Re: Tweaking cron for use on laptops

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a few things that could be modified to facilitate spinning down the disk. Syslogd is compulsive about writing information to the disk right away just in case the system crashes. It could be given an option to buffer.

Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please tell

Re: Problems with X and gcc

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 04:41:21 EST Kevin McEnhill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: *** gcc *** This probably has to do with the upgrade I tried last week. According to 'dpkg --list', everything is installed and configured. That is all fine and dandy but when I tried to compile one of my programs, I

Re: noteboot install

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:04:12 EST Tim Sailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up with 'disable all cache' to get

Latex installation troubles

I've cleaned my hd, downloaded the Debian 1.2 (rex), downloaded all the packages that were set the first time the system executed dselect, and installed them. All was ok, but when the dselect attempted to configurate the latex package, there was an error message: 'mf can't load libXt.so.6'. The

Re: dselect pre-dependency problem

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 21:07:24 +0100 Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED] raz.ac.at) wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Debian 1.2. Unfortunately, dpkg has the following problem: # dselect dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: perl pre-depends on libdl1 dpkg: cannot satisfy

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or

Re: noteboot install

Philippe == Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with Philippe How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, Philippe even without cache... You'd be surprised what turning off cache can do to your computer. For

Re: Installing large files

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Allan Anderson wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Fred Zarnowski wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then

Re: Latex installation troubles

i had the same problem when installing LaTeX, but it worked fine after i added /usr/X11R6/lib to the ld.so.conf file. did you run ldconfig afterward to update the library links? -david -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Some notes on Debian experiences

Alan Eugene Davis writes: I wanted to compile a new kernel. Remembering that Debian has a screwy header file setup, ^ You forgot a , IMO, here. I had to relink as described in the /usr/src/linux/README. For the umpteenth time. You don't need these links to compile the kernel. I

Re: XWindows Login Screen

Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)). Clearly the configuration files

Re: pdf files

Wieboldt, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files in linux? Thanks -lars I think gv also handles PDF. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: XWindows Login Screen

On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux

Shadow Passwords

Hi, is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? Thanks Stefan *-* Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik) Universitaetsstrasse 150 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werkstofftechnik IA 2/47

Re: Installing large files

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Allan Anderson wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: U, yeah sure, if only you could find a Linux port of LapLink or Intersvr... Linux has PLIP too but I don't think you can get PLIP for DOS. Jens B.

Re: What package do I need ? (libXpm.so.4)

3) but after installing the fvwm2 afterstep Window managers. I get: fvwm2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'. afterstep: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' What package do I need to instll to get this lib? I got that too. I fixed it by

Solved (problems with 3com)

Thanks Nils, your PnP fix solved the problem. I was just about to start removing the cards and changing their places, but luckily I don't have to do it. Problem description: I have a new computer with Tyan TomcatIII main board, Plug n' Play aware BIOS, Sound Blaster 32 PnP card and a 3com

Shouldn't mh add it's dir to PATH?

Last night I installed part of the debian (going to install the rest tonight) and I noticed that mh doesn't add /usr/bin/mh to PATH in /etc/profile. Is this the correct behaviour? I also noted that there is '.' in the PATH. comp.unix.faq has something to say about this in question 2.13) What's

Sticky bit problem

Hello. I've got a problem when I install packages. The sicky bit is never activated. For instance, if I install man package, I get : -rwxr-xr-x man/root 66865 Dec 8 01:04 1996 /usr/bin/man -rwxr-xr-x man/root 52869 Dec 8 01:04 1996 /usr/bin/mandb instead of : -rwsr-xr-x man/root

Token-ring errors

I am using an IBM auto token-ring card, with Linux 2.0.6. Whenever I transfer large amounts of data, I get the following error: eth0: xmit ret_code: 23 xmit error code: 00 Can someone tell me what this means? Do I have to worry about this? -- Filip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Send a message with send

Sticky bit problem - Setuid bit pb

Just a correction. I've got a problem when I install packages. The sicky bit is never ^ activated. For instance, if I install man package, I get : [...] I wanted to say setuid bit, not sticky bit, of course. --- Hugo HAAS,

Cheap Alpha anywhere?

I am interested in running Debian on an Alpha - anyone know a good source for one? lowest cost preferred! Thanks! Michael Laing -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Latex installation troubles

Thanks to J. Ramos Gancalves and David Ogilvie for the 'ldconfig' command. I don't know very well Linux, so I didn't know this command. I'll attempt it. Alexander Gieg. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:

Re: Sound Card

You may need to rebuild the kernel and supply the correct IRQ, DMA, and port information for your sound card. --- Jean Pierre On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, J. LILLIBRIDGE wrote: Hi. I've been running Debian 1.1 for a few months now. I haven't had any problems, except I can't get the sound card to

Re: noteboot install

In your email to me, Richard G. Roberto, you wrote: Tim, I did an install on one of these for my boss and I did it using 1.1 boot + root floppy + 1.1 base.tgz. I installed the 2.0.6 kernel and pcmcia stuff from floppy with no problem. Then I did an ftp install from dselect using

Re: pdf files

Note that a recent posting in comp.risks asserts that Adobe's PDF reader for Linux will attempt to *execute* any file which can't be read as a PDF file and has its execute permissions set, quoting Adobe's documentation about this. Mind that MIME mail! -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL

Re: Shadow Passwords

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Stefan Walder wrote: Hi, is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? Thanks Stefan I'm using the shadow packages from project/experimental, and it works all right. There were two or three binaries I belive which didnt support it: imapd, xdm, and ssh. I

Re: noteboot install

In your email to me, Philippe Troin, you wrote: If it only comes to `uncompressing linux`, the kernel has not started yet, and you probably have some cache problems and/or timing problem. Try the more conservative settings and then raise them progressively. Heh.. 'on' or 'off' not real

Re: Latex installation troubles

In your email to me, Alexander Gieg, you wrote: I've cleaned my hd, downloaded the Debian 1.2 (rex), downloaded all the packages that were set the first time the system executed dselect, and installed them. All was ok, but when the dselect attempted to configurate the latex package, there

Adaptec 2940U - boot disk failure?

Hi there, today I tried to install the latest debian on a PPro180 system with an Adaptec 2940U. Unfortunately, no boot-disk seems to work for that system. The strangest thing I get is 'Controller at 0x378 doesn't react' (the controller is located at e000-efff (irq 11). Any ideas as to what

Strange ppp problem.

I have recently been experiencing a problem with ppp. The problem began when I built myself a new 2.0.27 kernel, but does not seem to be related to the kernel. Here's the problem: After a boot up, I can ppp to my ISP just fine the first time, but after dropping the connection, I can not establish

Re: xterm-color : green cursor??

I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? You have 2 (or more?) options here. First, you can make a system wide alias in

Re: Some notes on Debian experiences

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, David Engel wrote: I had to relink as described in the /usr/src/linux/README. For the umpteenth time. You don't need these links to compile the kernel. I haven't had those links on any of my systems in over a year and it hasn't stopped me from compiling hundreds of

make-kpkg troubles, again

Hi, Regarding my previous message, I kind of solved it. I rm -r linux and started again. Now the error I'm getting is: --- cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27 cp vmlinux debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.27 cp

color-ls??

I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

1.2 release?

Will 1.2 be officially released soon? Also, when can I expect to find it on CD-ROM distributions (I'm NOT downloading all that stuff again...too slow!) Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479

Re: Shadow Passwords

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Stefan Walder wrote: Hi, is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? Thanks Stefan I'm using the shadow packages from project/experimental, and it works all right. There were two or three

Re: XWindows Login Screen

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the

app-defaults file for Offix?

I have installed the Offix-2.3a-1 package file and am having some trouble locating the app-defaults file. I was reading the man page looking for resource names, and it said to see the app-defaults file. When I run dpkg --listfiles, I see nothing installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults.

Re: color-ls??

I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? No more color-ls. It is now part of fileutils, a base package, so it is already installed. Add few aliases to /etc/csh.login for the miracle to happen (for more info, see /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz):

Re: color-ls??

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? ls includes now the option color : --color, --colour, --color=always, --colour=always Colorize the names of files depending on the type

Re: color-ls??

Yes try the fileutils_3.13-4.deb package which replaces color-ls :) tho i can not seem to get it to do any background colors, only some of the foreground. -Rob On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else?

Re: XWindows Login Screen

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the

nfs setup

Hi, This is a problem I tried to solve for about 3 weeks without much progress. My intended system setup has a dependency graph as follows... Sys-A -+--: Sys-B ---: Sys-C | | +-+ Where both Sys-C and Sys-B depends

Re: Re[2]: PGP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The Reason for this is that RSA in america requires all to use RSAREF library for non-commercial use. There is a european rewrite of this RSA lib. Because it is a rewrite there are no copyright problems with the lib. Because it is not in america u r free to use RSA,

MC and libgpm.so.1

Hello, all. This morning I've been installing some Debian packages, and I've tried to install the Midnight Commander (../misc/mc_3.2.1-1.deb). It installed without warning or error, but when I attempt to use it, there is an error message Cannot find library libgpm.so.1 I thing, because the name

Re: XWindows Login Screen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell script named xrdb

Re: 1.2 release?

1.2 is released. The announcement went out yesterday on debian-announce and various other venues. There are two companies selling CD-writables of Debian today: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Connect Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infomagic is coming out with a CD set with 1.2 on it.

Re: MC and libgpm.so.1

Mine is in /usr/lib/, is it in your PATH? The file libgpm.so.1 is not in /usr/lib, but Daniel Stringfield (thanks!) send it attached to me. I'll try it. Alexander =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:

Upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2

Bruce was asking for upgrade stories - here's a data point. I installed my first debian system from the Sept 96 Infomagic set. (I'm a slackware convert.) I have been happily running 1.1, and it was current when I decided to upgrade to 1.2. It is now running nicely, with all weirdnesses