Frozen Upgrade Troubles

1997-04-18 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, I'm upgrading 1.2.x to Frozen. Here's a log of some trouble I had, in case anyone's interested: * I had to rename 'unstable' to 'frozen' in the packages list for any of the files to be found. * The group permissions on /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2 are '6000' (not in /etc/group). * fvwm2 blew away

Re: vi

1997-04-18 Thread Carey Evans
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] (defun open-paren () (interactive nil) (insert ()) (global-set-key [f5] 'open-paren) I'm sure there are even better ways to do this... You mean something like (global-set-key [f5] ()? -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Homer has the ppp blues :-(

1997-04-18 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Mark Phillips wrote: As I already explained, pppd has a nasty habit of thinking the link is dead when it isn't really. With the old setup, the persist option simply told pppd to renegotiate handshaking with the ppp process at the other end.

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:34:16 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ishkill.ibm.com) wrote: What would be the best way to mount a floppy drive and have it readable and/or writable by ONLY 2 users ? I notice that after I mount the floppy I can't change the mode to have it readable by a group.

What do I do: forwarded message from Cron Daemon

1997-04-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I've been getting this from cron every day. What is wrong, and how do I fix it? TIA ---BeginMessage--- shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories ---End Message--- -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland,

Dependencies

1997-04-18 Thread David/Bill Benjamin
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Britton wrote: I'm sorry to be dogmatic, but I'm going to say one more time that I like things the way they are. If something depends on seperately maintained library xyz it is not good but *GREAT* to know about it from the start. The dependency structure sends this

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-18 Thread wb2oyc
On 14:30:40 Leslie Mikesell wrote: One more idea to throw in the pot: How about including smbfs in the base kernel and allowing installation from a Win95 or NT share? Almost every office is going to have one of those around where you can share out a CDROM with a couple of mouse clicks. You

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Mark Phillips
Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages for things that depend on them. AFAIR Debian came with NTeX before. I seem to

Re: Linux Help Needed.

1997-04-18 Thread Britton
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote: Hi there !!! I installed Linux in my system but i can't run dselect to install all the packages. Please help me what to write when dselect asks me for the locations and some blocks, what I have to type there. I have Pentium Pro (686) with to HD

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Raymond A. Ingles) writes: CONS: Cannnot use the Debianized package without dpkg. Difficult to unDebianize. Actually you can do this without any Debian specific tools. GNU ar should be included in any major Linux distribution.

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes: I'd think the info-zip package would have been a better choice since you can extract individual elements without uncomressing the whole mess and you wouldn't need two layers of archiving. I use the Midnight

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 15, Dale Scheetz wrote Isn't this already available with get_selections and set_selections? Yeah, but only 'oldtimers' know about that. I'd be nice if it could be integrated in a more user-friendly way into dselect 2. Something like: Select Packages - Full list (provides collapsible

Fatal Error Message During My Linux 1.2 Installation

1997-04-18 Thread David Melody Bohn
Aloooha, Why do I keep getting a Fatal Error: Cannot seek on disk drive message during the Partition The Hard Drive portion of the installation of Debian version 1.2. When I View the Partition Table this is the configuration of my Pentium200: /dev/hda1 * 1 1 508 2048224 +

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 17, Philippe Troin wrote Here it is: man mount. Explained a little further: add a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007 Now everyone can mount and umount the floppy, but only the users belonging to group floppy (GID 25) will

Emacs keys differences between console and X

1997-04-18 Thread Richard Sharman
Andreas Tille writes: I've done some key bindings in my .emacs (more detailed in an *.el file called from .emacs but this is not the point): (global-set-key [C-left] 'backward-word) (global-set-key [C-right] 'forward-word) (global-set-key [C-prior]

Re: Homer has the ppp blues :-(

1997-04-18 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: You might want to play with DTR/DCD settings. I haven't had a problem like this before but it sounds like the modem is dropping DTR which, if I remember correctly, instructs the software that the data terminal is ready. I believe there is a modem command

Re: Frozen Upgrade Troubles

1997-04-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Pete Harlan writes: * fvwm2 blew away my /etc/X11/fvwm2 configuration files with empty ones, without asking or warning me. My menus are all scrogged. It keeps changing my fixes when I reboot too, I think. Grrr. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg

Re: Ping o' Death is killing pppd on my router.....

1997-04-18 Thread Carey Evans
Jason Costomiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure, I could do that, but suppose pppd changes the order in which it passes parameters with the next pppd upgrade... I'll still be running, if I used $4, and didn't know about the change, I'd be dead. If pppd changes the order of its parameters

talk

1997-04-18 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, I have a problem with talk command in linux. when i type a message and press enter, the whole line i type is removed! instead of moving down to the next line. I am in the console by the way... What is wrong, my termcap? Thank you in advance for any help... regards,

Re: vi

1997-04-18 Thread Rob Browning
Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure there are even better ways to do this... You mean something like (global-set-key [f5] ()? Exactly : -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Man page format trashed.

1997-04-18 Thread R. Chris Ross
I tried to look at the man page for FTP using xman and the format got all blown out of shape. I think that it happened when the page was formatted the first time and now I keep looking at an incorrectly formatted page. If the formatted file is gotten rid of then I'll be back in

Ethernet performance.

1997-04-18 Thread R. Chris Ross
I am quite new at the world of IP networks and have been doing some testing on a Debian 1.2 system and Free BSD. Last night I ran a test as described in one of the ethernet FAQs by running FTP on a file that was ~2.5Meg the rate came out at 1.09M/sec. From what I can tell this is quite

Is there an xterm for windows or win95.

1997-04-18 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have been looking for a xterminal that could be used on windows 3.1 or win95 to operate with XFree86. Does such a thing exist? My shop is primarily DOS based and such a thing would make my life much easier. After talking to a friend from digital, he says that they have an

Compaq Smart Array Controller

1997-04-18 Thread Thomas Harrington
I need to put a UNIX on a Compaq Proliant 800. I use Debian 1.2 at home love it, but I have a question about hardware compatibility. Has any installed Debian on a Compaq server with a SMART2/P Array Controler? Please E-Mail replies to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Harrington Las Vegas-Clark

ongoing drama: nis problems

1997-04-18 Thread Michael J Devine
Through the diligent efforts of this support list, I have nearly conquered the nis problem... almost. I have the two machines (server and client) talking, but only insofar as sharing a password file. The user can't access his/her files if s/he logs in on the client machine... Any ideas? Thanks

Re: Compaq Smart Array Controller

1997-04-18 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:07:27 -0700, Thomas Harrington wrote: I need to put a UNIX on a Compaq Proliant 800. I use Debian 1.2 at home love it, but I have a question about hardware compatibility. Has any installed Debian on a Compaq server with a SMART2/P Array Controler? Who makes it and what

Debian Package Finder

1997-04-18 Thread Adam Shand
Hi Joe Skinner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) have written a debian package finder. It is *very* simple but it works. If people think that this would be usefull (this was written because I was so upset at the last one dissappearing) feel free to use it. It is in NZ so it won't be blinding but it does seem

Debian Package Finder (DOH!)

1997-04-18 Thread Adam Shand
Ima dick... The URL is: http://hanoi.earthlight.co.nz/cgi-bin/joe/PFind.cgi Adam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 17, 1997 at 10:30:40AM -0500, Leslie Mikesell wrote: How about including smbfs in the base kernel and allowing installation from a Win95 or NT share? Almost every office is going to have one I started fiddling with the dselect method scripts last week, in an attempt to implement an

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 17, 1997 at 02:53:12PM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package format, as opposed to, say, a debian_control file inside the .tar archive? So far as I can see: CONS: Cannnot use the Debianized package without dpkg.

Press any key to see message: e...

1997-04-18 Thread Shane D. McAndrew
Hi, I have a strange problem whilst reading the debian-user mailing lists with my mail reader Elm 2.4 PL25 and metamail 2.7-15. Below is an example of my inbox - M 1 Apr 18 debian-user-digest (725) debian-user-digest Digest V97 #126 P 2 Apr 17 debian-user-digest (826)

netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-18 Thread David Pfitzner
The problem: netscape seems to be refusing to use disk cache. Some details: Debian 1.2 (based on Infomagic Dec'96, various upgrades) netscape_3.01-4.deb used as installer for: netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz It's configured (under options etc) to use disk cache; it creates the

Re: Press any key to see message: e...

1997-04-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 18, Shane D. McAndrew wrote I have a strange problem whilst reading the debian-user mailing lists with my mail reader Elm 2.4 PL25 and metamail 2.7-15. The unstable tree now has elm-me+, which has better support for MIME and PGP than plain old elm; you might want to use that (or mutt,

talk

1997-04-18 Thread A. M. Varon
Sorry to bother all of you, I have fixed the talk problem in my linux. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520 e-mail : [EMAIL

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:31:56 EDT Christian Hudon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here it is: man mount. Explained a little further: add a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007 Now everyone can mount and umount the floppy, but only

Re: ongoing drama: nis problems

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:11:04 PDT Michael J Devine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Through the diligent efforts of this support list, I have nearly conquered the nis problem... almost. I have the two machines (server and client) talking, but only insofar as sharing a password file. The user

Re: Fatal Error Message During My Linux 1.2 Installation

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:23:08 -1000 David Melody Bohn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Why do I keep getting a Fatal Error: Cannot seek on disk drive message during the Partition The Hard Drive portion of the installation of Debian version 1.2. When I View the Partition Table this is the

Re: Compaq Smart Array Controller

1997-04-18 Thread Maarten Boekhold
I need to put a UNIX on a Compaq Proliant 800. I use Debian 1.2 at home love it, but I have a question about hardware compatibility. Has any installed Debian on a Compaq server with a SMART2/P Array Controler? About the SMART2 controller, I've heard that it has a (NCR)|(Symbios)53c875 on

compiling C source for HP850C ghostscript driver from OS/2 or DOS on Linux

1997-04-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
MOre than once I have tried compiling C source on linux, using gcc, that generated alot of error messages, including many concerning backslashes at the ends of lines. An example is an existing ghostscript driver for the HP850C Deskjet into ghostscript. The main problem I had was with this

ftp in access lost

1997-04-18 Thread Hussein May
Hello, could you tell me please, where i find alot of Information about dbkg-ftp , then i lost the ftp-Funktion in the Access menu in dselect after my installation from debian. my Question: How can i back the dpkg-ftp back from the Netscape to my Access menu in dselect ?? Thank you very

Re: Emacs keys differences between console and X

1997-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: I had a problem like this, and I think the main thing I had to do to get the behaviour I wanted was to uncomment XkbDisable in my /etc/X11/XF86Config. (I had guessed wrong when the setup had asked about

Re: NFS and debian packaging system

1997-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: The problem is that I would like to reduce workarounds as much as possible as I'me not the only one to administrate it. Probably the best solution is to un-mount the shared partitions when removing packages, but: What parts do you want to share??? I

Re: Debian Package Finder (DOH!)

1997-04-18 Thread Adam Shand
The requested URL /cgi-bin/joe/PFind.cgi was not found on this server. A number of people have reported getting this error... if you are still getting it please let me know. It works perfectly for me so if it's still broken i need to know so I can figure out why. Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Package Finder (DOH!)

1997-04-18 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Adam Shand wrote: The requested URL /cgi-bin/joe/PFind.cgi was not found on this server. A number of people have reported getting this error... if you are still getting it please let me know. It works perfectly for me so if it's still broken i need to know so I can

Re: Debian Package Finder (DOH!)

1997-04-18 Thread Kevin Traas
The requested URL /cgi-bin/joe/PFind.cgi was not found on this server. A number of people have reported getting this error... if you are still getting it please let me know. It works perfectly for me so if it's still broken i need to know so I can figure out why. Uh, I don't get a script

Problem with apache and includes

1997-04-18 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
I have apache-1.1.3-6 up and running on an otherwise basically Debian-1.2.9 system. Everything is running fine so far, the only real problem is that server includes are not working. Maybe it is worth mentioning that the machine was in fact updated from an older Slackware distribution recently

Re: Debian Package Finder (DOH!)

1997-04-18 Thread Adam Shand
Next try: URL I POSTed: http://www.hanoi.com/cgi-bin/joe/PFind.cgi?searchString=ncftpdefault=frozensearchAll=frozen%2Cunstable%2Ccontrib%2Cnon-free ^ Err what happened to hanoi.earthlight.co.nz?? I think what is happening is that the script posts the information to teh

Debian Package Finder

1997-04-18 Thread Adam Shand
Hi There seems to have been quite a bit of interest in this (and it actually works now). It was really only intended as a short term solution until (I know I'm gonna botch his name) Heikki got his full featured one working again at (again off the top of my head) rae.ton.fi. The nice thing about

/usr/lib/cgi-bin ownerships and permissions

1997-04-18 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My question pertains to dedicating a user to webmaster to allow the user to create and maintain cgi scripts. First, do cgi scripts get run by www-data? When apache (or I assume any web server following the new web standard) is installed, it creates the

loadlin impacts on W95

1997-04-18 Thread Eugene Sevinian
I hope someone can help me to fix this. Following the instructions provided by loadlin's manual I had mofified msdos.sys seting BootGUI=0 and Logo=0 Now I have windows producing : Missing or corrupted file: COMMAND.COM File creation error (or something like that ). However I can enter into

smail config

1997-04-18 Thread Alexander Lazarevic
Hi! How do I tell smail, that a single user shouldn't be allowed to send/receive email? Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: unsubscribing from list

1997-04-18 Thread Bruce A. Duda
Dear List members, I am sorry to trouble you, but I am unable to unsubscribe from this list. I used the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], with unsubscribe in both the subject line and the body. These were the instructions I saved when I first subscribed to the list. If someone could give me

Re: more nis problems

1997-04-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dean B. Cookson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it my imagination, or does the NIS included with Debian not pay any attention to the services map? I've got an application (DQS from FSU) that won't run on a Debian box running NIS because it can't find the services entry

Re: /usr/lib/cgi-bin ownerships and permissions

1997-04-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Colin Telmer writes: My question pertains to dedicating a user to webmaster to allow the user to create and maintain cgi scripts. First, do cgi scripts get run by www-data? Yes, they are run as the same user and group as the server, which you set in the configuration files under

Re: /usr/lib/cgi-bin ownerships and permissions

1997-04-18 Thread Jim Pick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My question pertains to dedicating a user to webmaster to allow the user to create and maintain cgi scripts. First, do cgi scripts get run by www-data? When apache (or I assume any web server following the new web standard) is installed, it creates

Re: Is there an xterm for windows or win95.

1997-04-18 Thread Jim Pick
I have been looking for a xterminal that could be used on windows 3.1 or win95 to operate with XFree86. Does such a thing exist? My shop is primarily DOS based and such a thing would make my life much easier. After talking to a friend from digital, he says that they have an

Re: What do I do: forwarded message from Cron Daemon

1997-04-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I've been getting this from cron every day. What is wrong, and how do I fix it? TIA --- Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:43:38 -0700 From: root

Re: Problem with apache and includes

1997-04-18 Thread Chad Zimmerman
Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: I have apache-1.1.3-6 up and running on an otherwise basically Debian-1.2.9 system. Everything is running fine so far, the only real problem is that server includes are not

init level

1997-04-18 Thread Linh Dang
I've got some diskcorruptions on my root partition. After some dpkg --install, my system is now running fine. But I can't change run-level anymore... $ telinit 1 No more processes in this runlevel Another question, what is the file /etc/runlevel ??? I might have lost it during

Re: NFS and debian packaging system

1997-04-18 Thread Portuesi Simone
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: What parts do you want to share??? I try to share /usr parts of /var /home (in the future) How to unmount /usr while installing/uninstalling?? I wanted to share man pages, info files, and /usr/doc, just to

two problems

1997-04-18 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I'm trying to help someone put Debian on a Pentium 90 and we've run into the following problems with (1) ethernet card configuration and (2) trying to make a boot floppy. The ethernet card is an Intel Etherexpress 16 ISA card. It apparently has an IRQ of 11 and io address 0x300. The kernel

Re: two problems

1997-04-18 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, I'm trying to help someone put Debian on a Pentium 90 and we've run into the following problems with (1) ethernet card configuration and (2) trying to make a boot floppy. The ethernet card is an Intel Etherexpress 16 ISA card. It apparently has an IRQ of 11 and io address 0x300. The

Modem documents (was Re: Homer has the ppp blues)

1997-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: Unfortunately my modem didn't come with a manual telling me these details. (I think I could send off for one which would cost me $30 - a little expensive I think.) Do you know what these things mean/do? Ie what are

Re: loadlin impacts on W95

1997-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I hope someone can help me to fix this. Following the instructions provided by loadlin's manual I had mofified msdos.sys seting BootGUI=0 and Logo=0 Now I have windows producing : Missing or corrupted file: COMMAND.COM File creation error (or

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) writes: I think it is in Debian's interest to think carefully about how to get the best possible TeX distribution. I think for a lot of people, having a great TeX distribution would be a major selling point for the

Re: init level

1997-04-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linh Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some diskcorruptions on my root partition. After some dpkg --install, my system is now running fine. But I can't change run-level anymore... $ telinit 1 No more processes in this runlevel Which version of

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It doesn't work. :) First, there's no mention of 'umask' under the mount manpage, so

Re: Problem with apache and includes

1997-04-18 Thread Alvin Birdi
Andree Leidenfrost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have apache-1.1.3-6 up and running on an otherwise basically Debian-1.2.9 system. Everything is running fine so far, the only real problem is that server includes are not working. Maybe it is worth mentioning that the machine was in fact

Re: Is there an xterm for windows or win95.

1997-04-18 Thread Dany Dionne
You can also try X-Win32 from http://www.starnet.com A demo version is available on the web site. We use this product here on our win95 station. Dany Dionne Physics Department Laval University On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Jim Pick wrote: I have been looking for a xterminal that could be used on

Does this list still work? - The saga continues...

1997-04-18 Thread John Foster
Hmmm Something very strange is going on here. After my previous post, I have received replies from Matthew Tebbens Klaus Hergerschiem Ralph Winslow to say that they saw my post, but I'm still not getting anything from this list. Now it seemed to stop after I set up IP_aliasing on this

so sorry to intrude, but i need help

1997-04-18 Thread BodakSean
i have just gotten online and noticed that there is alot of new worlds to be seen. to reach these worlds i have to have some kinda unzipping device and other complicated utilities for a first time user. i would like to be able to see the movies and other types of animation that i see in the disk

Re: so sorry to intrude, but i need help

1997-04-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
BodakSean writes: Sean [...] to reach these worlds i have to have some kinda Sean unzipping device and other complicated utilities for a first Sean time user. [...] To find things out there a web search engine is the place to go. For example, I pointed my web browser at the URL

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Leslie Mikesell
I'd think the info-zip package would have been a better choice since you can extract individual elements without uncomressing the whole mess and you wouldn't need two layers of archiving. I use the Midnight Commander for extracting single files from a *.deb file. I could probably do

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:44:41 EDT Christian Hudon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread d1temp
On 18 Apr, Christian Hudon wrote: On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It doesn't work. :) First, there's no mention of

Re: Any good book on numerical analysis?

1997-04-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi, On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: Hi, I am a beginner in C/C++ and i search a book on numerical analysis. Anyone know a book accessible for me? I have the Numerical Recipies and i woulk like to have a book in C/C++ training me in numerical analysis. Thanks, Dany Dionne

Again - Multilink PPP vs. EQL

1997-04-18 Thread Kevin Traas
I've no responses so far, so thought I'd repost. Please let me know if you've got any info for me. Thx. Kevin After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on EQL; however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved alternative. Unfortunately, I can't find any

Re: Simple Unix question

1997-04-18 Thread David B. Teague
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote: How does one extract a .zip archive in unix?? Use the zip/unzip package. unzip_5.12-15.deb on my machine. --David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's

Re: Does this list still work? - The saga continues...

1997-04-18 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
I saw a warning that some problem had happened with the lists and that the users should RE-subscribe. did you try that ? At least I was unsubscribed from here and subscribed to debian-changes. Hope this help. Alexandre On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, John Foster wrote: Hmmm Something very

Re: smail config

1997-04-18 Thread meierrj
Alex, How do I tell smail, that a single user shouldn't be allowed to send/receive email? If the user is a fictitious user, you can simply put a .forward file in their home directory (see smail(8), smail(5)). If the user has no home directory, you can place an entry in

Re: Again - Multilink PPP vs. EQL

1997-04-18 Thread Steve Hsieh
After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on EQL; however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved alternative. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in the HowTo's, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or, is it not yet

Re: Frozen Upgrade Troubles

1997-04-18 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Pete Harlan writes: * fvwm2 blew away my /etc/X11/fvwm2 configuration files with empty ones, without asking or warning me. I thought that was fixed long ago... My menus are all scrogged. It keeps changing my fixes when I reboot too, I think. Grrr.

Shell with cd command

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Serice
I seem to remember someone speaking of a shell that prevented the user from leaving his or her home directory. Can someone point to the right Debian Package? Thanks Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

fvwm2: don't get window outline when resizing window

1997-04-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
I keep up-to-date with unstable. A few weeks ago I rebooted my machine for the first time in ages (had to go to dos/win to do my income tax). When I started up X, I found that I can still resize windows by dragging the corners or edges, but I no longer get a window outline while doing so. It's

Re: compiling C source for HP850C ghostscript driver from OS/2 or DOS on Linux

1997-04-18 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: MOre than once I have tried compiling C source on linux, using gcc, that generated alot of error messages, including many concerning backslashes at the ends of lines. ... Can anyone provide the slightest clue? What's special about MSDOG source code files

Re: Shell with cd command

1997-04-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Paul Serice wrote: I seem to remember someone speaking of a shell that prevented the user from leaving his or her home directory. Can someone point to the right Debian Package? Try rbash (just bash with other name). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

dselect/dpkg daydreams

1997-04-18 Thread Brian S. Julin
For what little a few suggestions which have probably already been thought of are worth from someone with no time to implement them, I thought I'd offer these thoughts on dselect and dpkg anyway: 1) Multiple access method params -- e.g. it would be nice not to have to re-enter access method

Re: Shell with cd command

1997-04-18 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 18, Paul Serice wrote I seem to remember someone speaking of a shell that prevented the user from leaving his or her home directory. Can someone point to the right Debian Package? man chroot Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer *

ILU

1997-04-18 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and it came with ILU version 2.0.6. I installed the ILU package and have been trying to use it but am having problems. I tried to run the server from the tutorial example and it won't let me publish any objects. I use ILU on a Solaris machine and I had to put . in

Soundblaster and the kernel

1997-04-18 Thread Geoff R Deasey
Thanks for all the help, I did recompile the kernel and made the modules. however I ran into a little problem, cc1 was not found in the path. I manually added it to the path (strange that it was not in the path). I noticed that there are 2 places to define modules /etc/conf.modules and

Email script

1997-04-18 Thread Tim O'Brien
I'm trying to get one of the Linux boxes I run to send me it's IP address by Email every time it logs onto the Internet (it has a [EMAIL PROTECTED] dynamic IP address). For some reason, the script doesn't work. It creates a file that contains the data it's supposed to (ipinfo.txt), but I never

Re: Homer has the ppp blues :-(

1997-04-18 Thread Ralph Winslow
Mark Phillips wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: You might want to play with DTR/DCD settings. I haven't had a problem like this before but it sounds like the modem is dropping DTR which, if I remember correctly, instructs the software that the data terminal is ready. I believe

Re: Email script

1997-04-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
Tim O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to get one of the Linux boxes I run to send me it's IP address by Email every time it logs onto the Internet (it has a [EMAIL PROTECTED] dynamic IP address). For some reason, the script doesn't work. It creates a file that contains the data it's supposed to

Re: Again - Multilink PPP vs. EQL

1997-04-18 Thread Kevin Traas
After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on EQL; however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved alternative. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in the HowTo's, etc. I thought mutlilink PPP was something only available for

RE: Email Script

1997-04-18 Thread Tim O'Brien
what I did wrong? (A copy of the ip-up script follows) mail -s IPINFO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipinfo.txt Does it work if you put the full pathname in the maili statement like you do for the echo statements? mail -s IPINFO [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/ppp/ipinfo.txt Gezzz I feel stoopid now

ISDN Support

1997-04-18 Thread Kevin Traas
After doing some Web browsing and reading docs, Howto's, etc. I haven't found too much information (at least that I was hoping for) on using ISDN on Linux. Specifically, I currently have a USR Sportster 128K sitting here in the box. I'd like to use it in my Debian Linux system. (Running 1.2.8)

Re: compiling C source for HP850C ghostscript driver from OS/2 or DOS on Linux

1997-04-18 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 20:24 GST From: Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org MOre than once I have tried compiling C source on linux, using gcc, that generated alot of error messages, including many concerning backslashes at the ends of lines. An