Re: package compilation

1997-02-20 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hiya, Thanks for your note. I guess I was a bit misleading about patching. The patch I used was a buslogic flashpoint patch for my scsi controller. Not a kernel patch. I got the new 2.0.29 complete sources before I tried to compile. Sorry 'bout that... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
[Jerry, allow me to send a copy to debian-user.] mount -t nfs -o mountport=824 server:/world /world where 824 is the tcp proto port for mountd on the server. Now, it works - THANKS! The problem apparenlty is with the portmapper in netbase_2.06-1 in bo (unstable). HostA (was called

Limiting bandwidth on ftp server

1997-02-20 Thread Mike Schmitz
My ISP is considering allowing me to setup a debian mirror, but he is concerned that it may use excessive bandwidth, because of the possibility of someone with a fast data connection might use it. We thought about using a machine with a slip connection, but were hoping to do it with a virtual

load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread Richard Morin
Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am not doing anything. This is a single user machine p100 with 32megs of ram, and

Re: bash2.0 sysklogd

1997-02-20 Thread Neal Becker
As explained when I first raised this question on gnu.bash.bug, the problem is that sysklogd sends an interrupt signal to it's parent. Bash used to just ignore this, now it prints a warning message. sysklogd should be told not to do this. You can ignore the message. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Problem solved for fdisk (?)

1997-02-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Fdisk _will_ allow a partition to start after cylinder 1024. Following is a copy of my partition table (The reasons for the odd assortment of logical partitions are too lengthy to go into here): Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1

Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

1997-02-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The meaning of primary and extended partitions is the same in DOS and Linux. The maximum number of partitions on any drive is 4, of which none or one may be extended and all others must be primary. Any number of virtual or logical partitions may be installed within the extended partition.

Re: DepenGNUian Logo

1997-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Behan Webster wrote: Have you ever seen Nick Park's claymation The Wrong Trousers? There's a really cute penguin in that short film. Someday I may render one. Cute? He scared me. As you probably remember, he was master-mind jewel thief who dressed as a chicken to

Re: Bug with libraries? -I'm having this problem!

1997-02-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, John T. Larkin wrote: Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from an updated mirror). The file /etc/ld.so.conf did _not_ include the line:

Re: Help with disk partition.

1997-02-20 Thread Gertjan Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Antonio Martin Guerra) wrote: I would like to use 500MB for Linux and 1.500MB for DOS, WINNT, WIN95. How do I go about creating partitions and formatting the disk, taking into account the problem with 1024 cylinders. I am starting from scratch so I can reformat

Re: Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

1997-02-20 Thread Bruce Perens
That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't see the overlap. Any clue? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- This

Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy

1997-02-20 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonas Bofjall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I and many other DOS - Linux migrates wishes for, is a driver with which I can remove my floppy at any time. This would require that the floppy never is write cached. Once I heard of a program called SuperMount

Re: Mount and cdrom

1997-02-20 Thread Patrick Ryan
Andy, What does mtab look like? -Patrick === = Patrick Ryan[EMAIL PROTECTED] [] PGP key in = = http://newhutch.fhcrc.org/Patrick [] web space! =

Re: Problem solved for fdisk (?)

1997-02-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I have apparently solved the problem with my large disk, though not in an entirely satisfactory way. I noticed that fdisk will not allow a partition to begin AFTER cylinder 1024, be it a logical or a primary partition. I therefore had my last partition start before cyl 1024 and all error

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Regarding the disk being too large, the partition that the system boots from should be entirely within the low 1023 cylinders. I handled this by creating a separate partition (about 40 MB) for /, and a larger one for /usr. Other than that,

ld-linux.so refuses to link the libraries I need...

1997-02-20 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I've put some libraries in /usr/local/mydir, and made symlinks to /usr/local/lib. However, ld-linux.so doesn't link them. Of course /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf. Even if I put /usr/local/mydir in /etc/ld.so.conf the program doesn't run. ldconfig -v shows nothing in /usr/local/lib. Why

Re: package compilation

1997-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This was a bug in kernel-package which has now been corrected. manoj Daniel == Daniel J Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It looks like you new kernel was made after all. I would copy Daniel it to the right place /boot/vmlinuz and use it. I think your Daniel problem

Innd problems

1997-02-20 Thread Matthew Stone
Hmm.. I am having some problems with innd.. it seems that my innd when I try to run the daemon.. it doesn't stay in memory for some reason and there for when I run my news problem it can't connect.. what am I do wrong.. am I missing any command lines parameters or anything that is needed??

menu

1997-02-20 Thread Brad Bell
i've got the menu package installed and working great (with fvwm2/95). i was wondering if anyone out there knows how to add a menu item for something which is not part of a debian package. i.e. stuff i've manually installed, like x48 or doom or amaya. -- i could just add them to a totally

Debian review in LJ Buyers Guide

1997-02-20 Thread Richard Morin
Run, don't walk to your newstand or mailbox, and grab the Linux Journal 1997 Buyers Guide. There is a rather favourable Product Review by Phil Hughes and Jonathan Gross. Too bad they stuck in way in the back on page 128, but hey I'd like to ask why the chart on page 126 lists the target

Meta key: what's the right/best way?

1997-02-20 Thread Pete Templin
Hi all, I've got a MS Natural Keyboard on my main system, and I'd like to have it configured such that Alt serves as the Meta key both in the virtual consoles and in X. I'd also like to have consistent behavior on any xterms which I then telnet to another machine, along with

Re: Bug with libraries? -I'm having this problem!

1997-02-20 Thread Patrick Ryan
Hello, I installed Debian 1.2.6 with the fixes and had the same problem. The solution, it turns out, is to update the path listing in /etc/ld.so.conf by adding a line that says /usr/X11R6/lib, without the quotes of course, and then running /sbin/ldconfig to update the ld cache

help with dselect

1997-02-20 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi! Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends on bash (2.0.1). When using ftp I have chosen [unstable contrib non-free] for my

Re: Bug with libraries? -I'm having this problem!

1997-02-20 Thread Igor Grobman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, John T. Larkin wrote: Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from

Re: Bug with libraries? -I'm having this problem!

1997-02-20 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, John T. Larkin wrote: Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from an updated mirror). The file

Re: Zmodem source

1997-02-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Can someone please let me know where can I get zmodem source? You can get the source of every program in Debian. Connect to ftp.debian.org (or a mirror) and go to /debian/unstable/source/comm There you'll find three files related to lrzsz (the

Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy

1997-02-20 Thread Orn E. Hansen
|What I and many other DOS - Linux migrates wishes for, is a driver with |which I can remove my floppy at any time. This would require that the NO. I always remove my floppy after sync; amd -u /l/msdos etc. Why not use mtools? then you access the drive without mounting... just like a PC :-)

Re: cron doesn't start at boot up?

1997-02-20 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Bernt == Bernt T Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bernt Billy- Try # update-rc.d cron defaults Bernt I had to add the links for cron after installing it to have it Bernt start at boot time for run levels 2-5. Bernt You should probably read about the boot process information in Bernt # info

XFree86 3.2A?

1997-02-20 Thread Robert Nicholson
I've heard that the acceleration is worth it. Particularly on my Tecra. So are the .deb's available for 3.2A? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

m68k

1997-02-20 Thread The Lord Bhaal
Okeys, I am starting to d/l the m68k base disks, how am I meant to get these to the amiga after unpacking them onto floppy on the linux box? -- Silicon Graphics and Sun Worksation Giveaway Check out -- http://www.squirrel.com.au For more information. running Debian GNU/Linux...

dosemu problems

1997-02-20 Thread Matthew Stone
When I run dosemu I get the follow errors.. anyone know how I can fix this? Error: MBR not installed. Kill dosemu from another VT Boot from floppy to fix this. Ok.. then I hit a key and get the following.. SYSCALL ERROR: 9, *Bad file number* in file vc.c, line 196: expr= close

Re: RE:Debian install tkdesk etc..

1997-02-20 Thread hunnia
Try to 'dpkg -i --force-depends /path/to/the/package.deb' the motifnls and tkdesk packages. At least the motifnls should be OK this way, since you did have X installed. The tkdesk should be OK too, I've got it working here... (1.2 from Infomagic Dec '9 That did it. Everythin is running. Thankyou.

tcpd and new net package

1997-02-20 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
well, I just let dselect d/l a few new packages, but when I try to irc into my machine, I get this in daemon.log: Feb 19 23:52:58 walterp ircd[634]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Feb 19 23:52:58 walterp ircd[634]: connect from unknown telnet and finger's

Re: XFree for S3 86c765?

1997-02-20 Thread G. Dillon
No laughing matter, this: I have one of these babies (SuperProbe says Trio64V+), and it has horrible pixel dust problems in --bpp 32 with the XFree86 3.2 S3; which to upgrade to, S3 or S3V and will it help? George L. Dillon Professor of English University of Washington smail:PO Box 354330

Re: menu

1997-02-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Brad Bell wrote: i've got the menu package installed and working great (with fvwm2/95). i was wondering if anyone out there knows how to add a menu item for something which is not part of a debian package. i.e. stuff i've manually installed, like x48 or doom or amaya.

Re: m68k

1997-02-20 Thread Bruce Perens
The readme in the m68k disks says root.bin doesn't work for amiga. I suppose that means it works for atari. I suggest you write to debian-68k@lists.debian.org and ask the developers there how to get bootstrapped. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cron doesn't start at boot up?

1997-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
Chow Chi-Ming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am just querying why the cron postinst doesn't install, or offer to install the cron deamon using update-rc.d, so that cron is started at boot up. Even the gpm daemon (a significantly less important daemon) is started at boot up by default. This was

Re: menu

1997-02-20 Thread Brad Bell
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Brad Bell wrote: i've got the menu package installed and working great (with fvwm2/95). i was wondering if anyone out there knows how to add a menu item for something which is not part of a debian package.

PLIP, Win 95

1997-02-20 Thread jlillibr
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Re: menu

1997-02-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Brad Bell wrote: Of course! Read the docs in /usr/doc/menu...! oh thank you oh oh so much! what wonderful wonderful instructions! i never would have thought of doing that! It seems that you needed that someone tells you to read the docs. I'm glad to have helped

smail-problem: smtp not doing its work

1997-02-20 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have a dialup-connection (ppp) to an ISP. I developed a problem this week after trying out a customized kernel (which I removed again). The problem is that mail in the queue are not sent automatically when the connection with the ISP is estblished. I tried reconfiguring smail and even

Re: clock

1997-02-20 Thread Rik Huygen
Rob Browning wrote: Check /etc/init.d/boot. You want to change the lines that read: # Set GMT=-u if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT= if not. GMT=-u I assume that you don't want the -u flag. So, how can one figure out (from DOS or the BIOS) if your system clock is set to GMT or

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Finnish college student (in fact, he isn't one anymore) and I believe he should have been given more credit, at least his name should have appeared in the press

eth0: Insufficient memory; nuking packet. (??)

1997-02-20 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hi. Does someone know how to cure this sort of a hung net? I understand that testing a beta version software may result in an adventure. When testing LyX at some point with the try to produce a real LaTeX-preview the net completely hung. In /var/log/messages there were the following entries:

Re: smail-problem: smtp not doing its work

1997-02-20 Thread Stefan Walder
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I have a dialup-connection (ppp) to an ISP. I developed a problem this week after trying out a customized kernel (which I removed again). The problem is that mail in the queue are not sent automatically when the connection with the ISP is

Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-20 Thread Rik Huygen
Ioannis Tambouras wrote: NFS mounts for other hosts fail. On the server everything is in place: portmap, nfs, mountd, are running, and I can mount nfs partitions from the server to itself. But, from another host (who has nfs module loaded) I get the classic: mount clntudp_create: RPC:

Re: clock

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
I assume that you don't want the -u flag. So, how can one figure out (from DOS or the BIOS) if your system clock is set to GMT or not? Other than trial and error... Rik. Your .be domain tell me that you are +1 hours ahead from Greenwich (sp?), England. Check the current time that dos

Re: smail-problem: smtp not doing its work

1997-02-20 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks. I did not know about runq. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Johann Spies

Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy

1997-02-20 Thread James LewisMoss
Jonas == Jonas Bofjall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonas On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Hayao Nakahara wrote: Yes you can. The followings are some of my /etc/adm/amd.xxx files. On such configuration, I can mount cdrom by accessing /l/cd, mount floppy with ext2 format by /l/fd mount floopy with fat

Re: clock

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
If you set the system clock (the real clock) to GMT, then MS Windows will also think that your are in England. (Maybe in Windows95 has a a way around it, don't know). To do that, (most likely you do not want it!) supply the -u to the timezone script. It should work, but I never tried it.

POP Mail Reader where Mail stays on server

1997-02-20 Thread Dr. Mark A. Friedman
I know a message was posted recently asking if a POP Mail Reader existed for Debian that would read mail on the server without downloading it. I did not see a response. Does anyone know of such a POP Mail Reader? Thanks, -- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

sysklogd 1.3-13

1997-02-20 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi! Why is it that the new sysklogd in 'unstable' dependens on an old bash and not on the new one? Is there any packages that dependes on bash 2.0-2 or is it just to downgrade it to the one in section stable so that I can get sysklogd working?? /Micke --

libc5

1997-02-20 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH
Hello, I have got Debian 1.2 installed on my system. I tried to install the non-free package scilab using dpkg. dpkg complains about libc_5.4.17-1 or more. I have libc5_5.4.13-1 installed on my system and I can't find the libc_5.4.17-1 package in the debian site. Could you

Re: POP Mail Reader where Mail stays on server

1997-02-20 Thread Hong Huang
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Dr. Mark A. Friedman wrote: I know a message was posted recently asking if a POP Mail Reader existed for Debian that would read mail on the server without downloading it. I did not see a response. Does anyone know of such a POP Mail Reader? Try pine. -- TO

How to map Alt+key under X?

1997-02-20 Thread Zlatko Rek
Hi, On my notebook, the numeric keypad is embedded into main keypad. When it is active, the key-symbols: 7,8,9,0,u,i,... can't be used. Because I use Jed in EDT mode, and the frequent switching is very annoying, I changed following lines in /etc/kbd/default.map: alt keycode 8 =

Re: Innd problems

1997-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Matthew Stone wrote: Hmm.. I am having some problems with innd.. it seems that my innd when I try to run the daemon.. it doesn't stay in memory for some reason and there for when I run my news problem it can't connect.. read the logs in /var/log/news - innd is quite

Re: help with dselect

1997-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends on bash (2.0.1). When using ftp I have chosen

trouble mounting my cd-rom

1997-02-20 Thread Kane Spinato
I have a SCSI cd-rom drive attached to an AHA-2940U controller. The boot disk on the same controller is device 0 while the cd drive is device 3. My machine boots fine off of the disk and it used to mount cd-roms without trouble. At some point it stopped being able to do so: spasm:/proc# mount -t

Re: IPX loading every 5 minutes

1997-02-20 Thread Roland Haag
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul J. Clegg wrote: A few weeks ago, someone helped me correct a problem where my messages log was being filled up with notes about how modules weren't being loaded properly. Now I'm having a similar problem, except instead of not being loaded, it's being loaded every

Another NCP error

1997-02-20 Thread Mikael Bendtsen
Hi! When I issue commands like slist, ncpmount etc I always get: Unknown code ___ 255 in ncp_initialize (or something like that). Anyway, the error code 255 shows up all the time. Really need help with this, hope someone can help me.

New user: Trying to get xserver running.

1997-02-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: I have a small problem. I have debian 1.1 (waiting for 2.1) and I'm trying to get x windows up and running. My hardware is * dual cpu, pentium pro 200, PCI only * 64 meg ram * 3com Vortex (work good) * PS/2 mouse * ATI Mach 64, when I run SuperProbe I get: Chipset: ATI 88800GX

Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
You should uncomment the lines to start the nfsd and mountd on the other hosts in the file /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. Well, not if the only thing I want is to mount volumes. In that case you only need rpc support from the kernel. That is all. Thanks for all who replied. I will do some

apsfilter_4.9.1-10.deb

1997-02-20 Thread Adam Shand
Hi. I've been playing with trying to get my linux box to print postscript files which is all working nicely now. (YAY!) Anyway along the way I downloaded apsfilter_4.9.1-10.deb from unstable. When I ran it all went nicely through the config script until it got to the point getting me to choose

Re: IPX loading every 5 minutes

1997-02-20 Thread Paul J. Clegg
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Roland Haag wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul J. Clegg wrote: properly. Now I'm having a similar problem, except instead of not being loaded, it's being loaded every five minutes. An excerpt from my messages file: Feb 17 08:57:03 lemur kernel: Swansea University

Directory structure at Debian

1997-02-20 Thread Ed Down
I've been a user of Debian for 6 months or so now - including a sucessfull upgrade to 1.2 via ftp and a \HUGE stack of floppies, but I still have great problems understanding what all the directories on the ftp sites contain. Could anyone tell me what the rex-updates and rex-fixed directories

modem port root only

1997-02-20 Thread Ed Down
I'm sure this was answered sometime recently, but can't find it. I've added the user to the dialout group, but still get /dev/ttyS1 - Permission denied when trying to use the modem as a user. Do I need to change more groups (tty, etc) - if so, which ones Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Weird! My network turns itself off on bootup! Why?

1997-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote: Any idea what i'd need? Right now, mine says: #auto 3c509 sg Try removing the '#' from the '#hash' line. See if that makes any difference. What #hash line? oops. sorry, i meant '#auto' Well, despite the fact that i'm getting

Re: New user: Trying to get xserver running.

1997-02-20 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Have you tried creating your XF86Config file with the new XF86Setup program? XF86Setup is a graphical tool for creating the XF86Config file. It comes with the xserver-vga16 package. Here's an excerpt from the xserver-vga16 package's description: This package also contains the 'XF86Setup'

Re: POP Mail Reader where Mail stays on server

1997-02-20 Thread A M Tapio Vaattanen
Dr. Mark A. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know a message was posted recently asking if a POP Mail Reader existed for Debian that would read mail on the server without downloading it. I did not see a response. Does anyone know of such a POP Mail Reader? I used ML for long time.

Re: Mount and cdrom

1997-02-20 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater (Andy)
Sorry to be so dense: Patrick was right and mtab was different to /etc/fstab. On this machine, /dev/cdrom is soft linked to /dev/sbpcd to please some programs which prefer it that way. /etc/fstab had /dev/sbpcd /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 and /etc/mtab had /dev/cdrom /cdrom

Re: another PPP setup question ...

1997-02-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Andre Saes wrote: Hello Mr. Richr, can't get it to work. I read the HOWTO and README, but must have missed something. IP Forwarding is turned on on the server's I think that you're having a kind of netmask problem. In /etc/ppp/options, put this parameter:

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Directory structure at Debian

1997-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Ed Down wrote: Could anyone tell me what the rex-updates and rex-fixed directories are for? I would have assumed that any packages with serious bugs would be fixed in the standard rex... If not, what is rex still there for with 'broken' packages in it? And what happens

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team... Nor any

Re: Smail and slip dialup (2nd request)

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Brian Skreeg typed: I'm trying to setup smail the operate over my dial-up slip account. I installed smail (and it's dependants) using dselect and ran smailconfig. I chose option 1: Internet site sending and receiving mail using smtp : This seemed to me to almost setup smail correctly. It

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Manoj Srivastava typed: Hi, I'll reverse the question: why are you using the links? The links are ignored anyway while compiling the kernel, so that's not it. However, you may totally confuse some other program (during compilation) that does not expect changes that are made in the

Re: missing/non-functional identd service?

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Pete Templin typed: Hi there. I've been learning about PGP, and was in the process of taking a look at a few public keys, when I ran into a small stumbling block. You see, I was fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I ran into a small obstacle: tcsh finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPX loading every 5 minutes

1997-02-20 Thread Bob Clark
Paul J. Clegg wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Roland Haag wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul J. Clegg wrote: properly. Now I'm having a similar problem, except instead of not being loaded, it's being loaded every five minutes. An excerpt from my messages file: Feb 17 08:57:03 lemur

Re: modem port root only

1997-02-20 Thread Bob Clark
Ed Down wrote: I'm sure this was answered sometime recently, but can't find it. I've added the user to the dialout group, but still get /dev/ttyS1 - Permission denied when trying to use the modem as a user. Do I need to change more groups (tty, etc) - if so, which ones Ed Does

Re: modem port root only

1997-02-20 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Thu, Feb 20 1997, Ed Down wrote: I'm sure this was answered sometime recently, but can't find it. I've added the user to the dialout group, but still get /dev/ttyS1 - Permission denied when trying to use the modem as a user. Do I need to change more groups (tty, etc) - if so, which ones

Re: libc/locale bug in strftime()?

1997-02-20 Thread Riku Saikkonen
is the source of your greaf, your 'struct tm' is not properly initalized before a call to strftime(). You don't dynamically allocate your structure, but it is allocated on the runtime stack, therefore it most likely contains rubbish data, that breaks strftime(). Oops. Yes, you're right. I didn't

Unable to compile with Debian 1.2.2 distribution

1997-02-20 Thread Jerry G. Champlin
Debian Users, When I originally installed Debian 1.2.2 on two machines at work and two machines at home, I was able to compile anything, but then I updated libc5 and libc5-dev to the latest stable release. After that I was unable to compile anything on the machines I updated. I really do not

Re: modem port root only

1997-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure this was answered sometime recently, but can't find it. I've added the user to the dialout group, but still get /dev/ttyS1 - Permission denied when trying to use the modem as a user. Do I need to change more groups (tty, etc) - if so, which ones

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Robert Nicholson
I haven't read the article but perhaos the article is talking about the differences b/w the the debian and other distributions? If that's the case then the debian developers surely deserve most of the credit. On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb

XF86_S3

1997-02-20 Thread Jean-Paul LACHARME
Hello ! I need to configure a Miro Crystal PCI card with S3 SDAC (more exactely S3 Trio32/64 PCI) When I run xbase-configure and get the chip card menu, it says that running first the server /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 is required before configuring. OK. But, where do I find this XF86_S3 bit of

Re: Directory structure at Debian

1997-02-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been a user of Debian for 6 months or so now - including a sucessfull upgrade to 1.2 via ftp and a \HUGE stack of floppies, but I still have great problems understanding what all the directories on the ftp sites contain. Could anyone tell me what the

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
Robert Nicholson wrote: I haven't read the article but perhaos the article is talking about the differences b/w the the debian and other distributions? If that's the case then the debian developers surely deserve most of the credit. It is a sort of Press Release whipped-up by the

RE: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread Paul Rightley
You have not given a sufficient amount of information to diagnose the problem. What process is causing the high load. I suspect that it is syslogd. If this is the case, you probably have some directories specified in /etc/syslog.conf that do not exist on your machine. Comment out the lines in

Re: POP Mail Reader where Mail stays on server

1997-02-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Dr. Mark A. Friedman wrote: I know a message was posted recently asking if a POP Mail Reader existed for Debian that would read mail on the server without downloading it. I did not see a response. Does anyone know of such a POP Mail Reader? No, but there is an

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The canned response comes from the readme file included with the kernel headers package. It has been gleaned from various discussions on the Debian Lists, and from private email from David Engel and Linus Torvalds. I am given to understand that Linus will incorporate

Re: libc5

1997-02-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote: Hello, I have got Debian 1.2 installed on my system. I tried to install the non-free package scilab using dpkg. dpkg complains about libc_5.4.17-1 or more. I have libc5_5.4.13-1 installed on my

Re: Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

1997-02-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Wed, 19 Feb 97 14:49 PST [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote: That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't see the overlap. Any clue? Bruce The complaints probably came from using the 'v'- verify the partition table in fdisk. The 'v' command

Re: ld-linux.so refuses to link the libraries I need...

1997-02-20 Thread David Engel
On Feb 19, Carlos Carvalho wrote I've put some libraries in /usr/local/mydir, and made symlinks to /usr/local/lib. However, ld-linux.so doesn't link them. Of course /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf. Even if I put /usr/local/mydir in /etc/ld.so.conf the program doesn't run. ldconfig -v

Manual Pages

1997-02-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
There is a manual page update, which was announced on COLA several weeks ago. Will there be a .deb made available for us all soon? Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.28

Gnu C manual Gdb warning

1997-02-20 Thread Jonathan Lawson
Script started on Thu Feb 20 10:36:52 1997 Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the GNU C Manual? I would really like to take a look at it . Secondly, I get the following (underlisted) error from Gdb, I wonder if anyone knows of a way to set things right. Thanks Jonathan

Need minor dselect help.

1997-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
OK, I've started playing with dselect. I had avoided it after some unfortunate misunderstandings in my early Debian days. Now, after being much more careful about not touching *any* keys without knowing exactly what they do, and reading every screen carefully, I have come to understand the way

Re: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am not doing anything. First, run something like top to see if anything is

Re: bash2.0 sysklogd

1997-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Siggy Brentrup writes: Package: bash Version: 2.0-2 Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-12 on my system, and running `sysklogd start' I see # ./sysklogd start starting /sbin/syslogd ... ./sysklogd: line 40: 4090 Interrupt start-stop-daemon --start --verbose

Re: Manual Pages

1997-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a manual page update, which was announced on COLA several weeks ago. Will there be a .deb made available for us all soon? I think it's available now in unstable: manpages_1.15-1.deb -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

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