Re: kernel headers

1996-05-25 Thread eckes
Hello, > The headers were included in libc5-dev after a rash of very > buggy alpha kernel releases (1.3.7* or something like that) that > proceeded to break compilations, etc. Kernel versions are changed > far more rapidly than libc is, and there are higer chances that > people install

Re: Cron

1996-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrew Stephen writes ("Cron"): > How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I > have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting > hundreds of messages a day. Make the cron jobs not produce any output unless there's an error. cron only sends mai

Re: Cron

1996-05-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
> Just a quick question!! > > How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I > have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting > hundreds of messages a day. > > Thanks in advance. > > Andrew In the /etc/crontab whack a "2>&1 > /dev/null" on the

Uploading sysklogd 1.3-5

1996-05-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi folks! I'll upload a new bugfixed release to master later. Format: 1.5 Date: Thu May 23 20:29:26 MET DST 1996 Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-5 Section: base Priority: required Essential: yes Distribution: unstable Architecture: i386 Depends: libc5 Conflicts: syslogd Replaces: syslo

Re: Cron

1996-05-25 Thread Richard Kettlewell
>How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a >script. I have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I >am getting hundreds of messages a day. Make sure that the programs in question don't produce any output (e.g. by redirecting the output to /dev/null.) Cron mailin

Cron

1996-05-25 Thread Andrew Stephen
Just a quick question!! How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting hundreds of messages a day. Thanks in advance. Andrew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: ftp+rcp: Connection refused

1996-05-25 Thread Amos Shapira
Gerd Bavendiek wrote: > gives me: > > ftp: connect: Connection refused You get this error only when the other machine is up and running, your machine manages to reach it, and finds that there is no FTP server on the other machine waiting for new connections. The culprit is usually in /etc/inetd.

Re: dpkg-ftp troubles

1996-05-25 Thread Andy Guy
Joe Reinhardt writes: > > >I am having trouble with dpkg-ftp 1.4.0. I repeatedly get this error >when trying to install: > >Processing status file... > >Processing Package files... > unstable... >Argument "" isn't numeric in ncmp at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install >line 99, > chunk 1441

Re: dpkg-ftp troubles

1996-05-25 Thread Andy Guy
Kevin Dalley writes: > > >Try replacing cmpvers in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install with the >following function. While the maintainer has not yet blessed this >change, it seems to work for me. > ># compare two versions (taken from dpkg docs) >sub cmpvers { >($a,$b) = @_; >my ($cm, $ad,

Re: ~/.saves-6702-hostname.domainname

1996-05-25 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> On Fri, 24 May 96 08:29 MET DST, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Wehler) said: Andreas> Does somone know how to avoid long lists of emacs-savings Andreas> like that in the subject line? [...] These files contain lists of filenames that Emacs has currently auto-saved. You can use M-x r

Need testimonials for press release

1996-05-25 Thread Bruce Perens
I'll be making some press releases around the 1.1 release, and I need testimonials and descriptions of interesting things that people are doing with the system for use in the press release. Please take some time to think about what you like most about Debian, and write it down. Write down what you

Re: ~/.saves-6702-hostname.domainname

1996-05-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Andreas Wehler wrote: > Does somone know how to avoid long lists of emacs-savings like that > in the subject line? They seem to be created only if the emacs is > invoced on the local machine but not if started remotely via telnet > etc. The saves-files contain files visited with that emacs-sess

Re: netscape*.deb installation problem

1996-05-25 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> On 24 May 1996 13:25:40 +0200, Kai Grossjohann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kai> [[ Can't install netscape*.deb ]] Thanks to everybody who answered. I know understand that I need to get Netscape itself from ftp.netscape.com. Silly me, I should have found that out by myself, especiall