Dear all,
Because I needed some organisation in my mail (yes, if only in mail...), I
tried to install the mailagent_3.44-6.deb. This gave me a few problems, of
which I seem to have solved most. The binary file was:
-rwx-- 1 root root 524307 Aug 29 12:40 /usr/bin/mailagent
so I
Me:
It's complaining that it can't find the interpreter for the
pre-installation script in the perl package.
From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which interpreter? When I run dpkg -I on the perl package I see only
#!/bin/sh scripts. And if it's missing (whatever it is) then what should
I
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
jworthingtonMy ISP is worldnet.att.net. They use a PPP connection protocol
jworthingtondeveloped by Shiva. I'm not sure whether it uses PAP or CHAP. I
jworthingtonnormally access using the windows 95 dialer by
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Marek Duszynski wrote:
m.duszynskiCan anybody send me some example /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down
m.duszynskiwith short discription of what they do please ?
ppp-up/down is just a shell script that are being executed when pppd connects
Does anyone know if a linux driver exists for the D-Link DE-220P
ethernet card? This is not the device that connects through a
parallel port but rather a 16-bit ISA plug-n-play internal board.
I've looked for information and for files (presumably named
something like de-220 or de220) on my Debian
I recently tried Xemacs for the first time from the rex directory tree.
While for the most part I like it better than regular Emacs, I can't seem
to get the command-line switch -f to work. Under Emacs, I would do:
emacs -f auto-fill-mode filename
to start in auto fill mode. The same thing in
David Do I have to completely remove TeX and then reinstall it?
Just downgrade to mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from the stable aka buzz-fixed release. It
contains a manfnt.mf so that TeX builds. dpkg --configure babel should then
set babel straight.
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Dirk Eddelbuttel
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Vadik V. Vygonets wrote:
vadikCrazy -- yes, hacker -- not yet :)
don't beleave him!
vadikBorik you promised me RedHat fortune ;)
fortune
(RedHat)
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Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For pgp public key, e-mail me
with subject get
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Simon Martin wrote:
smartinWhilst trying to install tk40 I get a dependency error on elf-x11r6lib.
smartinI've checked the Debian Web and ftp sites and haven't been able to find
it.
smartinCan anyone tell me where to access this file?
Bruce Perens writes:
The libg++ doesn't compile with the ELF libc. That's why it's in that
state. I'm not sure what's happening with this - whether there is a
maintainer working on it or if we're just going to wait for GNU LIBC 6.
What do you mean? libg++27-2.7.1-2 builds fine for me with
Simon Martin writes:
Whilst trying to install tk40 I get a dependency error on elf-x11r6lib.
I've checked the Debian Web and ftp sites and haven't been able to find it.
Can anyone tell me where to access this file?
'elf-x11r6lib' is provided by the xlib package.
David
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David Engel
Put this file in /var/spool/texmf/fonts/tfm, this should fix the problem.
I had the same problem, the package developer mailed me this file.
Hope this helps,
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, David Morris wrote:
Last week I tried to remove and then reinstall
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
bcwhiteDon't do this!!! I tried this fix for netscape and it causes problems
bcwhitewith 'man'. It search X11, X11R6 and X386 directories for man pages so
bcwhiteif you create a link like this, it will find all of
Jean Orloff sent this script
Another Very Useful Bonus (also thanks to Lukas Nellen): in /etc/ppp/ip-up
#!/bin/sh
#
# IP is up now...
#
interface=$1
device=$2
speed=$3
local_ip=$4
remote_ip=$5
# let's use this
David L. Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I was very unhappy to see this nice explanation ignore the
: perils of IP routing between the ISP and internal networks.
: Does anyone suppose its original source could be located so
: at least a paragraph could be inserted warning of the danger
: and
you might try adding an -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the CFLAGS line of the
Makeflag (or unlesss you don't use one on the gcc line.
I also had this sort of trouble a long time ago. Which compiler version
and binutils are you using?
It's better to run this command from /usr:
ln -s X11R6 X11
dselect should have shown you that the xlib package now provides
elf-x11r6lib.
Steve I like Bruce Perens's idea of splitting up the mailing
Steve list because, even if I did have a mail filter (which I assume
Steve parses the subject line),
Wrong assumption. Install the procmail package and see that it can parse
_anything_ from mail-header fields to actual mail
I'm still looking for a driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+. As I have a
Cogent EM960 that LIMPS along [frequently locking up the system under heavy
load], I am quite willing to cobble together a driver-- but know next to
nothing about enet drivers [yeah, I can almost hear the
Boris Beletsky writes:
listsadd in /etc/conf.modules:
listsalias char-major-10 misc
how about :
alias char-major-10 off ?
cause i realy don't have non serial mice
Yes, you should set all modules to off that get requested despite not being
available.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Bernd Eckenfels writes:
Therefore there is one alias needed:
alias char-major-10 misc
Each single device with major 10 will be requested from kerneld with:
char-major-10-%d, therefore the following aliases are needed in addition:
alias char-major-10-0 busmouse
alias char-major-10-1
I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back
and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally
compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this:
Error: The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0
This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13.
Hi,
It just occured to me that any evil intentioned or mad maintainer could add
rm -rf /
or anything of this sort in a postinst script.
I just would like to know what kind of protection debian could offer against
such an unpleasant event. I am sure Bruce cannot afford to be very picky in
It just occured to me that any evil intentioned or mad maintainer could add
rm -rf /
or anything of this sort in a postinst script.
Yes. Or hide stuff in the binaries. You need root permissions to install
stuff in /bin etc.
I just would like to know what kind of protection debian could
It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the
apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked
it up and if there is a 1.1 version.
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Bernard LeachLa Trobe Uni Melbourne Australia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~leachbj/
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
|From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| In order to test a local copy of buzz-fixed before burning it on a
| CD-ROM, we tried to run dpkg --root=... --unpack, just to see if the
| files aren't corrupted.
|[...]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bernard Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the
apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked
it up and if there is a 1.1 version.
According to debian/indices/Maintainers as available on Debian FTP
Hi Jean --
There are (at least) 3 counterarguments to the concern that Debian
maintainers could maliciously add dangerous commands to their
{pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts:
-- the same package system which is open to many for development is
equally open to many for testing.
-- by having both
Bernard Leach wrote:
It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the
apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked
it up and if there is a 1.1 version.
Hi Bernard,
you may want to know, that the package version 1.0.5-1 gives me
on an ordinary machine, ordinary
I am trying to locate a current set of packages that would
upgrade a 1.1.7 system to use shadow passwords.
Could anyone point out where I might find the required
packages?
Also what is the Debian standpoint on shadow passwords?
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Bernard LeachLa Trobe Uni Melbourne
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
It just occured to me that any evil intentioned or mad maintainer could add
rm -rf /
or anything of this sort in a postinst script.
Yes. Or hide stuff in the binaries. You need root permissions to install
stuff in /bin etc.
I just would
I did a level 0 dump of a partition into another with the command
dump u0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
Now I want to do a level 9 update, so that only what was changed since
the level 0 dump is upgraded. I tried
dump uf - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
but I get lots of
warning: cannot create
I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a
directory from the search. I tried
cd /scratch find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o -print
but it doesn't work. Any clues?
Carlos
Hi,
maybe somebody could clue me in how to get this to work:
Until recently, I just rolled my own kernel as I was used to do
with Slackware. But since I found out about make-kpkg, I decided
to do things the Debian way and use that instead. After much hassle
wit the broken tar (solved by
Could someone, preferably the kernel maintainer, tell me
what the debian specific changes are to the kernel and
module architecture compared to say, slackware or redhat?
Firstly, the debian-kernel-image 2.0.6 provided on the ftp
sites is broken, even though in the stable tree. When I
install it,
Hello,
I am trying to install Debian Linux with the 2.0.0 kernel. I am getting
the following error.
aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done
NCR53c4060: no available ports found
aic7xxx: (aic7xxx-isr) Encountered spurious interrupt.
aic7xxx: (aic7xxx-isr) BRKADRINT error(0x1):
Hello,
I was trying to test the boot process of Debian 1.1.8, which kept
failing in the stage of unpacking the bases diskettes.
The system is:
80486 DX2/66
16Mb memory
AHA1542CF ISA scsi controller
PCI motherboard
Disks:
IDE - Western Digital 600Mb
SCSI - a very old, very slow HP SCSI-1 disk
I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back
and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally
compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this:
Error:The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0
This kernel(mine) is
Does anyone know if a linux driver exists for the D-Link DE-220P
ethernet card? This is not the device that connects through a
parallel port but rather a 16-bit ISA plug-n-play internal board.
I've looked for information and for files (presumably named
something like de-220 or de220) on my
From: Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It just occured to me that any evil intentioned or mad maintainer could add
rm -rf /
or anything of this sort in a postinst script.
I just would like to know what kind of protection debian could offer against
such an unpleasant event. I am sure Bruce
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Stoyan Kenderov wrote:
you may want to know, that the package version 1.0.5-1 gives me
on an ordinary machine, ordinary setup a lot of oops
What kernel are you using? I know there is a bad kernel which causes
apache to have big problems. I think it is 2.0.15 but don't
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