Re: problems with update announcements

1997-04-29 Thread J . R . Goncalves
Hi, The announcements are made when the packages are uploaded to the Incoming directory. They stay there until they are processed. This can take from some hours to days. If you wait a few days you will find them at ftp.debian.org after they had been mirrored from master.debian.org.

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep it that way (I have both X and non-X machines). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
How about dpkg -l | less On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've got a full-blown

where is libXmu.so.6?

1997-04-29 Thread Kevin M. Luck
Hello. I'm a new debian user who just installed the floppy version of 1.2 to a p75, and I'm now trying to add X11R6. I've installed xbase, xfntbase, xlib6, xserver for vga16 and s3 (my card), but am unable to run any x software because I always get a xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'

Odd majordomo error

1997-04-29 Thread Solomani
I have just started my own list, and it seems to be working fine, but I sometimes get the error - MAJORDOMO WARNING (mj_majordomo)!! shlock: open('/var/lib/majordomo/lists/L.ev-delta'): No such file or directory ? thanks Peace, michl electric RAIN

depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Clint Adams
When I attempt to run depmod (modutils 2.1.34) for kernel v2.0.30, I receive a modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Clint Adams
modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Bo.

1997-04-29 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the desion to wipe clean my hard disk and start anew with a 1.3 system. I was

Re: where can I find pgp-i ?

1997-04-29 Thread Adam Shand
The subject says it all. It's not in the debian package, couldn't find anything in the FAQ's. So, where is it? Or look at the debian package finder at http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/finder.cgi Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301

Cannot login to bo

1997-04-29 Thread Richard Jennison
Since upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3 I am not able to log into bo as root on run level 2. Each time I enter the password I get an 'incorrect password' back. As previously suggested I disabled nis which then allowed me to login as a user other than root but I still cannot login as root. (Thanks,

Reply error in pine

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
I've had this error for the duration when using pine to reply to posts from this list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It shows up as the last line in the Cc field when I go into the editor after hitting R for reply in pine. Anybody have this problem? Anybody know how to stop it? BTW...I'm starting to recv

Re: Reply error in pine

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: I've had this error for the duration when using pine to reply to posts from this list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody have this problem? Anybody know how to stop it? I get it all the time. I never bothered to look into it though. ...RickM... -- TO

Re: lprng how?

1997-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
-- Jaldhar On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run lpr or lpq, it said cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but could not find any short answer. Are you using

Re: Bo.

1997-04-29 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the desion to wipe clean my hard disk

Re: Thinkpad 701CS (fwd)

1997-04-29 Thread David S. Jackson
Thanks to all who responded to my problem! Thanks, Oliver. You solved my problem! :-) On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: conflict that might screw up my modem. Do you think running gpm (or trying to run) on the same device as my modem could cause some of the problems like

Re: where is libXmu.so.6?

1997-04-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 28, Kevin M. Luck wrote Hello. I'm a new debian user who just installed the floppy version of 1.2 to a p75, and I'm now trying to add X11R6. I've installed xbase, xfntbase, xlib6, xserver for vga16 and s3 (my card), but am unable to run any x software because I always get a xinit:

missing packages from stable

1997-04-29 Thread David S. Jackson
I'm still installing debian to my 701CS Thinkpad via ftp, and I seem to be missing a 'required' package (required for me, anyway): stable/binary-i386/admin/pcmcia-cs_2.9.1-2.deb: No such file OR directory Any idea why this would be missing from stable? __ _ David S.

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Paul McDermott wrote: yes there is. There is a file called status in /var/lib/dpkg. the file status will tell you what programs are installed and i think but don't quote me programs that are not installed. At any rate take a look at this file and see if it helps you Paul Ps. Good luck.

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Richard Morin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Alexandre Lebrun wrote: about : listing installed unneeded packages Usually I do that with dselect. You go through the list (skipping the base package), and see every package that is installed. I find it convenient for 2 reasons : -You have a short description for the packages (in

Re: missing packages from stable

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
I've noticed that many files are reported missing by deselect. The problem is they're named wrong. In that case you have to manually ftp to ftp.debian.org or wherever and get the file. Most of the time the file version number is 1 or 2 off. On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson wrote: I'm

Re: lprng how?

1997-04-29 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run lpr or lpq, it said cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but could not find any short answer. Are you using apsfilter or magicfilter? If the former, does it

Re: lprng how?

1997-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run lpr or lpq, it said cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but could not find any short answer. Are you using

Re: lprng how?

1997-04-29 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run lpr or lpq, it said cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but could not find any short answer. Are you using apsfilter or magicfilter? If the

one thing latex is better than tetex

1997-04-29 Thread Lawrence Chim
previously, dvips gave me ps file with page numbering and I can go to a particular page using ghostview or gv. after I installed tetex and found that the ps file no more numbered and I can only press Page Down in gv, can't get back. Is there any magic to make tetex's dvips number the ps file?

Re: lprng how?

1997-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
-- Jaldhar On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: I am using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) because I have a bjc600 printer and only non-free version support it(?). Aha! So of the three people (including myself) who are having or have had this problem the common thread seems to

Re: lprng how?

1997-04-29 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) because I have a bjc600 printer and only non-free version support it(?). Aha! So of the three people (including myself) who are having or have had this problem the common thread seems to be: !. All using lprng 2. All using apsfilter

Re: missing packages from stable

1997-04-29 Thread David S. Jackson
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: I've noticed that many files are reported missing by deselect. The problem is they're named wrong. In that case you have to manually ftp to ftp.debian.org or wherever and get the file. Most of the time the file version number is 1 or 2 off. Hmmm. At

X questions

1997-04-29 Thread jr_martinez
When I launch the X-server using the startx command and a personal .xinitrc, I got several messages: sh:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap I can't find the xkb program. Is it a X standard program? If I

Linux on 701CS

1997-04-29 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, Robert Thanks for your terrific page on Linux for the 701. I was hoping you could help me with a couple of things: 1) I'd like to find a way to reset my modem without rebooting my machine. How can I do that for the internal IBM modem included with the ThinkPad? 2) I goofed when running

broken installation

1997-04-29 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that were broken; they installed but are unconfigured. Mostly they have dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages. Libraries of other files of the same name were redundant in several packages. What do you do in

Re: one thing latex is better than tetex

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
previously, dvips gave me ps file with page numbering and I can go to a particular page using ghostview or gv. after I installed tetex and found that the ps file no more numbered and I can only press Page Down in gv, can't get back. Is there any magic to make tetex's dvips number the ps file?

NIS problem, please Help

1997-04-29 Thread Richard Zoni
Hello, here at the CS students lab of the University of Bologna we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. We are having some problems with the NIS: 1. Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time,

Re: NIS problem, please Help

1997-04-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Richard Zoni: Hello, here at the CS students lab of the University of Bologna we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. We are having some problems with the NIS: 1. Our ypserv is

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? [...] The newsgroup was almost dead in my end, until a week ago. It does not seem to be up to date though. I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists to the

Re: HELP WITH - Re: Multiple copies of the same message from Rick Jones in debian-user. (fwd)

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
Thank you for the response. I checked the headers and figured the problem was on debians end but wanted confirmation and maybe for someone at debian to realise this and fix it. I will let mom know you send regaurds and give her a hard time since you are a couple years older than she is. She

Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
As some of you are aware, I recently transfered my file system from hda1 to hda2. When I did it I used midnight commander. MC has an option to keep UID's and GID's when copying. Supprise! It only does this on the files. When it created the directories on hda2 it made them ALL root.root using

Re: Bo.

1997-04-29 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the desion to wipe clean my hard disk

Re: Newby: dselect failure

1997-04-29 Thread Chris Walker
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One trick that I have learned is to SELECT NOTHING the first time you run dselect, simply let it install the PRESELECTED things only. THEN run dselect again and choose your other software. The original problem was problems with installing the

Re: broken installation

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
This comes up frequently but is being fixed by the new diety. You have to recycle through the install phase until it's all installed. Each time it will install more because the dependencies are satisfied. The current dselect doesn't use dependant order. On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson

Re: Linux on 701CS

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, Robert Thanks for your terrific page on Linux for the 701. I was hoping you could help me with a couple of things: 1) I'd like to find a way to reset my modem without rebooting my machine. How can I do that for the internal IBM modem

who says nothing about other users

1997-04-29 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Doing some experiments with new kernel and modules I have noticed that 'who' does not work correct while the top reports about all other users. Since my experiments are not finished yet I would like to know about other possible source of this problem. Is there any idea? Thanks in advance,

Re: help! - Majordomo

1997-04-29 Thread tomk
Solomani writes: On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Hi, thanks for your help, I added the line you suggested, but now I get this error ... |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: As some of you are aware, I recently transfered my file system from hda1 to hda2. When I did it I used midnight commander. MC has an option to keep UID's and GID's when copying. Supprise! It only does this on the files. When it created the

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: [ description of problem ] I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a good way to reset my

Re: ACM 4.7-3 with Debian Linux 1.2.4

1997-04-29 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Sad to say, I'm not replying to my own question about Air Combat Maneuvers under Debian 1.2.4... Not yet... ... And not yet, but I can rebuild the binaries now. I found

AccelX and Xfree together

1997-04-29 Thread Brian Skreeg
I`ve just got hold of AccelX2.1 but already have xbase installed for Debian1.2.8 . Is it OK to install AccelX in as well as xbase? If not, what happens to the dependancies on xbase? TIA Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \

ok with new kernel (was who says nothing about other users)

1997-04-29 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Compiling new kernel fixed this problem as well as few others. Doing some experiments with new kernel and modules I have noticed that 'who' does not work correct while the top reports about all other users. Since my experiments are not finished yet I would like to know about other

upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread Danny ter Haar
During the upgrade i saw the following message: --- Setting up libg++27-dev (2.7.2.1-9) ... Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked. Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ... Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg' ==

Re: broken installation

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that were broken; they installed but are unconfigured. Mostly they have dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages. Libraries of other files of the same name were redundant in

Re: STL

1997-04-29 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Clint Adams wrote: #include map #include vector etc. Isn't this HP's STL rather than GNU's? In point of fact, many of the files are unchanged HP implementations. Many are also of completely GNU origin. Check it out. ==David

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Pick
Rick Jones wrote: 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set them or go through and prompt me for the changes. I'd suggest using the dpkgcert package by Klee Dienes - it scans all of the

mc..missing library!

1997-04-29 Thread smorrill
I have debian release 1.2 installed on my 586/133mhz. I'm just learning how to move around in this system as I have no linux experience. When I try to start midnight commander, I get the following message: mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' When I try to locate libgpm.so.1 using find, I

problem: getting nfs up and running

1997-04-29 Thread Michael J Devine
I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given these helpful hints: Add this line to your server's export: /home *.your domain (rw) Then reboot, or do /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start

help with printing, please...

1997-04-29 Thread smorrill
sorry, this is a second request... Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to address the problems without having to write

clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Ryan Shaw
i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there is a better way. any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there is a better way. any

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 29, Danny ter Haar wrote During the upgrade i saw the following message: Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked. Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ... Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg' [...] The default

RE: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Alec Clews
At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there is a better way. any

fdisk problem - can't seek

1997-04-29 Thread Alan Schrank
I'm trying to install debian (version 1.2.10 or so) on my new computer. It is a Compaq presario 8772 with a 6.5 gig IDE drive. I have partitioned it using partition magic to have 3 fat drives and an unpartitioned area for Linux and a Linux swap partition. In the second step of the install

RE: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:58 PM 29/04/97 +0100, Alec Clews wrote: I think /etc/issue might be a better choice 'cause it gets displayed by getty I believe Sorry - my aplogies - I meant /etc/issue, hey it's 1am here :-) -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR

New Hard Disk

1997-04-29 Thread Syd Alsobrook
I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one command. is that posible or will i have to move the whole tree by hand? Syd

Re: problem: getting nfs up and running

1997-04-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael J Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given these helpful hints: Add this line to your server's export: /home *.your

Re: New Hard Disk

1997-04-29 Thread Eric Delaunay
Syd Alsobrook wrote: I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one command. is that posible or will i have to move the

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
On Apr 29, Danny ter Haar wrote During the upgrade i saw the following message: Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked. Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ... Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg' [...] The

Re: fdisk problem - can't seek

1997-04-29 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Assuming you are using cfdisk, the fdisk utility that is run as part of the initial Debian installation (i.e. the 6 disks). I had the same problem when I partitioned a large disk. I particular I was partitioning it into several logical partitions on the outer-most part of the disk. cfdisk did

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Karl Ferguson wrote: At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Troy Hanson
Karl Ferguson wrote: Sorry - my aplogies - I meant /etc/issue, hey it's 1am here :-) At the top of my /etc/issue I put the ANSI Codes for home/clear: ^[[H^[[J -- (ESC)[H(ESC)[J you can get the ESC char in vi by hitting ctrl+V, then ESC. Hope this helps troy -- Psychiatrists say that one in

Re: help with printing, please...

1997-04-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
smorrill wrote: sorry, this is a second request... Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to address the problems

Re: mc..missing library!

1997-04-29 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' Install libgpm. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 12:32 PM 29/04/97 -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: mgetty, agetty mingetty use /etc/issue (by default, though this is of course configurable for mgetty and agetty) rather than motd. (I wonder what uses /etc/motd?) So, you can run (as root, of course): clear /etc/issue (no need to save

Re: New Hard Disk

1997-04-29 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one command. is that posible or will

Re: help with printing, please...

1997-04-29 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, smorrill, you wrote: sorry, this is a second request... Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can

Problems with X fonts

1997-04-29 Thread Steve Preston
I have used the Dec 96 InfoMagic cd set to install Debian 1.2 on a couple machines. On one machine I had trouble installing X. When dselect was installing/configuring xfntbase, the program mkfontdir printed a whole bunch of messages like this: mkfontdir: unable to process font ./5x7.pcf.Z,

AccelX and Xfree together

1997-04-29 Thread Chris Hanson
Date:Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:39:43 +0100 (BST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) I`ve just got hold of AccelX2.1 but already have xbase installed for Debian1.2.8 . Is it OK to install AccelX in as well as xbase? If not, what happens to the dependancies on xbase? This

cdwrite / hybrid cd's

1997-04-29 Thread Steve Hsieh
Is there any way to make a hybrid CD on Linux? I guess cdwrite just writes an image file onto the CD, so the question is if it is possible to create that hybrid (mac / iso) file? Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

dead end?

1997-04-29 Thread Larry James
Hi, I've gotten bogged down with my installation of debian, could really use some hints to get me going again. I have a working system, i boot off a floppy and can log in, cruise my directories, even run the c compiler. There are a few things missing, and when I run dselect or dpkg, I get lots

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Karl Ferguson wrote: At 12:32 PM 29/04/97 -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: mgetty, agetty mingetty use /etc/issue (by default, though this is of course configurable for mgetty and agetty) rather than motd. (I wonder what uses /etc/motd?) So, you can run (as root, of course): clear

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ... I'm not sure there was actually an error in the above lynx install session (appart from the possibly wrong error message) ... If the lock is held by someone else, this call returns -1 and sets errno to EACCES or EAGAIN.

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you using? Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 29, Nathan E Norman wrote On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: [ description of problem ] I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there

Re: dead end?

1997-04-29 Thread Dale Martin
Larry James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, [ snip ] and when I run dselect or dpkg, I get lots of error messages. The most significant seem to be bash: command install not found, and ...configure not found. Where should these commands be? It's kind of a pickle because I don't see how to add

Re: help!

1997-04-29 Thread The Gardyan
I don't know if this is an option for you but I installed sendmail instead of smail for my debian system and have not regretted that decision. Personally I think sendmail is better. my two cents. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Ryan == Ryan Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ryan i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer Ryan as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the Ryan login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this Ryan by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Clint Adams
Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you using? Did you remove misc/NET_MISC_MODULES or whatever it is? I'm using kernel 2.0.30 modutils 2.1.34 ldso 1.9.2 (though I was using something like 1.8.10 at the time). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dima wrote: The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you using? Dimitri When I compiled my first kernel, it was out of necessity for another machine, so I couldn't use the install parts

Invalid NBT Packets?

1997-04-29 Thread Tommy van Leeuwen
hello, I've been modding around with samba and winnt4. Samba works, nothing wrong with that, but when i say smbmount it fucks up and displays: Invalid NBT Packet. Is this some weird misconfiguration in Linux or just another bug in Windowze NT? ;) Thanks for any. Tom This is a signature

Re: help with printing, please...

1997-04-29 Thread Rick Jones
Just type command lpr. Replace command with the command you want print the output of. This will send the output to lpr (printer). You can also look at .xsession-errors (in home dir) and xdm-errors in the /var/log dir, depending on what you are doing and at what point you get the errors. Just

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ... I'm not sure there was actually an error in the above lynx install session (appart from the possibly wrong error message) ... If the lock is held by someone else, this call returns -1 and sets errno to EACCES or

Re: help with printing, please...

1997-04-29 Thread Graeme Stewart
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just type command lpr. Replace command with the command you want print That should be command | lpr. Otherwise you'll just get a file called `lpr', which of course one could print :) Graeme -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL

Re: New Hard Disk

1997-04-29 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Syd -- Looks like you can use the cp command with the --archive option (see cp man page). What you need to do is, after you place a linux filesystem on the partition with mke2fs, mount that partition under the generic mount-point directory /mnt: mount /dev/hd?? /mnt Then, copy everything

Re: AccelX and Xfree together

1997-04-29 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Chris Hanson wrote: You will need to install an XFree86 server in order to satisfy the package dependencies that require an X server. Other than that, it's not important. In the future, you will have to be careful not to update the XFree86 server package accidentally,

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-29 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I strongly second Bob Nielsen's remarks. Bob Hilliard On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:14:38 Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep it that way (I

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Alex Romosan
i just tried to make the modules by hand and then install them with 'make modules_install' (instead of using make-kpkg) and none of the *_MODULES files were copied to /lib/modules/2.x.x. make-kpkg explicitly copies these files to that directory (look in /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules). i suspect

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread Mike Horansky
(Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: mike horansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as good). Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but I'd be

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top.