On Wed, 09 Apr 1997 14:47:54 PDT Ken Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
During a dump I noticed these messages in /var/messages:
Apr 9 13:17:18 keng-ppp kernel: [046]ftape-write.c (write_segment)
- warning: 1 hard error(s) in written segment.
I just upgraded BitterSweet to Debian pre1.3, over the modem. It
took all night at 33.6, to ftp the files I selected. Everything I'd
carefully chosen, a 1 hour job, with `dselect` transfered without a
single glitch, from URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian. I selected
files from bo, contrib, and
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when
I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still
shows the time in GMT. The same happens with the headers generated
by qmail. Does anyone know why? If I use exmh or xfmail the
I glanced over the new 'dwww' documantation interface, and its really
looking good!
Cool.
I hadn't had the menu package installed previously.
The documents under that hierarchy look really nice! Is that the
debiandoc DTD that the doc people have been talking about?
I'm not sure. I
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
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 to reflect
the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
of the list. A subject line
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
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
Looking at http://www.fsw.com/fdlite/copyright.html one can see things like:
The commercial use of this Software shall be governed by a separate License
agreement. Any individual or institution wishing to make commercial use of the
Software must sign a license agreement with Freedom Software.
When we switched over to daylight savings time, my linux box set its clock
forward an hour, like it should. However, I rebooted it last night to
upgrade the kernel, and it came up an hour behind. I guess the time wasn't
written back to the bios. I'm in US/Easter timezone, and I have my bios
clock
I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two
questions on dwww:
* Does it support compressed files, especially man pages?
It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration
option to set?
* Is there any support for cgi programs?
Again, doesn't
On 9 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
If someone build a debian package with Freedom Desktop, in my understanding,
it should go to non-free. What a mess!
I tried it out some time ago and i have to state that it's not worth
the downloading effort. KDE is the way to go although QT is
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To install the KDE I only had to edit the configure file and add
/usr/X11R6/lib for QT lib dir and /usr/X11R6/include/X11/qt for the qt
include dir.
Have a good one.
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Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adam, trust me, I went through this three months ago, I got involved
in some significant discussion on rtr's forum, and the best possible
solution, the one that rtr itself recommends, is the one I described
above. Put the special libraries in a special place, and let apache
know about it using
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
why so careless to post your username and password in a mailing
list?
mmj
On 8 Apr 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
I placed the following in /etc/mirror/packages/bufo.usc.edu and called
it with mirror. It did a wonderful job of pulling things from the
remote site to
Eugene Sevinian wrote:
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:
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 Ethernet_802.2 or
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RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this a beta testers report??? If so is this the place to send these
reports to Debian? I'm a bit confused here since most people subscribed to
this list have been using bo, or parts of it for some time now.
I've been on this list
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I'm writing this from KDE which I d/l'd earlier tonight. In my opinion KDE
is just another variation of Win95. It may be nice in the end for the
inexperienced, ofcourse what window manager isn't simple enough once
configured properly? I'll be sticking with
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Just type edit.
On 10-Apr-97 Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
Have a good one.
-
Ahem... could all further users please not reply-to-all in further
replies to Karl's message? He put all the staff members at Internet
Arena in the CC field ( although only a few are members of PLUG ) and
we've been recieving replies we don't always need. I think only three
of us are subscribed
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install?
The editor you are expected to use is ae, but sed is also in base if you
really want to abuse yourself.
Ae is configured as a modeless editor with a visible help screen, so
Tim O'Brien wrote:
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'.
moxfm requires Motif to compile.
^^
--
Lawrence
hello,
I'm upgrading from 1.2 to bo and at tetex-*'s request am trying to run
dpkg
--purge --force-depends latex. This is the response I get:
(Reading database ... 31313 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing latex ...
Removing latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8)
Edgar,
The Freedom Desktop sounds nice, but your license would put the
program in the non-free area of the Debian FTP archive, where it
would not generally be put on Debian CDs that are for sale. For obvious
reasons, we are most interested in free software. Please work out a
more acceptable
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
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...
Yes i got it running, what
Many thanks to the folks who pointed out that the ppp device is called
ppp{0,1,2,..} . It was useful to know
I also didn't spot that there is now a PPP Howto
However my real problem turned out to be that my dip script was setting
the data rate too high! }:-(
Anyway earth.demon.co.uk is now
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: I was at the Debian homepages today, and saw mention of upcoming support
: for the Alpha archetecture... Is this still a reality, or has it been
: canned? Thanks.
Active work continues. The bits in the unstable tree right now are *very*
unstable. The
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Well, if I understand the question your command line should look like:
cp /dev/console file-name
[snip]
If you know which Virtual Console you are on, they are accessed through
the ttyN devices, so from console 1 the line would look
On Apr 10, digger vermont wrote
I'm upgrading from 1.2 to bo and at tetex-*'s request am trying to run
dpkg --purge --force-depends latex. This is the response I get:
(Reading database ... 31313 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing latex ...
Removing latex format(s) using
On Wed, Apr 09, 1997 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
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
Are md5 checksums available for individiual binaries within
each package?
This, would IMO provide a means for authenticating a systems
binaries on an already installed system, _before_ locking it up
with something like tripwire.. (if you havent just done a clean
reinstall)
ie, I dont want to
Hello
I have been trying to install Debian 1.2 (2.0.27) for some days now
without any success. Yesterday I downloaded pre 1.3 (?) (2.0.29) from
ftp.debian.org/debian/frozen to try, without more succss.
So now I am trying the user list to see if I can get some help. The
problem is the
On Apr 9, Paul Wade wrote
: On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
:
:
: Or wait for a new release of the bind package ;-)
: I can't seem to find a '}' anywhere near line 120.
1 #!/bin/sh -e
2 #
3 # Debian package postinst
4 # Version 1.2
5 #
6 #
On 09-Apr-97 Dave Cinege wrote:
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
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
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
Dave Cinege wrote:
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
I would like to know if there is any twain driver available, so maybe I
can use my handy scanner in my Linux. Does anybody know anything about
this?
Thanks,
Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes:
[snip: 3c59x.c rejects patch]
Maybe there is already a patch applied in kernel-source-2.0.27 of Debian 1.2?
As a solution you may want to use a file from a clean 2.0.30.
Would someone /please/ be kind enough to put the clean 3c59x.c on the
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Well, if I understand the question your command line should look like:
cp /dev/console file-name
cp /dev/tty1 file-name
Hello,
Below is the page netcom recommends for Linux setup. I've tried this
off the base installation and don't even get the phone dialing.
I've got an Intel internal 14.4 modem
http://www1.netcom.com/bin/webtech/Other_Dialers_and_Operating_Systems/Operating_Systems/linux.cfg.html
Thanx --
First off, I apologize to all who sent private replies and I had used them in
a public message. Thanks to Santiago, I now understand the difference between
the variations in mail headers. Gracia Senor!
--
-= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =-
Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
Below is the page netcom recommends for Linux setup. I've tried this
off the base installation and don't even get the phone dialing.
I've got an Intel internal 14.4 modem
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kay Nettle) wrote:
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.
We have been running about a
Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
--
Ken Gaugler
Ken Gaugler writes:
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
ae is on board.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-(
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You did right in getting the BINARY version instead of the version you have
to compile as Lawrence mistakenly assumed.
You have to get the version that has been staticly linked with motif. That
means the motif it needs are part of it. If you have motif you
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/tmp okay? Has been known to lose normal-user write permissions,
although not for quite a long time for me. Should be
drwxrwxrwxt.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it either.
--
Rob
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Why are you using dip? I've never used it. I always use pppd with a
chatscript. Is there an advantage to using dip that I'm unaware of?
10-Apr-97 Alec Clews wrote:
Many thanks to the folks who pointed out that the ppp device is called
ppp{0,1,2,..} . It was
Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just noticed this problem. The ownership of /var/spool/lpd has
changed to root.root, wheras it should be root.lp. I changed the
permission manually and it then worked. Hmm. I don't know what caused
this to happen.
Wow, you win the prize. I had the same
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I just got the qt pkg from debian. The KDE pkg from kde.org. Once it was
unarchived I just modified the configure script to add
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/qt for the QT include path, and /usr/X11R6/lib for the
QT library path. Then just followed the instructions.
I believe that the answer to your question is that most systems are
802.2. I have a client who is running Novell v3.11, which is an
intermediate version, and they need 802.3. But because i think that the
802.3 is odd, that implies that 802.2 is normal.
Netware 3.11 defaults to an 802.3
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
Don't be silly. It didn't need to be mentioned; he never would have asked the
question
unless he'd somehow broken vi :)
rick
Are md5 checksums available for individiual binaries within
each package?
Yes they are. Just get the .deb package, extract the binary file you
want the md5 for, and run md5 on it.
If the md5 for the whole package matches, that means none of the
files in the package is corrupted, and you can
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?
It depends on the scanner you have. I've a HPScanJet4c connected to
a SCSI card and i'm using hpscanpbm, which is
Hi there,
does anyone out there have any experience running the Sun jws on a
Debian GNU/Linux system. On my system the jws freezes completely when I
try to use the jws source editor. Does anyone know of a fix? Or - if you
got the jws running, can you tell me, which jdk you're using?
Anyone using CFS ?
The program 'cmkdir' in the package I installed seems to actually be
'cpasswd'.
If you are using this program please e-mail me, I need help ! :)
Thanks,
Matthew
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size.
ed is very small :-)
Dwarf
Andre
With the base install you get the basic editor ae sorta like the pico
editor
Chad D. Zimmerman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp
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You did right in getting the BINARY version instead of the version you have
to compile as Lawrence mistakenly assumed.
You have to get the version that has been staticly linked with motif. That
I got the version that's statically linked with Motif. It _still_
instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told can't find file 'Imakefile.tmpl'.
moxfm requires Motif to compile.
The binaries I was using are statically linked with Motif.. That should be
sufficient, right? Since I'm just trying to install precompiled stuff rather
than compile it myself..
Thanks!
Has XFree made any progress in supporting the accelerated features
of the 65550 CT on the Tecra yet?
Andre Koopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size.
ed is very small :-)
hades|00:08:36 ~ [501] $ls -l $(type -path ed) $(type -path ae)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root23945 Jun 28 1996 /bin/ae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67969 Mar
Alexander Koch writes:
Hi guys...
What is the difference between bo/binary-all and bo/binary-i386 ??
Everything behind the 'binary' means a different architecture.
i386 is for intel based machines 'alpha' for alpha based ones.
'all' is a placeholder for binaries that are equal on all
I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two
questions on dwww:
* Does it support compressed files, especially man pages?
It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration
option to set?
Viewing compressed manpages with dwww works for me. What
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