Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:08:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian users debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: NS Communicator out for Linux
Resent-Date: 22 Sep 1997 14:10:52 -
Vladislav,
Even though it says that it has HP 500C emulation, this just means that it
will emulate the printer once it has been sucessfully configured by the
operating system. This printer uses a Host based Windows printing system. The
printer does not function under any operating
Jack Holt wrote:
At 04:43 PM 9/19/97 -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone
actually having that many.
Bruce
Just to give an idea it is a little over that .. at last check
On 21 Sep 1997, H Huang wrote:
Will Hi. I'm using the XFree86 3.3 SVGA server with my diamond
Will Today I downloaded the XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 binary from
Why no reconfigure X?
Because 3.3.1 is a minor revision of 3.3, and doesn't seem to have any
different options/configuration things.
When I try to start Netscape 3.01 (the one in dselect) i get this msg
about a Buss error'. What is it? What can I do about it?
Thanx!
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I get the following errors when trying to install files via ftp, after
changing to use dists/unstable/...:
: Could nt find packages file for dists_unstable_main distribution (re-run
Update)
: Could nt find packages file for dists_unstable_contrib distribution (re-run
Update)
: Could nt find
hi, all --
a quick question: is it only me or is it impossible to start the x11
version of elvis editor from the fvwm and afterstep menus?
Note: executing vi -G x11 works from the xterm or from the rxvt,
and exec xterm -n vi -e vi works from the menus (pop-up root
menu!), but exec vi -G x11
Could somebody post a hint on how to get ssh X11 forwarding working?
I put
Host *
ForwardX11 Yes
in my local ~/.ssh/config file, and it works to master, but it doesn't
work to another Debian host, which does have X11Forwarding yes in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config, but I'm always told that the remote
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
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This should be easy but it is turning into a nightmare. I am
upgrading my linux box to a new one by moving my drives from one box
to the other. Before moving I compiled a new kernel to match the new
Will have any different options/configuration things. The problem
Will has occured with Xfre86 3.3 and 3.3.1, so it seems to me to be
Will an X problem and not a config problem.
Sure, it is the problem with X. But you can get around this by
disabling some features through configuring.
Some where I once saw a c/c++ to LaTex tool that would
take as input a source file and produce a .tex file.
If I remember right it would do some pretty formatting of the
syntax.
Does any one know what this package might be and where it might
be found? I have looked in a couple of
First off thanks to everyone for there suggestions. I have since
found what I was looking for. It is a package called listings.
I got it from my local CTAN archive. I have yet to use it but
the docs seem to show that it will do what I want.
The package is copyrighted and I see no mention
Hi, All
i'm having hamm and found some problem with
dpkg.
i have dpkg-1.4.0.19, dpkg-ftp 1.4.9 and netstd 2.16-1
i cannot switch to ftp access method from dselect !
stas:~ # uname -a
Linux stas 2.0.30 #1 Sun Jun 1 09:14:11 EST 1997 i586 unknown
ok, now i'm choosing ftp as access method in
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Could somebody post a hint on how to get ssh X11 forwarding working?
I put
Host *
ForwardX11 Yes
in my local ~/.ssh/config file, and it works to master, but it doesn't
work to another Debian host, which does have X11Forwarding yes in
Hi,
I am having problems using taper as the backup program for my DAT SCSI tape.
It seems that taper cannot handle the large amount of data.
it generates very large info files and then crushes. Incremental backup
is also not working well.
I have tried the hamm and bo version of taper.
Is there
Did you tell it your distributions were dists_unstable_main? That should
be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing.
Bruce
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Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect:
Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable
Distributions to get: main contrib non-free
By the way, why are you installing unstable? That's for developers only.
If you don't really know what you are doing, it's bound to mess up your
system.
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Darin Johnson wrote:
What's the passive mode option for dselect (ftp) anyway?
I've never been able to find an explanation of it.
When you are using normal ftp, the server initiates the connection for
the data (data is sent through a different connection from the commands).
I wish you luck, Robert. I had used the previous few sets of CD from
Infomagic to install Debian. My memory reminds me that Infomagic
is BAD for Debian !! There were important packages, for instance
I can remember that xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb which I thought is quite
important nowadays wasn't in the
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Jon Forsberg wrote:
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:35:19 +0200
From: Jon Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Problem starting Netscape
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:49:22 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 03:05:35AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote:
: Do yourself a favor, if you want a terminal server, buy a terminal server.
:
: If you need a good number of modems, pick up a used Livingston PM2 or
: PM2e. If you need to
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:27:51 -0700 (PDT), Oz Dror wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems using taper as the backup program for my DAT SCSI
tape.
It seems that taper cannot handle the large amount of data.
it generates very large info files and then crushes. Incremental backup
is also not working well.
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I am having problems using taper as the backup program for my DAT SCSI tape.
It seems that taper cannot handle the large amount of data.
it generates very large info files and then crushes. Incremental backup
is also not working well.
I have tried
Hi,
Whilst recompiling my (2.0.30) kernel using make-kpkg as suggested in
the debian FAQ, the following thing happened towards what i guess would've
been the end:
cp arch//boot/bzImage \
debian/temp_image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30
cp: arch//boot/bzImage: No such file or directory
make:
On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 07:41:52AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote:
: [1] A studly enough box to support 48 modems.
:
: Depends on dump or smart serial board. Smart, 486 66 should be comfortable,
: dumb, pentium class...maybe 100. 16MB should be OK. With the price of
: memory it won't kill you to
Hi!
I´ve just made a debian package with the ptolemy software, but have found
some problems. The whole uncompressed package needs around 110 Mbs,
and the .deb uses 28Mbs (great compresion, isn´t it?). The problem
arises when trying to install it, as it gives out something like
tar filesistem
Jack Holt wrote:
Well, Suns (under Solaris) support 32-bit uids, so the limit there could
be much higher. Bruce's answer seems to imply that Debian uses 16-bit
uids. Can someone tell me if that's true or not? Just curious.
From gnu/types.h:
typedef unsigned short __uid_t; /* Type
Hi,
I've been doing mirror of off the ftp.cdrom.com for a while now.
Yesterday, I've just found out that this site was not up to today.
So I started to mirror from the ftp.debian.org. I found out that
there were a lot of files in the bo/ directory with difference in
the timestamp.
Hi,
I'd like to thank all for the valuable input.
Yesterday, I returned Lexmark 7000 and bought
Epson Color 800 Stylus (the color intensity is better
on this printer anyways, however, to be fare -- Lexmark
has laser quality blackwhite).
I still would like to know how to configure it for linux.
I'm trying to setup a trusted host for the root account.
I've got it to allow the root account from a remote system by
by modifying the /etc/securetty file.
But, I can't get it to allow a root account from another system
without a password.
I have added the systems name in the .rhosts and the
Thanks to everyone who replied on this topic. I should mention that not
all of my prev. failed installs were from a cd, a couple of times I
downloaded a base set from the ftp site.
But the important thing is, ok if bo is stable and hamm unstable, how
did the use of these terms originate? Along
I always execute mirror -T blar blar blar to sync the timestamp
before I do the actual mirror. Early this year, I lost 500MB because of
timestamp difference.
Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi,
I've been doing mirror of off the ftp.cdrom.com for a while now.
Yesterday, I've just found out
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.
Hi
I saw some recent posts on teTeX and Hebrew in several mailing lists
and newsgroups (debian-user, comp.text.tex, tetex). I would welcome
the idea of having an easy option to typeset Hebrew in teTeX. Well,
Carey Evans wrote:
Apart from looking at ip-up, I'd suggest you also think about other
ways of doing this, like:
# ipfwadm -A -a
if you only have the dialup interface, or
# ipfwadm -A -a -W ppp0
if you just want to do accounting on your PPP connections.
xosview stalls once I
Elie Rosenblum wrote:
$IPADDR=`ifconfig ppp0|perl -ne 'print $1 if (/inet addr:(\S+)\s/);'`
ipfwadm -A -a -P $IPADDR -D 0/0
It is what I want, thanks, though I found that I don't need '$' for the
first line.
Lawrence
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Anyone knows the default serail port speed? It is 38,400bps? Which
file responsible for this setting? I want to increase it to 115,200bps.
Lawrence
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Just wondering if there is a way to log nuke, icenuke, icmp ping attacts
done against a system?
I had missed someone coming on IRC (undernet servers not linpeople) and
nuking 15 or so people 4 times or more. Was wondering if attempts against
me woulkd be logged so I can call their ISP and have
Don't expect their ISP wanna chat with you. I have reported such an
attack last week for a person in CA connecting to Netcom and after 10
days, nothing response from them.
Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
Just wondering if there is a way to log nuke, icenuke, icmp ping attacts
done against a system?
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Don't expect their ISP wanna chat with you. I have reported such an
attack last week for a person in CA connecting to Netcom and after 10
days, nothing response from them.
I am 7 out of 10 sofar. Most the time I mention my lawyer and they are
more than
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to thank all for the valuable input.
Yesterday, I returned Lexmark 7000 and bought
Epson Color 800 Stylus (the color intensity is better
on this printer anyways, however, to be fare -- Lexmark
has laser quality blackwhite).
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Robert Grunloh wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied on this topic. I should mention that not
all of my prev. failed installs were from a cd, a couple of times I
downloaded a base set from the ftp site.
But the important thing is, ok if bo is stable and hamm unstable,
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Don't expect their ISP wanna chat with you. I have reported such an
attack last week for a person in CA connecting to Netcom and after 10
days, nothing response from them.
Just as a word of note, slightly off topic.. In Australia, if an ISP is
being icmp
Hi,
Well, there is no difference between arch//boot/bzImage and
arch/boot/bzImage, really, when it come to cp. I suspect that the
image did not build, for some reason.
a) what do you see when you do ls -als arch/boot/bzImage?
b) What version of kernel-package are you using?
c) Are
the next teTeX will have eTeX as a standard component, does that make
Hebrew-typesetting people happy?
sebastian
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Don't expect their ISP wanna chat with you. I have reported such an
attack last week for a person in CA connecting to Netcom and after 10
days, nothing response from them.
Just as a word of note, slightly off topic.. In
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone knows the default serail port speed? It is 38,400bps? Which
file responsible for this setting? I want to increase it to 115,200bps.
Most versions of unix only support specifying the modem speed up to
38400 (for historical reasons). So to specify a
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Can they charge a flooders in a country other than Australia:)
Lawrence
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:38:03 +1000 (EST)
From: The Lord Bhaal
Hi!
If I remember correctly, you said you installed magicfilter. So delete or
rename your printcap file and run /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig as root, to
create a new /etc/printcap file. I think magicfilterconfig copies a filter
into your /usr/sbin directory, so all you have to do is tweak
On 23 Sep 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Well, there is no difference between arch//boot/bzImage and
arch/boot/bzImage, really, when it come to cp. I suspect that the
image did not build, for some reason.
Perhaps you've overlooked the fact that, though the filename syntax might be
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.
Hi
I saw some recent posts on teTeX and Hebrew in several mailing lists
and newsgroups (debian-user, comp.text.tex, tetex). I would welcome
the idea of having an easy option to typeset Hebrew in teTeX.
Hi,
Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting?
Stable was not changing for weeks. I remember times (around Debian 1.2)
when stable changed when non-segfaulting upgrades came out. I liked that a
lot. It gave me the feeling to have the most-recent not-segfaulting
software
Is it possible to release some TeX--XeT support for teTeX, at least
to make the item cited under b) more straightforward? Will teTeX
support TeX--XeT some day in the future? Or, is moving to NTeX a
better solution? What is your experience?
The next version of teTeX will include e-TeX which
Bruce Perens writes:
Did you tell it your distributions were dists_unstable_main? That should
be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing.
No, I told it dists/unstable/main. And after telling it, it went
and verified that they existed. Then it went and grabbed the list of
packages. Only
Lukas Eppler wrote:
Hi,
Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting?
Stable was not changing for weeks. I remember times (around Debian 1.2)
when stable changed when non-segfaulting upgrades came out. I liked that a
lot. It gave me the feeling to have the
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Darin Johnson wrote:
Bruce Perens writes:
Did you tell it your distributions were dists_unstable_main? That should
be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing.
No, I told it dists/unstable/main. And after telling it, it went
and verified that they existed. Then
By the way, why are you installing unstable? That's for developers only.
If you don't really know what you are doing, it's bound to mess up your
system.
Because I need to build 2.1 kernels.
I know what I'm doing, except for perl. I thought it would be quicker
to ask then waste half a day
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote:
Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting?
For the most part stable means non-changing. The only updates made to
Debian 1.3.1 will be serious security or bug fixes, not minor changes or
updates. All updated software goes into
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Timothy Phan wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I've been doing mirror of off the ftp.cdrom.com for a while now.
: Yesterday, I've just found out that this site was not up to today.
: So I started to mirror from the ftp.debian.org. I found out that
: there were a lot of
Hi,
David == David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David On 23 Sep 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Well, there is no difference between arch//boot/bzImage and
arch/boot/bzImage, really, when it come to cp. I suspect that the
image did not build, for some reason.
David Perhaps you've overlooked
Bruce Perens wrote:
Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect:
Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable
Distributions to get: main contrib non-free
( this should probably go to developers list )
Bruce, it doesn't work. It'll either find packages files during Access
and
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
you can always download and install newer packages from hamm.
Lawrence
Ahhh, not true! bo is all libc5 and hamm is libc5 libc6.
I cant take the latest gimp, tripwire etc. without adding libc6 (which I
don't want to do
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can anyone please give me a hand with this one
ldconfig tells me that it can find a bunch fo X libs bit dpkg says that
I have installed them..
[bitgate]root ~/downloads $ ldconfig
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Darin Johnson wrote:
Bruce Perens writes:
Did you tell it your distributions were dists_unstable_main? That
should
be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing.
No, I told it dists/unstable/main. And after telling it, it went
and verified that they
Hello.
I was reading about running software on clusters of machines. There's
(at least) two different ways: PVM and MPI.
Neither of them seems to be available as a debian package, but I have
found a rpm package of MPI.
Now my questions. Is alien supposed to install rpms, or to convert
them to
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can anyone please give me a hand with this one
ldconfig tells me that it can find a bunch fo X libs bit dpkg says that
I have installed them..
[bitgate]root ~/downloads $ ldconfig
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or
Could we have every Debian list message's subject include the [DEBIAN] tag?
Hey everyone, this is my first ten minutes, and day, that I have been on this
list:)
Well, I have a few questions/problems, so feel free to answer(or not) any you
feel you could help solve.
1. I am having problems
Martin Str|mberg wrote:
Now my questions. Is alien supposed to install rpms, or to convert
them to debs, which can be installed?
Alien is used to convert to debs. It has an optional flag (-i) that makes it
install the converted package too, but by default, it just dumps a shiney
new .deb in the
I've got a friend that has been trying to install Red Hat on his
Powerpc. No end of problems there. Anyway I though I'd check out the
status of debian for Powerpcs. And perhaps convert my friend...
Alas, there are no installation instructions, but there are a lot of
debs - hurrrm, how does that
I can no longer get netscape to start, it starts to run then stops, leaving
no proccesses running and giving me no error messages as far as I can tell.
I even tried installing it again with the same problem, could it have to do
with my new kernel? I couldn't get the awe32 support to work no matter
Here's what I want to do:
Have restricted ftp access for users (chroot to their home directory).
Allow certain users to be webmasters, these users should have a link in
their home directory to a common directory that they can all read/write to.
I'm using wu-ftpd, ext2fs file system and debian
You probably saw the messages about this already:
Use debian as the Debian directory, and these distributions:
dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/contrib dists/unstable/non-free
This is a bug. Developers are conversing about why it is happening.
Bruce
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
Hello.
I was reading about running software on clusters of machines. There's
(at least) two different ways: PVM and MPI.
Neither of them seems to be available as a debian package, but I have
found a rpm package of MPI.
Now my questions. Is
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Could we have every Debian list message's subject include
the [DEBIAN] tag?
No :-) Please look into procmail and mailagent, both of which are Debian
packages.
1. I am having problems with my ppp dialer. I have it call through to my
ISP's server, it
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Dima wrote:
Bruce Perens wrote:
Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect:
Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable
Distributions to get: main contrib non-free
( this should probably go to developers list )
Bruce, it doesn't work. It'll
No :-) Please look into procmail and mailagent, both of which are Debian
packages.
I will :-) All I meant though is that maybe the messagees and replyers could
just include that tag.
But! I just remembered that you can have a filter search the body and header of
a message, not only the
subject!
justin honold wrote:
7 xsnow
has anyone gotten xsnow to compile under debian? how?
There's a debian package, in non-free, in the games section. It compiles
just fine.
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