Depmod and joystick problems

1997-06-29 Thread Johannes Martinez
I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem reading ELF header saying no such file or directory, doesn't tell me what it is

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-29 Thread Graham C. Hughes
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Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-29 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
Hi all Hi regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-29 Thread Carey Evans
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] What tcsh has is powerful command completion, which I believeDebian doesn't setup by default. For example, one could program tcsh such that it knew all the options to the `dpkg' command. zsh has this too, but it uses sh syntax. There's

Re: Depmod and joystick problems

1997-06-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem reading ELF header saying no such

Re: cron.daily : when does it run?

1997-06-29 Thread W Paul Mills
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) /etc/crontab http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills

Re: DOS partition with linux

1997-06-29 Thread Britton
I created the following partitions on my PC with debian: linux, linux swap space, and DOS 16bit 32MB on my PC. I made the DOS partition the bootable one. Linux seemed to have continued to install correctly. When I rebooted the computer, the computer did not start into eithe. How do

USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-29 Thread Britton
I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However, every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for about 30-200+ seconds. It did on each of these last two lines *scream*. Same thing under Win95. I know this is not my server is is very fast from a

Dselect won't download

1997-06-29 Thread Mike Orr
Now that contrib and non-free have moved inside the distributions, I can no longer access them via dselect. What stupid thing am I doing wrong? I'm trying to get unstable's main, contrib and non-free areas. I tried both dpkg 1.4.0.8 in stable and 1.4.0.17 in unstable, combined with dpkg-ftp

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, System Account wrote: regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But

libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable

1997-06-29 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. 2. Have tried to install chimera2 but the install fails on postinst with a message about

fvwm95 taskbar

1997-06-29 Thread Victor Torrico
Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar. How does one get a taskbar after installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95? Cheers, Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-29 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote: I have heard that this is a problem with USR Sportsters and that there is an init string type fix. This isn't a fix. USR still has the problem, the symptoms of which are exactly as you describe. The init string fix is more of a kludgy work-around that

fetchmail problem ...

1997-06-29 Thread Richard G. Roberto
OK, actually fetchmail sucks. Is there any chance of getting the original popclient program back? I realize fetchmail is more suave and sophisticated, but it doesn't deliver my mail! I had a very simple command line working with popclient that gags under the fetchmail link because fetchmail wont

Update on can't Install any deb's

1997-06-29 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
Hello fellow Debian users I found the problem as to why I get 'empty filename' and the database that is read. its the /var/lib/dpkg/info where thats the info on all deb's I think So what I have since done is move the offending files out of there.:-) but of course that got me only thourgh

Re: libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable

1997-06-29 Thread Mark Baker
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: 1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. You need to have first installed a

Re: Dselect won't download

1997-06-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
The new archive structure is completely unknown to any current versions of dselect. As a result, when dselect asks its first question (where is the standard archive), the correct answer is none. After that you can supply the complete path for each of the three sections of the distribution for each

Re: SCSI times out with Jaz drive

1997-06-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Martin Brundage wrote: When I do a recursive copy of a large number of files to an IDE drive my AHA-2940 times out occasionally, although it seems to always recover and finish the copy. I am using stock 2.0.27 kernel with all SCSI options (except tape support) compiled into

Re: fetchmail problem ...

1997-06-29 Thread jghasler
fetchmail gets called out of ipup as root: fetchmail -v -k 21 /tmp/pop.out which does seem to read the mailbox correctly, exits with a zero return code, but never delivers mail!! Furthermore, I can't seem to get any output from deliver. You must give fetchmail a -m option to tell it to

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-29 Thread Kevin Traas
I have heard that this is a problem with USR Sportsters and that there is an init string type fix. This isn't a fix. USR still has the problem, the symptoms of which are exactly as you describe. The init string fix is more of a kludgy work-around that helps the problem in some/many

Majordomo anonymous ftp

1997-06-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
1- Does a package exist for the Majordomo mailing list handler? Or do I install it from scratch? The installed /etc/passwd file has an entry for Majordomo, yet I can't find this package using the www.debian.org search engine. 2- There's no anonymous ftp account on a Debian

Re: Majordomo anonymous ftp

1997-06-29 Thread Kevin Traas
1- Does a package exist for the Majordomo mailing list handler? Or do I install it from scratch? The installed /etc/passwd file has an entry for Majordomo, yet I can't find this package using the www.debian.org search engine. It's under non-free. Or, it might be contrib... I

Re: fvwm95 taskbar

1997-06-29 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar. How does one get a taskbar after installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95? i had the same problem. You can check that -10.deb is

RE: dosemu comes w/o conf file

1997-06-29 Thread Paul Rightley
The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler. The problem is that dselect only removes packages - it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dselect and remove and then successfully install dosemu. This is analogous

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-29 Thread System Account
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hi all Hi regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-29 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
Please do not Cc: to my e-mail address. I will only get the same message twice. On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:50:25 -0400 (EDT) , System Account wrote: Ok this is what i have setup right now ***/etc/passwd*** miller:passwd:5000:5000:Miller:/ftp/./web/miller:/bin/true the /bin/true is in

Re: fvwm95 taskbar

1997-06-29 Thread Victor Torrico
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar. How does one get a taskbar after installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95? i had the same problem.

Re: Switching IP aliases

1997-06-29 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: Richard, Would it fix things if you were to ping a non-existant host, thus causing a broadcast from your box? Maybe ping to various subnets as required? Good idea. I now have two debian linux machines passing an IP alias between them. I get the

Re: rsh authentication ...

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Richard == Richard G Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I have (after some frustration with explicit entries, as Richard well as ALL: ALL) removed hosts.deny and hosts.allow on Richard both machines. The solution is to ditch `inetd' and tcpwrappers, and install `xinetd'.

My inbox is read only.

1997-06-29 Thread Shaya Potter
Somehow my inbox became read only, when I start pine, it says something about can't removing the mailbox lock file, but I can't find any lockfile. How could I have messed this up, I didn't do anything really except add an account which also has this problem. TIA, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Too many open files: ulimits

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Marcelo == Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the Marcelo Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of Marcelo where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel Marcelo since it's not logged

Re: My inbox is read only.

1997-06-29 Thread Shaya Potter
Figured it out, somehow my /tmp became unreadable. That's fixed now. Shaya On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: Somehow my inbox became read only, when I start pine, it says something about can't removing the mailbox lock file, but I can't find any lockfile. How could I have messed

Re: xemacs with auctex

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Mario == Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (require 'tex-site) Mario ^^^ nothing seems to happen with this :( The autoloading isn't working right, I think. You might try reporting it on news:comp.emacs.xemacs. Try: (load-library latex) for the