Re: Mirror ?

On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, James A. Treacy wrote: http://www.debian.org/mirror.html For some reason, there doesn't seem to be a link from the rest of the site to this page. There is, but it's buried. Guess it should get a link from the developer's page. Yeah, that'd make sense. Maybe under

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Ralph Winslow wrote: The Debian distribution is very large - you're far better served to install the base system only for an initial installation, and then choose e few packages at a time to install. If you take this approach, your chances of success will improve ... vastly. Sounds like

root login

I've had to repair a system whose filesystem was slightly corrupted. It's in good shape now, except that, from the console, a login for root does not request a password, it just logs you in. And tty0 does not even prompt. It just logs in as root. I believe that the installion script did not

Re: CircleMUD

Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup. It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died. Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message? Try adding -lcrypt to the gcc command line. Libc6 breaks this out into it's

Re: Email quest

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote: Dear Nick, Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux machine do i need a

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #164

Am I getting this digest correctly. It comes as several attachments, which are kind of cumbersome to open one at a time. Plus, I'm not getting all the messagesonly 5 out of 16 this go arounddo I need to reconfigure somehow? Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like very good advice. Since I don't have a backup system for the Win95 partition, I have to move very, very carefully. I think if I can once determine 1) the best boot method for this system, and 2) figure a way to install a bootable Win 3.1

Re: Home dir Permissions

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: Hi, I like to have personal web space turned on (ie http://server/~tim/), so I can easily access files (such as lynx bookmarks - point the bookmark file at /~/HTML/bookmarks.html, I can then pick this up on any remote system). What I want to know is,

Re: Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)

On 30 Jan 1998, William R. Ward wrote: I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran ldd and strace and the output is attached here. I

Re: xlib-3.3-5

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: I'm trying to install GNOME (from the source distribution, I'd like to work on it). However, obviously I need to install the gtk library, so I went to my local Debian FTP site to retrieve the gtk library as a debian binary package. However,

Re: Cann't get on old system

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Richard A. Guay wrote: Hi, This is a strange problem. I have an old debian system being used as an router. It is Debian 0.98. Evidently, the getty program must be corrupt because I can not get access to the system from the console (nor remote since I disabled the

Re: newbie question - problem with netscape

Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I am runnning netscape on win 95 -- my distribution CD debian linux had a corrupted netscape package and I cant install it -- and am wondering if there is any way I can download netscape (in win95) and then - boot up linux and install it? The Netscape

re:Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Finally I decided to retry RedHat since it had been successful in the past, but this time at the LiLo prompt I took a wrong turn and tho linux would boot after that, I couldn't boot into the Win95 partition anymore. Will it boot anything? If it will boot linux and not win95..then you probably

Re: ae don't accept arrow keys

Cheng-Chang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My other editors can handle arrow keys well, but ae can it only under text mode, not under X. it prints ^[[C when I press left arrow key? I've found it works if I select Application Cursor Keys after starting it. I've never bothered reporting a bug on

tricks for fetchmail and signify

Here's a couple of tricks I worked up for using fetchmail and signify as daemons. Put these in your .login or .profile . First, I wanted to make sure fetchmail was running; answer, just run it from the .login, right? But I didn't want to bitch about waking up to grab mail that it was going to

Re: tricks for fetchmail and signify

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote: I tried to implement these solutions using the start-stop-daemon, but I encountered a number of difficulties with that approach, not the least of which was that the --help option lied to me; if you give

Attn: Deb Staff: Filerunner Now GPL Software?

Check it out. Henrik says Filerunner is now GPL software. Has the Debian development staff seen this? http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/HISTORY Art Lemasters -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: tricks for fetchmail and signify

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote: Here's a couple of tricks I worked up for using fetchmail and signify as daemons. Put these in your .login or .profile . First, I wanted to make sure fetchmail was running; answer, just run it from the .login, right? But I didn't want to bitch

/dev/hdc1 Mount Permissions

Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS. I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home. Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with chown and chmod, I still do not have access to the device (/dev/hdc1 mounted in /home). Do any of you have any ideas as to the cause

Re: /dev/hdc1 Mount Permissions

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS. I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home. Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with chown and chmod, I still do not have access to the device (/dev/hdc1 mounted in /home).

Building own packages - how?

Hi! Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can build own binary packages from self-compiled source code? Thanks. -- Ciao, Sebastian * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * HP:www.sauerland.de/~toyland/ PGP-Key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel. I also have an USR 56K modem, and I am getting the following connect messages Feb 1 11:23:08 pequod chat[310]: CONNECT 33600/ARQ/x2/LAPM/V42BIS

Summaries for /var/log log files.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello world, Are there any packages/programs/whatever that provide nice, readable summaries for the various logs in /var/log? Things along the lines of the daily Usenet summaries that inn produces, but for things such as apache, inetd, mail, the ip paranoia

mirror follow symlinks? (Will be: I feel so stupid now)

How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks to them? Now I've got: package=debian-hamm site= ftp.nl.net local_dir=/home/joost/debian/hamm remote_user=anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tricks for fetchmail and signify

I'll create a section called Debian Tips in faqomatic, and put this as the first one to start it all :-). Sounds good? -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

Free software article in wired

Here's a good one that wired did because of netscape, but went into the benefits of free software. It talked about redhat a fair bit, but included debian when refering to popular linux distributions. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/9966.html Brandon - Brandon

Re: root login

In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Kirstin S. Reese wrote: I've had to repair a system whose filesystem was slightly corrupted. It's in good shape now, except that, from the console, a login for root does not request a password, it just logs you in. And tty0 does not even

Re: mirror follow symlinks? (Will be: I feel so stupid now)

joost witteveen wrote: How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks to them? Now I've got: package=debian-hamm site= ftp.nl.net local_dir=/home/joost/debian/hamm remote_user=anonymous

Re: mirror follow symlinks? (Will be: I feel so stupid now)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks to them? This works for me: $ mirror-master /etc/mirror/mm/Hamm where /etc/mirror/mm/hamm --

Where is sync

I have just compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with make-kpg but I get a final error 'sync' not found. I am using libc6... I have searched my disk, and the latest Packages file and cannot find a reference to 'sync' Can anyone help? Thanks, frere Roy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Where is sync

On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 04:30:33PM +0100, Frere Roy wrote: I have just compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with make-kpg but I get a final error 'sync' not found. I am using libc6... I have searched my disk, and the latest Packages file and cannot find a reference to 'sync' it's in fileutils

Re: Dselect

On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 10:28:32PM +0100, Your Name wrote: Ich bin Anfänger und möchte gerne eine grafische Oberfläche aus der Debian Distribution installieren. Aber wenn man mit Dselect arbeitet muß mann einen Device Block angeben oder das CDRom Laufwerk lit dem Befehl 'mount' montieren. wie

Re: tricks for fetchmail and signify

On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 07:40:26PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote: I tried to implement these solutions using the start-stop-daemon, but I encountered a number of difficulties with that approach, not the least

tin and its group attributes file

Does anyone use the .tin/attributes file of tin? I do not manage to make it work, even if I use the example given in the man page. I already sent a bug report about this (#17588) and the new version does not solve the problem. (whereas it should work) Am I the only one in that case? -- Hugo

prob with XF86Configure

hi i have the following ModeLines: # 640x480 #ModeLine 640x480 31 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520 # 800x600 #ModeLine 800x600 45 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 # another 800x600 #ModeLine 800x601 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 # 1024x768 ModeLine 1024x768 75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768

Re: Building own packages - how?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Sebastian Kaps wrote: Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can build own binary packages from self-compiled source code? Take a look at the Debian web site http://www.debian.org and it will have a link to

Re: prob with XF86Configure

Hopefully I understand your problem correctly. If I don't please let me know. The Modelines just specify parameters for various video modes, they don't pick what mode you actually use. The Modes line in the Screen section is what you want, e.g., Section Screen Driver Accel

Meta key doesn't work anymore in xemacs!

Hi, I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work. Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that (1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and Mod4, which is nonsensical. I filled a bug report about that, but in the meantime how do I make

Re: Meta key doesn't work anymore in xemacs!

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Christian Hudon wrote: Hi, I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work. Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that (1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and Mod4, which is nonsensical. Well, I think

Re: ppp problems in Spain

Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ftp ftp.rediris.es no works, linux saids I can't resolve ftp.rediris.es (If I do ftp www.xxx.yyy.zzz things go fine). I've resolv.conf in the form: nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzz Do you have order hosts,bind multi on in your /etc/host.conf

Re: Dselect

Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Die Sprache dieser Liste ist englisch. Just as a addition (quote from the debian site): There is a seperate mailing list for the German speaking users of Debian. To subscribe to the list send subscribe debian-user-de your_email_address to [EMAIL

some initial X questions

hi 1) could someone comment on the relative merits of emacs vs xemacs?? 2) where is xman?? can't find it on the debian binarys cd-rom. thanx :) dave -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520; ramah nm 87321 running Debian GNU/Linux.Free at

Re: Home dir Permissions

Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: your home directory can be drwx--x--x and the ~/public_html directory can also be drwx--x--x . Then, no other user will be able to see any files in your home directory, but any user that knows you have a pub_html directory can do get a file listing

Re: Building own packages - how?

Sebastian Kaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can build own binary packages from self-compiled source code? You should install the developers-reference package from hamm. Then you could also check www.linux-magazin.de for a

Re: svgalib

Note that you definitely should try to write the mode line manually, because you want to use the highest refresh rate possible with your monitor and video card. My First problem is that I have an ET4000, and it does not read modeline's in svgalib (It does in X), it reads

Upgrading to Hamm OK but I have questions

I downloaded hamm at University and our computer dude kindly wrote it onto a CD for me. The directory system was a bit of a mess, and the CD was vanilla iso9660 (no Rockridge extensions or anything, eight dot three filenames), but after installing the first package (I think it was dpgk-perl)

netscape 4.0 can we get just navigator?

I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link anywhere but netscape to download the new version. I'd like netscape 4, but I'd also like to avoid the 10 Mb download and especially the huge expanse of disk

exim for debian

any chance you could compile exim v1.82 that would work under devian 1.3.1 ? the 1.3.1 tree only has v1.60 now... I don't currently have any of the libc5 development stuff on my machine, and I'm not sure how to do it. There are people who have compiled a few packages so they will work under

Re: /dev/hdc1 Mount Permissions

On 1 Feb 98 at 11:18, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS. I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home. Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with chown and chmod, I still do not have

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Steve, Thanks for the note, I've put comments interspersed in the quoted text below, as that seems to be the pattern with members of this list. Dave Stephen Carpenter wrote: Finally I decided to retry RedHat since it had been successful in the past, but this time at the LiLo prompt

Re: some initial X questions

On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 01:03:02PM -0700, Dave Mallery wrote: 1) could someone comment on the relative merits of emacs vs xemacs?? Sure. Use vim. :) 2) where is xman?? can't find it on the debian binarys cd-rom. xman is in xcontrib. Package: xcontrib Status: install ok installed Priority:

Re: man segmentation fault

Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? Thanks Jerry http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1 This one reached the Faq-O-Matic. I said

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Carey Evans wrote: David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like very good advice. Since I don't have a backup system for the Win95 partition, I have to move very, very carefully. I think if I can once determine 1) the best boot method for this system, and 2) figure a way to

ae don't accept arrow keys

Hi, My other editors can handle arrow keys well, but ae can it only under text mode, not under X. it prints ^[[C when I press left arrow key? -- Cheng-Chang Wu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]