On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:29:38AM -0500, Brian K Servis wrote:
> Does anybody know were to find a netscape4_4.0-6.deb that does not depend
> on libc6, so that I can use it on a 1.3.1 system? Why does it need to
> depend on libc6 anyway?
It looks like the installer package was built using "fakero
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 01:30:15AM -0500, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> I have just recently upgraded to lesstifg and lesstifg-dev to recompile a
> package I maintain using libc6 stuff. After installing the newest
> versions,
> the make seems to fail when looking for Xm.h:
>
> make[2]: Entering direc
On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 12:45:25PM +0100, joost witteveen wrote:
> I want to setup a makefile for a newbie user, so that all of his C files
> (that use math) compile and link OK. I was hoping to do that by simply
> creating a Makefile with only the line "LDFLAGS=-lm", but then the
> compiler is cal
On Sun, Nov 09, 1997 at 08:59:33PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> I am looking for something that shows leaks and what not. efence only
> works on segfault type situations.
Take a look at
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/zorn/public_html/MallocDebug.html for a
list of tools relating to memory management
On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 11:56:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel?
> I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped.
On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 09:57:04PM +, Oliver Elphick answered:
> `man 7 signal', which says (among other things
On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 09:06:35PM -0500, hmaddox wrote:
> Rather new to linux but a pretty through search found nothing on vfat32
> from win 95 osr2 and debian linux. I get an invalid file system responce
> when i try to mount . ???
There is no FAT32 support in the regular Linux kernel.
Check
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 11:43:12AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote:
> Just made an update to my system, but now (among other things) gcc refuses
> to work.
You mean "as" refuses to work.
> the simple helloworld program doesn't compile.
>
> I do gcc -o hello hello.c and it tell's me :
>
> as: can't lo
On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 11:19:16AM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote:
> Deselect tells me that there are obsolete packages in my debian system (I
> use stable contrib non-free bo). One of the obsolete packages is the
> modules-package. When I try to remove it, Debian tells me that I use a
> modular kernal
On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 12:48:55AM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> I have installed new mutt package compiled for libc5 (THANKS to Ray for
> keeping us with libc5 in mind!), ver. 0.84-0, and all was running fine
> so I deleted my old package 0.74-3. BUT, I didn't try to send an Email
> and sure enou
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:58:41PM +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
> > Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in
> > currentdistillerparams.
> > Operand Stack:
>
> Strage. Are you sure your ".ps" file is postscript? Looks like it isn't.
I've seen this with ps files p
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Does this mutt-84-package support PGP?
As of 0.68-1, mutt was moved from non-US to main following a policy decision
that hooks to crypto don't prevent a package to go into the main
distribution. The mutt package is the normal, non-
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote:
> Received this from debian-changes list - where can it be downloaded from?
It is still in master's Incoming directory, presumably because it needs
manual processing. I've put a copy at
ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/linux/devel-ray/
R
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 08:34:33AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but
> the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc
> Depends: libc (>= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package?
I think this is a typo on Joey's part. "l
On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 05:43:22AM -, Dean C. Sullinger wrote:
> Once dselect was done, I tried to execute X and all I got was a gray
> screen with my mouse pointer.
Let me guess, you started it as "X", right? Try starting it with "startx".
Ray
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On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 10:05:34AM -0400, dpk wrote:
> I believe I read the other day that a secure shell package does exist, and
> it was mentioned to do a search 'ssh' from the packages.html page.
> However, my search on 'ssh' and 'secure shell' showed nothing. I also
> searched ftp.debian.org f
On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:52:19AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> The compose key is something specific to X. You cannot use it in the
> Console (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
You stand corrected. The keyhandling of the console and X are totally
separated, but share many concepts. The consol
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:27:31AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do
> something interesting?
>
> Like act as a compose key? a meta key?
[megasig deleted]
It can. There is a "Debian Keyboard Configuration Project" under
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 04:43:31PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote:
> Is it completely safe to use, say, elm, to process the /var/spool/mail
> directory over nfs in Debian 1.3.1? I know at some time there was a
> problem with different locking conventions resulting in lost or scrambled
> mailboxes; have
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 07:11:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> after upgrading to the newest version of slang0.99.34 and slang0.99.38
That version is in "unstable". If you wish to discuss problems with
"unstable" please do so on the debian-devel list, not on debian-user.
> I get the followi
On Sep 30, Peyman Gohari wrote
> In our group we have a single Debian machine surrounded by a bunch of
> Redhats:( We have secure shell installed on all, but it behaves weird on
> Redhats from time to time. The problem is that when you try to get a
> remote shell using ssh, you may be denied acces
On Sep 30, Marc Fleureck wrote
> Is there any way to browse this mailing list without subscribing to it ?
> Does anyone know ?
The mailing lists are archived on the web at
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
There is also a digest version of -user available IIRC.
HTH,
Ray
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On Sep 27, Lawrence wrote
> I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with
> libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release their
> Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year.
> Meanwhile, is it possible to install libc6 and still
On Sep 25, Mario de Mello B. Neto wrote
> I am a Linux user and I need information regarding linux (debian,RedHat,
> Slackware) and its conformance to IEEE POSIX standards, specially those
> that Microsoft Windows NT is not compliant.
I'm nowhere near a standards expert, but I suspect most Linux
On Sep 25, Gorkem Cetin wrote
> I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list, if not flame me :)
It is (more or less).
> We've (the turkish linux user group) been working on a turkish linux
> distribution for some time. Its main purpose is to help users whose native
> lang is not english.. It a
On Sep 23, Bob Nielsen wrote
> I guess this confuses me even more! Are libc4, libc5 and libc6 completely
> independent of each other, or are they versions of something which began
> as "libc".
They are somewhat independent:
libc4 is the Linux C library for use with the a.out format of binaries.
On Sep 19, Rolf Obrecht wrote
> is ssh or ssl-telnet better in securing remote sessions (password
> encryption etc)? I've no clue. Which one should I prefer? Where are the
> differences?
ssh is not entirely free (check out /usr/doc/ssh/copyright.gz); ssltelnet
is.
ssh has some nice features for k
On Sep 18, Paulo Ramos wrote
> I stop receiving mail from this mailing list. Anyone know why?
Ask the list maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you want to know for sure.
IIRC, the mailing lists are set up to automatically unsubscribe addresses
that have repeated delivery problems. Maybe you mailhost
On Sep 18, joost witteveen wrote
> Have you tried to apply the debian patches for mutt_0.81 to mutt-0.84?
> Maybe the problem existed before 0.84, and the maintainer fixed it. (And,
> you could also have a look in the debian/rules file, to see if anything
> special happens in the "build" target).
On Sep 16, Marc Fleureck wrote
> My system is Debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27 and a pcmcia
> 3c562/563 33.6 LAN/modem card (Olivetti echos p100d).
[...]
> I had just installed pcmcia-cs 2.9.5-3. Before there was no pcmcia package
> installed. Now I have trouble starting the PCMCIA Card Services (it
On Sep 14, Bert Heijenga wrote
> After installing Nedit from the package nedit-smotif_4.0.3-1.deb I cannot
> start Nedit as root nor as a user.
>
> I get the following message:
> nedit: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6'
>Unknown error
[snip]
What does
ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/ned
On Sep 12, Peter Weiss wrote
>On Debian there is no libtermcap.so, on Redhat-4.2 there is one. As far
>as I remember libtermcap is obsolete and should be replaced by
>libncurses.
>Am I wrong?
No.
>Has any body more Information?
Yes.
>The problem occurred when installing some foreign binaries bu
On Sep 9, Ricardo Muggli wrote
> What is the debian whay of starting X in 16 bpp? I can do this:
> startx -- -bpp 16
>
> but I would like to be able to do just startx.
>
> Any information as to what file(s) I need to modify would be greatly
> appreciated.
Put
DefaultColorDepth 16
in Sect
On Sep 3, Britton wrote
> I have one of these CD's also, with lots of problems with X. I am having
> trouble upgrading via the ftp method. I choose pretty much the standard
> options, and it hangs like this:
>
> Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C)
>
> Connecting to ftp.debian.org...
On Sep 4, Aria Prima Novianto wrote
> Every time I connect using pppd, I got this message in my console
> after get connected:
>
> pppd[257]: remote IP address 128.10.16.110
> modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10
>
> I can't find char-major-10 module in my kernel source. Is it safe to put
On Aug 21, Peter Biechele wrote
[install problems]
> I have tried the installation for about 20 times using Debian 1.2.4,
> 1.2.10 and 1.3.1 (July disks) but nothing helped. I have reformatted for
> several times, used less swap space (64MB instead of 128MB) and used non
> at all. I have tried to c
On Aug 10, George Bonser wrote
> Is there a web page that discusses the differences/merits of dpkg vs. rpm?
Not that I'm aware of. However, this is a topic that comes up often on the
Linux newsgroups. Check out http://www.dejanews.com for a great way of
searching through old postings.
HTH,
Ray
--
On Aug 9, Joey Hess wrote
> joost witteveen wrote:
> > rulcmc:/usr/lib/menu$ ls |wc
> > 75 75 519
>
> Unless you have ls aliased to ls -l or something, that's not a very
> accurate number. ;-)
Bzzt. Wrong answer. You don't win the laundromat. :-)
GNU ls checks whether or not it is
On Aug 11, Mike Miller wrote
> I have a file on my machine that I created that begins with a hyphen. How
> can I delete it. rm -test says can't delete est using option -t (or
> whatever). How do I tell it not to use the hyphen as a switch?
With most GNU tools, '--' means "end option processing he
On Aug 7, hal wrote
> I am a bit confused as to why Debian is two CDs. I tried to use dselect on
> CD 2 but could not find directories asked for by dselect. Also packages,
> like PGP are missing. I looked in the FAQ and the INSTALL. Where is this
> documented please.
There are legal problems putti
On Aug 7, Markus Diesmann wrote
> we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB. However it seems, that
> Debian uses only 64MB (according to top and free). Is there a limit at
> 64MB? Do we need to set a special kernel option?
See /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz
For PCs, there appears to be n
On Aug 7, Rob Browning wrote
[ISP abused by spammers]
> I'd appreciate any help in diagnosing and stopping this (an RTFM would be
> fine).
I'm not really an expert on this, so I'll point you to a FM:
http://spam.abuse.net .
> I've reproduced a bit of suspicious log and one of the bounces below.
On Aug 6, Frank Barknecht wrote
> Yes, that's it. I linked perl500... with /usr/bin/perl right now and I am
> about to reboot to see if it works.
>
> Thank you all very much for the quick help. That's really great about
> Debian, wow.
>
> P.S.: Is this all worth a bug report or is this problem ob
[Frank, please keep your lines shorter than 80 characters.]
On Aug 6, Frank Barknecht wrote
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Very strange. Please provide the output of
> > ls -l /sbin/start-stop-daemon /usr/sbin/start-stopdaemon
On Aug 6, Frank Barknecht wrote
> After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem.
> Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like
> >-
> /etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory
> >-
start-stop-daemon
On Aug 5, Paul Miller wrote
> Is there a package of lynx compiled w/ slang 0.99.38 instead of .34? Or
> is there a way I can get both of them working together?
Sure you can. In the unstable tree, you'll find
slang0.99.34-0.99.38-2.6, slang0.99.34-dev-0.99.38-2.6,
slang0.99.38-0.99.38-2.6, slang0.
On Aug 1, Heiko Heijenga wrote
> Does the Debian system support Imake and xmkmf ? If yes, where to find it.
penguin ray 17:14 ~/dl> dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
xlib6-dev: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
> If no, where can I possibly find it, I'm searching all day and can't find
> squat.
You can use the "C
On Aug 1, Andreas Nolda wrote
> although I have added the line:
>
>ScrollLock Compose
>
> to /etc/X11/XF86Config, the scroll-lock key refuses to function as a
> compose key. Any ideas?
Maybe putting in "XkbDisable" will help.
Ray
--
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On Aug 1, Eduardo Goyanes wrote
> I was wondering what does "errno 2" mean when executing "startx"...this
> error is apparently holding me back from running XWindows.
"No such file or directory" (from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/errno.h), so
this doesn't help very much.
Does "dpkg --audit" compla
On Aug 1, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote
> Furthermore I always wondered why there is a limitation of 8 characters.
> Wouldn't it be a lot harder to crack passwords if only they were allowed
> to be a little longer?
Yes, but there are a lot of programs in use that assume 8 characters max.
For example, y
On Aug 1, Niklas Hoglund wrote
> Is it possible to burn joliet cdfs under linux? Or do I have to boot w95
> everytime?
A little search with www.dejanews.com (in "*linux*" groups on "joliet") came
up with kernel patches at
http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/joliet.html
It
[moved to debian-user, as the question originated there]
On Jul 30, Philippe Troin wrote
: This was posted to debian-user. We have to help this English magazine !
Don't get me wrong. I'd like to spread the word (and the code), but I think
there are quite a few problems with what is requested.
>
Daniel,
You're not providing us with enough information to work on.
On Jul 28, Daniel J. Mashao wrote
> Now the Xserver is mixed up
What do you mean? Does it dump core or not? Do you get an image or not? Does
it only work for some users? Do you get error messages? If so, which? Is
your /etc/X11
On Jul 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> Is there anyone who can help me choosing an international seller? I
> visited Debian's homepage and all the recommended CD manufacturers. I
> found a big difference on prices... why is that?
Some manufacturers, e.g. LSL and cheap*bytes, produce regular (silve
On Jul 22, Hamish Moffatt wrote
> I'm looking for a new newsreader, and was wondering if somebody
> can recommend one. Features I'd particularly like are;
> * PGP support,
> * URL extraction (then run Lynx, etc);
> * Mail aliases (ideally from the same file as my MUA).
>
> Actually I want so
On Jul 21, Remco van de Meent wrote
> On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Pilon wrote:
> : Is there someone using a Wyse60 terminal with Linux?, I set the TERM
> : enviroment variable to wy60 but some aplications report this error:
> : couldn't load tercap/terminfo entry, other aplication just doesn't run
> :
On Jul 11, Alexander Koch wrote
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Therefore, SSH and some other packages are only available from a set of
> > non-US sites, the "master" of which is
> > ftp://ftp.os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/
>
> Hmh. this is ftp://ftp.os.inf.tu-dresden
On Jul 11, Alexander Koch wrote
> Well, on debian-changes (one of them) there was an upload of ssh 1.2.20-3,
> can you guys please tell me where to find it?
>
> It is not in incoming on master... And I need it...
SSH uses crypto; if it were available from master, you (as a non-US citizen)
could r
On Jul 10, Laurent Bonnaud wrote
> > "Igor" == Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Igor>
> Igor> NO NO NO!! Don't try removing this package. It owns all of your
> device
> Igor> files. Removing it will leave your system in a completely unusable
> state.
> Igor> Just leave that pa
On Jul 9, David R. Kohel wrote
> I found mutt in unstable, but slang 0.99.38 is not available, giving a
> conflict.
S-lang 0.99.38 is still in master's Incoming (it's a non-maintainer release
by me; presumably it cannot be automatically processed (the FTP maintainer
is currently on holiday)).
>
On Jul 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT
> key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but
> isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't
> accomplish anything useful. This is an i38
On Jul 4, Alex Fan wrote
> Where can I find a Debian Distribution? Is it avilable on CDs or just
> from download?
Both. Download: see ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors ;
CDs: http://www.debian.org/vendors.html .
HTH,
Ray
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On Jul 5, Mark Phillips wrote
> I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 410CS laptop. I am having
> problems creating a XF86Config file which will work. It complains that
> there is no mode "800x600" or something like that. But in the setup I
> specified this as one of the modes. Any ideas?
On Jun 24, Peter S Galbraith wrote
> Another question: There are many upgrades to make to use a 2.1.X kernels.
> Are there Debian packages to do these upgrades? (I have an IDE/ATAPI
> PD-CD; I need 2.1.X if I ever want to see the PD side working.) --
The 2.1.X kernels come with a list (Documenta
On Jun 24, Markus Diesmann wrote
> I need to export a mail directory from a Debian system to SGI and SUN
> machines. A few applications expect a lock daemon lockd on the exporting
> system. I seems that there is no such daemon for debian,
>
> We found an old Linux version 0.4 '95 from Olaf Kirch
On Jun 23, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote
> Sudhakar
> PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this list.
Mutt doesn't know about this content-type, so I don't see it.
On Jun 24, Emilio Lopes wrote
> It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty
> ann
On Jun 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> David R Baker wrote:
> > I am a relatively new subscriber to this list. For the 1st week or two
> > it appeared to be archived once a day. It has now been more than a week
> > since the archives accessible through www.debian.org have been updated.
> > Is somet
On Jun 22, Holger Rusch wrote
> first:
> [$] > dpkg -l lesstif ddd
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ NameVersion
On Jun 19, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote
> I'm trying to print/view a pdf encrypted file without any success.
> I can read it with acroread but when I try to print, gs is not able to
> process it. Even if I try to save it to a file and then to use gv/gs to
> see, I can't. xpdf program failed
On Jun 18, Zachary DeAquila wrote
> The package elm-me+ that I got doesn't include /usr/bin/filter.
> Where'd it go?
As I recall, "filter" is dropped from elm proper (and thus probably from
elm-me+ too); the upstream elm maintainers recommend "procmail" instead
(which is more powerful (and secure?
On Jun 17, Alberto Ruiz wrote
> This is the first time that I use afterstep. When I run Netscape in fvwm,
> fvwm95, or almost every other wm, it works fine. But when I run it in
> afterstep I get the following message:
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
>
> I
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