Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote: > Then maybe the warning signs in the ftp sites should be updated? Back when > I went for Debian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6, > which indeed prooved less stable than "unstable"), as well as when I mirrored > unstable 1.1. My 0.

Appreciation! :)

1996-06-02 Thread Richard Lovison
While reading replies to my recent questions posed to debian-users, I was once again reminded of why I chose and continue to choose to be a part of the Debian community. In a period of less than 24 hours I received help and advice from others, many located in other parts of the world. I wish I c

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about > this for a while before I do it, though. Lets be kind to our mirrors.. :) We also need to move the 1.1 into place when this happens. Then we need to create the next gener

Re: Help. Can't boot all of a sudden.

1996-06-02 Thread Dale Miller
> /mnt and execute MAKEDEV in /mnt/dev. > Tried that but that doesn't seem to be the problem. What should mtab have in it after a shutdown? I noticed that the new quota package accesses it with the new program that makes sparse files. Could that be a problem? I didn't see anything particularly

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Martin Konold
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about > this for a while before I do it, though. I vote for not deleting it but for renaming to obsolete or old. We should not remove the last stable version before 1.1 is released and pr

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about this for a while before I do it, though. Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: >> >> > While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page >> > by using "b" or "^B". >> >> more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like p

Re: Self-Built Kernel Packages

1996-06-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian C. White) wrote on 30.05.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package is > > >> called kernel-image. > > > > You could also grab the raw source and use kernel-package > > package to generate your new image pack

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: > > While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page > by using "b" or "^B". Has anyone else experienced this? My current > version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use "more" to read a text file, > everything works fine. > If

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Martin Konold wrote: > > Why don't you try installing Debian 1.1 beta instead of 0.93R6? It's > > located in the unstable directory of your friendly Debian mirror site. > > but don't be misled by the 'unstable' name... 1.1 is now in late beta and > > is quite stable now. And the installation proces

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have seen this with the latest net packages in most version since 1.3.95, I think. Still happens at 1.99.8, but less so than some earlier kernels. I have yet to boot 1.99.10. Hasn't caused my any problems, but YMMV. manoj -- "Bond reflected that good Americ

easy convert from slackware?

1996-06-02 Thread Paul Wade
I started with slack 3 and the 1.2.13 kernel. I have since updated libraries, binutils, module utilities and the kernel (1.3.100). I have to boot 1.2.13 to make anything. I get a floating point exception when I type "ps aux". I have a 386 without FPU. I thought I would try the Debian binaries. Is t

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Martin Konold
> > I do agree. You really should go for 1.1 beta. This version is supposed > > Then maybe the warning signs in the ftp sites should be updated? Back when > I went for Debian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6, > which indeed prooved less stable than "unstable"), as well as

Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > >>"Brian" == Brian C White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> >> There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package > >> is >> called kernel-image. I'm still looking for this kernel-image package. Can't find it in the ls-lR files. > > >> You cou

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Rob Browning
Gerd Bavendiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the > following. > > koko:/root>>> ping us1by-6 > PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes > > --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- > 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% pack

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Peter Tobias
Gerd Bavendiek wrote: > on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the > following. > > koko:/root>>> ping us1by-6 > PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes > > --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- > 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > Socket de

Re: PGP & MailCrypt

1996-06-02 Thread Joe Reinhardt
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ALso, is there a debian package for MailCrypt (Emacs/PGP interface)? > I found a package for auto-pgp, but it appears that I have to use > emacs rmail to take advantage of it... > I uploaded a mailcrypt package last weekend, mailcrypt-3.4-1.all.deb. --

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Richard Lovison
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: > > > While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page > > by using "b" or "^B". > > more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like pipes for example. > (man pipes the data out to the

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi, > >on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the >following. > >koko:/root>>> ping us1by-6 >PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes > >--- us1by-6 ping statistics --- >5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet

Re: problem with traceroute

1996-06-02 Thread Scott Barker
Mark Eichin said: > There are actually a number of "unstable" packages that don't work > under 1.2.13 -- most have explicit dependencies (diald used to, for > example) but some don't. BIND, for example, needs the "ip_options" > support that was added in 1.3 (though I've submitted a reasonably > cle

Re: Help. Can't boot all of a sudden.

1996-06-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was using my linux box today and noticed that >when I logged out on a tty the boo login prompt >did not return. I then rebooted and all of a sudden >the kernel stoips booting at INIT: Booting v2.61. >It stops here and will

Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Hi, on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the following. koko:/root>>> ping us1by-6 PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340) |

Re: problem with traceroute

1996-06-02 Thread Mark Eichin
Scott Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > traceroute: IP_HDRINCL: Protocol not available I've also noticed this under 1.2.13. (the same package works fine on my 1.3.79 machine, and I should really update both kernels...) There are actually a number of "unstable" packages that don't work under 1.

IP-forwarding

1996-06-02 Thread Lindsay Allen
IP forwarding used to work just fine and now it won't. The output of ifconfig and route _look_ ok and I can't think what is wrong. IP-forwarding was enabled in the make config, but how can I tell if it actually in the kernel? All ideas welcome. Lindsay

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Guy Maor
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: > While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page > by using "b" or "^B". Has anyone else experienced this? My current > version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use "more" to read a text file, > everything works fine. more ca

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
I think "more" won't scroll back when it is reading a pipe, only when it is reading a file. Man drives it with a pipe. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a whole lot more than Dole. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
> BTW: When will 1.1 be released? I am uploading yet another pass at the installation floppies today. We're also dealing with some FTP site problems. I'm going to make a new "stable" archive this week, and will let that propogate out to all of the FTP mirrors. We then will give it a few more days

Re: Interesting Activity for Shell commands.

1996-06-02 Thread Rob Leslie
> Also perhaps how I could also start my sendmail configuration > as if I only just installed it. I seem to have edited it > too many times and cant put it back the right way. > ie Do I deselect it, remove it and then reinstate it ? You should be able to reconfigure sendmail by running `sendmailco

Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Richard Lovison
While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page by using "b" or "^B". Has anyone else experienced this? My current version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use "more" to read a text file, everything works fine. Richard