list:
Glorglox: http://www.uunet.ca/~tomr/glorglox/
gd:http://www.boutell.com/gd/
(This is a C
Hello again...
i forgot to include this last question on my previous post.
I have implemented quotas on one of our servers here, onthe /home
filesystem. W/NIS and NFS we have anothe system using /home also.
anyhow, when i check quotas on the client (quota -v), the server spawns
off 40
From: Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Simon Martin wrote:
2) recompiled the kernel experimental, with the masquerade, firewall,
etc
enabled, ip forwarding, etc disabled, as per the instructions in the
IP_MASQUERADE mini howto. (I can connect to my ISP without any
Jeff Blaine writes:
- I'm running a fresh copy of Debian 1.1.9
-
- So, a few questions and some comments:
-
- 1. Where is the secret stash of user-packaged packages? I'm looking
- for SSH, NcFTP, and a few other things. I've looked in
- ftp.debian.org:/debian/contrib/binary, but
Bruce Perens writes:
- I now have control over the mailing lists. If you are a Debian package
- maintainer and are not _currently_ getting debian-private (there were
- several messages today), please write to me.
-
- I also (hopefully) have fixed it so that it will handle those unsubscribe
-
How can I install multiple hosts with he same configuration ?
Can I share /usr between them ?
How can I redo the same install done with dselect for another machine ?
Fred
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Okay, I sent this to the list once already, but I'm not sure it got
through.
I'm trying to get IP aliasing going on my brand spankin' new Debian 1.1
box. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have been compiled in, nor
could I find a module for it in /lib/modules/current/ipv4.
I tried getting
From /var/log/smail/paniclog:
09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/logfile:
File table overflow
09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog:
File table overflow
From /var/log/messages:
Sep 29 05:09:30 kite kernel: Unable to load
Jan Ramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dvi to word seems difficult. I know a utility latex2wp (or wp2latex ?)
for converting between wordperfect (5.1 ?) and latex (.tex-files). Perhaps
you can use this in combination with wordperfect-word conversion ?
I believe that there are also
I'm trying to help myself. Really. But, the Debian web pages only
list mailing list archives up to June 1996,
My scripts that made the archives then were lost in a disk crash; I've
recently recreated them, and the FTP archive (/debian/debian-lists)
are up to date.
As for the webserver, it
It seems that in Debian 1.1.7 pgp-i and pgp-up were in non-free pkgs,
but in the newer dist' of Debian they are missing.
Can some one tell me why they are missing and whre can I find them .
Thanks.
==
Rosenberg Yigal.
System Administrator.
Tel:
Jan Ramon wrote:
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Andrew Stephen wrote:
Hi,
I have just started playing around with Latex and was wondering if its
possible to to convert a dvi file into a Word for Windows format. Any help
/ suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Andrew
dvi to word
Hi,
yesterday I joined the SMP-community running 2.0.21 on a TYAN Tomcat II
(yes, the working cache modules installed!) with two 133MHz Pentiums,
some SCSI devices, and no network, yet.
My Linux distribution is the lastest Debian 1.1.9.
After compiling 2.0.21 I booted the new kernel with the
Hi Thomas --
A while ago you asked:
Until recently, I just rolled my own kernel as I was used to do
with Slackware. But since I found out about make-kpkg, I decided
to do things the Debian way and use that instead. After much hassle
wit the broken tar (solved by downgrading), there's still a
This message has suddenly begun to appear whenever I run ifconfig.
This was never noticed before, but apparently this has been logged
into the daemon.log for awhile.
Oct 1 17:15:55 modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
I haven't a clue as to what net-pf-4 is, or why ifconfig suddenly has
Hello,
I tried to compile linux-2.0.21 (manually tar'ed to
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.21 with a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux).
So I invoked kernel-package-2.03 using the command
make-kpkg -r kernel-image-2.0.21-Custom.1.i386.deb kernel_image
This broke, however, with the following
Joe Emenaker wrote:
Okay, I sent this to the list once already, but I'm not sure it got
through.
I was hoping someone else would answer this, because I only have vague
details in my head. (If we only used Debian at the office...) Can't help
with the IP aliasing, but:
So, I've resigned myself to
Hi,
On 30 Sep 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
Jan Ramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe that there are also tools to go from LaTeX to Rich Text
Format files which Word understands. I'm not sure what the name(s) of
the tool(s) are though.
latex2rtf (1)- Converts LaTeX file to RTF
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
Running dpkg -iGROEB /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386
find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/admin/sudo_1.4.4-2.deb: No such
file or directory
find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/base/mount_2.5l-1.deb: No such
file
or directory
dpkg:
Hi --
You said:
make-kpkg -r kernel-image-2.0.21-Custom.1.i386.deb kernel_image
The -r flag takes the revision number as an argument, not the entire
package name. Try
make-kpkg -r Custom.1
or
make-kpkg -r Custom-1 if the '.' is causing problems.
BTW, make-kpkg expects that it
This is an update to my earlier post.
When I tried to install a newer version of the modules packages,
from modules_2.0.0-11.deb, I was asked whether I wanted to
install the package maintainer's version of the file
/etc/conf.modules, I checked it out. There is a line in these files
about
I'm trying to get IP aliasing going on my brand spankin' new Debian 1.1
box. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have been compiled in, nor
could I find a module for it in /lib/modules/current/ipv4.
I just got this working... Pretty nifty feature if you ask me...
So, a few
Hi,
I've edited the ircII.servers file, but when I run irc (the version I
took in the Debien distribution), it doesn't change anything in the
servers list.
I've compiled an irc-ii client, and the result is the same.
AFAIK ircII is looking for /usr/lib/irc/ircII.servers if there is no
Amos Shapira:
and suchlike, I'd rather like to have a command to turn features off
and on, like IRIX' chkconfig(8). The idea is that the init scripts
use this command to check simple text files that contain off or on
for each feature and act accordingly.
A simple on/off is inadequate. I put
Rosenberg Yigal:
It seems that in Debian 1.1.7 pgp-i and pgp-up were in non-free pkgs,
but in the newer dist' of Debian they are missing.
Can some one tell me why they are missing and whre can I find them .
Problems with US International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Cryptographic
Hi Mike
You wrote:
does 'ls -al /tmp' turn up any vi looking directories that may
have bad permissions on them?
No, didn't see one.
Btw, I've found the program 'strace' to be extremely useful in
ttracking down stuff like this. Try
strace -o output nvi somefile
Here is the output:
Several people have indicated they might take over the ssh-package, so
please stop flooding my mailbox. If that had happend a week or two earlier
when i announced that i had to give up these packages, then i would not have
withdrawn that package.
Please note that i still need new maintainer(s)
Dear Debian users,
I am installing Debian 1.1.4. (So I am new to Debian.)
I have a problem. Mouting cdrom (/dev/scd0) fails in `dselect`.
In the reboot message after installation of BASE system, system
says
...
ncr53c8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0
...
Hi guys...
I'm wondering if attempting to use Linux-SMP is any good. Afterall, for
real efficiency, don't the programs/daemons/utilities have to be designed
in such a way that they'll make use of SMP capabilities?
For example, if I have sendmail, pop3d, httpd daemons running, on a dual
At 09:54 PM 10/1/96 +0900, you wrote:
Dear Debian users,
I am installing Debian 1.1.4. (So I am new to Debian.)
I have a problem. Mouting cdrom (/dev/scd0) fails in `dselect`.
In the reboot message after installation of BASE system, system
says
...
ncr53c8xx : at PCI bus 0, device
Does anyone have a NFS filesystem for linux which allows the system
manager to specify an alias file, such that UIDs and GIDs are converted
from the NFS server numbering scheme to one provided by the client?
I import NFS mounts from my local server, but they use GID numbers which
conflict with
Hi,
Anyone know if the Buslogic FlashPoint (wide scsi) controllers are
supported? What is the price compared with Adaptec 2940UW?
Thanks!
Ricardo
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Can anybody tell me where can i find make-kpkg ??
I've looked for it on my entire system and everything i've found is
debian.rules in /usr/src/linux. From describtions on mailing-list i gues
that it does this same thing as make-kpkg but am i only man in the world,
who doesn't have this
I cant find any package for xman. I scaned the package file and xman
was only mentioned once in that file as a conflict with some other
package. How could that be if xman dose not exist in debian ??
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Wouldn't it be more appropriate to offer the user the option
of inserting a floppy and making a boot disk as part of the
make-kpkg kernel_image?
Or perhaps the ./bootdisk.sh kernel-images NOT to require
the .deb format?
I must admit I haven't given this a lot of thought. But I too was
Kenneth Johansson wrote:
I cant find any package for xman.
Ever tried TkMan? If not, you're in for a treat (IMHO) if you don't
mind loading tcl, tk and rman.
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Toshinao Ishii writes:
It looks scsi driver is running without problem. Root partition in
SCSI disk is mounted and accessible without problem. However, if I
try to mount the cdrom
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device
A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience
with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this
writing I have asked him to determine more e.g.
- is it IDE
- is it ATAPI
- what debian version is being used
But in the
ttrimble wrote:
network. Now I want to run my listservers on the Debian box, but
both Majordomo, and Listserv depend on smail for outbound mail, and
smail keeps reporting errors that connection to the BIND server has
failed. This is my setup for smail:
set for Internet mail
all outbound
Ok, I need help. I have a Debian box ver 1.1, I'm running smail on
it. It does not have a ppp or slip connection to the Internet,
therefore it has no real DNS ability, but it does connect via a
network card to our mail server that is handling all mail for our
network. Now I want to run my
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