Re: ipfwadm?

1996-08-23 Thread wb2oyc
> >Actually, either of the above tips by themselves may fix the problem as I >think they are essentially doing the same thing. > >For what it's worth, this is how I set up masquerading on my machine, but >I know there are several ways to do it. The way you are doing it sounds >like it is working.

Re: Bugs

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
The submission address did change, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bruce

Re: Installation loop and other probs with Debian 1.1.5

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Bertrand Leconte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As my boot disk is on a ncr53c810 board, I need a special kernel, Write to Susan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, she can send you a special kernel. Bruce

Re: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
[regarding chronic filesystem errors] About the only additional thing I can suggest is upgrading your kernel (we are now at 2.0.13, I think) and watching to see if the problem goes away. Bruce

Shadow & S/key

1996-08-23 Thread Scott Brehm
I didn't see this in the faq or recent archives of debian-user. Is s/key and shadow password support built in to Debian 1.1? Thanks Scott Brehm | Jaycor Network Administrator/Senior Systems Anal

ANNOUNCEMENT: anacron (was called 'pe' before)

1996-08-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi everbody! I've just uploaded anacron_1.0-1 to the master server. Note that I changed to name from `pe' to `anacron' which sounds better (I think ;-). If you downloaded the beta from the URL I posted here, I would suggest that you install anacron, move your old configuration /etc/petab over th

Bugs

1996-08-23 Thread Kevin M Bealer
I've submitted these two bugs to debian bugs, and got no response; I submitted them again, and still got no response. (Has the list address changed recently?) I could try again, but then I would have to wait again, and so on, so... (In otherwords, sorry for the offtopic.) -

Re: mailagent and MH

1996-08-23 Thread srivasta
Hi, Actually, some of the delay is there by design ;-). You see, if a flurry of messages comes in (like, when one runs popclient), then we don't want to spawn as many copies of mailagent as there are messages (well, perl is a rather large binary). What is done is that a number of copi

Re: Debian on a Compaq Prosignia 4/66

1996-08-23 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
David, (Original message quoted below.) I asked around and got two suggestions: 1) If it's an EISA machine, use the EISA config to find out more about the controller. In particular, you want to know if there is an "emulation" mode. If so, you may want to play with this to see if there

Re: Help: need to fix ownership of /var/...

1996-08-23 Thread Sherwood Botsford
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet. > - > Hi, > > Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup > were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc >

Re: Debian quirks?

1996-08-23 Thread Brian C. White
> > /tmp > > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. I have a 30MB / > > partition, and only about 10MB space free on /tmp. This didn't work very > > well while trying to restore a 50MB file from taper. (I've now mounted > > 100MB on /tmp to avoid the problem.) > > I've got severa

Re: ldso package and perl

1996-08-23 Thread David Engel
Douglas Bates writes: > When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I > suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of > the transcript. This due to a packaging problem in ldso. It will be fixed in a few days. David -- David Engel

Debian on a Compaq Prosignia 4/66

1996-08-23 Thread David Power
We were just given a Compaq Prosignia 4/66 with 40 MB RAM and a 1.05 GB SCSI drive to user as a DB Server. Our preference is to run it under Linux. However, it has a built-in SCSI controller. So far we have tried Debian 1.1, 1.1.6, and all of the Debial 2.0.5 alternate boot disks with no luck in

Re: Netscape Library Error (netscape without .deb)

1996-08-23 Thread Brian C. White
> > > XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB > > > XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH > > > > Do those XKeysymDB and XNLSPATH really provide something useful or have > > you used them only because they are provided ? > > The following info has been in

Re: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-23 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Luca Maranzano wrote: > Bruce Perens wrote: > > > > I've tryed to e2fsck /dev/hdc2 (thinking that device 16:02 corresponds > > > to /dev/hdc2) and it found a lot of errors, but it seemed that e2fsck > > > was able to correct them all; after rebooting similar messages appeared

duplicate gs and gsfonts

1996-08-23 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: It appears that there is a duplication of gs and gsfonts in the Debian tree. The 2.62-2 versions of both packages appear in the /stable/binary/text and /unstable/binary/text directories but the 3.53-3 version of gsfonts and the 4.0-1 version of gs appear in the /non-free/binary dir

archie

1996-08-23 Thread Pure Energy
hiya all, i've been useing archie for awhile and quite often i get this: archie failed: Recvfrom failed (dirsend) not sure what it means any ideas? thanx -Rob /-\ | Robert "Adrenolin" MacQuarrie |

StarOffice install script (No Motif)

1996-08-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Download the staroffice package into some directory and put the following script there. Run it as superuser and Staroffice will install without Motif libraries: starinst: #!/bin/sh # Prepare Star Office for Non Motif installation mkdir temp cd temp # Extract Libraries needed for installation unzi

Re: dselect and ftp

1996-08-23 Thread Kevin Buhr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- "David J. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | My recent ftp debian 1.1 installation was a great success, | except that I appear to have deleted a package needed for | further ftp installations using dselect You need to reinstall "dpkg-ftp". |

Re: Digested version of this list? (Stopped archives)

1996-08-23 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean Orloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:00:07 -0700, Ken Gaugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ken> At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote: > >> Is there a digested version of this mailing list?... > Ken> Check out http://www.debian.org/List

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-23 Thread Ervin D. Walter
Adam Heath writes: > > > > This is all nice and good, but there is a better way. > [bad way deleted] There is a reason that that /etc/securetty does not contain the pseudo terminals in the first place. It is very unsecure to allow root to login directly anywahere except the console or possibl

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alternatively, boot the system from a floppy and make the second > partition the active one. This will then boot LILO properly without > having to write to the MBR. It works... I don't think that will work because he wrote LILO on the MBR.

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 23 Aug 1996, Ed Donovan wrote: > Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at > > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive! > > > > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el > > D

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-23 Thread David Engel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I recently installed Debian 1.1, including termcap.compat. Since then > I've installed a custom version of the kernel (2.0.7) successfully, so > I figure that gcc is reasonably well set up. > > However, I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed, > complaini

Bug Report: clock seg faults

1996-08-23 Thread Erik B Andersen
The following should be self explanitory: Dillweed# dpkg -i util-linux_2.5-5.deb (Reading database ... 15590 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace util-linux (using util-linux_2.5-5.deb) ... Unpacking replacement util-linux ... Setting

ldso package and perl

1996-08-23 Thread Douglas Bates
When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of the transcript. ... Preparing to replace ldso (using .../base/ldso_1.8.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ldso ... Preparing to replace modules (using .../base/m

Re: Digested version of this list? (Stopped archives)

1996-08-23 Thread Jean Orloff
> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:00:07 -0700, Ken Gaugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ken> At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote: >> Is there a digested version of this mailing list?... Ken> Check out http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ NOPE! Precisely! Those stop on June 24. Any follow-up out th

RE: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-23 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Download the debianised version from www.columbia.edu. Casper Boden-Cummins. >-- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 23 August 1996 01:55 >To:debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. >Subject: gcc can't find termcap library > >I re

Re: mailagent and MH

1996-08-23 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Brian -- Brian Mays wrote: > Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each > message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail' > program, to the user's local account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail > or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailage

Installation loop and other probs with Debian 1.1.5

1996-08-23 Thread Bertrand Leconte
Hi! I've just tried to install Debian 1.1.5 my computer. I have several problems. As my boot disk is on a ncr53c810 board, I need a special kernel, but it seems that they only exists with a 2.0.5 kernel while the standard kernel is a 2.0.6. But went I choose the installation of the kernel, I hav

Re: How to use win32gcc

1996-08-23 Thread Michael Meskes
wilbert writes: > Does anyone of you know how to use the win32gcc package? Did I miss some > documenation or websites? Am I right when I assume that with this package > I can compile and link c++ programs which are runnable on a windows > machine? You are completely correct. But you need cygwin.dl

Re: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-23 Thread Luca Maranzano
Bruce Perens wrote: > > I've tryed to e2fsck /dev/hdc2 (thinking that device 16:02 corresponds > > to /dev/hdc2) and it found a lot of errors, but it seemed that e2fsck > > was able to correct them all; after rebooting similar messages appeared > > again after some hours. > > > Any clue about thi

Re: Security holes in bash

1996-08-23 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Hello Bruce, > This is best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for future reference. Will do so, Thanks Steffen PGP Key is available under : http://www.xlink.net/~steffen/steffen.asc - Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _ _ email: [EMAIL PR

Re: Kernel headers

1996-08-23 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Miroslav Ruda wrote: : : I think old Slackware idea (/usr/include/{linux,asm,net} are links to : /usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm,net}) is more better. I can simly upgrade : kernel_source and not yet libc5 to have same version of kernel headers. : : Is any reason why not to use this schema in

Re: Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOffice under Debian)

1996-08-23 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
"James A. Robinson" writes: -> -> > Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the -> > issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif? -> -> Motif is a set of "proprietary" libraries licensed by OSF. So it -> costs money to get them. I've bought them

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-08-23 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot > > the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined > > it by writing a boot record onto the second partition. > > Try re-installing the LILO package, and answer _yes_ to all of the questions

Re: bable won't configure

1996-08-23 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > I just upgraded to the newest Babel (3.6-4) and it seems to have gotten > screwed. It won't configure because it says it doesn't know how to > generate manfnt.mf, and then it says it can't find manfnt.mf. It then > writes a huge log file to disk,

Re: perl

1996-08-23 Thread Ed Donovan
Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perl uses 'csh' for filename globbing (that is, for <*.*> sort of > constructs.) Yes, that's strange behavior, and the dependency probably > will eventually be removed, but not anytime soon. But, but...I thought it was noted, here or in the bug report

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Ed Donovan
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive! > > The file is about 12KB. > > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el > Ditto. Some of thes

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-23 Thread Adam Heath
-- > > >I've set up a test PC with Debian 1.1 and want to > > >administer it remotely but am refused a telnet connection > > >as root ... is there a way around this ? Do I have to give > > > > > > The way I handle this problem is log in under my account and type > > > > su

Re: debianized

1996-08-23 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Timothy -- You asked: > I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me > read on how to become debian-ized. Look on http://www.debian.org. > I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching. You'll get the unwelcome advice that you'll need to (a) save your configurat

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-23 Thread Gilbert Ramirez
> However, I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed, > complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap. > > There is definitely a file of the form /lib/libtermcap.so.?, but I > guess gcc is looking for a *.a file. Are you sure? Perhaps it's looking for /lib/libtermcap.so (without the

Trojan NetKit??

1996-08-23 Thread Gith
I saw this announcement in c.o.l.a and I am a bit confused. There has been something called "NetKit-B-0.07B" uploaded to some of the archive sites. This is an unauthorized release of NetKit-B. It may be trojanized or hacked. Ple

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Guy Maor wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > Is there a postscript version of the documents > > Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/ > you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript. > > Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents

Re: Digested version of this list?

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
I suggest that you get "procmail" or "mailagent" on your system, and set it up so that the list is split into a separate file from your personal mailbox. That's how I read the 30 lists I subscribe to, and there is much less overwhelm than if I had everything in one mailbox. Thanks

gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-23 Thread danny
I recently installed Debian 1.1, including termcap.compat. Since then I've installed a custom version of the kernel (2.0.7) successfully, so I figure that gcc is reasonably well set up. However, I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed, complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap. T

Re: NFS trouble

1996-08-23 Thread wb2oyc
> >My 2 cents' worth on this one is that my (new) system had full NFS >capability until I installed the netstd package, at which point I got the >above message. > >Poking around showed that /etc/init.d/netstd__nfs had all 5 of the _start_ >lines commented out. I am a Unix dumbkov but uncommentin

debianized

1996-08-23 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me read on how to become debian-ized. I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching. Please reply directory to my email because I do not believe I'm in this mailing list. How do I sign up for the debian mailing li

Re: Digested version of this list?

1996-08-23 Thread Ken Gaugler
At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote: >Is there a digested version of this mailing list? I'm being overwhelmed by >the amount of traffic here. If there isn't a debian-user-digest, I think it's >high time somebody created it--please. > >-Randy >-- >http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ > >NOTICE: I DO

Re: Apache - catch 22?

1996-08-23 Thread Fundamental
At 09:01 22/08/96 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Fun -- hi Su:) >dpkg --info libgdbm1_1.7.3-11.deb > >yields: >... >Depends: libc5 (>=5.2.16-1) >... You quite right, but i have libgdbm1_1.7.3.8 ... thats my other problem, i cant find lib3-11 ... I even had a look at ftp.debian.org, i can find this versi

RE: Non-existent .deb's

1996-08-23 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: > But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists, > either. I kind of like that information, as it allows me to see if I'm > trying to install something I don't have the extra files for. It's fairly easy to generate your own

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > Is there a postscript version of the documents Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/ you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript. Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents which do *NOT* reflect current p

Re: Kernel headers

1996-08-23 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miroslav Ruda) writes: > Is any reason why not to use this schema in Debian too? Read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz -- Rob

Printing over Ethertalk

1996-08-23 Thread Shaya Potter
You may remember that I posted a little while ago about not being able to print over ethertalk. Well now I can print, but that doesn't do me that much good because it just keeps on printing. I have tried many things, but I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong. I could modify a lpr sc

Re: does Linux support 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI?

1996-08-23 Thread Rob Browning
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone > using it? Does the kernel support it yet? I just started using one with my new machine, and it appears to work fine. You might need to make sure you have a fairly recent kernel. I wi

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Shaya Potter
Is there a postscript version of the documents. Thanks, Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all > > prospective Debian developers to read. >

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-23 Thread Ken Gaugler
>Resent-Date: 22 Aug 1996 14:28:53 - >Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; >Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Str|mberg) >Subject: Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Blair) >Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:28:35 +0200

dselect and ftp

1996-08-23 Thread David J. Evans
My recent ftp debian 1.1 installation was a great success, except that I appear to have deleted a package needed for further ftp installations using dselect I don't know where I went wrong, but was trying to save some disk space and probably pressed a - when I should have selected an =. C

Re: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
> The first question is this: which device are 16:02 and 16:01 ? > I looked in /dev searching for devices whith major number 16 but > I didn't found any. Shouldn't hda and hdc correspond to major 3 and 22 ? The message is in hex (which is probably a mistake). It's hdc2 and hdc1. > I've tryed to e

Re: Security holes in bash

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
This is best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for future reference. Thanks Bruce

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
> What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot > the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined > it by writing a boot record onto the second partition. Try re-installing the LILO package, and answer _yes_ to all of the questions it asks you. This will put Debian's MBR program on y

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine > with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. Well, if LILO will work at all with the default configuration that you get when you install the package, you are probably safe, since only _one_ c

bleh...

1996-08-23 Thread Tim Sailer
I'm running the unstable tree. If someone else can try '/sbin/clock -r' and let me know if it seg faults, I'd appreciate it. It does it on 2 systems here... :( Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "A public-opinion poll is no substitute