Perl 5 screw up ?

1998-10-29 Thread Fred Yankowski
/interpreters/ Do the same for the perl-suid package. And, I suppose, for any other perl-based packages that you have that have reverted to versions based on Perl 5.004. The exact package-version numbers may be different now, but you get the idea. -- Fred Yankowski

slink package upgrades fail

1998-10-15 Thread Fred Yankowski
. This bug is going to cost hundreds of hours of wasted time across all Debian users, I'm sure of it. The problem has been known for some time -- could the responsible package owners (I can't figure out which package is to blame) please get us a fix! -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

video-cam/conference hardware recommendation?

1998-10-14 Thread Fred Yankowski
they are reported to be slow. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
your hard drive as normal. I'm not going to use xdm again until such time as I have a backup root partition set up (with xdm disabled) so that I can boot and repair things without having to use the Rescue disk. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smail delays delivering mail from fetchmail

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
3.2.0.101-5 on a fairly current slink system. A slightly-obscured version of my /etc/smail/config file is attached. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] visible_name=XXX.net -domains hostnames=xanadu:XXX.XXX.net:localhost smtp_accept_max

crypt++el 2.84-2 mistakenly identifies file as Mac format

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
will match that pattern. There's got to be a better way. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Kent West writes: At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: ... Anyway, I had to boot from a Debian Rescue floppy to get in. ... Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? I thought I tried that at the time and it didn't work, but perhaps I

Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
could not for the life of me figure out how to get back into X. Control-Alt-F7 restores the X display on my system. I often get a spurious popup menu from emacs when I return, but it's OK otherwise. -- Fred Yankowski

misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Fred Yankowski
and nothing would print. The '--debug' option to magicfilter was useful though. -- Fred Yankowski