PVM

1996-05-02 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi Has anyone run PVM3 on linux I am anxious to know how you got on. I have just downloaded the program and am about to set about compiling it. Any one that knows _ANYTHING_ about it is greatly encouraged to say their bit Every little will be of help Thanks and I am hoping to get loads of r

G77 notes

1996-05-02 Thread Troy J Kelley
Yes Guy, that was it. I realized that after I sent the mail. :-) There was no dependency conflict generated when I installed g77. Should there be? g77 will work in the fact that it will compile, but not link. As for the f2c and fort77, they don't seem to work with the rather large piece of

xbase doesn't setup the server

1996-05-02 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Package: xbase Version: 3.1.2-8 I upgraded X to ELF from .99R6, and after going through xbase, xfnt*, xlib and some clients, xdm didn't start the server. I had to re-decipher all the mess of xdm which I obviously had forgotten :-( The order I did it was xlib, xbase, xfnt*, xserver-s3. It turns ou

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-05-02 Thread David Engel
>Is anyone out there using a linux box as an NIS client? > Does it work? Yes and yes. ypbind used to die occasionally with older versions but doesn't anymore with the current version. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G77 problem..

1996-05-02 Thread Francisco Avelino da Silva
You can also try f2c *.f gcc *.c -lm -lf2c -o theprogram and see if that works, while you solve the problem with g77. Maybe the problem if only with the g77 installation. avelino

fingerd

1996-05-02 Thread Jason Eggleston
How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other hosts finger me. The man page says to add -f to the fingerd command, but where and how? Jason Eggleston http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jegglest/

Unidentified subject!

1996-05-02 Thread Mark Tomory
Hello, Debian-users! Is anyone out there using a linux box as an NIS client? Does it work? -- Mark .-. ___Mark_Tomory___ooo_(_U_)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Coordinator 2001 Alford Park Dr. Carthage College Kenosha,

Re: installing debian1.1 in a free partition

1996-05-02 Thread Stephen Early
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Francisco Avelino da Silva wrote: > * The X configuration: hh. I run X well when I try startx xinit or > xdm with fvwm. When I used openwin upon xdm was more complicated, but with > some effort now it works (at home I have a new atlantis-intel > motherboard with a AtiMach64

Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-02 Thread Stephen Early
On Thu, 2 May 1996, James D. Freels wrote: > Can I install v 1.1 over the existing v 0.93R6 installation as a usual > package (or whole sets of packages) upgrade? I could not find > instructions on how to do that. Yes, you can. Two sets of instructions have been posted to debian-user recently d

Re: G77 problem..

1996-05-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
"Troy J Kelley" writes: Troy> Hello, I have a real simple fortran program that I'm trying to Troy> compile with the 1.1 g77 package. I have all the "depends" installed Troy> properly. When I compile the code I get: Troy> Troy> ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory You

Re: Is 1.1 instalable on a 4 Meg memory machine?

1996-05-02 Thread Bruce Perens
OK - that's low-memory complaint number 2 and the day is still young. I will issue a new root disk that allows you to turn off the shell on the second virtual console. Hopefully you'll be able to squeak by after that. I'll also add a boot option to start the shell, not the menu, on the first virtua

Debian 1.1 problem configuring Spanish keyboard

1996-05-02 Thread Bruce Perens
In /etc/init.d/keyboard, change the "loadkeys" line to load one of the other files in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables . You might want to configure what console font is used, change the font=none line to one of the fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts . Thanks Bruce

Re: 4 Meg memory *Cyrex* machine

1996-05-02 Thread Bruce Perens
> and when a classmate here asked me to help him > installing Debian on his 4 MB Cyrex (sp?) 486-80 I said "sure, no i> problem", but the installation didn't complete. When asked to swap disks > (boot->root), I prints "Running sh" or something like that, and hangs. Can you lend your friend a fe

Re: Installing Debian 1.1

1996-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Luis F. Gonzalez wrote: > yesterday I installed 1.1 from scratch and it all went smoothly but for the > keyboard. I am using a spanish keyboard and altough I selected it in the re- > levant section of the installation, the keyboard table never gets loaded. I don't have access to my Linux system r

G77 problem..

1996-05-02 Thread Troy J. Kelley
Hello, I have a real simple fortran program that I'm trying to compile with the 1.1 g77 package. I have all the "depends" installed properly. When I compile the code I get: ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory Any clues as to why this is? Any quick help would REALLY be appreciat

Re: Hardware advice: seeking echoes of running Linux-PC clusters

1996-05-02 Thread Neil Turton
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Turton writes: > > There is a loophole if there is a file-system problem on the root > > partition. /etc/init.d/boot will drop you into a root shell if the > > root partition has serious errors on it. Maybe there should be an > > option for secur

Re: smail 3.1.29.1-22 append_header="..." problem

1996-05-02 Thread Raul Miller
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome: > > Speaking of junk e-mail, I did some more work on my junkmail > > daemon today. junkmail is an autoresponder I wrote to "deal with" > > the ever-increasing amount of unsolicited commercial email I > > receive every day. Instead of getting angry and writing a very

upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-02 Thread James D. Freels
I have been using and staying current with the 0.93R6 version of Debian. I would like to install v 1.1 beta and test it and contribute to the beta testing effort. I have seen the installation from floppy disk instructions. I could also install on a separate "test" machine that would be different

Re: problem upgrade to 1.1

1996-05-02 Thread Stephen Early
On Thu, 2 May 1996, gli wrote: > Then I joyfully upgraded the rest of the system. I upgraded the X11 from > the unstable tree, after I fetched all the packages that I need such as > xbase, xserver-mach32, etc, and install it, also using dselect and > dpkg-ftp, but I got some error messages at the

dpkg help screen: may I suggest?

1996-05-02 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
For your interest, I would suggest that a help screen along the lines of the following would be more helpful, at least to myself, and perhaps others. This file is to be considered bogus, however, unless someone corrects and extends it. Mainly, I don't understand most of these parameters; in parti

who is the Debian list maintaner?

1996-05-02 Thread Fundamental
On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: subject says it all:) \\ THE LONELY ONE Ah, on the fallen leaves before my gate, How far his footsteps sound for whom i wait! \

Out of memory?

1996-05-02 Thread unique
I have tried to install teh debian .96r3 the base system went fine with no problem but when using dpkg it keeps telling me I am out of memory. I have 8 meg of real memory and created a 30meg swap partition when installing also i have plenty of free disk space, any help would be greatly appreci

Re: Is 1.1 instalable on a 4 Meg memory machine?

1996-05-02 Thread R Chris Ross
Well I tried installing 1.1 last night with no success. The first time I used the default of using the ramdisk. After booting and loading the ramdisk it loadid the keyboard map then one other command that I don't remember. Shortly it said dinstal was unable to fork. I went at it again

Installing Debian 1.1

1996-05-02 Thread Luis F. Gonzalez
Hi, yesterday I installed 1.1 from scratch and it all went smoothly but for the keyboard. I am using a spanish keyboard and altough I selected it in the re- levant section of the installation, the keyboard table never gets loaded. I ve used only Slackware and as the structure of the init scripts

Re: problem with tar/sendmail/ls

1996-05-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evan Welsh) wrote on 30.04.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > $ /usr/sbin/sendmail -f evan evan < ~/test.msg > clnttcp_create: RPC: Program not registered > Segmentation fault > $ > > Now this looked just like a problem I had with tar a while back. When tar > refused to perform any o

installing debian1.1 in a free partition

1996-05-02 Thread Francisco Avelino da Silva
Hello everybody I'm working with debian-linux v1.1 (I upgrated it the last weekend at home a now in my office). All it is working as I expect but I just had to solve some minor problems: * The X configuration: hh. I run X well when I try startx xinit or xdm with fvwm. When I used openwin u

Re: Hardware advice: seeking echoes of running Linux-PC clusters

1996-05-02 Thread Michael Meskes
Neil Turton writes: > There is a loophole if there is a file-system problem on the root > partition. /etc/init.d/boot will drop you into a root shell if the > root partition has serious errors on it. Maybe there should be an > option for securing the console which would stop root shells from >

problem upgrade to 1.1

1996-05-02 Thread gli
Hi, I installed the 0.93R6, and followed the script that was posted here, to upgrade to 1.1 base system. That was all fine. I used dselect and dpkg-ftp along the way. Then I joyfully upgraded the rest of the system. I upgraded the X11 from the unstable tree, after I fetched all the packages th

Re: Bug#2807: X <-> cpp dependency?

1996-05-02 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > Does gcc now have 'Provides: cpp'? Yes. Now it's like this: gcc - Provides: cpp, Conflicts: cpp cpp - Conflicts: gcc And they both have the /lib/cpp link. Guy

Re: what's module net-pf-3?

1996-05-02 Thread Michael Harnois
On Wed, 1 May 1996 00:11:46 -0600 (MDT), Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-3 >> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 >> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 > >I get this too but haven't a clue as to why. I get this whenver I connec

Re: Bug#2807: X <-> cpp dependency?

1996-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 1 May 1996, David Engel wrote: > > > The problem is that the links /usr/bin/cpp and /lib/cpp don't come > > > with gcc. If gcc really gives everything, it should give these > > > symlinks as well. > > > > I think they now do in the very latest version, released yesterday. > > That's right,

Re: Bug#2807: X <-> cpp dependency?

1996-05-02 Thread David Engel
> Does gcc now have 'Provides: cpp'? Yes. > I had to install cpp 2.7.2-6 (even though i already had gcc 2.7.2-6 > installed!) a week or so ago because netstd depended on cpp. Installing cpp shouldn't be necessary if you already have gcc. > maybe netstd should depend on 'cpp | gcc'? or maybe gcc

Re: various boot errors and module problems!

1996-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Brian K Servis wrote: > When booting I get the following errors when calculating dependencies. > > *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/3c501.o > *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/3c509.o > *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/module

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > One irritating feature of dselect as it is at the moment is this: > > if I start dselect and add only one or two packages, it prints > > the entire list of packages on my screen, one by one, along with

Re: smail 3.1.29.1-22 append_header="..." problem

1996-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > > > Lars Wirzenius said: > > > > > Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail. > > > > But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by > > showing him a bunch of examples of other people's

Re: smail 3.1.29.1-22 append_header="..." problem

1996-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Scott Barker: > > You might want to consider saving some of the junkmail (perhaps > > a database holding about 5Meg worth of junkmail), and send each > > spammer a copy of each o f those junk mails, just so they know > > how it feels :) Preface each one

4 Meg memory *Cyrex* machine

1996-05-02 Thread Marcelo Magallon
> My test-bed for the 1.1 install is a slow 386 with 4MB + 640K . This > machine has Linux installed on it several times a week :-) . The RAM > disk implementation in the new kernels uses less memory (it used to > have a RAM cache of the RAM disk). The installation tools on 1.1 also > use less RAM