Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-24 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Once in a while I need a file or two from the /debian/Incoming directory at master.debian.org. Since they only have a five user anonymous ftp limit it's very hard to access the site. Most of the time you can't get in. It would be great if several mirror sites additionally mirrored

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Alex == Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was some brief discussion of calling Debian 2.0 woody, after the main character of the movie, but we quickly realized the possible unwanted confusion that would result. An american, heh? It has some rather, ... umm.., unwholesome

/etc/rc[0-6].d directories missing in Debian 1.3.1

1997-07-24 Thread Sam Ockman
I just installed Debian 1.3.1, and spent several harrowing hours getting exactly the packages I want (working out dependancies, etc.) I was just about to celebrate, when bam, I realized there were no /etc/rc[0-6] directories I'm assuming they haven't been renamed (they are on my Debian 1.3

Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Paul == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul is there a way I can prevent users from looking at other user's Paul dirs and still have the public_html function of apache (v1.2.1)? Not trivially. The http server process runs as user www-data (for apache, boa runs as user nobody). In

Re: Boot order

1997-07-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, David M wrote: Hello folks, I have just added a master IDE drive (primary IDE) to my linux setup. Now it is trying to boot from it rather than my SCSI HDD (the one where Linux is). Can I change this? I had my drive setup as a slave b4 (without a master) and

Re: Boot order (2)

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? yup, i do just the same on my setup - i pretend to the bios that i dont have any ide disk, so that i can boot on my scsi drive. of course, this does not work for people who use a so-called operating system that depends on

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-24 Thread Lindsay Allen
This was covered in the list some time back. If you ldd /home/ftp/bin/ls it will tell you what version of libc it is linked against. elm# ldd ls libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000a000) Then ls -l /home/ftp/lib and see if you have the right version. elm# ll ../bin total 583

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Another criteria for code names - they should be short enough to be quick and easy to type, thus minimizing typos. IMNSHO hamm is at least one letter too long. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have 96M of RAM, I use swap space of about 3 times my RAM. The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more than 24 mb, while one with 97 mb probably doesn't need any. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-24 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
ON Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:26:54 -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello All, Once in a while I need a file or two from the /debian/Incoming directory at master.debian.org. Since they only have a five user anonymous ftp limit it's very hard to access the site. Most of the time you can't get in.

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread jghasler
How about Taurus, Accord, or Jetta? Do they mean anything about cars? No... They're just names of products. It's the same for Debian. I thought that the name of the current product was Debian 1.31. Not to mention that the codenames used in Debian are supposed to keep people away from

Re: Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-24 Thread Alex Romosan
ftp.cdrom.com mirrors master's Incoming. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit

How do you get the Spell Check in StarOffice to work?

1997-07-24 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I installed the StarOffice 3.1 tarballs on my brand new Debian 1.3.1 system and I can't get the spell check to work. I changed the line in the sd.sh file that said: LANG=us to LANG=en_US in case that has anything to do with it Everything else seem to work

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Well since this seems to be such a hot topic ;) I felt I should give my opinion. Well here it goes I think the current naming convention is fine. :-) Of course the symlinks *have* to be there to make things clear to everyone. And despite not being a developer I still love to know

Re: question...

1997-07-24 Thread Rafael Castillo Mejia
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Rafael Castillo Mejia wrote: hello all... well my question is: i want to settup my modem, but i can get that linux start my modem.. this one is on COM3 how do i do for settup my modem thank RAFEL CASTILLO MEJIA who know, what modem

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread jghasler
Robert D. Hilliard writes: Another criteria for code names - they should be short enough to be quick and easy to type, thus minimizing typos. IMNSHO hamm is at least one letter too long. Ah. Well, that's easy, then. Just call them a, b, c, -- John HaslerThis posting is

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-24 Thread Rob MacWilliams
anonymous ftp users can't see any directories.. they can change to them, but can see anything...??? I used the package defaults.. what could be wrong? -Paul Did you try the addftpuser script? I can't seem to find the docs on it right now, but I had a similar problem and this fixed it.

gzipped man pages

1997-07-24 Thread Adam Klein
I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as a bug? In the meantime, what should I do? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Shaleh
I agree that the 3x swap rule makes little sense on high end systems. A guru friend of mine explained it as if the kernel needs to swap out your memory it might have to swap the whole thing so you should plan for that. He believes you should use 1.5x your RAM on high end sytems ( = 32 MB). I

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Shaleh
Thanks for all the help -- this list has been great to me and many others. In the weeks to come I hope to be able to give my own time to helping others in this group. I need to get Debian running first ;-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

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1997-07-24 Thread Harald Helfgott
Hi! I have just installed my first Linux system on a Cyrix200-based computer, using Debian 1.3.1/1.3.2. I have now got it up and running -- except for the mouse and the modem. I have an internal 33.6 BOCA modem and a serial, two-button mouse with the Microsoft logo on it. The

Re: Apache + CGI

1997-07-24 Thread Leigh Koven
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jakob Borg wrote: Hi. I want to enable the users of my webserver to use certain CGI-scripts (provided by me) by using mod_include. To do that, one would use the tag !--#exec cgi=/cgi-bin/script --, but one could also use the !--exec cmd=dangerous.command --. That last

Problems with old shadow-passwd

1997-07-24 Thread Adam Shand
I installed the three shadow packages from experimental quite a while ago. I now find that when I try to upgrade them to the latest version of passwd that I get this message: # dpkg -i /debian/passwd_961025-2.deb dpkg: regarding /debian/passwd_961025-2.deb containing passwd: passwd conflicts

Re: Problems with old shadow-passwd

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 06:13 PM 7/24/97 +1300, Adam Shand wrote: And when I try and uninstall shadow-passwd it is of course a required package. Is there a nice way to overcome this which won't end up with duplicate packages installed? # dpkg -r shadow-passwd dpkg: error processing shadow-passwd (--remove): This is

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Robert == Robert D Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 96M of RAM, I use swap space of about 3 times my RAM. Robert The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly Robert illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more Robert than 24 mb, while one with 97

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-07-24 Thread Philippe Troin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.49 1997/07/24 06:02:41 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux from Sven Rudolph starting version

script

1997-07-24 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
How I can run some script on every day (clock 00:00) automatically? Mikko Väkiparta Ananda Communications Oy http://www.ananda.fi puh. 040 - 515 9899 fax. (09) 3489 629 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 09:27 AM 7/24/97 +0300, Mikko Väkiparta wrote: How I can run some script on every day (clock 00:00) automatically? Use Cron check the manpage for context see also crontab Cron wakes every minute and checks /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, /etc/cron.monthly and all user crontabs. the crontab

Boot problems after upgrade 1.2.x - 1.3.1

1997-07-24 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have upgraded my 1.2.x (kernel 2.0.30), to 1.3.1. I have used the old kernel and modules (2.0.30) the boot process is missing something Modules are not loaded correctly for examples vfat is not loaded ( because it fails to recognize and load fat before vfat ). two lpd processes are

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-24 Thread Dima
joost witteveen wrote: ... i.e., mount and cp arn't bash internals. But cat is, so that's why I suggested the use of cat ... (Somehow I was sure cp was a builtin) cat isn't listed in the docs as a builtin either; type cat says cat is /bin/cat. Just curious -- Dimitri if replying to a Usenet

Success: NIC 3C905-TX works!

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Dear friends, I finally got my NIC card and Linux happily married! ;) Well at least during the honeymoon (well I only tested pinging thus far! I hope I am not celebrating too soon... :-o Anyways it *is* a step forward!) I would like to thank everyone out there for their support. Without you

Re: mc.ext/deb files

1997-07-24 Thread Nils Naumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone have the setup to view deb files with mc (Midnight Commander) as it can with tar.gz, rpm, etc..? yes, you need the latest mc (4.0.4) or change the mc.ext in the following way: # deb regex/\.deb$ Open=%cd

Re: Adaptec 2940Ultra Wide PCI SCSI Host Adapter

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Plug and Play SCAM support -- The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices that support SCAM. Those that don't usually are not affected (except some older SCSI 1

Re: Boot order (2)

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Hello Lindsay, have you read my latest good news! :-] BTW thanks alot for all the help on the NIC problem. I really appreciate it :-) I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway. Yep I did it and it worked! :) Set to Only or Master - it will not work as a slave

Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-24 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 23 Jul, Paul Miller wrote: is there a way I can prevent users from looking at other user's dirs and still have the public_html function of apache (v1.2.1)? I think you can do this: If you have: drwxrwxr-x 6 elmarelmar1024 Jun 23 00:48 elmar (this is the homedir of user

Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-24 Thread Ingo Fischenich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make sure, that the permissions on the public_html are set to o+rx : drwxrwxr-x 2 elmarmartinb 1024 Jun 23 00:54 public_html You only need to set o+x for public_html with apache 1.2.1 ingo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-24 Thread Victor Torrico
Alex Romosan wrote: ftp.cdrom.com mirrors master's Incoming. --alex-- Thanks. I didn't realize that this mirror existed for master's Incoming. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: tetex install

1997-07-24 Thread Christoph Martin
R. Wayne McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, this is a problem with the old tex installation. Try this: cat /usr/sbin/install-fmt-base #!/bin/sh exit 0 ^D chmod +x /usr/sbin/install-fmt-base dpkg --purge --force-depends babel dpkg --purge --force-depends latex rm

dump error 8-(

1997-07-24 Thread Jörg Delker
Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda3 (/) to /dev/null DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II)

libreadlineg2

1997-07-24 Thread Paul Serice
The nifty search feature doesn't know where libreadlineg2 is, and neither do I. Would someone mind letting me know where to look? Also, I'm curious about the trailing g. What should it be telling me? Thanks Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 23, Robert D. Hilliard wrote The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more than 24 mb, while one with 97 mb probably doesn't need any. IMHO, if you *need* swap space greater than two times your physical

Installing tetex-extra, and a mysterious error message

1997-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Hi! I'm running Debian 1.2 with some 1.3 packages. One of these bo packages is teTeX. I installed all the other tetex packages just fine -- not counting the hours-long search for old TeX packages [sic]. tetex-extra gives me something unusual. Here's a transcript: Script started on Wed Jul 23

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I thought that the name of the current product was Debian 1.31. No. The name of the current product is bo. It is also known as Debian 1.3.1 (there is no such thing as Debian 1.31). It's like my name is Antti-Juhani, but some people have the (irritating) habit

pgp package?

1997-07-24 Thread Paul McDermott
hi folks, I am trying to install pine-pgp package and it depends on the package pgp. Does anyone know where it is? I have looked in contrib, stable, non-free, unstable, hamm. Can some one help me please. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: pgp package?

1997-07-24 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Paul McDermott wrote: hi folks, I am trying to install pine-pgp package and it depends on the package pgp. Does anyone know where it is? I have looked in contrib, stable, non-free, unstable, hamm. Can some one help me please. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread Dave Restall
Hi, firstly :- Sorry about perpetuating this thread. Secondly :- Thanks for a well cool system to all the people who made it possible whatever the name is :-) I have yet to hear a developer say they are confused. In fact, this is the first time I have heard *anyone* say they are

Re: libreadlineg2

1997-07-24 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Paul Serice wrote: The nifty search feature doesn't know where libreadlineg2 is, and neither do I. Would someone mind letting me know where to look? Also, I'm curious about the trailing g. What should it be telling me? That it's for 'g'libc. Shaya -- TO

Re: Harddrive/IDE channel error

1997-07-24 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: I've got a fully pnp system, with a seagate 2.1 gig drive and a Creative Labs CD420 cd drive on the first ide (ide0) channel. I've been letting the bios auto-detect everything (what's a pnp bios for, anyway ... :) ), and sometimes, at seemingly random

Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Hi again, Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted! Now just as I get to the lilo prompt all I get is 01 01 01 01

Re: mc

1997-07-24 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (tyc) writes: My Midnigth Commander don't work well. F1,F2,F3, and F4 don't make their functions. Why? What can i do to solve this problem in my spanish keyboard I suppose you run Debian-1.3.1 with XFree86-3.3!? If this is the case then you have to manually replace the

question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread James D. Freels
I was notified this morning about the recent CIAC security announcment on ld.so. I went to my Debian mirror and found that the fix was already available under bo-updates directory. I *thought* that since my system was up to date [i.e., v 1.3.1 + ] that I probably already had the fix

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: even. I had posted about the Enlightemment WM -- is no one using it? I have seen very few responses. Any other nice WM's out there? My only (minimal) experience is with fvwm a year and a half ago on Slackware 2.0. Re: the swap question, I've got 64 MB

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: [1] I've recently started using HP 2 gig Fast SCSI-2 disks. This box has the C3325A in it. Runs nice and cool at 5400 RPM. Much better than the Barracuda I used to have (before it melted in my case with two huge fans).. You can fry eggs on

Re: libreadlineg2

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Paul Serice wrote: The nifty search feature doesn't know where libreadlineg2 is, and neither do I. Would someone mind letting me know where to look? Also, I'm curious about the trailing g. What should it be telling me?

Re: Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
We are not currently mirroring master due to the 5 user limit and the fact that we are not an official mirror site. Lately I cannot get in to master, no matter what the time. So we are mirroring ftp.debian.org again, which I'm not totally happy with as it's sometimes behind - but it's that or

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: :On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: : : [1] I've recently started using HP 2 gig Fast SCSI-2 disks. This box has : the C3325A in it. Runs nice and cool at 5400 RPM. Much better than the : Barracuda I used to have (before it melted in my case

Re: Harddrive/IDE channel error

1997-07-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady Seekcomplete DataRequest} hda: drive not ready for command ide0: reset: success I suggest that your try adding the folowing to your /etc/lilo.conf file, then rerun lilo: append = ide0=noautotune

Question on libc5 5.4.33-5

1997-07-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am trynig to upgrade my libc5 to 5.4.33-5 from unstable When I do dpkg it tries to replace libc5-dev with libc5-altdev . However stuff dependes on libc5-dev and dpkg doesn't know that libc5-altdev contains the same stuff as libc5-dev . So it crushes I tried to remove anything that

Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread Randy Edwards
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, James D. Freels wrote: do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it by hand? I've wondered about what exactly bo-updates is too, along with if/when/how one should install

Printer Daemon takes too long to load at boot.

1997-07-24 Thread trilenol
at boot the printer daemon always takes too long to load is there anyway to fix this, i am using debian 1.3 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sound under Debian

1997-07-24 Thread simons
Just to let you know that I (finally) got my 'SB16 plug play' soundcard working under debian. I basically followed what was suggested by Will -- make menuconfig Plugged in the IRQ parameters and stuff which I previously obtained from my Window$95 partition. I must admit that I am still not

Adaptec 1505

1997-07-24 Thread Sergey Avvakumov
Hi We have a DellDimensionXPSPro200n in the lab and it's running Debian 1.2 . It's an EIDE computer, but we need to connect Exabyte 8500 tapedrive to it and I was looking for some not-expensive SCSI adapter on pricewatch.com. I've found that I can get Adaptec 1505 for just $40. It's listed

Re: sound under Debian

1997-07-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to let you know that I (finally) got my 'SB16 plug play' soundcard working under debian. I only was asked for one range ?). Probably nothing to worry about since my CD's play fine. Actually, that's not necessarily an indication that

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Dave == Dave Restall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave This is essentially the point. As an end user I find the names Dave confusing. It would help me as an end user if instead of Dave posters saying :- Dave I'm using package XYZ from bilbo(or whatever the codename of Dave the release is) and

Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread Igor Grobman
I was notified this morning about the recent CIAC security announcment on ld.so. I went to my Debian mirror and found that the fix was already available under bo-updates directory. I *thought* that since my system was up to date [i.e., v 1.3.1 + ] that I probably already had the fix

Re: Adaptec 2940Ultra Wide PCI SCSI Host Adapter

1997-07-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, David M wrote: Plug and Play SCAM support -- The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices that support SCAM. Those that don't usually are

Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Even if the users home directory is o-rw, and the public_html directory is o+rx, any other user can still read the files in the public_html directory. (try it) manoj -- The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace. Holly Near Manoj Srivastava

Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:49:15 -0400, Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The packages in bo-updates are there for testing by everyone, namely the testing group, [...] I'd be glad to help test these packages, but downloading and installing them by hand is a hassle (mainly given that I don't

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread jghasler
Antti-Juhani writes: No. The name of the current product is bo. Then why is it not being labeled and advertised as such? If stable pointed to unreleased, it would make people confused. Why would casual visitors ever notice that stable and internal-1.3.1 point to the same directory? Let's

Re: gzipped man pages

1997-07-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Adam Klein wrote: I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as a

Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-24 Thread Pure Energy
On 24 Jul 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Even if the users home directory is o-rw, and the public_html directory is o+rx, any other user can still read the files in the public_html directory. (try it) manoj Ok this is how i have things setup.. No one can see in my

Re: Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, David M wrote: Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted!

Re: Question on libc5 5.4.33-5

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: I am trynig to upgrade my libc5 to 5.4.33-5 from unstable When I do dpkg it tries to replace libc5-dev with libc5-altdev . However stuff dependes on libc5-dev and dpkg doesn't know that libc5-altdev contains the

turning off less's visual beep?

1997-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
I've upgraded to less 332-1 and now it has a visual beep. I think it used to have an audible beep. How can I get the audible beep back? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: gzipped man pages

1997-07-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as a bug? In the meantime, what should I do?

debian dpkg problem

1997-07-24 Thread Ching-Chuan Chiang\(¦¿²M¬u\)
Hi: My disk space is full while I am installing packages by using dpkg -i package.deb. Then, I cannot access my original status, that is, dpkg -l shows nothing. The disk full is due to the log file created by configurating package. After I delete the log file to get back my disk space, the

Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread Todd Harper
do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it by hand? I've wondered about what exactly bo-updates is too, along with if/when/how one should install these packages and/or integrate them into

Alessandro Barbieri nfsroot

1997-07-24 Thread joost witteveen
Alessandro Barbieri , Your email system is severely misconfigured (Actually, I think that that's part of why you have problems with nfsroot, but see later). As I didn't want to waist those good 8 minutes I spent chewing up an answer to your email, I'm now sending it to debian-user. I've already

Re: dump error 8-(

1997-07-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:48:35 BST =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Delker?= ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping

Re: /etc/rc[0-6].d directories missing in Debian 1.3.1

1997-07-24 Thread Sam Ockman
I found the rc directories in /var/backup along with the file rc.symlink there. I put them back where they belong. It still seems important that we figure out what caused this (maybe this belongs in Debian developer...I can never tell...) Anyways, another file that was in /var/backup was

Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-24 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 24 Jul, Pure Energy wrote: Having thing set with these perms keeps local users from looking at your things yes but keep in mind that a local user can look at your url, know fairly well that there is an index.html, index.htm or index.shtml there. even with these permissions they can

dump error 8-(

1997-07-24 Thread Norris Preyer
Jorg == =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg Delker?= iso-8859-1 writes: Jorg Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a Jorg mystirious dump error: Jorg - mfg Joerg Delker/2 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jorg [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP publickey available on Jorg demand) Are you

Re: dump error 8-(

1997-07-24 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Norris Preyer wrote: Jorg == =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg Delker?= iso-8859-1 writes: Jorg Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a Jorg mystirious dump error: Are you using e2fsprogs 1.10-4? I got weird errors with dump when I upgraded from

modem

1997-07-24 Thread larry ives
I have just installed Debian off of disks. During installation I did set up the basic loopback for my network even though my machine is not on a network. I want to get my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can install some Debian packages off of the ftp site. I can't seem to get my modem to dial

dns in an LAN?

1997-07-24 Thread tyc
Hi I have an debian linux box as server in an local area network, where all clientes machines are in Windows. I have not an DNS server, thus all IP/name translations are doing through the /etc/host file that I have in every machine. I want install an DNS server in my linux box to avoid

Install Instructions

1997-07-24 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I recently obtained a copy of Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a CD, however there were no instructions accompanying it and I looked in the Debian website for instructions for a CD installation. Could someone please send me some instructions on how to begin the installation. Do I still need the floppy

Re: dns in an LAN?

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 10:33 PM 7/24/97 +0200, you wrote: I just intalled the bind pakage,answer the cuestions it made me in the installation, but how can I say it the IP address and names of the network machines? Check out the DNS Howto at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html I just setup my on domain

Re: modem

1997-07-24 Thread Ben Gertzfield
larry == larry ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: larry I have just installed Debian off of disks. During larry installation I did set up the basic loopback for my network larry even though my machine is not on a network. I want to get larry my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can

Re: modem

1997-07-24 Thread Kevin Traas
I want to get my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can install some Debian packages off of the ftp site. I can't seem to get my modem to dial out. I'm using the ppp.chatscript with the appropriate modifications but my log says that the chat script is failing. I can't even hear my modem make an

Re: lprng and Get_local_host: hostname 'xxxx' bad

1997-07-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On %M %N, Richard Morin wrote Hi folks, I'm receiving the following error when I try to do anything with lprng. I did have a working printer setup for awhile, but in one of the upgrades (I track unstable) something has gone amiss. Get_local_host: hostname 'joanrich' bad I have a friend

Re: Install Instructions

1997-07-24 Thread Ben Gertzfield
PATRICK == PATRICK DAHIROC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PATRICK Hi I recently obtained a copy of Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a PATRICK CD, however there were no instructions accompanying it PATRICK and I looked in the Debian website for instructions for a PATRICK CD installation. Could

Any compilers in Debian?

1997-07-24 Thread NewtronBoy
Hello, Are there any compilers for various languages such as C/C++, Java, Ada, LISP, and Perl? Thanks for your time. Joseph Kulakowski -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

KDE install for Debian

1997-07-24 Thread Miguel A. Figueroa
Hi gang, Well first let me start by saying I love what I see so far (so much that I am trying to figure out ways in contributing, ie Mirror Site, codeing as soon as I learn more about Qt etc.). I have two identical machines. One with Redhat linux and the other with Debian. I downloaded the

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-24 Thread joost witteveen
joost witteveen wrote: ... i.e., mount and cp arn't bash internals. But cat is, so that's why I suggested the use of cat ... (Somehow I was sure cp was a builtin) cat isn't listed in the docs as a builtin either; type cat says cat is /bin/cat. Hey, you're right. I am rather sure that

Re: turning off less's visual beep?

1997-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
joost witteveen wrote: As a data-point: I've got a audible bell here, and I've got less 332-1. (Still, I don't here anything usually, as I've got XTerm setup to translate all bells into visual bells. But if I switch that off, I can heare it loud and clear). Aha, I had set less to use -q at

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread jghasler
manoj writes: I, on behalf of the Debian developers, apologize for the inconvenience caused. Thank you for admitting that the inconvenience exists. Perhaps the developers could make an effort to avoid using the names outside the developer list? It's not clear to me that anyone but the site