Re: 56k baud modem (x2)

Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Hi Greg -- You asked: > Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :) Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the time. Even though this box isn't internally the same as the real USR modem you're talking about, the soft

Re: Package configuration philosophy

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: > > Linuxconf has some nice features but it has the serious drawback > > that it replaces the sysvinit. This would break every single program > > that needs to be started at boot time. Using Linuxconf would require > > changing nearly every important pack

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > i've got it running on my system, using lprng & magicfilter with . > > samba no problems. it works. > > Not in my experience. I also tried lprng, magicfilter, and samba. I > found the same "nonprintable" option

Re: 56k baud modem (x2)

Hi Greg -- You asked: > Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :) Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the time. Even though this box isn't internally the same as the real USR modem you're talking about, the software configuration under Linux would b

does anyone mind if I post my ppp output...

Sorry to carry the ppp thing on, but I just can't get it to work with pon. I currently dial in with minicom and evoke pppd manually. Does anyone mind if I post the output from both to see what I'm not doing right? I'll send private if anyone volunteers to have a look. With pon, it dials, connect

Re: Documentation - I see squares

> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are > there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's > something I've missed somewhere... > > What have/haven't I done? On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining markup, then

Re: Debian Logo (joke)

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > Two foreigners, George and Nick, are visiting the white dominion of > North Pole. This conversation takes place with one Eskimo in his igloo: Well, if this doesn't divert the conversation from PPP, nothing will. ...RickM...

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Mar 2, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, > > > will **NOT** work with lprng. > > > > This is nice to know > > actually, it's compl

Re: X tries to start but wont

On Sun, Mar 02, 1997 at 01:57:40PM -0500, Randy R Dees wrote: > I have just done a clean install from a 1.2.2 CDROM and am having > troubles starting X. I got the base system installed, and then installed > the X stuff. I selected xbase, xserver-vga16, fvwm2, and xserver-svga for > the initaial

Re: Compiling---svgalib not seen by gnuplot

"ma" == mhs alad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ma> Most problematical, to compile one has to tweak the parameters ma> of the makefile, to get gnuplot to use the vga library. No ma> problem in the past, but I haven't been able to figure this one ma> out. I can get the system to see the svgal

Re: I can't build kernel; cpp 2.7.2.1-5, gcc 2.7.2.1-5, libc 5.4.20-1, kernel-source-2.0.27-2

Hi, Pardon what maybe a silly question, but do you have libc5-dev and ncurses-dev installed? manoj >>"Alexey" == Alexey Naidyonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexey> I've just installed new cpp&gcc from unstable, and it seems Alexey> doesn't work. E.g. >> cd /usr/src/linux/ ma

Documentation - I see squares

In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's something I've missed somewhere... What have/haven't I done? John.

Debian Logo (joke)

Two foreigners, George and Nick, are visiting the white dominion of North Pole. This conversation takes place with one Eskimo in his igloo: George: Tell me, my good friend, are there white women in North Pole ? Eskimo: Of course there are. George: And how about black women, are there any? Esk

Re: Procmail recipe.

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Patrick Ryan wrote: > :0 > * ^From .*debian-user* > debian-user-l-inbox > > :0 > * ^To: .*debian-user* > debian-user-l-inbox > > :0 > * ^Cc: .*debian-user* > debian-user-l-inbox This should be the same as: :0 * ^From .*debian-user* * ^To: .*debian-user* * ^Cc: .*debian-user*

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

>thats intuitive Why can't you guys give it up! ITs not a Debian thing dude! Its compiled into the kernel itself (ppp support). It is NOT a Debian issue! I do agree that someone (how about you?) could make it better by writing something, from your perspective that might help. BUT STOP P

X tries to start XIE and PEX but wont

I have just done a clean install from a 1.2.2 CDROM and am having troubles starting X. I got the base system installed, and then installed the X stuff. I selected xbase, xserver-vga16, fvwm2, and xserver-svga for the initaial install. I did allow xdm to set up. upon reboot, I get the nice xlo

Re: My clock doesn't know how to tell time.

Peter Iannarelli wrote: > > To all of us who are experiencing time distortion: > > First off I don't think its the system, (yea, but really it is) its me and > my configuration. Then again maybe is "A FEATURE". Cool. > I had this problem not too long ago, and I fixed it, but can't remember exac

Re: Procmail recipe.

Howdy, I posted my old procmail recipe for debian-user, but I found holes in it after I posted. My new configuration hasn't given me any trouble. Here it is: -Begin- PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/pryan LOGFILE=$H

Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP

>Question for Richard: do you have to have a static IP address assigned to >you to use UUCP over TCP/IP? No, you don't - only the server does. When uucico runs on the client machine, it makes a TCP/IP connection to port 540 of the server machine (which would normally be a machine permanently con

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Andrew Martin Adrian Cater writes: > If your friend has email and news: READ THE NEWSGROUPS. Lurk for a > week/month or two,so that before you rush in you'll see the FAQ's, see > where the problems are. And if he doesn't have net access? And has no friends with Linux? Saying that mailing lists

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Gary Lee writes: > I would be lovely if PPP could figure out how to connect to the ISP and > what I want to do with it--without me telling it... That may not be possible without more standardization. It should be possible ot make it easier, though. > (but thats not FUN). Fighting with configura

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

It seems obvious to many of us, but not to the real newbie, so why not make the installation program display a large banner before going into dselect that advises the new user to look in /usr/doc. The Debian README for ppp discusses pon and friends at length. Bob At 07:54 PM 3/1/97 PST,

Re: can't install TeX (fwd)

Take a look at the bug archieves for textbin at . One of your errors must be that texbin actually depends on mfbasfnt. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinia

56k baud modem (x2)

Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :) Thanx -- Greg.

Re: Mail list problems??

Scott Stanley wrote: Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this is related to the problems with the mail list, or

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On 14:06:41 Gary Lee wrote: >> I think you all have very good points. I have used 3 different >ISPs and had to set them up 3 different ways. I would be lovely if PPP >could figure out how to connect to the ISP and what I want to do with >it--without me telling it (but thats not FUN). I don

Re: Procmail recipe.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Normally I have something like this in my .procmailrc file: [ ... ] MAILDIR=$HOME/mail/debian LOGFILE=$HOME/mail/log/debian.log :0: * ^Resent-Sender.*debian-announce-request@ debian-announce :0: * ^Resent-Sender.*debian-user-request@ debian-user [ ... ] But a

PPP

Folks, If I can get the time in the next week, I'll write the basics of connecting to a system via 2 methods. 1) A straight login with login and password prompts. 2) a PAP login, like with Win95 where you just dial. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bu

Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, William Chow wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote: > > > > I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my > > Uni-ISP > > and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to > > use > > POP, I think uucp is nicer! S

Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Stefan Walder writes: > > >I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my > >Uni-ISP and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I > >don't want to use POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp > >over

Re: can't install TeX (fwd)

Eugene, Try adding /usr/X11R6/lib to your /etc/ld.so.config file and running ldconfig. Hope this helps, Bernt. On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinian wrote: > Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:11:41 +0400 (MSK) > From: Eugene H. Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject:

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

I think you all have very good points. I have used 3 different ISPs and had to set them up 3 different ways. I would be lovely if PPP could figure out how to connect to the ISP and what I want to do with it--without me telling it (but thats not FUN). I don't think anyone is saying that

I can't build kernel; cpp 2.7.2.1-5, gcc 2.7.2.1-5, libc 5.4.20-1, kernel-source-2.0.27-2

I've just installed new cpp&gcc from unstable, and it seems doesn't work. E.g. # cd /usr/src/linux/ # make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -I /usr/includ

ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v8)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v8) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 32 new and 12 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to te

RE: My clock doesn't know how to tell time.

To all of us who are experiencing time distortion: First off I don't think its the system, (yea, but really it is) its me and my configuration. Then again maybe is "A FEATURE". Cool. Anyway, can someone tell me where there is some documentation on this. By the way I really like the Italian HOWTO.

TO all the PPP inept

Drop your linen and stop your grinen: To all those; and you know who you are, who are whinng about Debian PPP. Ask your self two questions. * What do I know about RFC 1331 or more commonly known as PPP. * What do I know about my ISP. If you can answer these two questions with a littl

Re: Procmail recipe.

Heikki Vatiainen typed: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > There's already been a couple of examples here on the list but I thought I'll > mail my version too. Here it goes: [...] > Here's the version that should work for you: > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: .*debian-user.* > $H

can't install TeX (fwd)

Hi, I will be thankfull for any advice to solve this problem. This is a part of the dselect's output. I have found that 'libXt.so.6' is a link to 'libXt.so.6.0' in /usr/X11R6/lib. Setting up texbin (3.1415-5) ... kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm mf \mode:=n

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wri tes: > > Look, you don't seem to get the idea here! If you see a NEED, and > are so smart to be able to solve the problem for everyone, WRITE > IT YOURSELF and submit it to Debian! > > Furthermore, saying its NOT is the documentation is ju

Re: My clock doesn't know how to tell time.

this maybe a silly question, but do you have your clock set to gmt when you installed debian. if you do you will have to change something in your boot file in /etc/init.d. I hope this helps. Paul McDermott Ps. Remember no question is stupid unless is isn't ask. On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Peter Iannare

RE: Mail list problems??

I am having the same problem as well. Maybe if enough of us say something, something may be done about it. Paul McDermott On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 19:29:46 Scott Stanley wrote: > >>Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error > >messages say

Re: Package configuration philosophy

> > It seems that someone is packaging LinuxConf. This software can > > also take care of the Linux's boot process, but the Debian > > developers seems don't know about it... :-( > > Linuxconf has some nice features but it has the serious drawback that it > replaces the sysvinit. This would break

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

> Second, why should someone have to "cat /usr/bin/pon" to find out to > edit /etc/ppp.chatscript anyway? I mean, I have to say that the Debian > installation routine is so simple it's silly. So why doesn't it just go > that one extra yard and ask a simple question like "Will this system be > con

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Look, you don't seem to get the idea here! If you see a NEED, and are so smart to be able to solve the problem for everyone, WRITE IT YOURSELF and submit it to Debian! Furthermore, saying its NOT is the documentation is just totatlly wrong! If you chose NOT to install the HOWTO'S or INFO, th

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Look, if you can't get a connect, its NOT Debian, and its NOT PPP in all likelihood! If you do get logged into your provider, and then can't communicate to the net, its NOT either Debian OR PPP. Its probably YOUR setup (most likely), or your ISP (least likely). PPP is a link level protocol, res

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:58:41PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > well, actually i had a few initial hassles getting the win95 box to > print with the PCL driver. Postscript worked fine (through ghostscript > to my HP4L), but PCL failed. Eventually somebody on debian-user > suggested that I put "check_fo

My clock doesn't know how to tell time.

Hi everyone: Here comes a stupid question. I have a wacky clock thing happening on by Debian system. Version 2.1.2 it is now currently 6:00 am but by clock says 22:00 or 10:00. My TZ is set to EST5EDT. When I issue the clock command, the system bios clock is read and then the time is correct. W

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, > > will **NOT** work with lprng. > > This is nice to know actually, it's completely untrue. samba works very well with lprng. i'v

Re: teTeX kind of broken

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted > instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the > preinst script it is to late. Isn't this something that whoever it is maintaining dselect should fix? I don't think this

Solved (was: first installation, network problem) (fwd)

Thanks to all kind & wise persons who helped me to solve the problem. Gateway and DNS addresses were wrong and /etc/hosts.allow as well. I used Rescue disk to reconfigure network because I do not know another way (more convinient) to do that. With regards, Eugene Sevinian

Re: Why you are seeing all of these UNSUBSCRIBE messages all of a sudden

How about adding the "X-Mailing-List:" line to the headers again too ;) thanks -lars -- http://ralph.ml.org/~lars

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

> John Goerzen writes: > > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will > > **NOT** work with lprng. > > Why won't samba not work with it? Please file an appropriate bug against > the samba package. Because Samba depends on the output formats of the lp* commands, in

Diskless install

Hi, I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it without disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install the kernel, but couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why there is no drivers.tgz and perhaps kernel.tgz? For those who are interested I have got it down to

RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > The ISP has nothing to do with it. There is a systematic > approach to setting up anything. Before one can resolve > an issue one must understand the problem. > The approach is: > > 1: manually dial up and log into your ISA > 2: edit the respective

Re: Mail list problems??

Me too. Susan Kleinmann > > Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error > messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a > copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this > is related to the problems with the mail list,

quake

I have a question. I have downloaded some quake "scripts" that I would like to use with the linux . They work great under dos. I have unziped them into a directory called skarmod under the quake directory. On dos, I would type 'quake -game skarmod' to use them. I have tried 'squake -game skarm

Re: gimp troublees

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Mar 1997 16:56:03 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The plugins menu are only accessible from the right-button popup menu. > Move your mouse over a GIMP image, and press right mouse button. > > Phil. Thanks! Erv ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,

Re: shared library tutorial?

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use > shared libraries? Note that I'm also interested in the portability of > the solution - my project also is working with Linux/Alpha, and > Solaris machines... If you need something por

Re: Mail list problems??

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error > messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a > copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this > is related to the problems with

Re: x windows on meager hardware (was x windows)

Hi My prized student system administrator, Glenn Bily (now graduated, and making more money than I am) set up a network of Northgate 20 Mhz 386s, with 4 MB RAM, no L2 cache, 40 to 80 MB disk TOTAL running Linux, that are little more than X terminals, to a server at the end of the lab. BTW they

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

> > > It's really not so damn difficult to be honest, but the first time or two > > it might seem daunting. > > Why not try to make it less daunting? Is it supposed to be some sort of a > rite of passage? Exactly! I keep seeing posts from people who say "All I did was 'cat /usr/bin/pon' and we

Re: Package configuration philosophy

WOW! Now my delete key is working under XWindows! Now *I* discover .inputrc! This should definitely be set by default. Can I make a global file so these options will apply to all users? (Maybe put it in /etc/X11/inputrc)? Yes? No? On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Ever since I s

Re: wu-ftpd

I did the same thing you're doing and had problems too. Then I discovered "addftpuser". Either delete or rename your ftp tree (/home/ftp?) and run addftpuser as root. All the required files, links, and libraries will be automatically setup for you. Then you can populate the new tree with files

Why you are seeing all of these UNSUBSCRIBE messages all of a sudden

Unfortunately, I have broken the unsubscribe mechanism, and the only way to get off the lists (for another 24 hours or so) is to tell me about it and hope I see it in the 200 emails per day I seem to be getting. Something like "UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE" in mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] might stand out suf

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian C. White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The message they had said there would be both new binaries _and_ proxies > made available. Yes, I asked if proxy source would be available and was told that it hadn't been decided yet. -- Shields, CrossLink.

RE: gimp troublees

Hi, On 01-Mar-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi. I am having a little trouble with gimp. I have installed gimp >0.54.1-5 and gimp-plugins 1.0-1. My problem is that I can't figure >out how to access the menus/pluging that are defined in my config >files. I have copied /etc/gimp/gimprc to ~/.gimpr

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

Igor Grubman wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > > Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > > > > > > > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), > > > > although > > > > this is usually only with a floppy. > > > > > > > > The se

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

William Chow writes: > What's the solution, you ask? Get PPP connections standardized. That is the ultimate solution, but in the mean time we could supply some examples. It doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem to document the five most common arrangements, for example. -- John Hasler

is modules_2.1.23-1.deb corrupted?

I found that the ismod, modprobe, rmmod are missing in the modules deb. Are they moved to a new package, or the deb is corrupted? dpkg --contents modules_2.1.23-1.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Feb 26 10:22 1997 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Feb 26 10:22 1997 etc/ -rw-r--r-- root/roo

Re: wu-ftpd

Rob MacWilliams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > ftp> ls > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp> [snip] > ls has also been copied to /home/ftp/bin, > as suggested by man wu-ftpd. If `ldd /home/ftp/bin/ls' shows an

RE: Graphics file converter(s) (Like xv)

You could also try tgif, it has alot of nice facilities including import and export functions. -- From: Susan G. Kleinmann[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 1997 5:25 PM To: Stan Brown Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Graphics file converter(

RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

The ISP has nothing to do with it. There is a systematic approach to setting up anything. Before one can resolve an issue one must understand the problem. The approach is: 1: manually dial up and log into your ISA 2: edit the respective files so that the proper strings are looked for and respo

RE: wu-ftpd

Did you put ls, in the bin directory of the ftp home directory? -- From: Rob MacWilliams[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 1997 10:12 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:wu-ftpd I'm trying to set up ftpd. The man pages suggest wu-ftpd, so that's wh

Re: Mail list problems??

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error > messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a > copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this > is related to the problems with t

RE: Mail list problems??

On 19:29:46 Scott Stanley wrote: >>Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error >messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a >copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this >is related to the problems with the mail li

Re: teTeX kind of broken

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Dalley writes: > Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better > than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient > considering the number of users installing tetex. An notice and pointer to instructions in the package d

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Jason Costomiris writes: > 1) cat /usr/bin/pon Looked at it, saw it uses /etc/ppp.chatscript Why did you have to this? Is there no documentation? > 2) vi /etc/ppp.chatscript No configuration script either? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: gimp troublees

On Sat, 01 Mar 1997 16:56:03 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I am having a little trouble with gimp. I have installed gimp > 0.54.1-5 and gimp-plugins 1.0-1. My problem is that I can't figure > out how to access the menus/pluging that are defined in my config > files. I have copied /etc/gi

Re: shared library tutorial?

Dale Martin wrote: >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

Re: ucbmpeg and libX.so.6

Andrea, You'll have to install the 'xcompat' package to supply the libraries for this binary. Unfortunately, it's still an a.out package. The xcompat package has the following libraries... /usr/X11R5/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0 /usr/X11R5/lib/libXaw.so.3.1.0 /usr/X11R5/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0 /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Changing kernel.

Mikael Hallendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to compile a new kernel. Do I have to take the .deb kernel or > can I download the latest from sunsite.unc.edu? If you install Manoj Srivastava's excellent 'kernel-package' package, you can unpack the linux kernel sources, do your normal co

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Paul writes: > This is getting pretty boring, with all the silly ranting and > raving. Looks like discussion to me. Use your killfile. > For Pete's sake, the Debian guys didn't create PPP in the first place! > Take it to those that did, if you're really that stuck! By that standard, we should

Re: wu-ftpd

> ls, I get no output. Only the following shows up: > > ftp> ls > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp> This is probably because "ls" can't find the proper libraries it needs to load. When a user uses anonomous ftp, it

Re: Installation problem which now is network problem

> Unfortunately it's not up and running to that extent I would like to. I have > no contact at all with the network and with the Internet in particular. I > think I have to make some changes in the network configuration. The question > is: How do I reconfigure the network when I've already installe

Compiling---svgalib not seen by gnuplot

One of the joys of Linux is to be able to compile a package, or even the kernel. I have compiled the beta releases of gnuplot regularly over the past two years. The most recent release, pl. 325, has refused my efforts several times. Most problematical, to compile one has to tweak the parameter

Re: x windows

> > well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x > > windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will > > need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb > > of swap space. > am quite impressed with its abilities. I don't think I'd try xwin with > less than say 300,

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

** Urge to flame resited and put behind ** ok, instead of sending this to the WRONG address try sending your unsubscribe msg to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you can be removed. Chad P.S. As a note. That little msg you get when you join a list that says keep me... keep it. That way yo