Re: SLRN? SOLVED

1997-11-24 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/11/23 at 18:33 PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Victor Torrico wrote: I'm using the latest slrn .deb package. slrn works fine by itself and slrnpull pulls in news group traffic OK. What must one do to let slrn view the traffic pulled in by slrnpull? I can't seem to figure out

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-24 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
This is an excellent document. Placing it on the CD would be helpful, but, IMHO, it would be even better if it were posted on the debian web site, and referred to in the CD's README file. Following are some suggested additions/modifications. Bob On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + Oliver

Re: Linux as a career path

1997-11-24 Thread tmalloy
In my work as corporate technical recruiter I see thousands of resumes and lots of job requests. I have yet to see linux on any of them. ( except my own resume) Most people in the industry, with the exception of some nt drones, think linux is an excellent os. The only reservation they have is

eth0: Bogus packet size

1997-11-24 Thread Alastair J. Gregory
Can anyone tell me why I get the message: eth0: bogus packet size: 4160, status = 0x21, nxpg=0x30 on my console? Does this indicate a packet corruption of some sort? I have a WD80x3-based LAN adapter in my Debian machine, which is running back-to-back (via a crossover cable) to a Win95 machine

Re: 2.0.32 kernel: strange error

1997-11-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:07:05 +0100 Remco Blaakmeer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I posted the message below to comp.os.linux.misc but I didn't get any answer. Does anybody know more about the problem I describe below? Or can anyone point me at

Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread DebianUser
I downloaded the .30 version of the kernel and wanted to patch it to .32. Is there anything I need to know before doing so? (IE: Can it be done? Are the kernel sources from debian packages patchable?) And on a totally unrelated note. What would be the feasability of sharing /tmp with SCO

RE: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread George Bonser
Does .32 patch against .30 or .31? On 24-Nov-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the .30 version of the kernel and wanted to patch it to .32. Is there anything I need to know before doing so? (IE: Can it be done? Are the kernel sources from debian packages patchable?) And on a

Re: Commands Manual

1997-11-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: I just got finished installing Debian Linux on my system. Well after all of that work I have no idea what to do next. Is there a list of commands and or sysntax available. I have poked around at the Debian site and others with

RE: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
You need to patch .30 to .31 and then to .32. There is a patch-kernel script in the kernel distribution which makes this quite easy. On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote: Does .32 patch against .30 or .31? On 24-Nov-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the .30 version of the

Sending mail to a local user

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
How do I send mail to a local user? If I address it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I get a message back from the daemon saying there is a loop. If I address it to 'user', Pine tries to send it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I am running pine and smail. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Issues with libc6-deV install over libc5 stuff.

1997-11-24 Thread Dana M. Epp
I am currently trying to install a few packages under Debian, and I keep faiing on my dpkg. I am trying to install libc6-deV, but it conflicts with libc5-dev. However, if I try to remove libc5 stuff I have problems trying to do so. Is there a way to override the conflict, and install libc6

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-24 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
Brian M. Rectanus wrote: At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) on the unit

RE: Issues with libc6-deV install over libc5 stuff.

1997-11-24 Thread George Bonser
Grab the howto on upgrading to libc6 and pay PARTICULAR attention to the very last item on the document. You will DOWNGRADE libc5 to a version that does not conflict, load libc6, get rid of your current *-dev packages, install the libc6-dev and get the libc5-dev and other -dev's from unstable

Re: can't change password

1997-11-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: hi everybody, somebody tried to change there by using the command passwd they entered their old password entered the new password twice as per usual but came up with this error Cannot change ID to root. I am using shadow passwords on my system. Any

Re: Matlab5

1997-11-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Bill Moran wrote: Hi Thanks for your help on Matlab. I have checked with ldd and have exactly the same libraries as others: libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6

neXtaw library

1997-11-24 Thread Shaleh
Whenever I run xconsole using the library it dies complaining about an error in freepixmap. thought someone might want to know. I am currently running xconsole by preloading standard xaw. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:30:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Kernel 30 to 32 patching. I downloaded the .30 version of the kernel and wanted to patch it to .32. Is there anything I need to know

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-24 Thread ioannis
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 10:08:14PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: type [file]: says where to find [file] in your search path type is a bash build-in and will not work with tsch logins . A better choice is probably /usr/bin/which ( which is also a csh build-in). Ioannis Tambouras

kernel divide error with 2.1.65 anyone?

1997-11-24 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
[debian unstable system] I've tried to run ppp (2.3.1) with a 2.1.65 kernel and I get a: kernel divide error: and then when I ctrl-alt-del, shutdown aborts with: kernel null pointer dereference (or similar) forcing a fsck on reboot. I've been trying this with 2.1.x kernels since 45 or

Adding new XEmacs packages

1997-11-24 Thread David Z. Maze
I have XEmacs 20.2-4 installed on my hamm system. I want to upgrade some of the elisp packages included with the XEmacs distribution (custom, gnus, w3); what's The Right Way to do this? (I strongly suspect that mucking with /usr/lib/xemacs20/* is just wrong, despite that being what I've already

RE: Issues with libc6-deV install over libc5 stuff.

1997-11-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote: Grab the howto on upgrading to libc6 and pay PARTICULAR attention to the very last item on the document. You will DOWNGRADE libc5 to a version that does not conflict, load libc6, get rid of your current *-dev packages, install the libc6-dev and get

RE: Issues with libc6-deV install over libc5 stuff.

1997-11-24 Thread George Bonser
Actually, you'll UPGRADE libc5 to a version that places some files in other places to be able to coexist with libc6. This version depends on libc6, so read the mini-HOWTO for details on this. I actually had to DOWNGRADE as it says in the document so I beg to differ. You might have had to

Re: Netscape Communicator

1997-11-24 Thread Alex Romosan
hi randy,no there is no .deb package to install communicator. what you do [...] ah, but there is one (if you look in unstable): Package: netscape4 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: contrib/web Installed-Size: 33 Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 4.0-6

Re: Diald

1997-11-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuma Agbodike) writes: Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. You can see one at: ftp://ftp.mindpring.com/users/stk3/ppp/etc/diald/options or http://www.mindspring.com/~stk3/linux/ppp/debian/ --

Re: Matlab5

1997-11-24 Thread Britton
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Bill Moran wrote: Hi Thanks for your help on Matlab. I have checked with ldd and have exactly the same libraries as others: libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 =

Re: Commands Manual

1997-11-24 Thread john
Remco writes: I think his needs are far more basic than that. He seems to be wanting a list of utility-names, as most first-time Linux users (including me) want. The System III manuals contained a KWIC index of the NAME sections of the man pages. This provided that list of utility names in a

Re: fetchmail and friends

1997-11-24 Thread David Stern
On Sat, Nov 21, 1997, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 01:10:08PM -0800, David Stern wrote: There is one small issue which I've worked around, but haven't completely resolved, because I don't understand it. When running fetchmail -v, I get the following error output and it

Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

1997-11-24 Thread Rik Johns
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 23 08:06:03 1997 Received: (qmail 15164 invoked by uid 38); 23 Nov 1997 16:00:38 - Resent-Date: 23 Nov 1997 16:00:38 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 15102 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1997

PnP does not respond to cu

1997-11-24 Thread Charles Read
Here's what's happening: # cu --speed 115200 --line /dev/ttyS1 cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): Permission denied cu: /dev/ttyS1: Line in use # dmesg | grep tty tty01 at 0x02f8 (irg = 3) is a 16450 # ls -l /dev/tty01 ls: /dev/tty01: No such file or directory Questions: 1. Why does /dev/tty01 appear in

Re: PCMCIA and 2.0.32

1997-11-24 Thread Adam Shand
What kind of errors does make/gcc report when you try to compile? Don't forget you need to have APM (Advanced Power Management) and PCI support compiled into your kernel... without them you will get 'unresolved symbol' errors. Okay I've recompiled the kernel for pci and apmd support and still

Re: eth0: Bogus packet size

1997-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
That packet size is bigger than the maximum handled by ethernet. It might indicate that you have another device at the same address at the networking card, or something else is happening to corrupt the data read from it by the OS. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Paul Serice [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is packaged. The README.debian file says the KDE team is not too happy with the packaging. I'm wondering why. We moved

Re: Linux as a career path

1997-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect that Linux would be very useful in getting an entry level or lowerlevel position. And personally I would go out of my way for someone who supports or develops Linux. A Linux developer would often qualify for a high-level position that another candidate might

system lockup

1997-11-24 Thread Quake Master
Hello, I am running a debian linux system 1.3.1 (Linux version 2.0.30) as a dedicated quake server. From time to time, the machine locks up completely, requiring a power cycle reset. I've checked the syslog for potential errors, but find nothing. However, i'm getting a lot of the following type

savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
cron.daily runs a script sysklogd to rotate the logs in /var/log with savelog. I have added some logs to the defaults, but one of them doesn't get rotated. Is there a way to reconfigure what happens with this script: #! /bin/sh # sysklogd Cron script to rotate system log files daily. # #

diald question

1997-11-24 Thread Janos A Csirik
Hello, I have been messing with my diald/ppp setup and I have a strange problem. Basically everything works fine, that is, when I try to use some command that needs the net, my modem dials in and off I go. diald will then hang up after a specified time of inactivity. This I believe is

Xfree86 Problem

1997-11-24 Thread Jones, David A \(CAP, ITS, US\)
I got the Debian release on the cd-rom that came with the BOOT magazine this November. Everything runs great except my X server. I have tried SVGA, VGA-16 and the accelerated servers for the W32 chipset in the xfree86 packages. None of the servers will start. I even downloaded new ones... The

Re: PnP does not respond to cu

1997-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 10:26:35PM -0600, Charles Read wrote: Here's what's happening: # cu --speed 115200 --line /dev/ttyS1 cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): Permission denied cu: /dev/ttyS1: Line in use # dmesg | grep tty tty01 at 0x02f8 (irg = 3) is a 16450 # ls -l /dev/tty01 ls: /dev/tty01: No

Text Format -iso- or -ascci-

1997-11-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I occasionally get the following message on my mail reader [The following text is in the iso-8859-1 character set] [Your display is set for the US-ASCII character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] I would like to start a discussion on this. 1. Where can I set

ipppd problem

1997-11-24 Thread Iztok Umek
Hello! I am trying to get ipppd and CISCO working (ISDN line). I get connected and authorized, but IPCP won't start LCP does then my Linux box disconnects (no IPCP started). How do I make ipppd start IPCP? Regards, Iztok

Re: .xreset equivalent of .xsession?

1997-11-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On 22 Nov 1997, David Z. Maze wrote: You can put things after your window manager in .xsession. These will be executed after your window manager exits (user logs out) but before the X server resets. To do that I would need to remove the exec statement which causes fvwm to take

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-24 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: I would just recommend only less. more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-dead Unices don't have less. So in the first time one

problems with mouse and ghostview

1997-11-24 Thread Ronan LEBREF - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/RTO
Hi! I installed ghostview from the debian package. My mouse doesn't seem to work very well with ghostview. I can zoom but I can't reach Menu File Page Magstep None of my 3 buttons mouse has effects on ghostview buttons. I don't have any problems with other applications. It works fine with

Still with the libc6-dev issue.

1997-11-24 Thread Dana M. Epp
I would like to thank everyone for pointing me to the mini-howto. I still seem to have this resource conflict, and I was wondering if someone could tell me what step I missed? In order, here is what I did: 1)installed ldso_1.9.5-2 2)installed libc6_2.0.5c.0.1 3)installed ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2 and

Re: rvplayer installer

1997-11-24 Thread ychim
There is an installer, though not sure whether it is in master yet. Lawrence Steve Kostecke wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralph Winslow) writes: I'd like to try this too, where do you get rvplayer5.x in the first place. It doesn't seem to beDebian

RE: Still with the libc6-dev issue.

1997-11-24 Thread George Bonser
On 24-Nov-97 Dana M. Epp wrote: I would like to thank everyone for pointing me to the mini-howto. I still seem to have this resource conflict, and I was wondering if someone could tell me what step I missed? 10)DOWNGRADED to libc5-dev_5.4.33-3 11)reinstalled libc6_2.0.5c.0.1 12)attempted

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date. I attach a document that might serve as a

Re: diald question

1997-11-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:33:11 PST Janos A Csirik ([EMAIL PROTECTED] du) wrote: [snip] I have been using dctrl to look at timeouts and noticed that although my general tcp timeout is set to 10 minutes, fetchmail generates tcp packets that start as though they'd keep the link up for 10 minutes,

To Paul

1997-11-24 Thread Witold Grabysz
Paul ! You e-mail is wrong, so I use the list. Sorry to other user of this list. Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: The original message was received at Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:28:07 +0100 (MET) from rmt4.kmt.polsl.gliwice.pl [157.158.18.2] - The following addresses have delivery

bash syntax

1997-11-24 Thread Witold Grabysz
Hello, the following phrase doesn't work in bash: ((ls);(ls)) Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? It is a little important for me, because it is how the Netscape 4 spawns an external helper: ((gv temp_file.ps);(rm temp_file.ps)) In tcsh it works, however I cannot

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-24 Thread Aaron Denney
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: You have to log in (as with Windows) by entering a username and password. ^^^ You don't log in with Windows 3.x, and I don't think you

Lyx, Ausgabe von Umlauten ueber xdvi

1997-11-24 Thread Walter Danielsen
Hallo, wenn ich mit lyx einen Text mit deutschen Umlauten geschrieben habe und mit xdvi ausgeben will, werden die Umlaute nicht angezeigt. Ich hoffe, dass mir jemand angeben kann, was ich aendern muss, um die Umlaute dargestellt zu bekommen. Schon mal vielen Dank. MfG Walter Danielsen

Re: Sending mail to a local user

1997-11-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: : How do I send mail to a local user? If I address it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I : get a message back from the daemon saying there is a loop. If I address : it to 'user', Pine tries to send it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I am running : pine and smail. You

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: : cron.daily runs a script sysklogd to rotate the logs in /var/log with : savelog. I have added some logs to the defaults, but one of them doesn't : get rotated. Is there a way to reconfigure what happens with this script: [...] : for LOG in syslog

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: : ((ls);(ls)) : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? : : It is a little important for me, because it is how the Netscape 4 spawns : an external helper: : ((gv

RE: [Debian]: Lyx, Ausgabe von Umlauten ueber xdvi

1997-11-24 Thread Volker Hess
Hi, On 24-Nov-97 Walter Danielsen wrote: Hallo, wenn ich mit lyx einen Text mit deutschen Umlauten geschrieben habe und mit xdvi ausgeben will, werden die Umlaute nicht angezeigt. Ich hoffe, dass mir jemand angeben kann, was ich aendern muss, um die Umlaute dargestellt zu bekommen. Schon mal

Re: Running X at 16 bits of color

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:44:36AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: I've recently upgraded the graphics card of my system to an ATI Pro Turbo with 4 meg or VRAM. I would like to get the Xserver running at 16 bits of color at 1280 x 1024. I ran xf86config, and provided all the relevant info.

Re: Netscape Communicator

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:20:12AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: Is there a *.deb package to install the new 4.04/4.0x Netscape Communicator? The only one I see in bo is for the ancient 3.01 version. Due to licencing there is no netscape.deb file. But just like for 3.01 there is an

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 04:49:21PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is packaged. The README.debian file says the KDE team is not too happy with the packaging. I'm

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:22:21PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: cron.daily runs a script sysklogd to rotate the logs in /var/log with savelog. I have added some logs to the defaults, but one of them doesn't get rotated. Is there a way to reconfigure what happens with this script: #! /bin/sh

dselect and debian on walnut creek

1997-11-24 Thread Chris Camacho
has anyone tried installing debian from linux toolkit june 1997 when dselect asks where the dist is I have tried every sub-dir I can and it can't find the dist anyone else had this prob? how did you cure it? thanx CC __ Sent by

Re: PCMCIA and 2.0.32

1997-11-24 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 08:22:07PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: What kind of errors does make/gcc report when you try to compile? Don't forget you need to have APM (Advanced Power Management) and PCI support compiled into your kernel... without them you will get 'unresolved symbol' errors.

Re: Linux as a career path

1997-11-24 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Last spring when I was looking for a summer job, I received a call from one place that I applied. It was basically a surprise interview. After talking for a minute, the interviewer asked how much unix experience I had. I mentioned that I ran linux. He sounded impressed, didn't have many other

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:58:51PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 04:49:21PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is packaged. The README.debian

Eth0

1997-11-24 Thread Greg Green
I am trying to get my local lan going and cannot seem to figure out how to make the kernal see the ethernet card. I am using a 3com 3509 and I know that the driver is there. When I use ifconfig I run into problems such as SIOCSIFADDR: no such device. Eth0 is not even in /dev, so I tried MAKEDEV

Problems with xfig and suggestion considering transfig

1997-11-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I have a big problem with my xfig. Everything works fine until I press the T icon to enter some text. This causes the xfig to hang. All I can do is to kill it. Additionally I can't do it by selecting the Kill from the window's menu. If I run xfig from the xterm, pressing the ^C

Re: Eth0

1997-11-24 Thread Peter Iannarelli
-Original Message- From: Greg Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 24, 1997 8:28 AM Subject: Eth0 I am trying to get my local lan going and cannot seem to figure out how to make the kernal see the ethernet card. I am using a 3com

Re: Text Format -iso- or -ascci-

1997-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Daniel Mashao wrote: I occasionally get the following message on my mail reader [The following text is in the iso-8859-1 character set] [Your display is set for the US-ASCII character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] I would like to

wtmp, last wrecked (bo-hamm upgrade)

1997-11-24 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is broken. 'login', 'sysvinit' packages are the new ones, but 'last' writes complete garbage, and a slight view at wtmp shows something different than

Re: Eth0

1997-11-24 Thread Kevin Traas
I am trying to get my local lan going and cannot seem to figure out how to make the kernal see the ethernet card. I am using a 3com 3509 and I know that the driver is there. When I use ifconfig I run into problems such as SIOCSIFADDR: no such device. Are you loading this driver as a module?

Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Martin
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under /tmp and delete it when it is done, rather than insist that ~/tmp exist. Set your umask so that others do not have write permissions on the directory and its files _before_ you

Re: wtmp, last wrecked (bo-hamm upgrade)

1997-11-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Peter Gervai wrote: Hello, I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is broken. 'login', 'sysvinit' packages are the new ones, but 'last' writes complete garbage, and a

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-24 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 08:58:56PM +0100, Olivier THARAN wrote: (cd dir1 tar cv *) | (cd dir2 tar xf -) which preserves everything (dunno about times however). Heuh? What about files beginning with a '.' that are not expanded by the '*'? That's just to begin with ... use cpio. -- include

A tool to clean out packages?

1997-11-24 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Recently I reinstalled the whole base package from a rescue disk and thus dpkg no longer sees any of my previously installed packages. Is there a tool or option in dpkg to rebuild its database of installed packages or has everything been wiped out for good? TIA. -- Louis-David Mitterrand

Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-24 Thread Andrea Mennucci
hi Nice program. thanks Adding the -s 1024 flag to ping would make the packets closer to the size of FTP packets, and make the results more accurate. well, indeed I had done that after sending it I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under /tmp and delete

identd logging?

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Harrison
Howdy, Something caught my eye tonite.. well, actually, the lack of something. Where does identd log stuff to? According to the source, it uses LOG_DAEMON, but I can't seem to find it in there. daemon.* is logged to /var/log/daemon according to my syslog.conf. I'm inclined to believe it seeing

RAS from Linux?

1997-11-24 Thread Jones, David A \(CAP, ITS, US\)
Hi everyone- Here is a quick question: Does anyone know how to get a Linux box to log-in and authenticate to a NT RAS (remote access server). We have the platform at work but I don't want to use win95 to log in, I want to stay with Linux. Also, has anyone heard about the M$ Unix client for

Re: PCMCIA and 2.0.32

1997-11-24 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) writes: I'd use the debian package but there isn't one for a kernel newer then 2.0.30 that I could see. Of course not. There would need to be a kernel-image-2.0.32 package against which the PCMCIA modules are compiled. Okay I've recompiled the kernel for PCI

Re: wtmp, last wrecked (bo-hamm upgrade)

1997-11-24 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is broken. [...] The format of the utmp/wtmp file has changed between libc5 and libc6. The version of

RE: Xfree86 Problem

1997-11-24 Thread Bill Leach
I don't know about X-pert, but your problem sounds to me like a misconfiguration of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. As kind of a nut shell explaination: The X server looks in the file to figure out what you want and what it can give you. In your case, it is unable to find a legal combination.

wu-ftpd

1997-11-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hello, wu-ftpd seems to be messing up my wtmp. It has been linked with libc5, even the one in debian/hamm/hamm/binary/net. Anyone got it to work? bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: dselect and debian on walnut creek

1997-11-24 Thread Bill Leach
I am not familiar with that specific cdrom but suggest that you might want to look for directories named: bo, or stable, or main, and contrib, and non-free (the non-free may quite well not be present). In each of those directories (if bo and stable are both present then one will be a link to

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Steve Mayer
Bob, The sysklogd script only rotates the the logfiles that are configred in the /etc/syslog.conf file. You can either add more log files in there or add the logfiles requiring backup to the bottom of the /cron.daily/standard script. You should see an entry there for the setuid.changes log.

sort_mirrors_by_speed v 0.2

1997-11-24 Thread Andrea Mennucci
hi since I had a few nice comments about the above script, I post a second revised version. this script takes as its argument the file README.mirrors (that can be downloaded from the debian ftp sites), extracts the list of hosts and pings them all (it takes roughly 60 seconds, since it

tape driver configuration(cont)

1997-11-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, following my previous email. A note: all devices seem to be where and how they should be, permissions and all ... George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge,

tape driver configuration

1997-11-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just installed a new tape driver ( seagate travan 3200 ). I have tried it u der windows and it works ok. I am trying to make it work under Linux. I have installed ftape-2.0.30 and am using a 2.0.30 kernel. When ftape was installed it complain that the modules were unresolved symbols.

xterm

1997-11-24 Thread Zach Wilkes
Is there any way to change the colors of Xterm? mine defaults to black on white (which gets really annoying when you telnet to a machine using really light ansi colors), and I would rather have it white on black.. Zach

YANQ (Yet another newbie question...)

1997-11-24 Thread Andrew Akins
I hope I didn't send this out twice... I'm new to unix (let alone debian) and I can't seem to figure out two problems (which I think are related...) 1) Where do I put programs (daemons) that I want to automatically startup, ie., what is the Autoexec.bat file of the unix world? I looked in

Re: sort_mirrors_by_speed v 0.2

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Harrison
## this doesnt work as I expected, alas #trap /bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit SIGTERM #trap /bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit SIGQUIT #trap /bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit SIGINT #trap -p try: trap /bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit 1 2 3 15 works for me.. nice script by the way.. D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Yamaha CDrecorder 400tx

1997-11-24 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'd like to know has anyone here used the Yamaha CD Recorder 400tx with Adaptec 2940 scsi control under Debian/Linux to record files succesfully? I've just purchased the recorder and try out the command: $ cdwrite --eject and the kernel/Adaptec driver kept printing out of a

linux behaving badly (was Re: ownership and permissions)

1997-11-24 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Frank Barknecht wrote: David Stern hat gesagt: // David Stern wrote: Speaking of su, I have a root window (rxvt -e su --) in a user X-window session, and I seem to not be able to run X apps from the root window due to the DISPLAY env variable, but it is

Re: xterm

1997-11-24 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Zach Wilkes wrote: Is there any way to change the colors of Xterm? mine defaults to black on white (which gets really annoying when you telnet to a machine using really light ansi colors), and I would rather have it white on black.. xterm -bg black -fg white or

X pointers (was Re: Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball)

1997-11-24 Thread David Wright
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: Pancho Horrillo wrote: I use a Logitech Trackball (Marble), attached to PS/2 port, and i cannot get it work fast enough in X, so my thumb gets really tired... Is there any way to change the responsiveness in X ? [...] Your post

Q: Web Based Admin

1997-11-24 Thread Dean C. Sullinger
Is there currently any Web Based Admin for Debian Linux? If not, I would like to know what everyone in the group would think about a project to bring Web Based Admin to Debian Linux? I plan to work on this as I get time, but if anyone else is interested, I would be happy to share my results or

Re: RAS from Linux?

1997-11-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jones, David A (CAP, ITS, US) wrote: Hi everyone- Here is a quick question: Does anyone know how to get a Linux box to log-in and authenticate to a NT RAS (remote access server). We have the platform at work but I don't want to use win95 to log in, I want to stay with Linux. Also, has

Re: rvplayer installer

1997-11-24 Thread Matt Thompson
I'd like to try this too, where do you get rvplayer5.x in the first place. It doesn't seem to beDebian package. I just DLed rvplayer from the Real Audio site http://www.realaudio.com and untarred it to /usr/local/lib/rvplayer5.whatever. There is an installer, though not sure

Re: YANQ (Yet another newbie question...)

1997-11-24 Thread Kevin Traas
1) Where do I put programs (daemons) that I want to automatically startup, ie., what is the Autoexec.bat file of the unix world? I looked in .bashrc and .bash_profile, which seem to set a lot of enivronment variables, but I don't se if you can put programs in this. For stuff that you want to

Re: identd logging?

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Something caught my eye tonite.. well, actually, the lack of something. Where does identd log stuff to? According to the source, it uses LOG_DAEMON, but I can't seem to find it in there. At my box, identd doesn't do the logging but xinetd does. Nov 24 17:38:00 haitech xinetd[183]: START:

Re: RAS from Linux?

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Jones, David A (CAP, ITS, US) wrote: Does anyone know how to get a Linux box to log-in and authenticate to a NT RAS (remote access server). We have the platform at work but I don't want to use win95 to log in, I want to stay with Linux. Also, has anyone Is it different

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: for LOG in syslog otherlog somelog morelog or whatever names you're using :) bash(1) manual page would have told you the same, by the way. Yes, it was obvious to me once I had seen the answer. Thanks to all who responded. Bob

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