Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

Wayne Schlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As Jim Worthington said: > > > > > > I do know that when I tried to copy my /etc/passwd file from a Sun > > > system to Debian 1.1, the passwords would not decrypt correctly on > > > login. > > > Just another data point I just copied my password

more on procmail

There have been a lot of posts about procmail, so I thought I'd jump in with a question too. I've installed procmail, but haven't done anything with it yet. I use Netscape for a mail reader at home and office. It only uses file locking on the system mail spool (the Inbox), not any of the folders

Re: inn installation question

Erik> Can't really seem to figure out what is wrong. Indeed I do not have Erik> a /usr/bin/mail, could it be my use of sendmail instead of smail? If Erik> anyone has any hints on how to solve this one, I'll be very grateful! Install the "mailx" package, it provides the simple /usr/bin/mail

Screwing up on unsubscribe instructions (Was: Re: Date: 26-Aug-1996 10:47:04 -0400)

I'd just like to make sure my apology gets through for giving incorrect instructions on unsubscribing from this mailing list. Use the WWW interface at instead. Again, sorry, I wasn't thinking... On 26 Aug 1996, R Chris Ross wrote: > > unsubscribe debian-user > > --

May I have your chat scripts, please?

I am assembling a collection of chat scripts in support of an effort by our Debain developers to generate this information during setup. We need your help because the proceedure for logging in and starting ppp frames varies from ISP to ISP. With a reasonable database, most of the variations can b

Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

I've done some statistics regarding irqtune and kernels 2.0.14 and 2.0.15. The protocol was the following: 1) ftp to my ISP 2) put a file 3) get the same file 10 times with a 'mget file file ' I timed only the 'GET', not the 'PUT' as Linux buffers outgoing packets and tricks the figures. Test

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >?? Why double the work. This was an ad for the debianized version. Oh I am sorry. I misunderstood. I've been keeping a debianized version of squid since squid 1.0.3 at least, and I've been emailing with the original mai

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

Jim, My binary of Crack v4.1f that I compiled a couple of years ago (with ufc-crypt I believe) works fine under Debian 1.1. I haven't tried to recompile it though. I'd be happy to ship the binary to you in a pinch if you trust me (MH viamail or ftp preferred). Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: anybody seen this?

On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Brian K Servis wrote: > Just thought I would start here to see if I can find a solution. I > have a Micron PCI Pentium-90 PNP system with the EIDE controllers on > the mother board. On the primary controller I have two 1.2G Western > Digital HD's. The master is partitioned

Making filesystems at installation time

Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my 1.1 installation notes, I just have the users make one filesystem > for simplicity's sake, and the resulting system does not seem to be any less > robust, going by the number of complaints. Of course the user can get fancy > once they know what they

Re: Question about dependencies ...

On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > package and I got a dependency error. Mosaic needs libpng > and zlib1. I have libgr installed. Although libgr does not > conflict with these two other packages, they conflict with > it. libgr is an obsolete package. Its functionality is replace

Q's about modifying a debian package install

I'm still trying to get a grip on the whole theory of debian package installations and I have a few questions about how one should go about modifying an installation. I just installed the apache package. The debian installation sets up apache to run out of the rc.d stuff but I want it to run un

serial connection

Ooops, I meant a null-modem connection.

popclient

Does anyone know how to use procmail with popclient? When configured to use procmail, popclient exits saying that it can't exec a few things. Any hints? :-) Oh, and does anyone know how to establish a serial connection between DOS and a debian box??? Thanx for the help...

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

Bruce: > There is no varargs.h in libc5-dev_5.2.18-9 . Maybe older versions > contain it. David: > varargs.h is provided by gcc. Oops. Never thought of that. Anyway, nothing should use it any longer. Thanks Bruce

Re: perl

On 23 Aug 1996, Ed Donovan wrote: > 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...

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

Bruce Perens writes: > From: "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is not necessarily always possible. The one case I know about is > > when a program uses "varargs" instead of the newere, ANSI-standard > > "stdarg". > > There is no varargs.h in libc5-dev_5.2.18-9 . Maybe older vers

inn installation question

I seem to have managed to set up inn to process my uucp newsfeed (never been able to get that far with Slackware). However, I keep receiving regular (daily) mail messages: >Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 03:09:28 +0200 >To: news >Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> news.daily expireover >X-Cron-Env: >

Date: 26-Aug-1996 10:47:04 -0400

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Re: gpm_1.06-3.deb: libgpm.so.* are missing

On 26 Aug 1996, Martin Dinkloh wrote: > In gpm_1.06-3.deb the files libgpm.so.* are missing. > > I noticed this since mc wouldn't run anymore after updating to this package. > I have not checked if there are any other files missing. > > Martin Dinkloh > You need to install the libgpm1 packa

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

You can find a particular .sty file (or anything else in the CTAN archives) by visiting: http://www.shsu.edu/cgi-bin/ctan-index Then enter the name of the macro you want, in this case, a4.sty, and you'll be returned a page with links to sites that provide it. HTH, Susan Kleinmann

Bug#4291: dselect and ftp

Package: base Version: ? Kevin Buhr writes ("Re: dselect and ftp"): ... > You did nothing wrong: when I installed Debian 1.1.5, I noticed that > the "dpkg-ftp" had been *automatically* deselected, and I had to > manually fix that. I just forgot to file a bug report about it. Ahh, the light dawns

Re: DPKG Remapping table

Randall Shutt writes ("DPKG Remapping table"): > Does anyone know where the dpkg remapping table is? I need to remap > pentium to i386 due to my recent installation of a pgcc compiler. Trouble is, > somehow, dpkg --print-arrcheticture returns pentium. Tends to hose lots of > install stuff a

Re: flop-py disk installation...........

Hi Mike and Candy -- You asked: > Can anyone clue me in as to how to transfer package > information to a floppy in a form that linux can recognize?tried: > direct copy from mswindows file manager, Does this mean you had an MS-DOS formatted diskette in your floppy drive? i.e., After you made the c

Re: "man" crashes

Christoph Lameter writes ("Re: "man" crashes"): ... > Here is the output from what you suggested: > mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink > mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1: No such file or > directory > mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechange

Re: Bugs

Kevin M. Bealer writes ("Bugs"): > 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, sorr

Re: gpm_1.06-3.deb: libgpm.so.* are missing

Michael Meskes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] : It's not missing it just got deleted due to a bug in the postinst. You : should be able to work around it by simply installing it once again. [...] I installed it several times, however /usr/lib/libgpm.so.* was not installed. Another thing I notic

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

>> Hakan Ardo writes: > Sure it does, the only trouble with that one is >> that it only uses half of > the paper :) The rest is margins... >> >> That's true. And I don't know how to solve it correctly. I just entered >> a latex preamble: I always use "vmargin.sty" which allows to defin

Re: Non-existent .deb's

Daniel Lynes writes ("Re: Non-existent .deb's"): > On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote: > >If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect > >will offer to scan the .deb files that are actually on your disk. > > But, this method does not use the descriptions, or de

anybody seen this?

Just thought I would start here to see if I can find a solution. I have a Micron PCI Pentium-90 PNP system with the EIDE controllers on the mother board. On the primary controller I have two 1.2G Western Digital HD's. The master is partitioned into 2 drives all for Win95. The slave is partitione

Question about dependencies ...

Hi! I tried dselect's ftp method last night for the first time. It's pretty nice. However, I tried to install the mosaic package and I got a dependency error. Mosaic needs libpng and zlib1. I have libgr installed. Although libgr does not conflict with these two other packages, they conflict wi

Re: flop-py disk installation...........

On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Mike& Candy List wrote: > I am soo confused.Can anyone clue me in as to how to transfer package > information to a floppy in a form that linux can recognize?tried: > direct copy from mswindows file manager,rawrite but no go also, booted > from custom disk got message that dse

Re: using procmail with emacs RMAIL

> On Sat, 24 Aug 96 17:42 EDT, Stephen Masterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Stephen> Can someone point me to info for the quickest, easiest way to use Stephen> procmail with Emacs RMAIL to separate, say, the debian list into a Stephen> separate folder? I normally have no problem putting hou

Re: dvips/metafont and Stylus 800

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 21 Aug 1996, Dirk Bernhardt wrote: >I just installed the whole tex stuff. I now am trying to configure it >to make the fonts for my Epson Stylus 800 printer. > >I've changed the dvips-file config.ps: > >D 360 >M epstylus O.K. > >and added to Metafont's modes.

Contents of a package? (was deb-view.el)

Good job with deb-view.el! This is by all means a useful tool. For a next version: it would be great to have an entry in crypt-build-encoding-alist so that opening any .deb from emacs goes through your processing. After all, crypt++ is provided with w3-el. This might annoy people that download .de

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

> Hakan Ardo writes: > > Sure it does, the only trouble with that one is that it only uses half of > > the paper :) The rest is margins... > > That's true. And I don't know how to solve it correctly. I just entered a > latex preamble: > > \begin_preamble > \setlength\oddsidemargin {0mm} > \setle

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

> Hakan Ardo writes: > > Then there is the trouble with lyx. I have just started to try it out, and > > it > > > seems like it uses the sty approch, but it might be a misconfiguration of it > > to... > > I use a4paper with LyX all the time without a problem. However, a4wide > doesn't work. Sur

Re: a4.sty and a4wide.sty

Hakan Ardo writes: > Then there is the trouble with lyx. I have just started to try it out, and it > seems like it uses the sty approch, but it might be a misconfiguration of it > to... I use a4paper with LyX all the time without a problem. However, a4wide doesn't work. Michael -- Michael Mesk

Re: gpm_1.06-3.deb: libgpm.so.* are missing

Martin Dinkloh writes: > > In gpm_1.06-3.deb the files libgpm.so.* are missing. > > I noticed this since mc wouldn't run anymore after updating to this package. > I have not checked if there are any other files missing. It's not missing it just got deleted due to a bug in the postinst. You shoul

flop-py disk installation...........

I am soo confused.Can anyone clue me in as to how to transfer package information to a floppy in a form that linux can recognize?tried: direct copy from mswindows file manager,rawrite but no go also, booted from custom disk got message that dselectlockfile access denied,as well as the tragic news

Re: problem with the mailing list

On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Hi Susan, > Does anyone else get repeated messages from > "Manager, AlisaMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > regarding "Undeliverable Mail"? Yupp, reiceived 6 of them. Greetings, Steffen PGP Key is available under : http://www.xlink.net/~steffen

Re: procps 1.01a-1 problems

Hakan Ardo writes: > > Hi, > I tested to install procps 1.01a-1, but after that all I get out of ps is: > > ps: can't load library 'libproc.so.1.01a' This is a bug in the postinst. I don't know if it has been reported yet. Will check that. You should be able to work around it simply by installi

Re: Debian on a Compaq Prosignia 4/66

Yes Dave, You can have Debian Linux on your compaq. This is from a previous posting I sent to this list: >I find this LOADLIN scheme a very flexible one. I find the related DOS > applications rdev, pfdisk and ext2tools good companions to this DOS > booting scheme. A DOS readln or readkey utilit

Re: "man" crashes

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, > man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. > Any ideas on how to fix this? Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any way to fix those problems?

Re: "man" crashes

On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > dwarf>On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > dwarf> > dwarf>> Seems that the man package cannot cope with some screwups of the dpkg > dwarf>> updates. > dwarf>> > dwarf>Sounds like you upgraded

gpm_1.06-3.deb: libgpm.so.* are missing

In gpm_1.06-3.deb the files libgpm.so.* are missing. I noticed this since mc wouldn't run anymore after updating to this package. I have not checked if there are any other files missing. Martin Dinkloh

Re: problem with the mailing list

Susan: > Does anyone else get repeated messages from >"Manager, AlisaMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You get one for each posting. The version of the Microsoft Mail gateway they are running at Lockheed simply assumes you can figure out the address that is failing from the "To:" address in the messa

Re: Booting problems

From: "David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. > After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" > floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into > Linux, the following co

Re: "Extended" memory?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bhaskar wrote: : I see that the Debian installation instructions contain the following. : >Extended vs. Expanded Memory : >If your system provides both extended and expanded memory, set it : >so that there is as much extended and as little expanded memory : >as possib

"Extended" memory?

I see that the Debian installation instructions contain the following. >Extended vs. Expanded Memory >If your system provides both extended and expanded memory, set it >so that there is as much extended and as little expanded memory >as possible. Linux requires extended memory and can not use >exp

Booting problems

I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into Linux, the following comes up: xFA: (where x == /dev/hdax according to

Re: procps 1.01a-1 problems

On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Hakan Ardo wrote: > Hi, > I tested to install procps 1.01a-1, but after that all I get out of ps is: > > ps: can't load library 'libproc.so.1.01a' > > The libriry I have is libproc.so.0.99, which package contains the new version, > and shouldn't the dependency infomation in

Re: 1.1 Install problem

On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Kevin Murphy wrote: > > hda: read_intr: status = 0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error} > hda: read_intr: error = 0x40 {UncorrectableError}, LBAsect = 2247884, > sector = 131084 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0