Re: Where are xmkmf and imake?

1997-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Cheng-Chang Wu wrote: > I can't not find xmkmf and imake in Debian 1.3. They were > in xbase, but now they are not there. Which package contents > these two programs? dpkg -S xmkmf xlib6-dev: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xmkmf.1x.gz xlib6-dev: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Where are xmkmf and imake?

1997-06-23 Thread Cheng-Chang Wu
I can't not find xmkmf and imake in Debian 1.3. They were in xbase, but now they are not there. Which package contents these two programs? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Emilio Lopes wrote: > > The problem is that you have a version of cpp that's incompatible with > gcc. They have to have the *same* version number. > > This is a *known* bug in the gcc package (it should have the right > dependencies), but the gcc maintainer does not seem to think it's > important

Re: netatalk error: atalkd socket: Invalid argument

1997-06-23 Thread Ed Donovan
> "Scott" == Scott Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> Hi, After upgrading the Linux server in our Macintosh network Scott> to Debian 1.3, the atalkd daemon in netatalk won't load, but Scott> returns the error: Scott> socket: Invalid argument Scott> AppleTalk worked

Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions

1997-06-23 Thread Igor Grobman
> > > On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root > > > -rw--- permissions. This > > > sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my > > > normal account would dial and > > > login ok, bu

Re: Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > This is also how I pronounce it. But the question really is, how does the > guy who made it pronouce it? I guess it hinges on how he says his name. Why? My guess is that most people who have run across Debian (or Linux) pronounce it based upon how the

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local > domain? > > I am running "Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)" on my > Debian 1.2 box, which is on a network behind a (SOCKS 4) firewall. > After I set "Options/Network Preferences/Proxies"

Re: Dear Mr. Sean.Seaman

1997-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Paul Wade wrote: > The copy of my previous message to you bounced because your From: address > is invalid. > > If you want to send an unsubscribe message you need to have the right > address set up in your 'Pegasus for Windows' mailer. > > I have tried to make a good guess as to what address to s

Re: SVGA server for X86 3.3 (when?)

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> > Anyone know when an SVGA server for XFree 3.3 will > be released? I hoping it will provide better support > for Trident's laptop chipsets. couple of weeks ago, I think. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-23 Thread Kirk Hilliard
> Subject: Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers > Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local > domain? > > I am running "Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)" on my > Debian 1.2 box, which is on a network behind a (SOCKS 4) fire

Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions

1997-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root > > -rw--- permissions. This > > sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my > > normal account would dial and > > login ok, but all of the net c

SVGA server for X86 3.3 (when?)

1997-06-23 Thread Stephen Zander
Anyone know when an SVGA server for XFree 3.3 will be released? I hoping it will provide better support for Trident's laptop chipsets. Stepghen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

SVGA server for X86 3.3 (when?)

1997-06-23 Thread Stephen Zander
Anyone know when an SVGA server for XFree 3.3 will be released? I hoping it will provide better support for Trident's laptop chipsets. Stepghen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > : > : On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > : > : > Hmm I should have know. I installed LinuxThreads a while ago, but I > removed > : > it when installing pthreads. > : > And of course, rig

XDM chooser (was: Unidentified subject! )

1997-06-23 Thread Philippe Troin
On 23 Jun 1997 21:35:18 +0200 Emilio Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED] nchen.DE) wrote: > Not everybody want a X server running on the display by default. For > example, I may want my Debian box to serve X to *other* machines. Or > if I setup the Debian box as an Xterm, I may want to have xdm > startin

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : : On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: : : > Hmm I should have know. I installed LinuxThreads a while ago, but I removed : > it when installing pthreads. : > And of course, right now, LinuxThreads

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hmm I should have know. I installed LinuxThreads a while ago, but I removed > it when installing pthreads. > And of course, right now, LinuxThreads refuses to compile.. > > Seems the include files in /usr/include

TaskBar

1997-06-23 Thread Obi
I'm using fvwm95 and debian 1.3, and I cannot find the man page for the module TaskBar. What am I missing? Also in /usr/doc there is no reference to TaskBar ... graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-06-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Emilio" == Emilio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BG> I thought that /usr/X11/bin/X was always a wrapper program BG> pointing to the correct server, so why do the X packages futz BG> around with this? Why not just put this line in always? Emilio> Not everybody want a X s

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: : > I just forced libc6-dev and libg++272-dev to get installed. : > : > Everything's working fine.. but now it seems the libpthread-dev isn't : > working together with libc-6. : : Maybe LinuxThreads help you? (Warning: I don't know anything about

Re: Changing the host name

1997-06-23 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I'm trying to figure out how to change the hostname manually. I did the > command hostname , and I went into /etc/hosts and replace the > old hostname with the new one. Is it anything other command or file that > I need to edit to conpletelly change the hostname?? I also noticed that > the

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-06-23 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BG> Check /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. BG> It should have a line: BG> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X BG> I've seen this bug a zillion times. BG> I thought that /usr/X11/bin/X was always a wrapper program BG> pointing to the correct server, so why

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> I just forced libc6-dev and libg++272-dev to get installed. > > Everything's working fine.. but now it seems the libpthread-dev isn't > working together with libc-6. Maybe LinuxThreads help you? (Warning: I don't know anything about threads) $ ls -al /usr/doc/libc6-dev/*threads* -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: : > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: : > : > : > Anyone having troubles with errors like : > : > : > : > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_peekc_locked' : > : > /usr/lib/libg++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_putc'

Re: Connecting to Windows NT

1997-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > > >I've never dialed-in to an NT machine. However, just because Win95 > >prompts for user/password doesn't mean CHAP is used. Win95 tries to > >be real clever with authentication, responding to plain old login:/ > >password: auth, PAP, and CHAP as it detects them.

Changing the host name

1997-06-23 Thread Alberto Ruiz
I'm trying to figure out how to change the hostname manually. I did the command hostname , and I went into /etc/hosts and replace the old hostname with the new one. Is it anything other command or file that I need to edit to conpletelly change the hostname?? I also noticed that the login prom

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-06-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Daniel" == Daniel Doro Ferrante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Sorry... Daniel> The point is that xdm is not loading when I Daniel> startup my system. No error messages, nothing... That's Daniel> all I could figure out myself (I tried dmesg and other

Re: Big problem with TeX/LaTeX

1997-06-23 Thread Paul Rightley
teTeX does seem to install now (and I do not have the TeX environment variables set... To me, this is not right. This means that I cannot use dselect to remove the teTeX packages and then reinstall them without executing commands not related to dselect. Is this a fault with one of the install sc

how to have sound in netscapes'java ? #

1997-06-23 Thread Samuel J. MacDowell
Ave I'm running netscape3.01 on debian 1.0.15. I'd read, can't remember where, that we can set up netscape under linux to drive sound. Any help ? BTW . I can't ear any sound with the appletviewer either. Thank you Samuel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Debian books

1997-06-23 Thread Stephen Zander
"Dave Cinege" wrote: > This IS NOT acurate. Off the top of my head: > > everything init.d > rc0.d -rc6.d > ppp > adduser, start-stop-daemon., as well as other scripts things > fs layout What makes you think all that list is debian centric (no, that's not a flame-bait :))? The fs stuff is, some

Unidentified subject!

1997-06-23 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Sorry... The point is that xdm is not loading when I startup my system. No error messages, nothing... That's all I could figure out myself (I tried dmesg and other kind of "bug-traking" but no success...) Thanks Daniel. -

putting lilo on the mbr, help please

1997-06-23 Thread Ed Urenda
Hello, any help with the folowing would be greatly appreciated: I have an ide with debian 1.3 and win 95 on it and decided that the rewrite_table option in lilo would be the easiest way to dual-boot the system. The recompilation of lilo with the rewrite_table option was successful, but when I

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, H.C.Lai wrote: > I know some people would say one doesn't need a book cause there > are all those guides that come with the distribution. But for people > who are new to Linux or who are reponsible for setting up and > maintaining a network of Linux boxes, a complete reference

Re: guid and uid of users..

1997-06-23 Thread Pete Harlan
> i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I > have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users > subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have > yet to learn it...) to do it en masse? I wrote a perl script that conver

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > : > Anyone having troubles with errors like > : > > : > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_peekc_locked' > : > /usr/lib/libg++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_putc' > : > : Do you have libg++272(-dev) installed? When compili

Re: Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: > > > > >> * D, like the d in day > >> * e, like the e in pet > >> * b, much softer than the b in bass > >> * i, like see > >> * a, like a in father (american english) > >> * n, like in now > > >

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: : > Anyone having troubles with errors like : > : > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_peekc_locked' : > /usr/lib/libg++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_putc' : : Do you have libg++272(-dev) installed? When compiling for glibc, al

Re: Connecting to Windows NT

1997-06-23 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
>I've never dialed-in to an NT machine. However, just because Win95 >prompts for user/password doesn't mean CHAP is used. Win95 tries to >be real clever with authentication, responding to plain old login:/ >password: auth, PAP, and CHAP as it detects them. If you really want >to see what's going on

INN news server timeout

1997-06-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Anyone know how to alter the 'timeout time' of the INN newsserver, ie. the time the server breaks the connection with a client, if a client is idle ? thanks Remco. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mist

Re: job delay problem

1997-06-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
; charset=us-ascii The mous problem sounds like you have specified the wrong protocol in XF86Config. - > Hello all, > > I have a strange problem. After installing a new Debian system on my > friend's system, there is something unusal happenes to his computer. When > he types emacs in xterm or one

Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Will Lowe wrote: > > > * D, like the d in day > > * e, like the e in pet > > * b, much softer than the b in bass > > * i, like see > > * a, like a in father (american english) > > * n, like in now > > for me (i'm on the middle atlantic seaboard in the US, > south of Philadelphia), it's almost th

Re: Connecting to Windows NT

1997-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > First thing I apologize right away if I am posting this in the wrong > areas. > > Reading the latest version of the PPP How To, I discovered that PPP > has something called MS CHAP. Apparentely if you have a WinNT > ser

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local > domain? > > I am running "Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)" on my > Debian 1.2 box, which is on a network behind a (SOCKS 4) firewall. > After I set "Options/Network Preferences/Proxies"

Re: Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread branden
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: > > > So it's three syllables, "Deb'-i-an", with the accent on the "deb". > > This is also how I pronounce it. But the question really is, how does the > guy who made it pronouce it? I gues

Re: Debian books

1997-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > >Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it > >just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few > > This IS NOT acurate. Off the top of my head: > > everything init.d > rc0.d -rc6.d Ok. I see your poin

Re: Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Of course it's Ian Murdock, not Ian Jackson. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

playing wav files under netscape

1997-06-23 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi everybody, I am having a problem playing wav files in netscape. I edited the general preferences helpers audio/wav helper. I am using bplay_.096-1 i think. I get the following netscape error: Netscape:subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) bplay: input file less then 20 bytes long I

Re: libreadline2g, etc. testimonial

1997-06-23 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just installed all the .debs in master:~troup and everything seems > to work just fine. Thanks a lot for checking, but actually, I believe I may have just found the problem. The debs in ~troup/ can hose your system under certain circumstances. I've removed them in

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Anyone having troubles with errors like > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_peekc_locked' > /usr/lib/libg++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_putc' Do you have libg++272(-dev) installed? When c

Re: Debian books

1997-06-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:15:41 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: >Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it >just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few >quirks, but it really isn't possible to say that one *nix is >_standard_, so you might say

Re: Cron atrun -d -l 0.5 (fwd) What does this error mean ?

1997-06-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > I sudenly started getting this message from my Debian box. I have not > chnaged anythig on the Debian box. I did reboot anothermachine on the > network yesterday. Does anyone have any ideas what this mig

Re: Ian Jack....uhm Murdock, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 08:47:21 -0400 (EDT), Shaya Potter wrote: >On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: >> >> > >> >> * D, like the d in day >> >> * e, like the e in pet >> >> * b, much softer than the b in bass >> >> * i, like see >>

Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Brian K Servis
How about having Ian or Bruce put a sound byte of them saying "Debian" on the webJust like Linus did for "Linux"! Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

A tool for general configs

1997-06-23 Thread Eddie Katz
I would like to know if there is a tool to configure printers. Something equival ent to the "modconf" utility for kernel modules. Also is there a tool that configures the network, I am moving soon at work to an other office and will certainly be assigned new IP address etc To close this chap

libreadline2g, etc. testimonial

1997-06-23 Thread schizo
I just installed all the .debs in master:~troup and everything seems to work just fine. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian books

1997-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few quirks, but it really isn't possible to say that one *nix is _standard_, so you might say they're _all_ unstandard. While I can understand that

burning CD, how?

1997-06-23 Thread Lawrence Chim
I just bought my CDR. I burned several CD in win95 successfully. Can anyone tell me how to burn a CD in Linux? In particular, I have a mirror of Debian in my harddisk and want to make a copy of it to CD. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: pppd leaves lock file after quitting

1997-06-23 Thread m*
> > > > I used pppd to connect to my university, which has a 2 hour limit on > > connections. > > > > Problem is, when pppd stops, it leaves the lock file in /var/lock. Do I > > have to remove the file itself? > > > > Also is there a better way to stop pppd than just killing it? the 2.2.0f-19 ver

Re: Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread James Troup
"Dave Cinege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is also how I pronounce it. But the question really is, how > does the guy who made it pronouce it? I guess it hinges on how he > says his name. That's Ian Murdock, not Ian Jackson. Please see the FAQ :- http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-2

Re: Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: > > > > >> * D, like the d in day > >> * e, like the e in pet > >> * b, much softer than the b in bass > >> * i, like see > >> * a, like a in father (american english) > >> * n, like in now > > >

Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: > >> * D, like the d in day >> * e, like the e in pet >> * b, much softer than the b in bass >> * i, like see >> * a, like a in father (american english) >> * n, like in now > >for me (i'm on the middle atlantic seaboard in the US, >sout

Re: xdm

1997-06-23 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, what exactly is the problem with xdm? To get more information about the config file there should be a file in /usr/doc/X11/debian.README It tells you all of the switches and flags for the variables in the config file. Me and other people on the list can't help you if you are not more spe

XFree 3 - what files needed ?

1997-06-23 Thread Samuel J. MacDowell
Ave I'll like to upgrade to new release of XFree. What packages do I'll need ? Thank you Samuel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

fdos & als. #

1997-06-23 Thread Samuel J. MacDowell
Ave I will like to set up a dos emulation. Besides dosemu and dosfstools I'll need fdos. Right ? Well were to find de fdos ? I look at unstable directory but there is none. Thank you Samuel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-23 Thread Brian White
> > It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should > > run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense. > > When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very > > clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some > > various HOWTOs.

Books on Debian

1997-06-23 Thread H.C.Lai
I wonder if the Debian team has any plan of publishing a book on how to install/use/administer a Debian system ?? I suspect people who are new to Linux and haven't decided which distribution to install may find the idea of a reference book very reassuring. Who knows, this may turn out to be the fac

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-23 Thread Debian user mail
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've done that a hundred times you [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It doesn't work > I'm still on the damned list. For those who wish to know, "Sean.Seaman" did contact "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" once to request unsubscription. There are no "sean"s from anywhere with

Re: Big Bad Bug - adduser truncating files from /etc/skel.

1997-06-23 Thread Debian user mail
I reported this a few weeks ago. Adduser v3.3 should fix this, and should be forthcoming from Guy Maor. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
> * D, like the d in day > * e, like the e in pet > * b, much softer than the b in bass > * i, like see > * a, like a in father (american english) > * n, like in now for me (i'm on the middle atlantic seaboard in the US, south of Philadelphia), it's almost the same. My "b" is a little harder

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-23 Thread Debian user mail
It's also important not to use Netscape as root (or other mail tools as root) when sending mail to the Debian mailing lists. I get lots of posts that don't go through, because the sender is root or another system user that Smartlist recognizes. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. C

xdm

1997-06-23 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all ! Sorry to bother with this silly question again, but I tried to fix my xdm (I mean, make it work :) ) and nothing happened... Here is my /etc/X11/config file: *** run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow

Re: Smail and spammers

1997-06-23 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to > distribute spam? > > From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a > compuserve account that then propagates into a large batch of mails to > address all over the world. let me preface this with: While I am

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-23 Thread Rick Hawkins
> It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should > run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense. > When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very > clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some > various HOWTOs. gee, in

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "TB" == Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The problem is that you have a version of cpp that's incompatible >> with gcc. They have to have the *same* version number. TB> I don't think that's the problem. (I've been trying gcc/cpp TB> 2.7.2.1-8 and gcc/cpp 2.7.2.2-5.) Exactly: cpp 2.7

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "JT" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think he should at least watch this list. JT> I think it's unfair for you to demand (by implication) that every JT> developer read debian.user, it's not low-volume and people only JT> have a limited amount of time. Normally yes. But if y

Re: Big problem with TeX/LaTeX

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Martin
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What about TEX specific environment variables as sugested in the output? Unset all of them for installation. Christoph > > I was wondering if anyone has run into this lately and if it is something > I am doing wrong... > > I have used the 'new' tetex p

glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Anyone having troubles with errors like /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_peekc_locked' /usr/lib/libg++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_putc' when compiling programs? Remco. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.

RE: trouble mounting LMS 206 CD-ROM to complete debian load from CD-ROM

1997-06-23 Thread Matthew
>>It gave one long beep and eight short beeps. I don't have the AMI >>bios documentation to tell me what the beeps mean, but I figured [snip] I have had those beeps before with an AMI bios machine. When I had them I found that the Video Card had come loose. I re-seated it and the Machine worked f

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread James Troup
Emilio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a *known* bug in the gcc package (it should have the right > dependencies), but the gcc maintainer does not seem to think it's > important enough to do a fix in stable. Look at the bug list for gcc > at http://www.debian.org. Actually Galen fixed

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread Tim Bell
Emilio Lopes wrote: > > > "TB" == Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TB> I'm sure I've done something really stupid and obvious: can anyone > TB> point it out to me please? > > The problem is that you have a version of cpp that's incompatible with > gcc. They have to have the *same* ve

RE: dpkg reports problems with package files

1997-06-23 Thread Matthew
I have had exactly the same problems with the same packages off the Tri-Linux CD. Looks like the CD image is a bit dodgey. >-- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 20 June 1997 23:01 >To:debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. >Subject:

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "TB" == Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> I installed the latest gcc/libc5 (and other compiling tools) from TB> unstable, had problems, so I've reinstalled the stable TB> versions. But now I get: TB> /usr/include/string.h:33: stddef.h: No such file or directory TB> etc, despite

Cron atrun -d -l 0.5 (fwd) What does this error mean ?

1997-06-23 Thread Stan Brown
I sudenly started getting this message from my Debian box. I have not chnaged anythig on the Debian box. I did reboot anothermachine on the network yesterday. Does anyone have any ideas what this might mean ? Thanks. Forwarded message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon J

Re: Ypbind problem

1997-06-23 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sami Laine wrote: > I have a small problem with ypbind. Master NIS server is running at > 192.168.1.100 (network 192.168.96/255.255.255.224) and client machine > is at 192.168.1.37 (network 192.168.1.32/255.255.255.224). > > When I start ypbind it tries to find out master ser

Ypbind problem

1997-06-23 Thread Sami Laine
I have a small problem with ypbind. Master NIS server is running at 192.168.1.100 (network 192.168.96/255.255.255.224) and client machine is at 192.168.1.37 (network 192.168.1.32/255.255.255.224). When I start ypbind it tries to find out master server by broadcasts, even if I specify domain and se

procps.

1997-06-23 Thread Udjat -Whoo
I installed the new version of procps and the free program well... [bitgate]udjat ~ $> free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 31000 26112 4888 7124 6684 -/+ buffers:194284192508 <---I dont thinks so! S

Re: Problem with ddd

1997-06-23 Thread jdassen
On Jun 22, Holger Rusch wrote > first: > [$] > dpkg -l lesstif ddd > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ NameVersion

Re: gs-aladdin & pdf files

1997-06-23 Thread jdassen
On Jun 19, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote > I'm trying to print/view a pdf encrypted file without any success. > I can read it with acroread but when I try to print, gs is not able to > process it. Even if I try to save it to a file and then to use gv/gs to > see, I can't. xpdf program failed

Re: CDROM with DOSish hidden files? SOLUTION (?)

1997-06-23 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 22, Heiko Schlittermann wrote : Hi out there, : : I'd like to copy (for private use, of course) a CDROM. This CDROM : is usable under DOS/Windows and contains files with the DOSish : hidden/system attribute. Mounting this CDROM on Linux works, but : these hidden files are really unvisible

emacs ispell

1997-06-23 Thread John M. Rulnick
Using emacs_19.34-11.deb with ispell_3.1.18-11.deb or ispell_3.1.20-0.1.deb, attempting to use any ispell function (for example, M-$) within emacs, I get the message "ispell did not output version line" and the command fails. Strange. So I'd be grateful to anyone who can clue me in to what's

Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions

1997-06-23 Thread Rob MacWilliams
> > > However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root > > -rw--- permissions. This > > sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my > > normal account would dial and > > login ok, but all of the net calls would show a "Host name lookup failur

fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

1997-06-23 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I installed the latest gcc/libc5 (and other compiling tools) from unstable, had problems, so I've reinstalled the stable versions. But now I get: /usr/include/string.h:33: stddef.h: No such file or directory etc, despite the fact that /usr/include/linux/stddef.h exists. I'm sure I'v

Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions

1997-06-23 Thread George Bonser
> However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root > -rw--- permissions. This > sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my > normal account would dial and > login ok, but all of the net calls would show a "Host name lookup failure". > I co

/etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions

1997-06-23 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Hi all, I installed 1.3 on a clean machine this week using the 30 May '97 series of disks. The install went smoothly except for two things. The X Windows 3.3 in unstable has the same problem that has been discussed in this list, (Lack of tty0), so I won't go into that. However, /etc/resolv.c

Re: Smail and spammers

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Exim can do table lookups as you wish and its very easy compared to what I have seen from smail. Get on the exim mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details regarding how to configure exim for that purpose. You also might also want to have a look at the exim web site http://www.exim.org On Su

Re: Smail and spammers

1997-06-23 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Upgrade to exim which has extensive spam prevention mechanisms and filters > build in. > I hope to install a unique system this week that uses exim to handle email to the internet and smail handling the extensive uucp network that it interfaces wi

Re: Smail and spammers

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Upgrade to exim which has extensive spam prevention mechanisms and filters build in. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to : distribute spam? : From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a : compuserve a