Re: Setting up a PPP server

1995-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Brian Hutchinson wrote: > Has anyone setup a PPP server under Debian? > I tried a few times with R5 without much luck. I set one up under R5. I'm looking to redo some of that work because the pppd in R6 should be able to act without a getty on the serial port which means yo

Setting up a PPP server

1995-11-16 Thread Brian Hutchinson
Has anyone setup a PPP server under Debian? I tried a few times with R5 without much luck. I am about to try again with R6 and would like to know who to go to with questions without much clutter on this list. Thanks for any info or advice, Brian ,---

Bug#1868: ldconfig won't execute

1995-11-16 Thread Bruce Perens
I'll try this out later with the 1.2.13 and 1.3.42 kernels. Bruce -- See Pixar's "Toy Story", at a theater near you starting November 22. "Toy Story" Toys and Soundtrack Album are available now!

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-16 Thread David Engel
> I've started working on mine. The second package build failed > because it uses curses. > > The plan, AFAK, is to junk curses in favor of ncurses. However, > I recall that Bruce put the ncurses package up for grabs. Would > it be possible to get an elf libncurses? Is the stuff in I believe

Re: [tange@mi.aau.dk: More info on packages]

1995-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: More info on packages > > Therefore it would be nice if maintainers included a description of > the package in the announcement. This could just be the LSM-entry > that follows the non-package version. How about the Description field ? Not all packages are in

Re: kernels

1995-11-16 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > I'll try to build a kernel >= 1.3.40 today. I think the binary interface > for PPP has changed yet again, and I'm going to need to build a PPP package > for the 1.3 kernel series - ugh! Bruce ftp.cps.cmich.edu just received a 1.3.42 just FYI -- Matthew

kernels

1995-11-16 Thread Bruce Perens
I'll try to build a kernel >= 1.3.40 today. I think the binary interface for PPP has changed yet again, and I'm going to need to build a PPP package for the 1.3 kernel series - ugh! Ian, you might as well flush that 1.3.37 kernel. Thanks Bruce -- See Pixar's "Toy Story", at a the

Bug#1868: ldconfig won't execute

1995-11-16 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: ldso Version: 1.7.11-1 Libc: libc.so.4.6.27 Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.3.37 #9 Sat Oct 28 14:53:32 PDT 1995 i486 Reporter: repair 0.1 Subject: ldconfig won't run Image: 1.3.37 bash: /sbin/ldconfig: cannot execute binary file -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of Gener

Re: Revised resorted bugs list

1995-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Re: Revised resorted bugs list"): > You did not fix the other bug. Nils, for example has two entries : > > Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs): > gpm 1669 shutdown hangs on gpm -k until mouse is moved > > Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (19 bugs

Re: md5sum passwords

1995-11-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
> > A mixed solution may be possible, supplying DES (from both a US and a > > non-US site) to those who require YP support. I'm still not in favor > > of Debian doing this alone in the Linux community, though. [stuff deleted] > Longer passwords, while they may preclude compatablility with other

Re: md5sum passwords

1995-11-16 Thread Andrew D. Fernandes
> A mixed solution may be possible, supplying DES (from both a US and a > non-US site) to those who require YP support. I'm still not in favor > of Debian doing this alone in the Linux community, though. Yep, another "me too" reply... I see quite often, like here at McGill University, what you

Re: Revised resorted bugs list

1995-11-16 Thread Ian Murdock
I looks like I need to do a little editing of the noverrides file, too--I've given away several packages that haven't been updated (a few of the base packages, for example). I also need to mark a few bug reports "forwarded", now that we are capable of tracking that.

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-16 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> Siggy Brentrup is taking over ncurses. I must have omitted the cc to debian-devel in my reply to Bill. Sorry Siggy -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // programmer/*nix admin for hire

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> > I've moved the new ELF packages that David and Ray are working on to > > /debian/private/project/elf. As soon as they give the word, I'll move > > them into the distribution. For now, I urge everyone to upgrade their > > copies of gcc, libc, etc., as we're going to start wanting to building >

Announce: libgdbm-1.7.3-3, aout-librl-2.0.3-3, libreadline-2.0-4

1995-11-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
libgdbm 1.7.3-2 - Ray Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Don't do -fomit-frame-pointer optimization with -O2 -fPIC, since this may generate buggy code w/ gcc 2.7.{0,1}. * Changed gdbm.3 to gdbm.3gdbm; made symlinks for the various gdbm_ symbols; made dbm.h symlink. Thanks to David Engel <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-16 Thread Bruce Perens
Siggy Brentrup is taking over ncurses. Thanks Bruce -- See Pixar's "Toy Story", at a theater near you starting November 22. "Toy Story" Toys and Soundtrack Album are available now!