On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, m* wrote:
quick one:
is communicator a memory hog?
my guess is yes.
m*
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The Shining One
--
I just installed the beta3 on a 486-66mhz with 12mb. The only improvement
over beta2 that is obvious is stability. It takes a longgg time to
load. If it's
Dave --
Check out http://www-nt-ca.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/spec/specs.html
-- Harmon
part of previous include snipped
instead just send the mail from that list to its own folder like:
:0:
* ^TOdebian-user
$HOME/mail/debian
I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
the debian-*.config files and change the subject_prefix option
Remove me from your mailing lists. thanks
I don't see a debian PGP package, just scripts...etc. Do I get it from
one of the main PGP sites ? I would like to use it with PINE
Matthew
Here's mine...
:0
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian
* !^TObcwhite
{
:0:
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)(board|debian-board)
Filtered/debian-board
:0:
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian.*-announce
$DEFAULT
:0:
*
I solved the problem by adjusting /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime to
use PST8PDT instead of SystemV/PST8PDT.
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, I wrote:
The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
which is an hour behind the correct PDT. My CMOS clock is set to GMT.
Any suggestions?
When I try to download xbase_3.2-1.1.deb and use dpkg -i to install
it I get crc error uncompressing data from gzip error 1 or something
to that effect. I've tied it twice. What's up -- why can't I
install the package (I'm downloading it from prodigy and its just
over 2mb - I succesfully did
I've started work on a package manager library that will hopefully
combine the best features of Debian's DPKG and Redhat's RPM systems.
My work upto this point is available at http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/
and it is FAR from complete. In fact it's just in its beginning stages.
Some of the
One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old library, then
copy the installed libraries, by hand, into /usr/local/lib. You can then
upgrade back to the current libraries and everything should work without
the need for the LD_PRELOAD.
I'm very new to this but couldn't you end up with
You can download them from the rtr.com site, and then you just need to
add to the httpd.conf for Apache (or the equivalent on other httpds):
I found the old debian package and got it to work by downgrading.
# Make sure the FrontPage stuff finds its private lib versions
SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Ok, I don't get it...
I found the pgp packages on one of the debian-non-us sites.
The 2 pgp packages (pgp-i pgp-us) have exactly the same
package information, but the sizes and names are different.
Why ?
Matthew
Hi,
Not to be left behind, mailagent users can try:
# The mailing lists I subscribe to:
#get Debian stuf outa here first
X-Mailing-List X-Loop To Cc Resent-From Resent-To Resent-Reply-To:
/DEBIAN/i { VACATION off;
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote:
Dale One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old
Dale library, then copy the installed libraries, by hand, into
Dale /usr/local/lib. You can then upgrade back to the current
Dale
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old library, then
copy the installed libraries, by hand, into /usr/local/lib. You can then
upgrade back to the current libraries and everything should work without
the need for the LD_PRELOAD.
I'm
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote:
I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the
Cheap Bytes cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the
Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called rex-fixe
on the cd. I must be missing something here, but I
How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to GMT, should
i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the next reboot, then it
reverts to the wrong date again...?
micheal
An army raised without proper regard
to the choice of its recruits was
never made good by length of
How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to GMT, should
i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the next reboot, then it
reverts to the wrong date again...?
What I do is sync the clock from one of our servers using netdate and then
use clock to set the BIOS clock so that
Is your CMOS clock on local time? That would do it.
Bruce
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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
Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail
with the following message:
Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock
'/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA225raven' open failed - Permission denied
The only way I've found to fix this is
/etc/init.d/lprng stop
Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail
filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc.
server mail.foobar.com \
proto pop3 \
user douglas\
pass sekret \
mda /usr/bin/procmail -f- \
fetchall
Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail
filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc.
snip
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try getting rid of the period after the TO, i.e.
* ^TOdebian-user
and see what
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David B. Teague wrote:
On my stand-alone machine at home, I get all files by making this change
to /etc/cron.daily/find:
#cd / updatedb --localuser=nobody 2/dev/null
cd / updatedb 2/dev/null
BTW Please explain why the is present
Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail
filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc.
[snip]
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^
Well, usually I don't see that dot between ^TO and the string you want
to match.
I know that this is kind of off the wall... but has anyone been able
to port Linux to a Power PC derivitive? I am doing a development for
work that uses an MPC860 and it would be kind of cool to run Linux on
it.
Comments...
Mark
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied Digital Access, Inc.
San Diego, CA
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to GMT, should
i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the next reboot, then it
reverts to the wrong date again...?
What I do is sync the clock from one of our servers using netdate and
Adam == Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to
GMT, should i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the
next reboot, then it reverts to the wrong date again...?
What I do is sync the clock from one of our
some guy wrote:
Is your CMOS clock on local time? That would do it.
yup. all the systems here sprung forward. oh, one machine is set to
central mountain...
m*
--
The Shining One
--
Thus spake Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I don't see a debian PGP package, just scripts...etc. Do I get it from
one of the main PGP sites ? I would like to use it with PINE
Hi Matthew,
due to the export limitations on cryptographic software in the US the PGP
and ssh packages can
Pete Harlan wrote:
This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
Everything is then group-writable by default, which is probably what
you want.
Can you enlighten me as to why this should be a Good Thing? To
The problem is that ssh won't work unless you remove group-write
permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).
It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it
shouldn't mind
I found the pgp packages on one of the debian-non-us sites.
The 2 pgp packages (pgp-i pgp-us) have exactly the same
package information, but the sizes and names are different.
Why ?
From the PGP 2.6.3i readme.1st file
(2) It uses PRZ's MPILIB instead of RSAREF
PGP 2.3a and earlier
Hello,
Do these functions fail to work only for me ?
Does somebody succeeded using them ?
I'm using libc5 5.4.13.1.
Thanks,
--
Ričardas Čepas
I downloaded the files for all 6 disks, and I'm trying to boot off the
Rescue disk, it's getting most of the way (I think) to where I should
say I have a color monitor or whatnot, and it's saying
scsi0! warning: SCSI command probably completed successfully before
abortion
And it's freezing after
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pete Harlan wrote:
This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
I agree. It is a good thing. It is a nice system. I saw this for the first
time in RedHat and I liked the idea.
Sometimes I see these messages on my screen:
Apr 8 11:44:41 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21
nxpg=0x3c.
Apr 8 12:49:06 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21
nxpg=0x32.
Apr 8 14:17:38 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21
nxpg=0x3f.
Apr
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can download them from the rtr.com site, and then you just need to
add to the httpd.conf for Apache (or the equivalent on other httpds):
I found the old debian package and got it to work by downgrading.
Yes, but you've just broken several other packages
I decided to make the plunge and upgrade one of my machines from a
'sorta' 1.2.7 to the frozen/bo, using the most recent mirror here in OZ
as of yesterday. Apart from the latex/tetex nightmare (I _cannot_ get
latex to go away! I'm going to have to hack the database I reckon!) I
have a major
Sorry to bother everyone with this issue. The simple answer is that
http://www.creativelabs.com/wwwnew/tech/spec/specs.html did actually
have a rather nice configuration sheet for this card. Pictures and
everything. I guess I just didn't think that they would have gone
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search
/usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to
put into /usr/local/lib is the shared libraries used by ld.so during
program loading. This path is on the list of
First I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my comment. I apologize about
the length of this message. It combines the current comments and I'm
attempting to show that not every message has a uniform header. So please bear
with it and read on.
From dragon!cogs.susx.ac.uk!luisgh Wed Apr 9
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all...
I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I
have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously
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On 09-Apr-97 Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search
/usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to
put into /usr/local/lib is the shared
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Hello All:
I had added bo to my pkgs list and set everything to hold (I thought). Two
questions.
1. Why does dselect seem to override holds on some pkgs? I hilighted the All
pkgs line and hit hold (=) so I could selectively make changes yet there were
a few
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To All:
Just got the xntp pkg since my CMOS clock doesn't adjust for EDT.
Anybody know a dependable ntp server on the east coast?
Have a good one.
- --
Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09-Apr-97
Hello,
I have noticed that a.out's are quite large on my Debian
system as compared to a previous Slackware, eg
a simple program to print hello world is 80k.
Using gcc 2.7.2
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Lennard
Hello,
I reported this problem a few weeks ago here in this list but never got
an answer back. I manage to install bind anyway basically ignoring this
error (however, dselect still says that bind is not properly installed).
I suspect something's wrong with bash 2.0-2 though. Try some other bash.
Hi
I think there was some discussion about the NE2000 card a while ago, how do I
get in contact with it... (append io something in lilo.conf ??)
Karsten
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lose the period after TO.
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Karsten Bolding wrote:
Hi
I think there was some discussion about the NE2000 card a while ago, how
do I get in contact with it... (append io something in lilo.conf ??)
Karsten
if card address is 300 (hexadecimal):
When using modconf the parameter is entered in a
Hi, what is exactly is your problem? If any? I could not get my linux
box to recognise my kingston ethernet card (which emulates a ne2000
card) When I installed the base system I had to choose a DEC-2*** I
can't remember the rest of the name. I hope this is of some use to you.
Paul McDermott
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Hello Thomas.
Things are simpler than one might think at first.
You will receive this message twice:
One directly from me, another one from the list, since I have put you in
the To: field and the list is in the Cc: field.
The second one will have
Hi
I think there was some discussion about the NE2000 card a while ago, how do
I get in contact with it... (append io something in lilo.conf ??)
Karsten
I have Magitronic EZ2000's, which are NE2000 compatible. I got it to work by
doing the following:
First, I had to (ugh!) boot DOS
Sorry for the continual re-posts, but I mis-stated the problem...
I am not running a slave server, but rather a client machine. following
the nis.debian.howto document, I need to first stop, then start nis by
typing:
/etc/init.d/nis stop
/etc/init.d/nis start
But I get a nice little message
Hi,
We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines
and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over
the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible.
Each machine will be on the net. We've thought of a couple of ways
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Check to see that start-stop-daemon is in /usr/sbin and that /usr/sbin is in
your path.
On 09-Apr-97 Michael J Devine wrote:
Sorry for the continual re-posts, but I mis-stated the problem...
I am not running a slave server, but rather a client machine.
Dear Debian users,
Would anyone know why icons in the toolbar and inline images in the
formatted text appear at half-width twice, side-by-side, in Mosaic and
Chimera? They can be clicked on as usual, just that they are there in, say,
slimline duplicate.
I can't say what happens with Netscape
I will be connecting several different types of systems to an
ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On
the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the
Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either Ethernet_802.2 or
Ethernet_803.2. The Novel
It seems to me the best way to do this would be to use the ftp install
but that may take to much time so making a template machine and then
copying everything from that machine to all the others (cp -Rap) would
work. If you can open the machines and get the drives out this wouldn't
be to bad, if
Does dpkg have option(s) that can be specified so that it does not run
postinst scripts *and* does not replace any files (WITHOUT bothering to
ask the user)?
I'm trying to come up with a way to manage groups of Debian machines
without having to manually log into each one. Here's one way I think
On 8 Apr 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote:
Dale One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old
Dale library, then copy the installed libraries, by hand, into
Dale
Hi Kay,
We currently have 5 Debian clients running with /usr, /home and bits
of /var (shared tfm and pk font files). The system runs really well
over our not too busy 10Mbps ethernet. This may be because we have a
good server, PPro 200MHz with 64MB and a fast-wide SCSI disk, so your
milage might
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail
with the following message:
Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock '/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA
225raven' open failed - Permission denied
Check the permissions on /dev/null
Is there a bug reporting mode for reporting XEmacs crashes and
package blonk spiels?
I just upgraded to Debian 1.3 GNU/Linux, and there's a 'bug' command
now for filing bugs on packages. It works really well! :-) I think
that it will really help to even further improve the distribution's
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Aaron J. Anderson wrote:
I downloaded the files for all 6 disks, and I'm trying to boot off the
Rescue disk, it's getting most of the way (I think) to where I should
say I have a color monitor or whatnot, and it's saying
scsi0! warning: SCSI command probably completed
I just tried to patch up to 2.0.30 and I got an error along the lines of
hunk 1 of 1 failed. Rejected 3c59x.c...
I restored 'pure' kernel 2.0.27 source off of the Debian 1.2.6 CD I have and
tried itup to 2.0.29 no complaints, but it gets to 2.0.30 and I get that
error.
Anyone else
On 9 Apr 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search
/usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to
put into /usr/local/lib is the shared libraries used by ld.so during
Sorry for the continual re-posts, but I mis-stated the problem...
I am not running a slave server, but rather a client machine. following
the nis.debian.howto document, I need to first stop, then start nis by
typing:
/etc/init.d/nis stop
/etc/init.d/nis start
But I get a nice little
KMH == Karl M Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KMH Is there a bug reporting mode for reporting XEmacs crashes
KMH and package blonk spiels?
Well reporter.el is something I wrote a while back that package
authors can use for bug reports. It's standard now with both Emacsen
and quite
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Anybody know why v scroll kills xconsole?
Have a good one.
- --
Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09-Apr-97
You might be interested in the following announcement of a public desktop
environment for Linux (and other OSes).
Regards,
Dan Evans
Freedom Desktop Lite Announcement (1.01)
We are pleased to announce the public availability of the Freedom
Desktop Lite. Freedom Desktop Lite is
I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary
form. I uudecoded, unzipped, and un-tarred it, and rtfm'd. Following the
instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told can't find file 'Imakefile.tmpl'.
Is there anyone familiar with this problem that might be able to help? I
Dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Check the permissions on /dev/null -- here something has changed them
to crw--- twice already and I haven't found the offender yet.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked and that's not the problem.
--
Rob
The information you are looking for should be in the Host
Requirements RFC -I think this is also a debian package in doc.
For 10Mbits/sec Ethernet cable, this was the policy for a host few years
ago and propably it is still in effect:
1. Must be able to send and receive packets using rfc
hello
Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the
red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one
has kde working I would appreciate info on how you got it working...
-kevin
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I finished d/ling it from kde.org not 5 min's ago. I'm about to take a stab
at it now. I'll let you know if I have success.
On 09-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:
hello
Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the
red hat package and
During a dump I noticed these messages in /var/messages:
Apr 9 13:17:13 keng-ppp kernel: [044] ftape-write.c (_write_segment)
- write error, retry 5.
Apr 9 13:17:17 keng-ppp kernel: [045] ftape-write.c (_write_segment)
- write error, retry 6.
Apr 9 13:17:18 keng-ppp kernel: [046]
I just finished a fresh install using disks from the bo directory on
ftp.i-connect.com dated April 8. I believe I saw something on the
screen about the base disks being created on April 4. As I recall the
rescue disk identifies itself as being a Feb 12 vintage.
I got through the installation
On Apr 9, John Foster wrote
:
: It unpacks OK, but then during the config it crashes with an unknown
: syntax error near line 120 'done'. This is just after an esac, and
...
: Any help at all would be nice, as I can't see anything wrong with the
: bash script, but it's not my strongest suit
Has any one experience using this CD recorder under Linux? One of my
colleagues would like to use it to archive certain project software
and is interested in knowing
* if this hardware is supported
* if the associated linux-based software is dependable (he
doesn't
On 9 Apr 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
I will be connecting several different types of systems to an
ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On
the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the
Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either
that is, are there any packages that will enable one to use a scanner that is
able to
read in characters, or in other words, uses OCR (optical character recognition)
technology?
-Walter
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