On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Spineux Alain wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm
> > having some problems...
> >
> > I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface
> > using ifconfig:
> >
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> >
Hi
I've had a problem with my installation. The installation program couldn't
seek on my hard disk. After I started a shell, repartitioned and ditched
boot manager, Linux is now up and running.
Unfortunately it's not up and running to that extent I would like to. I have
no contact at all with the
Marcelo Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we
> want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on
> debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove
> packages *first*, *then* [I]nstal
I get the following message when I install packages
like xanim, imagemagic, etc:
Error: '/etc/mailcap' is not in required format
What is wrong?
Thanks for the help.
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Victor:
Did you include SYSV ipc facilities in your kernel?
Thanks
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From: Victor Torrico[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 1997 8:23 AM
To: Linux User Community
Subject: Compiler Error Message
Hello all,
I'm using the Debian gcc compiler with all the matched li
>
> > I editted /etc/ppp.chatscript to properly log into the dial-in server.
> > Since /etc/ppp.options_out made reference to /dev/modem, I went to /dev and
> > make a symlink from "modem" to "ttyS0". (I know I could have edited the
>
> Bad idea. Replace the entry in the options file with ttyS0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
> I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility.
*
On the Debian mirrors, there is a file named README.non-US saying:
US laws place restrictions on t
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root12476 Feb 14 02:22 /bin/ping
> However, I wonder why ping has to be setuid root. Anybody more
> knowledgeable than me out there?
This has been explained already.
Ping (and traceroute) must be suid root in order to send out ICMP packets.
Other programs don't
> I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility.
> I've install all if the debian packages I can and
> my system seems void of pgp.
>
> Where can I find it ?
Look on one of the international mirrors listed from www.debian.org. It
is not available from the US sites.
Randy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Yes. The suggestion is wrong, the suggestion is just a hack. The
> problem is due to an incoherence between lprm/lpr/lpd. I sent a patch
> for this last year, I think it was applied but it may have been
> dropped. I haven't followed lpr*.deb since, because for me it's
>
Scott Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > The real fix seems to go to lprng. That's the official position of the
> > maintainer as well, as stated in a msg. to this list last year. I'll
> > do it as soon as I have a chance.
> >
>
> If the recommended fix (by the package maintainer even)
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mike Neuffer wrote:
>
> > > Personally, I would go for seperate i386 and m68k CD's, both with source.
> >
> > It doesn't fit (i386 + source) on one CD. However we had a number
> > of orders for 68k CDs and i386+68k binaries fit o
CoB SysAdmin:
I am no PPP guru by any means. In spite of this, I found my way through
I issue the command pppd as root, and the /etc/ppp/options and the
/etc/ppp/chatscript take care of all else. Then I can telnet, ftp, run
lynx or netscape from X... I did find it necessary to compile a kernel
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Technical Assistant (FAX) 612-832-5926 (PHONE) 612-832-9445x23
I mirror debian on an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX64 6.2 IP26), and then from
there to my Linux box at home.
Last night, the timestamps at home all became 1 minute off and the whole
mirror retransfered (complete in several hours over ISDN :-).
Since the timestamps on the SGI in the office still match ftp.d
> Also, NetScape takes about 5 minutes to start if you have
> mime-support installed. It seems to run /bin/sh for every entry
> in /etc/mailcap and it doesn't like what it finds in there at all.
> Eventually after spewing a bunch of error messages, it settles down and
> runs. I've had to temporar
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, CoB [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Emenaker) wrote:
> EVERY person I've talked to who has tried getting dial-up ppp going on
> Debian has approached it like a heavyweight fighter preparing for a title
> fight. They spend a few days just mentally preparing for the ordeal. Then,
Funny,
I have been unable to boot to the xdm login display.
While in a normal console
1. ps ax shows /usr/bin/X11/xdm running
2. source /etc/X11/xdm Xsetup (and Xstartup)
both run and fling me into the login prompt
on the console (not an X-window).
3. startx brings up an X-window flawlessly with
Hi,
Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a
moment that someone will know the answer to this:
Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
thanks in advance.
-alex
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know exactly what kind of protocol this RSA thing uses? There
> is a pretty good chance it's simply tcp with no address transfer, in which
> case plug-gw from the tis-fwtk will do the trick quite nicely. You o
Make your kernel with "make bZimage".
This statement can be found on the boot disk "rsc1440.bin" in the file
readme.txt
I am rather new to the compiling of kernels and found that this
statement did not work for me...
I was able to run "make bz
> "Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrea> I have installed the ucbmpeg package: # dpkg -i
Andrea> /iomega/debian/ucbmpeg_1r2-2.deb Selecting previously
Andrea> deselected package ucbmpeg. (Reading database ... 25046
Andrea> files and directories curren
Hello,
I have built a PCCTS source package - PCCTS is the "Purdue
Compiler-Construction Tool Set" - it produces LL(K) parsers. I'm
using it in a project which I will eventually Debianize. The PCCTS
package is close to ready to upload, except it has some libraries in
it, and I would like
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, David Wright wrote:
>
> (I'm the person who suggested running update in dselect.)
>
> I couldn't find lprng at ftp.mcc.ac.uk so I went to ftp.debian.org and
> it wasn't there either, except in bo. So it's a mystery to me whence
> came "Opt net lprng 2.4.2-1", but no surpr
Hello,
I'd like to write some code with perl5's Tk module, but I've been
stopped two seconds after my first try:
Can't find loadable object for module Tk in @INC
(/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.003 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/
local/lib/site_perl/i486-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .)
Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>
> > However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the program by nfs. I
> > created the following script for lilo.conf
>
> > boot=/dev/hda3
> > root=/dev/hda3
>
> [snip]
>
> > But nothing happened and Msdo
Ah, ok, I see. Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Andree
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Thanks a lot!
Andree
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Marcelo Magallon writes:
> On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
>
> > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
> > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool",
> > > etc.
> >
> > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle a
>
> I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm
> having some problems...
>
> I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface
> using ifconfig:
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device
>
> The two machines are both
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> |"On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> |"
> |">
> |"> Hi,
> |">
> |"> I have a debian system at my office . Since I set it up I have been
> |"> booting
> |"> using the boot disk. However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the
> |"> progra
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
> > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool",
> > etc.
>
> You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the
> replaces.
Then, to t
Yes! Put your windoze partitition in your /etc/fstab file.
Something like this
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze vfat defaults 1 1
Note that I may not have this syntax exactly correct, so check it before
you write it. Also you need to create /mnt/windoze before attempting to
mount it.
Ah, yes, your kerne
Hi,
On 28-Feb-97 Tim Sailer wrote:
>In your email to me, Alex Lobkovsky, you wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a
>> moment that someone will know the answer to this:
>>
>> Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
>
>Heh.. I
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
> Oddly enough, I have never looked at lprng before, so there is no way it
> found it on my system. When I complete the install process, it still
> says I want to install it, but that it isn't installed. It is almost as
> if dselect does not recognize
Hi
I would like to thank everyone for there help in solving my little problem
with lilo.
Thanks
George
---
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Hello all,
I'm using the Debian gcc compiler with all the matched libraries, etc.
I'm compiling a 2.1.27 kernel to inlude a LocalTalk driver. I select
CONFIG_LTALK=y to do this in the config file. Everything compiles nicely
until near the very end of the compile I get the following messages and
th
In your email to me, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2, you wrote:
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 1.2
> Old Microsoft Inport Bus Mouse Adapter Card and Mouse
> msbusmouse module installed saying that device is /dev/msmouse
> gpm installed with device set to /dev/msmouse and type set to any of bm/ms
> or bare
>
> When
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Marcelo Magallon wrote:
> The wierd thing is that "dpkg --remove latex" works...
That didn't work for me. I had to remove my previous Debian TeX
installation by *hand* (that is, using rm and not dpkg) because dpkg
just gave me "script aborted with an error" when trying to use
Hi Peter,
I did not mean the ownership of ping but that it's user ID is set to
root when executed (the 's' in the permissions). Sorry if this was not
clear.
Regards,
Andree
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Hello all:
I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility.
I've install all if the debian packages I can and
my system seems void of pgp.
Where can I find it ?
Thanks
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Carl Privitt wrote:
> How did "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" become _the_ Linux group? These guys
> don't even have a web server or actual hosts in their domain. Now if
Has linuxnet stepped forward somewhere and declared what they will do with
the money when (if) they win? Are we su
What is the /etc/alternatives directory for. I mean, what's the
philosophy behind it?
Thanks
Paul Serice
On Feb 27, Steve Reid wrote
> I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm
> having some problems...
[...]
> It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't
> get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP
> compiled into the
Seth:
You got to invest in a manual big guy or at least learn how to access the online
manuals, try "man tar"
tar = tape archiver
-xvf = extract verbosely from [file name]
Because UNIX is a file oriented OS you can tar from or to almost anything
regards
--
From: Seth Reinosa[SMTP:[EM
>
> Martin Stromberg wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
> > I'm not sure that it's possible to ping over ppp.
>
> Oh my. If you really don't know that much about something please don't
> risk
> spreading disinformation. ping is of course possible over ppp. About the
Oh, my. Aren't we ticklish to
This is the upgrade procedure for tetex.
There is a serious problem/bug in dpkg that prevents the correct
removal of the old tex packages and then the installation of tetex.
dpkg can't handle multiple packages which are to be replaced.
So, do the following:
- Purge all the old tex packages whi
I have installed the ucbmpeg package:
# dpkg -i /iomega/debian/ucbmpeg_1r2-2.deb
Selecting previously deselected package ucbmpeg.
(Reading database ... 25046 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ucbmpeg (from .../debian/ucbmpeg_1r2-2.deb) ...
Setting up ucbmpeg (1r2-2) ...
but i
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote:
> *All* of this, except those things about default prompts,
> are done by the LinuxConf project, a very cool system manager
> for Linux. See at:
>
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
>
> It seems that someone is packaging LinuxConf. This softw
There is a serious problem/bug in dpkg that prevents the correct
removal of the old tex packages and then the installation of tetex.
dpkg can't handle multiple packages which are to be replaced.
So, do the following:
- Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go
into ds
There is a serious problem/bug in dpkg that prevents the correct
removal of the old tex packages and then the installation of tetex.
dpkg can't handle multiple packages which are to be replaced.
So, do the following:
- Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go
into ds
I have just installed the latest version of Debian GNU/Linux (v 1.2 I think)
and when
it came to the device installation section I asked it to install the MS Bus
Mouse
driver. When the system boots up it says that it has found the bus mouse,
however
when I tried to install XFree86 it could not
|"On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
|"
|">
|"> Hi,
|">
|"> I have a debian system at my office . Since I set it up I have been
|"> booting
|"> using the boot disk. However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the
|"> program by nfs. I created the following script for lilo.conf
|"> boot=/
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:11:25 -0200, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I've installed the packages "fdos" (from bo) and
>"dosemu" (from rex), that are reported to work
>together. The installation goes ok, and I can run
>the dos emulator, who "boots" from the FreeDOS disk,
>but there is many error messages (someth
Hi Bob,
interesting point. I think you are right:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root12476 Feb 14 02:22 /bin/ping
However, I wonder why ping has to be setuid root. Anybody more
knowledgeable than me out there?
Regards,
Andree
PS: Sorry if you get this twice, I seem to have garbled he
This may be in the works, but I like the way smit(aix) handles software.
You can apply, commit and reject applied stuff. This would be nice in an
instance where a package is installed and broke/not working. For example,
I just d/l the newest netbase/netstd, and something appears wrong with
tcpd. On
There is no specific gateway configuration file. The gateway is defined
in '/etc/init.d/network'.
Regards,
Andree
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Geophysicist | Bu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
> One must be brief in these things,
> otherwise nobody reads them.
You're right. It was worth reading your mail - I hope that's get printed all
over the world!
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
> Scott,
>
> The message "Nothing to get" simply means that dselect found the package
> already on your system. Go ahead and install and it should work. Then
> you'll be give the option to delete the package file.
>
> --Bob
Oddly enough, I have never look
On Feb 27, Alexander Gieg wrote
> I know it's not a Debian quetion, but I don't have access
> to Usenet, and don't know where I can ask for this.
>
> When I search for "League for Programming Freedom" in
> Altavista, Infoseek, Yahoo! etc., they all send me to
>
> http://www.lpf.org/
>
> Bu
Alexander,
My nameserver tells me that www.lpf.org maps to 128.52.46.33
(command: nslookup www.lpf.org). The domain information registered at the
internic follows:
-Begin-
League for Programming Freedom (LPF-DOM)
1 Kendall Square #143
PO Box 9171
Cambridge, MA 02139
I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm
having some problems...
I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface
using ifconfig:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device
The two machines are both running Debian. Both pr
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
> Has anyone informations about my Graphic card?
>
> It is a _Diamond Stealth 64 PCI 2MB DRAM_. There were a lot of name
> changes in the last time for Diamind products. I need the correct:
> Chipset, RamDac and Chlock Chip. Aditional Information is also
Hi Alex,
On 27-Feb-97 Alex Lobkovsky wrote:
>Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a
>moment that someone will know the answer to this:
>
>Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
Yes, check here:
http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat
In your email to me, Alex Lobkovsky, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a
> moment that someone will know the answer to this:
>
> Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
Heh.. I know the answer because I just asked it a fe
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alex Lobkovsky wrote:
> Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
You'll need to compile support for that into the kernel. The support is
still in alpha state.
Check http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html
Nicolás Lichtmaier.-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alex Lobkovsky wrote:
> Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
Compile in vfat fs support when you make your kernel, or make the modules
for it and insmod them or let kerneld autoload them.
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the rsc1440r.bin file is used for systems that have less then 4megs of
ram. In addition you will need the file root.bin. The file rsc1440.bin
contains the root.bin on the same disk. If you system has 4 megs or less
the rsc1440r.bin uses the second disk (root.bin) to use the graphical
install
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