Re: Apache -- Regarding File Privileges

1997-01-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
Paul == Paul Serice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul To make a long story short, it turns out /usr/lib/httpd was Paul owned by root and had privileges of rwxr_x___ . So, I changed Paul this directory's privileges to rwxr_xr_x which let apache read Paul further down the directory tree, and all is

Re: ZipDrive??

1997-01-10 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to buy a SCSI external zipdrive. I have an aha2940 SCSI controller. Is there any support for a zipdrive under debian?? How do I have to compile the kernel for zipdrive support. What do I need (in the kernel), if I want to use a parallel

FTP install and PPP/SLIP

1997-01-10 Thread Troy M. Lubbers
Alright, I've seen this question several times. Once before I was the one asking it. But I have yet to get an answer to it. I THINK that I want to install Debian. Partially because the option of installing off of an FTP server sounds very enticing, but I have a SLIP/PPP connection. Now does the

Re: WHY does xemacs CONFLICT with emacs?

1997-01-10 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote: xemacs uses 6MB (on some other machine), emacs 2MB (on linux). So my question: why may xemacs and emacs not be used alternately under linux, as they play on e.g. IRIX? Just install it in the /usr/local/-hierarchy and the GNU Emacs in the

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: At 08:29 PM 1/8/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: This is a demonstration that dpkg-ftp is working properly. It is reporting that the name specified (which is correct, by the way) either wasn't know to the name server, or you have not designated one

Re: How to copy Debian?

1997-01-10 Thread Orn E. Hansen
|Sorry, Darren, it isn't something I've ever needed to look into. |Does anyone on the list have a list of reliable NFS-mountable sites? I only know of one, in the Netherlands: ftp.leidenuniv.nl, /var/spool/ftp/pub/linux, /debian -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am waiting as

Re: Where to get the window-managers from

1997-01-10 Thread Don Morton
joost witteveen wrote: and reinstalling fvwm95 will do. Or, of cource try fvwm2, or any of the other 9 (or more) available window managers. (but they all _should_ have the same problem if /etc/x11/window-managers doesn't exist) Speaking of window managers, I've noticed the absence of olvwm

Re: Linuxconf

1997-01-10 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: Some people are against using linuxconf, personally I'm for it, but I don't have enough time to try to build the tools neccesart for it b/c the biggest problem with linuxconf is that it replaces

Shadow Package

1997-01-10 Thread Darren Klein
Hi All, Is there a shadow package for Debian? If so, how do I get it? Thanks. | Darren Klein | Internet Service Providers | (718) 962-1725 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Michael Shields
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror? $ du -s * | grep -v local 0 Debian-1.2 0 Debian-1.2-fixed 0 Debian-1.2-updates 0 Debian-1.2.1 2 README 8 README.mirrors 1

Re: improvements

1997-01-10 Thread Martin Konold
Dear ml users, Please do NOT use html mail. This format is not standard and cannor be interpreted by most mail readers. Thank you, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for

Custom Boot Disk and Network Problems

1997-01-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Whenever I boot my Debian system now, it still goes through and polls for devices I just don't have before it goes to INIT 2. The BIG problem with this is, for that time, my LAN is completely hammered with bad packets. My collision lights slam steady on, and all network activity is hosed. This

RE: How to copy Debian?

1997-01-10 Thread Shaya Potter
There was a message on c.o.l.a a while ago about a site that would allow you to do nfs installations of debian. I have the message on my computer somewhere, but I can't find it right now. Just check the c.o.l.a archives for the message. Shaya On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Darren Klein wrote: On

Re: nfsiods?

1997-01-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm getting lambasted by our network administration for killing a subnet with NFS traffic. Hmm. Before he and I discuss the future of my machines, I'm trying to clean up whatever mess I can, so my machines can

Re: improvements

1997-01-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Somebody wrote: communications non-networking communications documentation all documentation development as is currently games all games graphicsanything which creates, massages, transforms graphics misccatch all- math, electronics, hamradio, misc, etc.

X-wm question and ZipDrive

1997-01-10 Thread jacek
Hi to all, thanx to U all, who helped me. Debian rules...:-))) I deactivated html mail, I hope that now no html mail will be sent to the mailing list, BTW how can I find out about this? Greetings Jacek

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Michael Shields
Couldn't an ISDN handle it? It's only a 1gig. Yes, for a private mirror. But normally you are better off using dpkg-ftp unless you have a large number of machines all tracking the unstable tree. (If you have a large number of machines all tracking the stable tree, a CD is probably the best

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Michael == Michael Harnois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, when I added the contents of the following file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color to my .Xresources file and restarted X, the colors started to work. Michael So is Debian X finding the

Re: improvements

1997-01-10 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Indeed, it might be worth considering doing away with the classification of required, recommended, extra, important, etc., because every person's needs and desires are different. Obviously, if the system won't run without it, it is required de facto. This might reduce the dselect confusion. --

Kernel compilation under Debia (Was Re: A few questions)

1997-01-10 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Hi, There are some mis-impressions floating around about Manoj compiling custom kernels. Manoj The kernel-source package is just the pure sources Manoj from Linux in /usr/src/kernel-source-X.XXX Manoj directory.

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Chow Chi-Ming wrote, I replied: This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment variable setting, so why not? Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish We should certainly not force a particular editor down Hamish anyone's throat, especially

Troubleshooting (was Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE)

1997-01-10 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Joseph == Joseph L Hartmann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joseph I really do appreciate the Joseph help that incompetents like me can get from more expert Joseph individuals -- but how do we get to be able to fix stuff Joseph for ourselves ??? That's a very interesting question.

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Michael == Michael Harnois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael So is Debian X finding the app-defaults files at all? I don't think it is. Does anybody know how to get it to? None of the X programs are finding their app-defaults file. Are you sure it isn't? The usual

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Karl == Karl M Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael So is Debian X finding the app-defaults files at all? Karl I don't think it is. Does anybody know how to get it to? Karl None of the X programs are finding their app-defaults file. Are you quite sure? Perhaps they're just

Re: Multible search and replace?

1997-01-10 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Joey Hess wrote, I replied: This is especially nifty because from may be a perl regular expression (including parentheses pairs enclosing substrings of itself) and to may include $1, $2... refernces to such pairs- very handy. Was just wondering if there is a package out that does

Re: nfsiods?

1997-01-10 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
Hi, I also noticed this a while ago and found the answer from /usr/src/linux/fs/nfs/README. The nfsiod processes are started by the kernel with the nfs services. There's more about the subject in the README, I hope this helps. [delete] What script starts the four nfsiod's that are on

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Brian C. White
Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN, T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box to the ISP. All the ISPs seem to support only WFW3.11/95/Mac/NT and not Linux.

RE: Ghostscript Version: 4.01-4

1997-01-10 Thread Paul Rightley
Whenever I have had such problems, it usually results from the fonts being in the incorrect directory. I seem to remember that sometimes GS expects its fonts under /usr/local/share/... It seems to depend on how the binary was compiled (though I am not sure). I do not know how to tell GS in what

novice questions

1997-01-10 Thread Larry Clayton
I am running debian linux 1.1 (linux 2.0.0) very satisfactorily except for some bizarre behaviour on startup and shutdown: 1. On startup the initial login will not take any input--as if the keyboard was frozen. So I go to vc 2 and login. Then I can login at vc 1 again. But after I succeed

Re: X-wm question.

1997-01-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 09 Jan 1997 16:11:46 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can it be managed, that ONLY the programms available and installed would appear in the X-windowmanager's menues?? Someone told me that an other distribution, not Debian!!, would perform all entries in the .xwmrc during the

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and it will usually not do the right thing. It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in the directory.

Re: nfsiods?

1997-01-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 09 Jan 1997 11:47:16 EST Pete Templin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What script starts the four nfsiod's that are on my stock, Debian 1.2 system (not upgraded from 1.1, but not necessarily 1.2.1)? How can I prevent them from even starting at boot time? These are kernel threads.

Re: PEX? XIE?

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: No, he meant (or at least I do now): why does X (when it starts, and it does on my mashine, with that path in /etc/ld.so.conf) say that it didn't load the PEX and XIE extentions? And, how can I load them? The answer is in XF86Config(5x). There's

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
IMO dselect is a wonderful tool and Debian would be sunk without it. We all owe a great deal to Ian for his work. The problem is that the learning curve for new users is a bit steep. The words _brick_wall_ have been mentioned. On initial install could dselect be run in the background so that

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-10 Thread Alex Romosan
I get that same error about java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java. i've solved the problems on my machines by linking /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java to /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java-jdk. don't know if this is the approved solution. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a

Re: Multible search and replace?

1997-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
This is especially nifty because from may be a perl regular expression (including parentheses pairs enclosing substrings of itself) and to may include $1, $2... refernces to such pairs- very handy. Well, not with the example I gave you can't, but if you use something like this, you can use all

Too many packages!

1997-01-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen with Exit highlighted. Is this normal? I did a dpkg --list, and I have

Re: A few questions.

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On 9 Jan 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The kernel-source package is just the pure sources from Linux in /usr/src/kernel-source-X.XXX directory. Nothing is added to that directory tree. It does contain pre and post install scripts to help maintain /usr/src/linux symlink -- you can

Re: Where to get the window-managers from

1997-01-10 Thread Don Morton
Don Morton wrote: Speaking of window managers, I've noticed the absence of olvwm (as opposed to olwm). Does anybody know of a debian package that contains this, or at least a location for source code? I'm replying to my own post here - I probably should have looked a little harder

Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound card, How to make work with debian ?

1997-01-10 Thread Stan Brown
I asked around a little, and decided to buy a Gravis Ultrasound card for my debian machine. It turns out to be a PnP device. Setting the kernel up to handle the Gravis card looks simple, but how do I deal with the PnP ? My machine does *not* have a PnP biso.

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Mark W. Blunier
I was once want to mirror the debian as well but I was told that I need to have a very high speed connection to the ISP. Currently I can have upto 28.8 via modem from my house. I'd like to know how do I go about getting a high speed connection, the cost of all this and process

Cern Web Server Stats

1997-01-10 Thread John Roesch
I am using debian with the Cern Web Server. I have set it up to use standard log format but don't know what to use to report on the statistics. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to use? John Roesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes (fwd)

1997-01-10 Thread Pete Templin
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: :Make the following symlinks: : :/tmp - /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS) :/home- /local/home :/usr/local -/local/usr :/var/spool -/local/spool (again, if using NFS, you should break this

Curious radius2.0.deb?

1997-01-10 Thread Fundamental
Im curious, well radius2.0 ever become a debian package? thanks Peace michael When there are too many crosses there are none. A drop of blood is ghastly. A sea of blood accepted. We weep above a single dying beast but whistle past a slauhterhouse. The Singer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

A Handful of problems ...

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Hello, I'm having the following problems and wondered if anyone here could help out. 1) I can't seem to find any howto style docs on netatalk. I'm trying to set up a gateway to some unix printers for some of the macs but haven't had much luck. I'm using 1.4b2-1. I set up papd.conf such that

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN, T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box to the ISP. ISDN is 64. T1 is a monster, and

Re: Linuxconf

1997-01-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: the biggest problem with linuxconf is that it replaces sysvinit. Linuxconf has some really nice features and seems like a comprehensive configuration system BUT even if it was 10 times as good it still wouldnt be worth losing sysvinit. What I was

Yet another basic interpreter

1997-01-10 Thread Orn E. Hansen
I saw a message here, informing of an interpreter for basic, some time ago. Does anyone know where the package is? -- Ørn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linuxconf

1997-01-10 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: the biggest problem with linuxconf is that it replaces sysvinit. Linuxconf has some really nice features and seems like a comprehensive configuration system BUT even if it was 10 times as good it

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Richard Jones
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: [snip] Well a few problems were caused by me not deleting the old packages from the tree when I had moved across new ones. Also a few problems were caused by packages that had been fixed but hadn't reached my

Re: Apache -- Regarding File Privileges

1997-01-10 Thread Richard Jones
Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped stuff from Paul] What you did was exactly correct -- the improper permissions are a bug in that release of apache. You may want to upgrade to the latest package, apache_1.1.1-8, which fixes some other things as well. It's available in bo/ on

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Pressing / and entering the same search just takes you Hamish back to the first result again. This is counter-intuitive Hamish for users of vi, less etc. Lynx uses n to

Re: PnP modem under Debian

1997-01-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I do have a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 FAX modem (which _was_ advertized as PnP), and have had no problems getting it to work -- my ppp-connect-with-diald script is attached below. (It did use to work without ATF1M0Y0E1V1Q0C1D2S0=0S7=30S13=1 as well). manoj #! /bin/sh # #

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr. wrote: I've finally had it. Not to knock Kendrick. His post just pushed me over the edge. Nothing personal. I'm in the same boat as him, generally. So many questions on this list --- and practically no one knows how to TROUBLE SHOOT! (Including

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-10 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) My first Linux installation was Slackware 2.3. I did it with no access to the net and no outside help. I installed Debian 1.1 on this machine with no help (I tried to get help, but my questions to this list vanished without a trace). However, just

backup kickstart

1997-01-10 Thread Fundamental
how do you make a backup kickstart? can debian do disk to disk copy? if so, would someone kindly tell me how:) c'ya hate to be ya michael Better a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without Chinese proverb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 Install Problem

1997-01-10 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Darren Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to Install Debian 1.2 and it seems to be getting killed by my CD-ROM. What do you mean by killed? Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How to copy Debian?

1997-01-10 Thread Adam Shand
I mean how can I copy from a mirror site to my Windows machine. I do have a ftp server on Windows. You may want to check this pretty carefully. I tried a couple different Win95 FTP daemons to do what you are talking about and none of the handled the symlinks to a point that it was usable. I

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Matt Kracht
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment variable setting, so why not? This may already be implemented, so forgive me if I haven't researched dselect enough: how about using a config file where we can remap all the

kernel 2.0.27 - nearly there:)

1997-01-10 Thread Fundamental
Yop, i picked the wrong network driver doh! Now my new dual-processor kernel mounts the right drives, and finds the network but just hangs on Configuring serial devices The lists esteemed wisdom is sort:) Im out like bell bottom trousers, michael You can not strengthen the weak, by

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-10 Thread Steve Dunham
Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under X windows? I just read the config files and man XF86Config. Add the following to the Keyboard section of XF86Config:

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Chow Chi-Ming wrote, I replied: This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment variable setting, so why not? Its not always set. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan --

HTML in messages to the list

1997-01-10 Thread Nick Busigin
//grouch mode (sort of) on Lately, I've noticed a (small) number of messages on this list that are using html formatting (see below). This format looks pretty ugly with mail readers that don't display html documents. Helpful hint: don't use html formatting in your email messages. //grouch

Re: improvements

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Nathan L. Cutler wrote: Indeed, it might be worth considering doing away with the classification of required, recommended, extra, important, etc., because every person's needs and desires are different. Obviously, if the system won't run without it, it is required de

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Nathan L. Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my system at least, there is no 'xterm-color' binary, so, if I understand things correctly, when I run 'xterm', only the XTerm app-defaults file is checked, not XTerm-color. If you want color on by default, just add this line to

RE: Ghostscript Version: 4.01-4

1997-01-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: Whenever I have had such problems, it usually results from the fonts being in the incorrect directory. I seem to remember that sometimes GS expects its fonts under /usr/local/share/... It seems to depend on how the binary was compiled (though I am

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen with Exit highlighted.

Re: Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound card, How to make work with debian ?

1997-01-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Stan Brown wrote: I asked around a little, and decided to buy a Gravis Ultrasound card for my debian machine. It turns out to be a PnP device. Setting the kernel up to handle the Gravis card looks simple, but how do I deal with the PnP ? My

Re: Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound card, How to make work with debian ?

1997-01-10 Thread Bob Clark
You might get it to work with isapnptools-1.8.tgz from: ftp.redhat.com/pub/pnp/utils --Bob Stan Brown wrote: I asked around a little, and decided to buy a Gravis Ultrasound card for my debian machine. It turns out to be a PnP device. Setting the kernel up to handle

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
|Are you quite sure? Perhaps they're just not finding stuff that you |add to them? | |I found this in /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README (it's at the very |end of the file): | |Please note that this distribution expects you to leave app-defaults |files unchanged. If you want to customise X applications

Window managers and disks

1997-01-10 Thread Michael Appleby
Dear All, I have just installed Debian Linux, on my machine, and now I would like to install a window manager of some sort and a C++ compiler. Could you please tell me what I need for the window manager, I am using a Matrox Millennium graphics card with 4mb of ram. Also what C++ compilers

a2ps and HP deskjet 600

1997-01-10 Thread Hubert Palme
First of all: A happy new year to everybody! I installed magicfilter and a2ps. When printing two pages on A4 paper, the left margin (in landscape mode, bottom when printing in portrait mode) of the print area is a little bit too large -- so the left line of the left frame insn't printed. Does

Installation Problems

1997-01-10 Thread Didier Nghia Le Tien
Hi all, I'am trying to install Debian 1.2 from the Infomagic Distribution (Dec. !996). The system always stop during the package installation (not always on the same package). Then when i reboot i got some disks error that i repaired using fsck. I find it very surprising because i

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-10 Thread Loic Prylli
Ami Ganguli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anybody used GNU cfengine? I don't really know what it's capable of, but it's a free part of Debian. I was considering using it myself, but I haven't had time to investigate it properly. ... Ami. I use it on a small network with just 6

PCMCIA problem on Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT Solved but what about X?

1997-01-10 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I managed to install Debian on my Toshiba (thanks to all who helped). However I'm still having problems with X. I managed to create a decent XF86Config file however when I return to text-mode after running startx, my screen starts making a very high pitched noise (hope this is correct

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Dale writes: I'm not an expert on dselect. I use dpkg almost exclusively to do my incremental upgrades. I don't know if there is such a key, or not, but it's clear it isn't documented very well if there is one. If there isn't the bug is in the software instead of the docs (or including the

Re: nfsiods?

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, 09 Jan 1997 11:47:16 EST Pete Templin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What script starts the four nfsiod's that are on my stock, Debian These are kernel threads. They're automatically started by the kernel when needed. If you don't want them, then don't use your machine as a NFS

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and it will usually not do the right thing. It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in the

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
28.8 modem28.8 Kbps ISDN 128 Kbps (64 Kbps/B-channel) T11.44 Mbps (now we're talkin'!) T2??? is there any such thing? T338.4 Mbps (oh baby!) SMDS hmm, I think you can get up to 100Mbps frame-relay 64 Kbps to 1.44 Mbps DS1

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:42:27 +0100 Gertjan Klein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: One of my most serious criticisms is the fact that in spite of the dependencies being known, packages aren't installed in the right order. If

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LILO Loading Linux Uncompressing Linux... crc error System halted Apparently, LILO was installed correctly, and accessed the /vmlinuz file without (disk i/o) errors. It seems, though, that the correct data wasn't loaded, which

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish We should certainly not force a particular editor down Hamish anyone's throat, especially emacs :-) I think it is pretty safe to assume that many Linux people use BASH. From the bash manpage given. By default,

Re: X-wm question and ZipDrive

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
thanx to U all, who helped me. Debian rules...:-))) I deactivated html mail, I hope that now no html mail will be sent to the mailing list, BTW how can I find out about this? Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either? Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character

Xnest ???

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
I get the following: richr:6:$ Xnest :1 PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_Mfailed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'

RE: PnP modem under Debian

1997-01-10 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Jason Goldschmidt wrote: Hi, does anyone have any experience getting a US Robotics Sportster 28.8-33.6 PnP modem to work with linux? Or any PnP modem for that matter. I've done all the common setup stuff for the modem. I found that if I want to use the modem under NT, I have to disable PnP in my

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I don't use emacs, but to me dselect seems to be already too emacs-oriented. For example, searching for a package is done with /, but how do you repeat the search? I haven't studied the help in much detail, but for me the answer is I don't know

Netscape 3.01

1997-01-10 Thread Paul Serice
Anyone have any comments on the stability of Netscape 3.01? In particular, I'm curious if it runs o.k. with the lastest libc, or do I need to continue loading Netscape with the older malloc etc. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: newbie problems. . .

1997-01-10 Thread Brian Sheaff
At 12:42 PM 8/01/97 -0600, you wrote: I have been trying to get man working. Iused deselect to install man and all the files it required, but whenever I try to run it, it gives me an error saying: groff: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27' Some of the other programs I've installed have similar

Re: FTP install and PPP/SLIP

1997-01-10 Thread Igor Grobman
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Troy M. Lubbers wrote: Alright, I've seen this question several times. Once before I was the one asking it. But I have yet to get an answer to it. I THINK that I want to install Debian. Partially because the option of installing off of an FTP server sounds very

Re: sound cdrom

1997-01-10 Thread tomk
System Account writes: I've read all this stuff about PnP cards not being supported in the kernel. I recompiled my kernel before I realized that I had a SB16 PnP (atleast according to the model numbers at Creative Labs it's PnP). However, it worked, and I get sound. It should! True Blue

Re: Minor help with X

1997-01-10 Thread tomk
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: Gith wrote: [snip] (**) SVGA: chipset: clgd5434 (**) SVGA: videoram: 1024k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 (--) SVGA: clocks: 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01 (**) SVGA: Option mmio (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed

Re: Custom Boot Disk and Network Problems

1997-01-10 Thread Igor Grobman
You will need to get the kernel source and compile a custom kernel. Editing /etc/modules manually or using modconf (a nice menu interface) will also help. Just unload all the unneeded modules. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman

Re: Custom Boot Disk and Network Problems

1997-01-10 Thread David Wright
To use the custom boot disk, just stick it in the drive and reboot. But I don't think it'll make your probing problems go away. The installation kernels seem to probe for just about every cdrom drive known on heaven and earth, and ditto for network cards. But that's how it should be, because it

Re: HTML in messages to the list

1997-01-10 Thread Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr.
Nick, You are too kind. Just don't waste your time reading them. Best Regards, Joe Hartmann Tel: (603) 863 6073 K2AJV -issued email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1951 home-page: http://www.sugar-river.net/~joeh -

Re: kernel 2.0.27 - nearly there:)

1997-01-10 Thread llucius
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: Configuring serial devices I had/have the same problem. The way I got around it was to comment out the automatic configuration stuff in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and uncommented the appropriate manual configuration stuff. This took care of it

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Pawel T. Jochym
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Pressing / and entering the same search just takes you Hamish back to the first result again. This is counter-intuitive Hamish for users of vi,

Re: Cern Web Server Stats

1997-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, John Roesch, you wrote: I am using debian with the Cern Web Server. I have set it up to use standard log format but don't know what to use to report on the statistics. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to use? Use 'analog', a debianized package. Take a

Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-01-10 Thread Sven Rudolph
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.33 1997/01/10 12:33:18 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1.Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ ). 1.2.

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a bug. What you describe is pre-dependencies. It's a bit too long to explain here, but you can find all the details in the Debian policy manual. Dpkg does the work

Re: improvements

1997-01-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Nathan L. Cutler wrote: Indeed, it might be worth considering doing away with the classification of required, recommended, extra, important, etc., because every person's needs and desires are different. Obviously, if

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