Re: dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread Steve Dunham
on the #debian channel, in case something goes wrong.. ## The other option is to wait till the 2.2 CDs come out and upgrade then. Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Dave Slotter wrote: I'm a bit confused by all of this, because dhcp-0.70 is supposed to only work with 2.0.x kernels, which you have, and 1.3.18 is supposed to only work with 2.2.x kernels. Maybe they changed the way 2.0.36 works? (from previous 2.0.x

Re: dpkg library

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Stefan Hornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to know if a library for developing applications based on the dpkg package system exists like rpmlib for RPM systems. libapt-pkg has similar functionality (perhaps more functionality). Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: revisited ITP: webmin

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: Nick Moffitt wrote: Some of them are a bit more ridiculous: Package: sam Suggests: ssh sam has some weird mode that requires it to connect to a remote machine and run sam in remote mode. This according to the code, I didn't dig deep enough to

Final test build of XFree86 for Sparc/Slink available

1999-02-22 Thread Steve Dunham
I've built the sparc binaries for Branden's final test version of XFree86. The binary packages are available at: http://master.debian.org/~dunham A proper APT tree for all of the packages (binary and all) is available via: deb http://www.cse.msu.edu/debian xfree86/ Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broadway

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the scoop on broadway? Is it going to be deb'd soon? Is it all the x.org web page makes it out to be, fast remote execution etc...? Broadway is version 6.3 and we seem to still be using 6.2 from what I see reported when I start X. Is there a

Re: GIF for KDE

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. You know there is a huge security hole in kfm(which the author apparently doesn't care to fix...) It uses a tcp socket to send commands (like delete file) to it's slave processes...So

Re: chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
K. Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bg Now for the problem: a few months ago, i installed debian using the 2.0.6 kernal. i made a set of boot/root/base/modules disks and successfully installed everything i wanted [or could fit onto my 170 MB drive]. now, i bought a new 1.3GB drive and

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: Actually i thought that teTeX was supposed to and is the solution for what you seem to recognize as Debian's confused TeX direction!? IMHO the fact that teTeX has become part of Debian is a major reason to consider installing Debian. I suppose that

Re: Debian on Sparc...

1997-03-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list (or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-). The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux up and

Re: lesstif requirement

1997-03-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The newest package for timidity depends on lesstif. I own motif proper. Is there a way to create a stub package for motif that provides motif and then have timidity depend on motif. lesstif could provide motif too.

Re: Directory structure at Debian

1997-02-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been a user of Debian for 6 months or so now - including a sucessfull upgrade to 1.2 via ftp and a \HUGE stack of floppies, but I still have great problems understanding what all the directories on the ftp sites contain. Could anyone tell me what the

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-19 Thread Steve Dunham
Ami Ganguli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pete Templin wrote: Hmmmseems to me that Windows NT is a three floppy system. Although three is certainly less than six, three is significantly more than one. I think a single floppy install should be possible, but it would require a different

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think all existing silver Debian CDs are parts of sets. Infomagic - 6 CDs. Pacific Hightech - January edition of their Monthly CD, also contains redhat updates and contrib, Java, and Linux Gazette. Linux Systems Labs

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-10 Thread Steve Dunham
Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under X windows? I just read the config files and man XF86Config. Add the following to the Keyboard section of XF86Config

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-04 Thread Steve Dunham
Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under X windows? It's right in the man page for xmodmap: In X Windows 3.1.2 this will work fine, but in 3.2 you will need to disable the new XKBD extensions and use the old

Re: Switching to Debian from old Slackware 2.1; orientation?

1997-01-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old). Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also, I'm not clear on how

Re: maintaining apache-style auth files

1997-01-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does someone know of a good set of utilities for doing this? The format is simple, just like the 1st 2 fields in /etc/passwd. I am actually using it for a squid proxy authentication file. htpasswd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: LaTeX cannot find Greek characters

1996-11-07 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebedee Mason) writes: LaTeX runs fine on all my documents apart from the fact that it cannot find the Greek alphabet resulting in some strange looking equations, I have included part of the log file and several days back tried the TeX newsgroup: (nomenclature.tex

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Kevin M Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: More of that, a news group is more organized. Thread are follow up and it's easy to jump over some who don't interested yourself. This will help people to got an answer more easily and more