On 12 May 1997, Ed Donovan wrote:
While the topic is raised--I installed adpkg a while ago, mistakenly
thinking it could come out cleanly if I wanted to remove it. I haven't
used deb2asc or asc2deb yet, and don't think I'm using anything else
provided by adpkg. I'd like to remove it for
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote:
I added the following two lines to my /usr/sbin/dj500-filter to print
pdf files:
# PDF files added by MWB
0 %PDFpipe/usr/bin/acroread -toPostScript
Would this not just transform the pdf input to ps output? Is
I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has
no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda).
It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is
the low memory disk. This causes me a problem when I try to install, it
asks me if I want
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm looking for the linuxdoc-sgml package. It's not in the directory it
was reported in. There are some packages called sgml-tool and docs. Has
the one linuxdoc-sgml.deb been replaced by the sgml packages? If so what
packages would I need to have the
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Francis Swasey wrote:
Ok, I give up. I've tried everything I can think of -- including reading
the instructions. I still cannot get PPP to work for anyone other than root.
I have put my userid in the /etc/group file as a member of group dialout
and made sure that
John Burwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This question may have already been answered, so please excuse me if
this redundtant. I have checked the Netscape web and ftp sites, and
did not see a version of Netscape Communicator 4 for Linux. I have
seen it running in a number of screen shots
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has
no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda).
It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is
the low memory disk. This causes me a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: I just install lprng on our debian box. I happy to see that lprm work
: correctly (with lpr we need to be root to used lprm). However, i have some
: problems. Our HP Laserjet 4M has a ethernet card.
Ok. I'm using a Laserjet Series II (ancient) with a
Ok, I give up. I've tried everything I can think of -- including reading
the instructions. I still cannot get PPP to work for anyone other than root.
I have put my userid in the /etc/group file as a member of group dialout
and made sure that the modem device (/dev/ttyS0) is owned by group
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
Uhm, how do you tell the doggone boot disk that you want to run fdisk from
the menus? At that point you have no prompt ... remember, this is a CLEAN
system, there is no fdisk (or anything else) on it.
In your explaination you explain that you are
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NOTE: doing making pppd setuid root is a potential security hole.
alternatively, write a wrapper shell script which calls pppd with the
appropriate parameters, and then configure sudo or super to allow
certain users/groups to run your shell script as
Uhm, how do you tell the doggone boot disk that you want to run fdisk from
the menus? At that point you have no prompt ... remember, this is a CLEAN
system, there is no fdisk (or anything else) on it.
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
I am
On Sun, 11 May 1997, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
How can I get a list of the URLs of the objects that squid has currently
cached?
awk '{print $6}' /var/spool/squid/log
The 'log' file format depends on the squid version. This is for squid
1.1.x - if you're still using the old squid 1.0.x you'll have
On 12 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
I would like to hear from folks that are running medium to high volume
servers related to their experiences. My boss was talking to folks
at Netcom and was convinced by them, to some extent, that BSD was
far superior to any Linux. That BSD was based on being
On Mon, May 12, 1997 at 01:27:32PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 1997, ychim wrote:
The only modem from US Robotic not works under Linux is WinModem :)
The Sportster Si (I think only 14400 versions exist) is a RPI model, and
therefore doesn't work under linux as well.
This question may have already been answered, so please excuse me if
this redundtant. I have checked the Netscape web and ftp sites, and
did not see a version of Netscape Communicator 4 for Linux. I have
seen it running in a number of screen shots and read abt in this
mailing list. Is there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benedict Chong) writes:
Is anyone going to come up with a similar install guide?
It is maintained with the boot-floppies package by Sven Rudolph. A
german version is (will be) available to (from my homepage).
Bye
Christian
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Thanks, Craig -
Craig == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Craig if you install dpgk again before removing adpkg, nothing will
Craig break:
Craig dpkg -i dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb dpkg -r --force-remove-essential
Craig adpkg
Craig I've successfully removed adpkg from at
Hi Chris,
Just a note to tell you that I have been using Debian here on all my
servers.
I am currently a low to medium voulme system and so I am unable to say what
the stability of the system would be like at high traffic levels.
Upon initial setup, the Debian systems have been preforming
Oh, I see. No, it never got to the installation menu .. it was still
text at that point. Told me I needed a swap partition to run the GUI
installation program ... then asks for the partition name or enter to
create one. I pressed enter and it kicked me back to the selection again
without
Rob Browning wrote:
to launch pppd.
Note that you *can* use a wrapper script if you want, but you don't
have to.
I,ve had good results with the little C program shown in Linux
Journal, May 1997, Issue #37, Page 10. Its also available for ftp from
ftp.ssc.com.
Jim
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I'm about to do the sameinstall frozen on a brand new system.
Whats the deal with the Base Disks, will they cause problems like
what happened below ?
Also, do problems still exist when rawriteing the base disks on a
dos/windows system ?
I know I had trouble with that before..its difficult
I had no trouble with the base disks but I created them from another
system running Linux using dd.
The important thing is to use FRESHLY FORMATTED diskettes. Do not
overwrite a diskette with stuff on it. Use MS-DOS to format the diskette
and then use rawrite.
It is the boot disk (resc1440.bin)
DOS is more forgiving of bad disks than linux is. This is about the only
disk problem you might have. The only one I've heard of so far. If you
put it on a bad disk use another one. Don't use DOS as aguage of a good
disk or bad disk, it might be fine for DOS but not for linux.
Disable all
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
DOS is more forgiving of bad disks than linux is. This is about the only
disk problem you might have. The only one I've heard of so far. If you
put it on a bad disk use another one. Don't use DOS as aguage of a good
disk or bad disk, it might be
Hello there everyone. I have a couple of questions here tonight. I have
been running Slackware for quite some time now, and am thinking of
switching over (I amready have Debian 1.2 installed on a spare partition
to try it out). One of the questions are -- How much work is involved to
upgrade to
I installed the 1.3 distribution in Frozen it asked me if I wanted shadow
passwords ... YES!!!
On Mon, 12 May 1997, JoKeR wrote:
When is shadow going to be included with the distribution (if it isn't
already). I haven't seen it recently on one of the mirrors.
Thank you
JoKeR
Well it sure sucks that I have to pick through the list of default
packages. emacs slipped past me and here I am on the end of a slow dial-up
downloading a 5 Meg behemoth that I will never use. :(
Sure would be nice if the defaults were a little more dial-up friendly. I
would like to not have
Hit ctrl-C to stop it. recycle to install and answer no to continuing the
download of the emacs file.
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
Well it sure sucks that I have to pick through the list of default
packages. emacs slipped past me and here I am on the end of a slow dial-up
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Be careful when DOS formatting a floppy to see if format reports any bad
areas. If so, toss the disk. Compuserve and AOL will be sending you an
adequate supply for free in any case.
The disks they send you are junk. Don't bother with them.
--Rick
It's been moved to ftp.netscape.com:
/pub/communicator/4.0/4.0b3/unix/other
On 12 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
John Burwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This question may have already been answered, so please excuse me if
this redundtant. I have checked the Netscape web and ftp
Thanks ... think I will keep it on the system at this point ... will
delete it if space becomes a problem ... somebody, someday might want it.
Hit ctrl-C to stop it. recycle to install and answer no to continuing the
download of the emacs file.
George Bonser
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL
When I telnet to localhost from localhost I get the following:
Trying to negotiate SSL
[SSL starting]
[SSL Connected - Cipher RC4-MD5]
[SSL
subject=/O=cyberdynamics.com/OU=panther/CN=telnetd/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SSL
issuer=/O=cyberdynamics.com/OU=panther/CN=telnetd/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password:
Is
Speaking as someone who has spent lots of spare time over the last few
weeks trying to install Debian
w/ only limited success, I feel I have earned the right to criticize
you Debian folks for not bothering
to test your stuff.
Did the basic diskette installation that I got from ftp.kernel.org's
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
You should see something like the following in
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
# Alias for this host
Cw
I have:
Cwbraincells.com
# Virtual email domain
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
DMyourdomain.com
I have:
# who I masquerade as
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
(I think I'm not giving any help... anyway:)
I've left it blank but it uses smail (pine 3.95q, Debian 1.2.4), not
sendmail... or better: 1) I have smail installed and not sendmail, 2)
that field in pine configuration is blank, 3) changing
I'm only one person on this list that isn't going to bother trying to
decypher this HTML message to see what you are complaining about.
Sending a message to a linux mailing list in HTML format isn't the
brightest thing I've ever seen. If it's any indication of the content, I
suspect that others
As others have noted, the Debian 1.1 disks work for installation on
Thinkpads. That is how I originally bootstrapped mine. Apologies if
this has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but I believe that
the culprit is the bzImage kernel format. When compiling a custom
kernel for my Thinkpad
Hmmm, I could not see the original with my basic pine setup but I could
finally see the message in your reply.
If this fellow has been struggling for weeks trying to get the basic
system installed, my guess is that he has not been reading the
instructions. It is not something that can be figured
Thanks, really. Thank you very much for your comprehensive good
news!
Andreas.
: I use Debian Linux boxes for nearly all important (i.e. can't afford any
: downtime) internet related servers. I also use it as the main Windows
: SMB file server (with samba) at my main job.
:
: Linux's
I missed the original messages but I will add my $.02 worth here. I have
used Debian as a server for a lightly used home LAN and SMTP -- UUCP
mail and news gateway for about 9 months.
SOme of the things that I am most pleased with are the continuing upgrades
and ease of upgrading, stability,
Francois == Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Francois Are you using PPP with a dynamically assigned address?
Yes I am.
Francois I suspect that the first packet gets sent with the FROM IP
Francois address being that of the serial device and not the address
Francois that was
Is there a xwindows-front-end of dselect? I just wondered because
Redhat has such a cute tool for setting up/installing the system made
with Tcl/tk.
Im quite into tcl now so maybe I would do a front-end...
Gernot
-
Gernot Bauer
University of Linz, Austria
Hi,
I've been a buildmaster making deliveries for commercial products in
the past and religiously followed a build--install-clean-and
-test-before-delivery method. (See summary at end.)
start ramble
[ ramble sounds good to me ]
end ramble
You're responsible for what you
Are digitizing tablets supported? Does linux allow the use of a digitizing
tablet as a surrogate mouse? What drawing programs make good use of tablets?
Alan Davis
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001
Wolfgang Bauer (WS) wrote:
Is there a xwindows-front-end of dselect? I just wondered because
Redhat has such a cute tool for setting up/installing the system made
with Tcl/tk.
It would be nice to have a tcl/tk program as an extention to dselect.
Once you have installed your system you
Hi,
Is it possible to post the same news to newsgroups automatically
and periodically, say bi-weekly?
Lawrence,
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RE: this product in general:
What would be expected? The product contains multiple
distributions and is not oriented towards Debian. The vendor has quite a
range of products. Those who want Debian Linux should get it from vendors
who use Debian, like Debian, advocate Debian, breathe
On Tue, 13 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are digitizing tablets supported? Does linux allow the use of a digitizing
tablet as a surrogate mouse? What drawing programs make good use of tablets?
The S3 Xserver in the XFree relese included with Debian 1.2 do have
support for some Wacom and
I've seen references a couple of times to something like a Linux
Standard File System (of course, now I can't quite locate the
document(s) where I saw it). Is that a document that exists somewhere
like HOWTO or similar? A pointer would be appreciated.
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Thanks Jens,
It is great!
Eugene.
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Eugene Sevinian wrote:
As I know in order to allow some service to work I should
put corresponding string in /etc/hosts.allow and now it looks like :
in.ftpd: ALL
in.telnetd: ALL
in.rlogind: ALL
On May 13, Brent Hutto wrote
I've seen references a couple of times to something like a Linux Standard
File System (of course, now I can't quite locate the document(s) where I
saw it). Is that a document that exists somewhere like HOWTO or similar? A
pointer would be appreciated.
You're
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
Incidentally, I found another message today:
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To make printing work from acroread, I had to add the following line
/Default currenthalftone
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Having moved my Debian system from a 850Meg IDE to a 1.2 Gig IDE that
had been previously used for Win95 [I know, but I _have_ to use
Win95 for certain apps], it appears that the partition table is
really messed up.
Using LBA in the BIOS settings,
Rick Jones wrote:
When I telnet to localhost from localhost I get the following:
Trying to negotiate SSL
[SSL starting]
[SSL Connected - Cipher RC4-MD5]
[SSL
subject=/O=cyberdynamics.com/OU=panther/CN=telnetd/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SSL
This is generally construed as a feature. It is telling you that a) you
installed SSLtelnet and that b) it has successfully connected to a
system that also has SSLtelnet. What just happened is that public keys
were exchanged and everything from that point on is encrypted. Guess
what? No more
Is there a xwindows-front-end of dselect? I just wondered because
Redhat has such a cute tool for setting up/installing the system made
with Tcl/tk.
Something like that is in the works as part of the deity project.
Brian
I wanted to know if there is a way to clean that up so it's displayed in
some kind of format, instead of being spewed on the screen like that?
I know it's ssltelnet. For some reason I was thinking it came in the ssh
package. Now that you have corrected me I remember it was a seperate
package.
I am using /etc/printcap under SUN-OS and I'd like to export this file onto
SUN SOLARIS 2.0. Which file should I write this to? Is there any changes to
make?
Thanks,
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Tel: -work: 0171 417 8880 ext. 121
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Homepage:
Hi,
what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further
screens to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right
screen depth with xinit -- -bpp 16 but how does this work with xdm)?
Thanx,
Gernot
-
Gernot Bauer
University of Linz,
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
I get the above error on my Debian system when I try to mount NFS
disks on a Solaris system.
How can I possibly fix this?
Are you sure rpc.mountd and nfsd are running on the remote system?
Try 'rpcinfo -p
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote:
Hi,
what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further
screens to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right
screen depth with xinit -- -bpp 16 but how does this work with xdm)?
Change the entry in your
On May 13, Rolf Obrecht wrote
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote:
what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further screens
to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right screen depth
with xinit -- -bpp 16 but how does this work with xdm)?
Change the
Even better would be a tool for the end user with ftp/http capability
to compare his CD against the current image over the internet and
pick up any updates automatically. How about something that built
a symlink tree on the HD with all symlinks initially pointing to the
CD copy of each
Hi.
The bison package for debian is not capable of producing C++ code.
Anyone knows of such a (free) package like bison with C++ support?
Thanks.
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Guerlain Appriou wrote:
I am using /etc/printcap under SUN-OS and I'd like to export this file onto
SUN SOLARIS 2.0. Which file should I write this to? Is there any changes to
make?
1) This is a Debian Linux list, not a SunOS/Solaris list.
2) In answer to your query, printing is
Gernot Bauer wrote:
Hi,
what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further
screens to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right
screen depth with xinit -- -bpp 16 but how does this work with xdm)?
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers contains the list of local servers to be
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
When I telnet to localhost from localhost I get the following:
Trying to negotiate SSL
[SSL starting]
[SSL Connected - Cipher RC4-MD5]
[SSL
subject=/O=cyberdynamics.com/OU=panther/CN=telnetd/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SSL
Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
I get the above error on my Debian system when I try to mount NFS
disks on a Solaris system.
How can I possibly fix this?
Are you sure rpc.mountd and nfsd are running on
Hello!
I'm having some difficulty creating special swapfiles to be able to test
swapping to/from an md device (raid0). I've followed the manpage hints
as indicated below, and think that it's complaining about the individual
file(s). Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
tcsh# df
At 09:03 09/05/97 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The latest stable/release kernel is version 2.0.30 and will be the kernel
released with Debian 1.3 (bo).
Which reminds me to ask -- when's release 1.3 expected to be out? I want to
order a CD but I also want to ensure I get 1.3.
--Gord
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TO
Being a fan of Debian Linux for some time, I wanted to install Debian on
my own computer in my office (to replace Windows 95 especially).
Unfortunately, I have a BusLogic FlashPoint LT PCI SCSI adapter, and it's
not supported currently.
I found the latest version of the driver which supports my
I had some questions about the Xwindows packages. Are they based
on the stable 3.2 release? Has the public patch that is mentioned
on www.xfree86.org been applied? I am asking because I have just
bought an ATI 3D Expression + PC2TV card and am having trouble
getting it to work with the Mach64 X
On 13 May 1997, Dale Miller wrote:
I had some questions about the Xwindows packages. Are they based
on the stable 3.2 release? Has the public patch that is mentioned
on www.xfree86.org been applied? I am asking because I have just
bought an ATI 3D Expression + PC2TV card and am having
Hi,
I'm new user of the Debian distribution and I've purchased a
1.2 CD a while back and had some problem installed some of
the packages onto my system. I'd like to know:
1. How do I upgrade this broken 1.2 system to the 1.2.14.
2. How do I find out what are the updated/changed
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Hi, my host is saving incomming mails in /usr/mail/username instead
/var/spool/mail/username. Should I change it? Is it ok for pine? If it
doesn't, where can I change this directory (or pine configuration)?
TIA.
Carlos Marcos Kakihara (Bacate /
In message 5mupn2.0.MF5.WECUp@debian, Dale Miller writes:
I had some questions about the Xwindows packages. Are they based
on the stable 3.2 release? Has the public patch that is mentioned
on www.xfree86.org been applied? I am asking because I have just
bought an ATI 3D Expression + PC2TV
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Gord Jeoffroy wrote:
At 09:03 09/05/97 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The latest stable/release kernel is version 2.0.30 and will be the kernel
released with Debian 1.3 (bo).
Which reminds me to ask -- when's release 1.3 expected to be out? I want to
order a CD but I
There shouldn't be any difference in compiling the kernel from one
distribution to another. The different distributions just package linux
in different ways and maybe change some boot scripts to make things run
out of the box. The source it's self is all the same. Unless your
talking about
Hi,
the docs. in /usr/doc/lilo are very good to understand the concept of
primary and extended partitions (and the logical partitions contained
in these extended partitions). However, I would like to know if there
is any perfomance hit if extended partitions are used instead of
primary
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