On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy.
> > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect
> >
>
> Kind of like mak
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy.
> Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect
>
Kind of like make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig
I agree that
On 26 Oct 1996, Bill Vinson wrote:
> The ethernet solution seems to be working so far. I now have gotten
> to the part of the installation that asks about the network you are
> on. I will only have 2 computers (Linux and mac) on this network
> and the Linux box will dial in to my ISP for its IP
Where does one find
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config?
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> I am using the latest version of Debian (brand new system installed
> yesterday). Is there something to be done to properly set up X?
I found that Debian/XFree86/whoever by default maps both the BS and Del
keys to , which is irritating with Netscape a
Well some kind soul pi=ointed out that I might have hosts.allow
and or hosts.deny muck up. I zaped them for the moment to see if that was
it.
Now I'm getting the following in /var/log/daemon.log
Nov 3 15:17:24 yogi nfsd[200]: NFS request from koala originated on insecure
port,
Somebody a few weeks ago had mentioned that they were preparing hylafax
as packages?
Have they been uploaded? I seem to be having a problem getting sessiontracing
working with the source.
I'm using libc 5 2 18
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) said:
> I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge
> graphical thing that won't run on a terminal and depends on a lot of
> other stuff. Keep it simple.
having recently used `make xconfig' to make a new kernel, i think
a simple, easy-to-u
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Nick Busigin wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, David Wright wrote:
>
> > So the next package is texbin (3.1415-5), and the error message I get is:
> >
> > Setting up texbin (3.1415-5) ...
> > dpkg: error processing texbin (--install):
> > subprocess post-installation script retur
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, David Wright wrote:
> So the next package is texbin (3.1415-5), and the error message I get is:
>
> Setting up texbin (3.1415-5) ...
> dpkg: error processing texbin (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Error were encountered while
On 3 Nov 1996, Tom Fawcett wrote:
> As someone who has thought about rewriting dselect into a huge graphical
> thing that won't run on a terminal -- why?
>
> Package management is a hairy task involving a lot of information, and
> doing it on a 24x80 screen is almost painful. I appreciate the n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) writes:
> George Bonser writes:
> > One of these days I will write a version of dselect in tcl/tk that will
> > use colors to denote the state of different packages and be just plain
> > nicer.
>
> I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge
I am able to successfully recieve data OR fax calls to my modem, with
mgetty+sendfax, but I am having problems with SENDING files. I wish to
send a TEXT file. Documentation isn't very good for the faxing part of
mgetty, and I don't see anywhere how to tell it to send a text file.
I've been doing
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Stan Brown wrote:
> I can't get my FreeBSD box to mount ny Linux machines disks.
> My HP's can mount then just fine. Can anyone think of anything that
> might be different about the Linux NFS implemetation ? The FreeBSD
> man page talks about privleged and non-privliged p
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Heiko R. Selber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say?
>
> Heiko
>
In my experiance, it probably has something spooled to the printer but the
printer is either offline or not connected.
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T
I can't get my FreeBSD box to mount ny Linux machines disks.
My HP's can mount then just fine. Can anyone think of anything that
might be different about the Linux NFS implemetation ? The FreeBSD
man page talks about privleged and non-privliged ports. I don't understand,
I would have thou
Jonas Bofjall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When can we users expect to see the newly released XFree 3.2 in the Debian
>distribution? I need it for my virge-card to work, and I wonder if I
>should download buzz-fixed and then XFree 3.2 separately or wait until it
>is included in rex ?
Just download
>
> I did a no-no and acidently removed my printer routines (opps). So
> since I was in the ftp update I figured that I would re-install
> apsfilter. I cannot because the gsfonts file is to old! I know that I
> could go back to my old version but I would like to upgrade it since I
> need to ins
>
> Hello,
>
> a large number of my users are reporting font problems with
> this update installed (up from gsfonts 4.01-2). They seem to get an
> \installfont error very often with gs crashing when using ghostview.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes. They are using old versions of gs.
Please upgrade to
> 2 Nov 1996 11:52:27 -
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 02:19:15 -0800
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: verify script for Debian packages
> Having gotten nervous after almost losing my file system last week, I
> wrote a little perl script to go through th
>
>
> Since the last version of GhostScript was included in the distribution,
> I can't use magicfilter to automagically print my PostScript files. The
> reason seems to be : ghostscript now uses SVGAlib. To get I/O
> permissions for a 'base' user, it should then be set to +s I believe. Is
> that
>
> Bill Bartley scripsit:
> |I have no ideas, but I would like to report that I am using this
> |software without any such problems.
>
> I have solved the problem with:
>
> ln -s /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts /usr/lib/ghostscript/4.01/fonts
That works, but it's better to upgrade to gs-aladdin_4.
When can we users expect to see the newly released XFree 3.2 in the Debian
distribution? I need it for my virge-card to work, and I wonder if I
should download buzz-fixed and then XFree 3.2 separately or wait until it
is included in rex ?
BTW, how unstable is rex? Should I download it instead of b
George Bonser writes:
> One of these days I will write a version of dselect in tcl/tk that will
> use colors to denote the state of different packages and be just plain
> nicer.
I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge
graphical thing that won't run on a terminal and de
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:15:10 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig)
...Is there any possibility to fool 'dselect' into believing that
any dependency conflicts are non existent? ...
FWIW, I second this. My preferred way of using debian is to install
and maintain the vast majori
Hi Pedro --
You said:
> whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following:
>
> [ Text on font metrics generation deleted]
>
> Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
> Output written on cmr10.300gf (128 characters, 13184 bytes).
> Transcript written on cmr10.log.
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/s
Hello world!
Using dselect to update my debian system via ftp i choose to install
'LyX-0.10.7' without any Debian-LaTeX stuff as i have teTeX-0.4 installed
under '/usr/local/lib/teTeX'. Annoyingly dselect since then keeps telling
me about dependency problems whenever i use it again and i have t
Hello world!
Using dselect to update my debian system via ftp i choose to install
'LyX-0.10.7' without any Debian-LaTeX stuff as i have teTeX-0.4 installed
under '/usr/local/lib/teTeX'. Annoyingly dselect since then keeps telling
me about dependency problems whenever i use it again and i have t
On 2 Nov 1996, Tony Robinson wrote:
> Can someone tell me why dselect (via NFS) does things like this:
[dselect installs the same packages over and over]
I had exactly the same problem with Debian-1.1.13.
I.E. I had the same behaviour but with with entirely different packages,
so it's not the
On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Vaibhav Goel wrote:
> Recently, I downloaded and installed Debian Rex. This was about 4 days ago.
> The installation seems to go Ok. Whenever I try to start X using "startx"
> it seems to start ok but the mouse pointer for some reason always moves
> to the lower left hand c
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote:
> What did I do to get the following output from "tail -f /var/adm/messages"?
>
> Nov 3 12:44:01 Johann last message repeated 65817 times
> At the moment the above output is all that I get.
What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages'
A couple of hours after I wrote this, I finally solved the problem. I
read through the diald README, and it mentioned that I should use
/dev/ttyS1 rather tnan /dev/cua1 to point to my modem, and now it
works. My apologies...
> I installed Debian 1.1 from the Infomagic CD a couple of days ago...
What did I do to get the following output from "tail -f /var/adm/messages"?
Nov 3 12:44:01 Johann last message repeated 65817 times
Nov 3 12:45:01 Johann last message repeated 66331 times
Nov 3 12:46:01 Johann last message repeated 66326 times
Nov 3 12:47:01 Johann last message repeated 63128
Pedro Ivan wrote
>It looks to me that there are some errors in the way some permissions are
>set in some packages, or am I missing something?
I had the same problems and after a lot of frustration I decided to
download teTeX and install it in the /usr/local directory (after
advice of somebody fr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) writes:
> Hmmm, I seem to have the same problems even after NOT moving anything. I made
> a mistake and ended up downloading several things from unstable and after
> that elm cannot read mail and tkmail cannot write lock files in
> /var/spool/mail. I too have trie
fabrizio carraro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The cache is in RAM. It can get large, too! I consider this a bug in
> > named.
>
> There is the directive limit, for example:
>
> limit datasize 64M
>
> I would consider a bug the fact that you can save the database in a file
> (kill
Benedikt Eric Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [ I really hope I didn't miss something in the documentation and FAQ,
> since I can't imagine noone else ever thought about this, but...
>
> So - if this is somewhere in the doc or FAQ, please don't respond
> to the list, but
Anyone knows a way to do an explicit provide with dpkg? By example,
Providing svgalib when you have svgalib1, or pbmplus when you have
netpbm? I chk the users docs and find nothing... Is it in the maintener
docs?
Thanks
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Hi all,
I used to use fvwm with NoPPosition and SmartPlacement in system.fvwmrc.
I tried to use same thing in fvwm2 and it doesn't work. Any ideas as to
how I can use them in fvwm2?
Thanks in advance,
David
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Any chance that the maintainer could compile GUI support so that vim -g will
work?
Thanks!
George Bonser
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Some things that I have noticed since installing Debian 1.1 that I thought
I would share. These are some things that caused me some problems. I have
worked many of them through, some of them I have not.
Compress is really gzip. This REALLY hosed my newsfeeds. A lot of news
started bouncing from my
I installed Debian 1.1 from the Infomagic CD a couple of days ago...
The problem I am having is when I try to start pppd to connect to my
isp, it does work up to the point when I get connected and authenticated,
and then it just disconnects my modem for some reason.
By the way, I used the same
On Sat, 02 Nov 1996 16:05:31 CST "Walter L. Preuninger II"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Well, i have been running a seagate external 8GB on a p100 with a aha2940
> using a slackware distribution and kernel 1.3.85
>
> My new computer came in, a p166, so I decided to repartition my drives,
> now
Hmmm, I seem to have the same problems even after NOT moving anything. I made
a mistake and ended up downloading several things from unstable and after
that elm cannot read mail and tkmail cannot write lock files in
/var/spool/mail. I too have tried everything that I know of as far as
permission
Hello all;
Recently, I downloaded and installed Debian Rex. This was about 4 days ago.
The installation seems to go Ok. Whenever I try to start X using "startx"
it seems to start ok but the mouse pointer for some reason always moves
to the lower left hand corner of the screen and stays there
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> Where do I tell X what apps to start when starting an X session ? I'd like
> several xterms in various colors/places etc.. I'm using the debian xdm.
>
> .xsession is just the name of the window manager, right?
Wrong. .xsession is responsible for star
XFree86 3.2 will appear in the "unstable" distribution, and you'll be able
to install it from there.
We unfortunately could not make the release schedule for 1.2 with it
included.
Bruce
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Marco Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using ncftp 2.3.0-7, and it tells me
>
> REST command not implemented.
>
> whenever I try to reget a file.
> What's the matter?
The ftpd daemon you're connecting to doesn't support the restart
command, so you can't reget files. :(
restart marke
Hi there,
[ I really hope I didn't miss something in the documentation and FAQ,
since I can't imagine noone else ever thought about this, but...
So - if this is somewhere in the doc or FAQ, please don't respond
to the list, but mail me directly and hand me a pointer to the
Fabien Ninoles:
> Some Debian packages ask me for some package I didn't see for a while
> (though I know they exist). They're the pgp_us (althought if someone can
> say to me where I can find the the International package) and the pbmplus
> package. I'm looking too for the kaffe and the povray pa
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