Re: Any interest in SNMP web based network monitor?

1997-10-19 Thread Ed Donovan
has been out for a while now. I'm not sure Dermot Bradley's packages are getting worked on right now; I got the impression recently that he'd become too busy (always understandable). -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
, there are a few packages meant to allow that by having an alternative gcc and C library on the system: libc5-altdev, altgcc, and libdl1-altdev (the only ones I've seen). I haven't tried these. Hope this clarifies things a little, anyway - -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: group permission nethack

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
. :) Anyway, the bug was fixed a while ago. (in -8, according to the changelog) so it's coming down the pike somewhere. Hth, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-09 Thread Ed Donovan
of the libc6-dev environment and go back to libc5-dev, straight up. Hope that's somewhat clear, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick == Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rick I know we've gone to libc6, but I'm not quite clear on how to Rick compile

Re: bash won't see existing binaries

1997-07-09 Thread Ed Donovan
with what you see on your system? Hope it helps, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

1997-07-03 Thread Ed Donovan
pdmenu being used by many people on some not-yet-Debian machines.) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Peter S Galbraith: Gee, sounds exactly like the debian version, which mentions just

Re: netatalk error: atalkd socket: Invalid argument

1997-06-24 Thread Ed Donovan
of: alias net-pf-5 appletalk I think my current conf.modules is the 1.3 default, and it has the 'off' alias, disabling appletalk. HTH, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread Ed Donovan
haven't had to worry about inter-user issues like that. Hope this helps, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: how to safely install libc6

1997-05-17 Thread Ed Donovan
Craig - Thanks, for the second time this week, I think. :-) I'm not sure which change was decisive on my system, but after following some of your suggestions I could compile a kernel again. Craig == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig On 15 May 1997, Ed Donovan wrote

Re: how to safely install libc6

1997-05-17 Thread Ed Donovan
into production on each platform. I'll keep an eye on the '-L' paths, etc. I hadn't thought that through, thanks. Appreciate the time thought, Ed -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: how to safely install libc6

1997-05-16 Thread Ed Donovan
Debian as always, Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Adpkg (was Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed)

1997-05-13 Thread Ed Donovan
for Craig; he's helped enough :) Is there still work being done on adpkg, or are the ideas being moved into the deity project or some such? Well, I'm chattering a bit, those are just browsing-level interest questions, I know what I need to know practically now. Thanks again, Craig, Ed -- Ed

Adpkg (was Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed)

1997-05-12 Thread Ed Donovan
and debian installation as clean and uninterfered-with as possible, so I'm curious to hear what the group knows before trying anything more. Thanks all, Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Ed Donovan
think I'm starting to hum it to the tune of Hooray for Captain Spaulding :-) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error while installing unstable/binary/base/at_3.0.deb

1997-03-26 Thread Ed Donovan
to: update-rc.d atd remove /dev/null rm -rf /var/spool/at{jobs,spool} That is, take the premature ; fi off the end of line five, and change the pipe (|) into a comma on line 6. After this, I could install the new version cleanly. Hope this helps, -- Ed Donovan

Re: samba

1997-03-13 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi Peter, It's on master.debian.org and hasn't made it to ftp.debian.org yet. I got through and snagged a copy if you wouldn't mind it as a mail attachment or some such... -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any Linux books that focus on Debian?

1996-10-09 Thread Ed Donovan
versions on the web yet.) Does anyone on the list happen to know more about this; anyone working with them yet? -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc

1996-10-02 Thread Ed Donovan
many admit is not so hot a way to see them, if you don't use emacs or xemacs. Hope this is of some use, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xman

1996-10-02 Thread Ed Donovan
popped into my head, sorry. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -lX11 problem

1996-09-12 Thread Ed Donovan
to the linker. Messed this up just today :-) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A couple of package spec glitches

1996-09-12 Thread Ed Donovan
xemacs to not overwrite the emacs-provided ones, and so had to list the packages as conflicting for now, though he was very unhappy about that. I haven't downloaded the xemacs package, so I don't know if this is mentioned anywhere within. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to sign up to debian-devel?

1996-09-10 Thread Ed Donovan
I thought you were just supposed to mail Bruce, directly. I haven't ever tried to get on, though... -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-09-09 Thread Ed Donovan
releases, curses evolved to use more facilities and offer more capabilities, going far beyond BSD curses in power and flexibility. hth? I think I'll be posting my own latest ncurses compilation question soon :-) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Make errors

1996-09-04 Thread Ed Donovan
) -batch -q -f batch-texinfo-format and it will run emacs in batch (non-interactive) mode to do the job. Does that fit? -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UPDATE: deb-view.el 1.2: emacs tool for browsing deb files!

1996-08-31 Thread Ed Donovan
are very usable. There's a new html parser. It's a dramatic difference, I really recommend it, well worth what betaness there is. In the 'betas' subdirectory of the above path; there may be a symlink to newest version in the above directory also, don't recall. -- Ed Donovan

Re: UPDATE: deb-view.el 1.2: emacs tool for browsing deb files!

1996-08-31 Thread Ed Donovan
Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me) writes: Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More usefully, w3 can be found in the binary-i386/net/w3-el_2.2.25-4.deb on any debian mirror... Yeah, but those 2.2.x w3's are way slower than the 2.3 now 3.0 betas, which are very usable. There's

Re: UPDATE: deb-view.el 1.2: emacs tool for browsing deb files!

1996-08-31 Thread Ed Donovan
Well, how many times can I follow myself up? Let me know if I get near a record. Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, wait, I didn't add: there is also a 2.2.26 release version, which I'm pretty_ includes the fast new parser, though not this and that spiffiness, blah, blah... Uh, I

Re: using filter

1996-08-28 Thread Ed Donovan
already assessed this situation, then excuse me. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q's about modifying a debian package install

1996-08-27 Thread Ed Donovan
been modified should respect that, offering you options like leaving your versions in place and copying the new distribution versions in as /etc/*.dpkg-dist. Nb: this is no kind of official statement. If corrections are needed, I'm sure they'll follow. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL

Re: man crashes

1996-08-26 Thread Ed Donovan
it helps, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using procmail with emacs RMAIL

1996-08-25 Thread Ed Donovan
:0: * ^TOdebian-changes debian-changes.spool Procmail uses one of those stanzas for each filter. The '.spool' suffix is a Gnus default that I went along with. Following the FAQ, I have these in ~/.procmail/rc.maillists--in a more vanilla setup they'd be in ~/.procmailrc. Hth, -- Ed Donovan

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Ed Donovan
valuable, since I used to 'dpkg -x' deb-files all the time to check stuff out, and often I was root. Cleaning up from that, I'd always 'rm -r usr/' in the unpacking workspace, and then gasp, realizing I'd been one character away from the apocalypse :-) Thanks again, Rick. -- Ed Donovan

Re: perl

1996-08-23 Thread Ed Donovan
and this version went in fine, works fine. Darren, are you around to confirm that this is behind us? -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing and .profile problems

1996-08-08 Thread Ed Donovan
this might be the case. But any login from a console prompt should be a login shell, and read the startup files as specified above. Specifying login behavior, or the .bashrc solution, would work if it was a sub. Hth, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X server error output (Re: X11 problems)

1996-08-05 Thread Ed Donovan
there. They'll want (parts of) your XF86Config, and perhaps the results from running Superprobe. Right now, either the settings don't match the hardware, or you have to specify more to force the server to realize that they do. HTH a little, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X font packages in very limited disk space

1996-08-05 Thread Ed Donovan
try installing them in turn and see what lights up my life, but maybe I can get a little more background than I have from docs or FAQs on the roles of those different fonts. Many thanks as always, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail-delivery-agents?

1996-08-03 Thread Ed Donovan
is the most recent locale I've seen (that was off the Gnus mailing list, I have no relations with NT, thank you please! :-) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reader should note unhealthy emacs-junkie gleam in poster's eye)

ram needed to install debian

1996-06-18 Thread Ed Donovan
, though I've never filled that. As of not long ago, Bruce's installation testbed was a 386 with 4M, and he repeatedly tweaked the install to deal with possible issues people encountered on 4M machines. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel-package and perl, without perl package

1996-06-18 Thread Ed Donovan
binary? (and then force-depends kernel-package? Or can I just force it now? I'm presuming Manoj had his reasons.) Does everybody else just have the perl package installed? :-) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS - Repeat question, sorry; in May this was part of a long

Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

1996-06-14 Thread Ed Donovan
first, and ultimately catted them back together under Linux. This reminds me of what Dr. McCoy accused the transporter of doing to his molecules. Second topic: I've been swamped lately, and haven't thanked you for some of your help messages; I've really appreciated them. -- Ed Donovan

Several ?'s on 1.1 upg, going all-ELF, kernel versions, orphaned a.out binaries

1996-05-26 Thread Ed Donovan
sorry, it's not in front of me to check where, it's probably in /usr/bin.) Are either of these last two a problem for anyone else? (Related: I see someone's already reported the a.out setterm binary as a bug.) Thanks for any education here, Ed -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL

elf Mtools screw pooch

1996-05-26 Thread Ed Donovan
Since I upgraded to 1.1, all of the ELF versions of mtools have failed on my system, with the error: init: set default params Can't initialize 'A:' (approximate transcription) I'm not even sure if this is the system call init or the uber-process init, and haven't succeeded in any attempts to

Gpm not interacting with emacs, mc

1996-05-17 Thread Ed Donovan
of these functions; should I disable it somehow? That doesn't seem the case but beyond that I'm in over my head. Do most people have them working correctly? Thanks, Ed -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disabling daemons from init.d

1996-05-05 Thread Ed Donovan
To: Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: disabling daemons from init.d Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 10:49:57 -0400 From: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd to /etc/init.d, chmod -x whatever, where whatever is the script you want

error make-ing kernel 1.2.13

1996-05-04 Thread Ed Donovan
appreciated. Tried to include what info I could, let me know if I need more, but this one's long enough now as it is. Thanks, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error make-ing kernel 1.2.13

1996-05-04 Thread Ed Donovan
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 4 01:40:32 1996 To: Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: error make-ing kernel 1.2.13 Well, you are not alone. I also have this problem, when I recompiled this kernel