> bash-1.14-4.deb
> diff-2.7-10.deb
> findutils-4.1-9.deb
> mount-2.5i-1.deb
> sh-utils-1.12-5.deb
> timezone-7.48-1.deb
>
> Bash seem to be the most likely candidate for producing the errors, but
> I'm not sure.
On my old (non debian) a.out System only crond and smail produce the broken
flock me
On Sat, 4 May 1996, Fundamental wrote:
>
> what package does uugetty come with?
>
>
uugetty is part of getty-ps which is not (yet?) available as a
debian-package. I use version getty_ps-2.0.7h and had to fix some
pieces to comply with the FSSTND.
Makefile:
11c11
< FSSTND=-DFSSTND
---
> # FS
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>
> Cron thought I was lonely and started sending me mail every minute :-(
> The cause is a bug in /etc/crontab: the last line must be
> * * * * * rootatrun -d
>
at least
* * * * * rootatrun -l 0.5 -d
instead of
* * * * *
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Good idea. Could I prevail on you to implement it? I'm overwhelmed.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
If not him, why not me?
Well here is my first hack to classify the accounts in etc/passwd. But
for now I don't know enough about dpkg to go on.
=
> I need to re-configure the network for my debian machine. Is there a way to
> automate this process or do I have to do it by hand?
You might want to look into "cfengine". It's a tool for tracking all of
you network configurations so they can all be changed at once.
It won't do the work you're
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen)
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
[...]
In order to process your /etc/papersize, I had to add a wrapper
programme to the gs package (and call this wrapper programme "gs",
so that it gets ex
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After upgrading to 1.1 I'm having two problems in rxvt/xterm. They
>don't happen on the console.
>
>One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses
>is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Craig Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Over the last few days, I have upgraded a (work) machine from
>0.93r6 to 1.1 beta using Dale Scheetz's manual dpkg instructions.
>All went smoothly except for libc4. I upgraded dpkg from aout to
>elf & tried again with the r
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James W. Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to make NIS work for a Linux 0.96 debian release on a
>network of Sun Solaris machines. I've read the NIS.howto and the
>Net.howto. I've a few questions.
>
>Is there a doc somewhere I've missed?
No, this was
On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to install debian 0.93R6 with XFree86 right now on a
> Pentium 100 with an ATI Mach64 card. Unfortunately, I can't get
> X to sync the video card into the right video mode.
The answer to this depends on which chip set is on your Mach64 car
I am using Debian 1.1 beta. When I do dpkg --configure sendmail, I get a
error message saying that /etc/sendmail.cf is not avaiable. Then I do
dpkg -s sendmail and found that sendmail is half-configured. While I am
reading some document on sendmail, could anyone show me the steps so that
I c
Brian> If you have a MIME compatible mail program, I can just email the
Brian> latest to you.
Or uuencode it.
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttelA MIME hater
Thanks for the quick answers!!
About the wrap problem, the definitive solution is
Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 May 1996 10:40:
>ncurses-1.9.9e-1 fixes this.
But...
Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 May 1996 11:44:
>Unfortunately the new version of ncurses that fixes this
Ed> like to conserve as much memory as I can. My question is, what's the best
Ed> way for me to disable the services started by the init scripts like
Ed> netbase netstd, etc, while not deleting the files? At first, I moved the
Ed> S* links, from rc2.d to an 'unused' directory. That did stop
> Any hints on where I would find dftp
>
> I have just mirrored the unstable 1.1 release and want
> to now use dftp, but can't find the correct one...
It is under /debian/contrib/tools. The latest version is 1.5, though
I'm not sure if that version has made it from incoming, yet. If you
hav
Debian1.1
Package: base
Date: 3 May 1996
X11 cannot find my PS/2 mouse. I assume that it should be /dev/psmouse
but it appears to be misdefined. It is defined as character type 10,
but 'cat /proc/devices' does not show a type 10 character device!
Was this not compiled into the kernel (1.3.95) I
Package: base
Date: 3 May 1996
X11 cannot find my PS/2 mouse. I assume that it should be /dev/psmouse
but it appears to be misdefined. It is defined as character type 10,
but 'cat /proc/devices' does not show a type 10 character device!
Was this not compiled into the kernel (1.3.95) I picked up
Craig Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 May 1996 19:19:
>
>Over the last few days, I have upgraded a (work) machine from
>0.93r6 to 1.1 beta using Dale Scheetz's manual dpkg instructions.
>All went smoothly except for libc4. I upgraded dpkg from aout to
>elf & tried again with the results
> "I" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I> I don't know if dftp (or dpkg-ftp for that matter) support
I> dependencies and/or pre-dependencies (the latter are required for a
I> smooth upgrade to the ELF system).
The current dftp doesn't (I haven't used dpkg-ftp). Currently dftp's
bet
> "C" == Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
C> One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses
C> ncurses is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no
C> longer wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a
C> character sequence that can be
Hi,
I need to re-configure the network for my debian machine. Is there a way to
automate this process or do I have to do it by hand?
Thanks.
Luis.
> "M" == Martin Rheumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> Rob, Any hints on where I would find dftp
Check the contrib directory on your favorite Debian ftp site. It's
/pub/Linux/Debian/contrib/tools on the site I use. Contrib is at the
same level as the stable, unstable, etc. directories.
Hi,
I am installing Debian 1.1 using an NFS mounted site through my ethernet
and keep having this message
Socket Destroy Delayed (r=0 w=236)
What is this? what's going on?
Thanks,
Luis.
I upgraded my kernel to .97 almost as soon as it came out (has it only
been a week?) and had non of the flock emulation errors that I was hearing
about on linux-kernel. Then I decided to bring my base packages up to date
with the 1.1 beta release. After that I get the manditory 5 error messages
bef
> "A" == Andreas Wehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A> After searching a while for a program or script to completely
A> remove a user I didn't found something and did it per hand. Is
A> this neccessary? Thanks.
Right now, this is the only way to handle it. You need to remove
their /etc/pa
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: uudecode?"):
> On Sun, 5 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> > 1. That is equivalent to the simpler command
> > dpkg --search uudecode
> >
> > 2. Both work if and only if the user has the matching package installed.
> >Grepping the Contents.gz file searche
Guy Maor writes ("Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta"):
> On Mon, 6 May 1996, eckes wrote:
> > Why isnt the new dpkg simply stored into the stable Tree? Then a normal
> > dselect run would update it. Isnt the new dpkg stable or imrpoveed enough?
I didn't consider the new dpkg stable enough. It
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses
> is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer
> wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a character
> sequence that can be sent to restore th
Hi all!
I'm trying to install debian 0.93R6 with XFree86 right now on a
Pentium 100 with an ATI Mach64 card. Unfortunately, I can't get
X to sync the video card into the right video mode.
I have been somewhat successful in installing Xaccelerated on this
machine.. but, even then, the only way I
Scott Barker writes ("Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta"):
...
> I assume you mean the dpkg in unstable/binary/base, since I couldn't find any
> "upgrades" directory. BTW, is there an ELF version of dpkg? I only saw an
> a.out version.
Yes, there are both a.out and ELF versions. There's been
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>After upgrading to 1.1 I'm having two problems in rxvt/xterm. They
>don't happen on the console.
>
>One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses
>is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer
>wrap. This happen
Thanks for making your upgrade notes available. This is exactly the
level of detail I was looking for.
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Dale> What do you do if you don't have contents.gz?
I presumed either ftp access or a cdrom as these are needed to procure the
missing package (sharutils in this example case).
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Rob,
Any hints on where I would find dftp
I have just mirrored the unstable 1.1 release and want
to now use dftp, but can't find the correct one...
Mart
At 09:48 PM 05/05/96 -0500, you wrote:
>> "M" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>M> Hi, I am downloading debian 1.1 bet
I'm trying to make NIS work for a Linux 0.96 debian release on a
network of Sun Solaris machines. I've read the NIS.howto and the
Net.howto. I've a few questions.
Is there a doc somewhere I've missed?
The NIS.howto says to add a domainname-yp command to
my rc.local. I don't have a domainnam
After upgrading to 1.1 I'm having two problems in rxvt/xterm. They
don't happen on the console.
One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses
is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer
wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a char
Over the last few days, I have upgraded a (work) machine from
0.93r6 to 1.1 beta using Dale Scheetz's manual dpkg instructions.
All went smoothly except for libc4. I upgraded dpkg from aout to
elf & tried again with the results below. Any ideas ?
thanks
cm
nb - After above, i patched the 1.2.13 ke
On Sun, 5 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dale> If you do a:
> Dale>
> Dale> grep uudecode /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
>
> 1. That is equivalent to the simpler command
> dpkg --search uudecode
>
> 2. Both work if and only if the user has the matching package installed.
>
> After searching a while for a program or script to completely remove a
> user I didn't found something and did it per hand. Is this
> neccessary? Thanks.
As soon as I modify programs in the shadow suite to work with both shadow
and non-shadow passwords, there will be the userdel command:
user
After searching a while for a program or script to completely remove a
user I didn't found something and did it per hand. Is this
neccessary? Thanks.
- Andreas.
--
Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009
Andreas Wehler; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if the broken SMARTHOST in debian's sendmail has been fixed
in the 1.1 release? Or will I have to recompile it like for 8.6.12-8 in the
0.93R6 release?
--
Scott Barker
Linux Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction)
[ I try to repl
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am downloading debian 1.1 beta using ftp. I want to check that
> the files have been downloaded correctly. One way of doing it would
> be to manually do a md5sum on each file and check it against the
> "Packages" file, but this would take a long time
On Mon, 6 May 1996, eckes wrote:
> Why isnt the new dpkg simply stored into the stable Tree? Then a normal
> dselect run would update it. Isnt the new dpkg stable or imrpoveed enough?
Upgrading any base package to ELF requires a dpkg that understands the
new 'Predepends' field. (Their preinst's
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
> When xbase was being installed I thought I responded that I wanted xdm
> to be started at boot time. Now I can see that after a reboot an xdm
> process is running but no X-server is started on the default display.
It's a known bug in the current X packa
Hi,
I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/
The "Name", "Description", and "Maintainer" fields of some of the packages are
empty, trying to download such a package results in an "Unknown URL" error.
However this problem is not quiet reproduceable. Last week the problem
> "F" == Fundamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F> what package does uudecode come in?
sharutils
--
Rob
> "M" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> Hi, I am downloading debian 1.1 beta using ftp. I want to check
M> that the files have been downloaded correctly. One way of doing it
M> would be to manually do a md5sum on each file and check it against
M> the "Packages" file, but this w
Michael Harnois writes:
> For no particular reason I ran ifconfig on ppp0. I received the console
> messages
>
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-3
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
>
> and then ifconfig completed apparen
Michael Harnois writes:
> For no particular reason I ran ifconfig on ppp0. I received the console
> messages
>
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-3
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
>
> and then ifconfig completed apparen
>
> BTW, what is gs-papersize? I found neither manpage, nor Info node.
It's the gs binary.
In order to process your /etc/papersize, I had to add a wrapper
programme to the gs package (and call this wrapper programme "gs",
so that it gets executed when you type "gs"). /usr/bin/gs
reads /etc/pape
> I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/
>
> The "Name", "Description", and "Maintainer" fields of some of the packages are
> empty, trying to download such a package results in an "Unknown URL" error.
>
> However this problem is not quiet reproduceable. Last week the p
> is there a problem with the disks-i386 on master?
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 802 800 1474560 Apr 28 06:39 1440_boot_floppy
> -r--r- 1 802 800 1396095 May 5 01:50 1440_boot_floppy.gz
As best I can tell, 1440_boot_floppy.gz is the one that should be
used. I renamed 1440_boot
On Sun, 5 May 1996, eckes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a problem with the disks-i386 on master?
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 802 800 1474560 Apr 28 06:39 1440_boot_floppy
> -r--r- 1 802 800 1396095 May 5 01:50 1440_boot_floppy.gz
>
I was looking at the archives on ftp.debian.org
Hi,
I just played around with mirror, and found the following:
In the dirstructure I'm replicating are some dirs that are very large,
and I will not be able to get it all on one filesystem, so I have created
for two dirs two symlinks to another filesystem. But, everytime I start
to mirror, tho
The following is the latest update of my upgrade notes for moving from R6
to 1.1 Debian. Feel free to let me know if any errors are being propogated
here.
Some notes on installation of the Debian 1.1 Beta Release.
The test bench for the information presented here is a Debian R6
installation. This
what package does uudecode come in?
thanks
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> is there a problem with the disks-i386 on master?
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 802 800 1474560 Apr 28 06:39 1440_boot_floppy
> -r--r- 1 802 800 1396095 May 5 01:50 1440_boot_floppy.gz
I can't get to master at the moment to check this out, but I suspect
th newer version, 1440_
On Sat, 4 May 1996, David Engel wrote:
> > Scott> I assume you mean the dpkg in unstable/binary/base, since I
> > Scott> couldn't find any "upgrades" directory. BTW, is there an ELF
> > version
> > Scott> of dpkg? I only saw an a.out version.
> >
> > Yes, in debian/project/experimental
>
Hi,
I have already found the answer: the option local_follow_symlinks or
something like that.
Maarten
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> The aout version is expected to run in an R6 system that still has libc or
> libc4 but has not yet installed libc5.
Isnt that the normal situation for binaries in stable/?
Greetings
bernd
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At 07:03 PM 5/6/96 +1000, you wrote:
>
>what package does uudecode come in?
>
>thanks
To locate a file in the Debian structure we have "Contents" files which are
available in the stable and unstals trees. On this particular situation I
grep'd the word uuencode on the Contents file in unstable:
u
Hi,
I am downloading debian 1.1 beta using ftp. I want to check that
the files have been downloaded correctly. One way of doing it would
be to manually do a md5sum on each file and check it against the
"Packages" file, but this would take a long time. Is there a quicker
way of doing it?
Thank
Hi Maarten
I hope that someone will give you a smarter answer ... but a simple fix would
be to split your mirror package file into several sections where each section
corresponds to one physical partition. Set local dir in each section to the
corresponding partition, ie
...
local
> alias net-pf-3 off # AX.25
> alias net-pf-4 ipx # IPX
> alias net-pf-5 appletalk # Appletalk
>
> I don't compile the AX.25 module, so I don't know the name of
> the object file for it. I leave it turned off. If you don't
> use either of the other protocols in your system, you
Dale> If you do a:
Dale>
Dale> grep uudecode /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
1. That is equivalent to the simpler command
dpkg --search uudecode
2. Both work if and only if the user has the matching package installed.
Grepping the Contents.gz file searches among all packages avai
On Sun, 5 May 1996, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hallo Maarten!
>
> }I didn't say 'yes' when xbase asked me if I wanted to start xdm at
> }boot-time, but now I'd like to see how it works here. How do I set this up?
> }I tried just to type 'xdm' at the root-prompt, but it didn't do a thing.
>
> I wou
On Mon, 6 May 1996, eckes wrote:
> > The problem has something to do with dselect not coping well with
> > packages being listed twice in the Packages file.
>
> Why isnt the new dpkg simply stored into the stable Tree? Then a normal
> dselect run would update it. Isnt the new dpkg stable or imr
> "Maarten" == Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Maarten> On Sun, 5 May 1996, Martin Schulze wrote:
>> I would suggest doing a "dpkg --configure xbase".
Maarten> Tried that, complained it couldn't do that, something was
Maarten> wrong and it was already installed
I have
> The problem has something to do with dselect not coping well with
> packages being listed twice in the Packages file.
Why isnt the new dpkg simply stored into the stable Tree? Then a normal
dselect run would update it. Isnt the new dpkg stable or imrpoveed enough?
Greetings
Bernd
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Fundamental> what package does uudecode come in?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> zgrep uudecode /mirror/debian/unstable/Contents.gz
usr/bin/uudecode sharutils
usr/doc/examples/perl/uudecode.gzperl
usr/man/man1/uudecode.1
Hallo Maarten!
}I didn't say 'yes' when xbase asked me if I wanted to start xdm at
}boot-time, but now I'd like to see how it works here. How do I set this up?
}I tried just to type 'xdm' at the root-prompt, but it didn't do a thing.
I would suggest doing a "dpkg --configure xbase".
Regards,
> > Our archive maintainer has not created the updates directory yet.
> > When that happens, the a.out version will be placed there and the ELF
> > version will be moved to the binary/base directory.
> >
> The 1.1.5aout version of dpkg is necessary for upgrading the base
> packages. Once all the b
On Sun, 5 May 1996, David Engel wrote:
> > > Our archive maintainer has not created the updates directory yet.
> > > When that happens, the a.out version will be placed there and the ELF
> > > version will be moved to the binary/base directory.
> > >
> > The 1.1.5aout version of dpkg is necessary
>Hi Jonathan.
>
>I use a Avance Logic card in my Win95 box (I doubt that'll help, but listen
>anyway). The unfortunate problem I had was that I needed specific drivers
>for it - I'd give up if you are going to try to use it for X-windows I
>think. Unless there's a specific driver in X for it.
Th
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Fundamental wrote:
>
> what package does uudecode come in?
>
If you do a:
grep uudecode /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
The output indicates that sharutils is the package that contains uudecode.
Luck,
Dwarf
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