Re: Idea for deity. (dselect) Security hole alert system.

1997-07-03 Thread John Foster
On this point, is/has anyone work(ing|ed) on COPS as a deb package? John Foster On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 23:07:37 -0400 (EDT), Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > >> No I'm not willing to work on it, and no I have not thought out the fine > >> details, but I think i

Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-03 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Thats way to easy. Could I please have some nasty installation > problems and bugs and such back? I want to pay $100 for a software and > have bugs, and now I pay nothing and have no bucks. What do I get? ;-) Hey, no problem! I can send you some older Debian CDROMs that

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX

1997-07-03 Thread m*
> > >Dave Cinege wrote: > > Thus, and I swear I see it at least once a day, people keep asking if > the XL series is supported at all. this was the first i had heard of it, but great! thanks, m* -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?

1997-07-03 Thread Bruce Perens
> > Does anyone have dpkgcert.deb? If it's unavailable, such a thing > > can't be that hard to write... > > And, once written, incorporation into the Debian-Package-Creator package > (Sorry, I've forgotten the official name ta the moment) wouldn't seem > much of a challenge, either. > It's one

Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-03 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Martin Steigerwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A question I have anyway: The 386 or 486 has a Microsoft Serial Port > Compatible mouse. I couldnt try a working driver module for that one. Just use the serial driver (you probably don't have to load it) and say it's a Microsoft mouse. So it's bugs

Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-03 Thread Clare Johnstone
Rolf, I am a newbie, i recently spent time going round and round with lpc trying to get my printer going till my head was in a whirl with it. I can't remember all the symptoms, and it is only debian 0.93 but the cure was getting a match between entries in /etc/printcap and /etc/conf.modules and

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 -0500, m* wrote: >Dave Cinege wrote: >> >> >> I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put >> the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone >> submit a patch. I don't know how) >> > >are the 90x cards even

Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-03 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Thanks for the kind words. On 3 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote: [snip] > A question I have anyway: The 386 or 486 has a Microsoft Serial Port > Compatible mouse. I couldnt try a working driver module for that one. > Microsoft Bus mouse did not work, PS/2 mouse did not work... I tried > every m

Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Hi, could you please put more bugs into Debian Linux? I installed it on a 386 or was it a 486 at the university and connected to the network via ethernet card on the first try. That base system booted, I did a ping somehost.domain.de and it worked Thats way to easy. Could I please have

Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?

1997-07-03 Thread Ralph Winslow
Pete Harlan wrote: > > Bruce Writes: > > MD5 checksums suitable for use with "md5sum -cv" are in > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums . Unfortunately, not _all_ packages > > produce md5sums files, but you'll be able to check the ones that do. > > Does anyone have dpkgcert.deb? If it's unavailable,

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-03 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 14:05:25 -0400, Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Victor> The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian Victor> netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I Victor> never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. O

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread m*
Dave Cinege wrote: > > > I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put > the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone > submit a patch. I don't know how) > are the 90x cards even supported yet? then again i have not ventured beyond v

Re: rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty

1997-07-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Okay, I got my error again. > > Note: This occurs with rxvt v2.21 (latest vsn) and rxvt 2.20 > (from XFree-3.3). This is therefore not a Debian-specific problem. > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt > rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty > rxvt: aborting > > > strace rxvt > [muc

Re: Anyone using Real Audio

1997-07-03 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > > Has anyone got Real Audio working, when ever I have tried to use it, it > buffered the data, and then just quit, with the stderr going to netscape > saying "Signall 11". Is this a case, where Real Audio has to be > LD_PRELOAD'd with something. > > Tha

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-03 Thread John Foster
We use the following strategy: 1) Generate a list of passwords with pwgen 2) On a SP2 supercomputer, try to crack them (after feeding them through crypt). 3) Those who can't be cracked go into a safe, to be allocated when users sign up. The company I work for was very badly hacked (rm -fR *),

Re: How can I set up BBS with Debian Linux?

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 22:44:16 +0200 (CEST), Cheng-Chang Wu wrote: >Hello, > >I need to set up a BBS for my company. Does anyone know, what kind of >software do I need? Thanks a lot. You would do this just like you are setting up an internet site, but make everything local. You could set-up regular

X fonts

1997-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is really not Debian-specific. But this is the *best* place to get answers. I just got a new 17" monitor and am trying to use it at 1600x1200. Okay, so things get small. So I though I'd use bigger fonts and still benefit from higher resolution. I like the smaller window manger icons and bu

How can I set up BBS with Debian Linux?

1997-07-03 Thread Cheng-Chang Wu
Hello, I need to set up a BBS for my company. Does anyone know, what kind of software do I need? Thanks a lot. Cheng-Chang Wu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xinitrc vs. xsession (was Re: Window Managers)

1997-07-03 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > I hate to think that my version of 1.2 (now 1.3) is idiosyncratic, but the > global xsession and the global xinitrc files are identical. I have attempted > in my own halting way to parse my way thru the file(s), and the result > appears to me to be that

Re: Anyone using Real Audio

1997-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Shaya Potter: > Has anyone got Real Audio working, when ever I have tried to use it, it > buffered the data, and then just quit, with the stderr going to netscape > saying "Signall 11". Is this a case, where Real Audio has to be > LD_PRELOAD'd with something. I'm using real audio with no problems

News error

1997-07-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm running suck and INN in a local news setup off from my ISP. This all seems to be working fine, with this one exception. After running suck's "get-news" command to fetch my news, the following error message gets repeated over and over for about five minutes: Malfunction, Unable to post

Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?

1997-07-03 Thread Pete Harlan
Bruce Writes: > MD5 checksums suitable for use with "md5sum -cv" are in > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums . Unfortunately, not _all_ packages > produce md5sums files, but you'll be able to check the ones that do. On our server, only "ckermit" provides such a file. Perhaps it should be a required par

Re: fvwm2rc95

1997-07-03 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi fellows, > > Here is something strange that happened to me recently and for the second > time: once I modified /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95, restarted X and > everything was fine. A couple of "days" later, the file was replaced by > some default and so all my changes disappeared. I've ju

Anyone using Real Audio

1997-07-03 Thread Shaya Potter
Has anyone got Real Audio working, when ever I have tried to use it, it buffered the data, and then just quit, with the stderr going to netscape saying "Signall 11". Is this a case, where Real Audio has to be LD_PRELOAD'd with something. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

fvwm2rc95

1997-07-03 Thread Peymann Gohari
Hi fellows, Here is something strange that happened to me recently and for the second time: once I modified /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95, restarted X and everything was fine. A couple of "days" later, the file was replaced by some default and so all my changes disappeared. I've just checked t

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:42:01 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: > >I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet >network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. > >Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? > >(Note, this is a 905, not

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Thu, Jul 03, 1997 at 10:45:15AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or > > > > When I look for these files they point to:

Re: Window Managers

1997-07-03 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Thu, Jul 03, 1997 at 10:12:01AM -0400, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, David Kohel wrote: > > > I just set up and configured xdm (thanks to those who responded > > with advice on shadow passwords, etc.), and by default, xdm > > sources the $HOME/.xsession files, not $HOME/.xinitr

depmod question: ELF header not found?

1997-07-03 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
Hi, I installed my custom kernel and went to run `depmod -a'. I get the following error: modprobe: error reading ELF header: no such file or directory I can go back to the previous kernel and run depmod happily. What gives? Regards, Giuseppe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-03 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > where did you find netscape-beta package installer ? > It's gone !!! Unfortunately i purged > netscape-beta from my computer before checking > is it available or not. You really don't need it now. I just used the 'ns-install' script that came with the

Re: mh in a POP environment

1997-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Stephen Witt wrote: > Does mh POP work OK? Should I use one of the other POP packages > available to transport the mail locally and then use mh from there? `inc' can use POP, although I've never tried that. I use two programs on different machines: - fetchpop: I use this at home. Simply in

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread Dima
>>Shaya Potter wrote: >On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Dima wrote: >> Partition Magic OTOH does change cluster size and supports several >> partition types, including ext2 (as of PM 3.0) >> > >I don't think it support ext2, it just recognizes it. From checking their >web pages, I don't see any menti

Re: Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)

1997-07-03 Thread Behan Webster
> Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the > product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and > didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with an altavista > web search for the word Diety. I know precisely how to contact them. 8) Si

Re: laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet

1997-07-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joergen Haegg wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > you write: > > > > > >The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as > > >outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or > > >the only

Re: ftape question

1997-07-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a Iomega 250 floppy tape drive. I compiled ftape into > the Kernel (2.0.30). But what to do to get a device >/dev/ftape ??? cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ftape > According to the CDROM-HOWTO I have to create this entry via mknod. > But what are the correct

Re: Window Managers

1997-07-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
George Bonser wrote: > > In their .xinitrc > > On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joe Lillibridge wrote: > > > How can users specify their own window managers? I.E., User A wants to > > run fvwm & User B wants to run afterstep. I'm using xdm. > > No, this is not correct, since xinit is an *alternative* way

Re: octave

1997-07-03 Thread Bruce Perens
> So I installed libc5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb. Nope, install libc5_, not libc5-dev_ The -dev version means "developer", and is for use in compiling programs, not executing them. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP publi

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Victor On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian > netscape-beta package. where did you find netscape-beta package installer ? It's gone !!! Unfortunately i purged netscape-beta from my computer before checking is it

mh in a POP environment

1997-07-03 Thread Stephen Witt
I was wondering what the best way of using mh with a POP server might be? I've been a mh user (mh-e) for years at work (SunOS and Solaris) and would like to try it with my Linux machine at home (I have been using Netscape mail). Does mh POP work OK? Should I use one of the other POP packages avai

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Dima wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but > >> I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. > >> > >I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can > >do. Howe

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread Dima
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but >> I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. >> >I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can >do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a parti

Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-03 Thread Victor Torrico
The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. Of course you must first delete the /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape link and then make a new soft link to "ln -s /usr/local/

Re: octave

1997-07-03 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to the many who helped yesterday. Octave complained that it needed > libg++, even though it wasn't listed dependent on it. I tried to install > libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb. > When I did, dpkg found several packages in available that had the > version

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Kevin Traas
Oops!!! Never mind! I did a little RTFM'ing and found what I needed! Thanks anyway, Kevin Traas -- > From: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC > Date: July 3, 1997 10:42 AM > > > I'm just in the process of trying to put a

3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? (Note, this is a 905, not a 509.) Thanks, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Baan Business S

off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-03 Thread Richard Morin
As you can see, this message is very offtopic, but still somewhat Debian related. I am curious how folks who use Debian in a "production" environment deal with allocating passwords. Do you use the pwgen package and let users worry about it from there, or do you let them choose within the confines

Installing onto Compaq Proliant SCSI system

1997-07-03 Thread John Lines
I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a SCSI based Compaq Proliant system, and the built in drivers cant find a hard disk to become the system disk. Has anyone managed to get Linux to run on the Compaq Proliant ?? Is the Compaq FAST SCSI adaptor a rebadged something else? John Lines -- T

Re: octave

1997-07-03 Thread CHUCK
Thanks to the many who helped yesterday. Octave complained that it needed libg++, even though it wasn't listed dependent on it. I tried to install libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb. When I did, dpkg found several packages in available that had the version field empty. I looked at the file and each of those pa

Re: kde window manager locks up

1997-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Bjoern-Bernhard Schad: > I get a lockup if I try to move the kfm icon which appears > on the panel or if I move an icon within kfm. I use kdeapps 0.9.02-1. > > Should I upgrade? Yes, do upgrade. This bug is fixed ib kdeapps 0.10.01 -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Hard drive crash question

1997-07-03 Thread Linux dist. research
Greetings, Last night I got the exciting message on my screen: scsi0: medium error on channel 0, id3, lun 0, CDB: read (6) Current Error sd08:02 sensekey medium error additional sense indicates record not found repeating many times as I tried to boot. A day ago, I got a crc check sum error

Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)

1997-07-03 Thread Linux dist. research
Next question and then I'll hopefully shut up for a day or two about this topic :-) Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with an altavista

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread stick
> > I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but > I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. > I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a FAT file system, remember t

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > /usr/lib/libc.so --> /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 > /usr/lib/libm.so --> /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 You've made the same mistake I did ... .5.4.33 and .5.0.9 are the versions the links _currently_ point to, which he doesn't have. Just make sure that you make the l

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-03 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Tony, there we got it! Some of your library links are trashed. (ldconfig manages all shared libraries on your system and says that it can't find neither the main C library nor the math library.) Probably the fix is pretty simple: Login as root, delete the dangling links /usr/lib/libc.so and /u

Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-03 Thread Bruce Perens
OK. Remove /dev/printer and start lpd. It'll probably create the socket on its own. See why it doesn't start from one of the /etc/rc.d files. 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 A

Re: repartitioning

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Of course you will have to edit /etc/fstab and probably /etc/lilo.conf > plus run lilo before rebooting. Thanks to those who've replied. One last question: at the moment I've got three partitions on my drive : hda1 Win95 (hanging head in shame) hda5 Deb

Re: "Too many open files": ulimits

1997-07-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Take a look at /etc/lshell.conf Oh, that's it, thanks! Now one question... I have fortunes installed and fortunes-mod. With this setup if one types "fortune" it will try to open 74 files! (The fortunes and the .dat files plus stdio et al) I know this

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> DW>Suggestion: Set up the base system. Download the new libc5 package and > DW>install it with "dpkg -i libc5*.deb 2>&1 |tee install.log". This will put > DW>all the error messages into the file intall.log. If the installation > DW>fails, send me the file. > > Does this mean When dselect is

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
OOPS. See below: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > libc.so -> /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there is a > > 5.4.23 > > libm.so -> /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 This file also does not exist but is a > > 5.0.8 > > b) ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 libc.so >ln -s /lib/libm.so.5.0.9

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or > > When I look for these files they point to: > > libc.so -> /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there

Re: A Basic Question

1997-07-03 Thread Tim O'Brien
At 10:29 PM 7/3/97 +0900, you wrote: >Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? It's a distribution, yes. It's different than Slackware and Redhat of course, but it is a distribution. The basic difference IMO, is that Debian has a better package installation/maintainance sy

Re: A Basic Question

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote: > Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? Well, yes, it's a distribution. We'd like to think that it's somewhat nicer than Slackware and Redhat, tho :) ... Will

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
DW>I suspect that your problems are with the ftp method (this was not tested DW>as extensivly as it should have been) DW>You indicated that you have tried this 7 times. Was it from scratch each DW>time? That is, did you start over and do a fresh install each time? Yes each time was a start over.

A Basic Question

1997-07-03 Thread Alex Fan
Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? Alex Fan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-03 Thread Rolf Obrecht
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Allan Black wrote: > Correct. /dev/printer is created by lpd, when it starts up. > > The only way to create it is to restart lpd. Try: > > kill lpd > remove /dev/printer > start lpd > > lpd should then create /dev/printer. > Hi Allan, first of all many thanks for your exc

Re: XF_SVGA depenpencies

1997-07-03 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > Should it not require xbase, or something like that? > That DOES seem silly. No, why? They _DO_ require xbase to work, don't they? > > Also, should we not have a RECOMMENDATION that the user installs the > > 16-color X server whenever installing X (otherw

rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty

1997-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Okay, I got my error again. Note: This occurs with rxvt v2.21 (latest vsn) and rxvt 2.20 (from XFree-3.3). This is therefore not a Debian-specific problem. > /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting > strace rxvt [much stuff deleted] geteuid()

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
LE>By now, I'm getting the feeling that something with your set is horribly LE>broken - your hardware or the software/installation. LE>I think, however, we can focus on the gcc + cpp + libraries region for LE>now, because I get the impression that dselect's install only fails LE>because of reaso

Re: Window Managers

1997-07-03 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, David Kohel wrote: > I just set up and configured xdm (thanks to those who responded > with advice on shadow passwords, etc.), and by default, xdm > sources the $HOME/.xsession files, not $HOME/.xinitrc files. If you use xdm, .xsession is the individual user configuration.

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
LE>Hi again, LE>thinking a bit more of it, it might be a good idea to make an ldconfig LE>(as root) to see what's the matter with your libraries. Maybe it even LE>solves your problems. LE>By the way, how much experience do you have with Linux in general? I LE>hope this question doesn't sound ru

Where's the package for netscape communicator

1997-07-03 Thread Shaya Potter
There used to be a package, netscape-beta, that could be used to install communicator, it's gone now. Is there a reason it disappeared. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-03 Thread Rolf Obrecht
Ufff, problem solved !!! Thanks to Allan Black I now understand the whole thing a bit better (hopefully). Restarting lpd didn't help; but rebooting the machine re-created my lost socket :) The only problem I still have to deal with is to cool down those users who got logged out without warning;

Re: laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet

1997-07-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joergen Haegg wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > you write: > > > >The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as > >outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or > >the only problem. > > > Just wanted to say that you

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
Bruce, When I run ldconfig here is what it says ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory), skipping When I look for these files they point to: libc.so -> /lib/libc.so.

Re: What happened to fvwm95.

1997-07-03 Thread joost witteveen
> Greetings! My 1.3 upgrade also wiped out my > /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95 file. A simple link: > > system.fvwm2rc95 -> system.fvwm2rc95.orig-dist > > though, fixed the problem. Is this a bug? If two people saw the same thing, then it must be a bug. It is, however a bug that hasn't been

ftape question

1997-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have a Iomega 250 floppy tape drive. I compiled ftape into the Kernel (2.0.30). But what to do to get a device /dev/ftape ??? According to the CDROM-HOWTO I have to create this entry via mknod. But what are the correct parameters. I didn't find any information neither in the HOWTO

Re: What happened to fvwm95.

1997-07-03 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! My 1.3 upgrade also wiped out my /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95 file. A simple link: system.fvwm2rc95 -> system.fvwm2rc95.orig-dist though, fixed the problem. Is this a bug? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Camm Maguire ===

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > [stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] > > What version of the bootdisks do you have ? > You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have > something very wrong. > I'd suggest getting a new set of bootd

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
Sorry to take so long to reply. The recent point release has been taking all my time. I suspect that your problems are with the ftp method (this was not tested as extensivly as it should have been) You indicated that you have tried this 7 times. Was it from scratch each time? That is, did you sta

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
I'm sorry to have missed the front of this thread. First, the version in stable is correct. The fact that an older version is in unstable is a minor problem with the archive management. Second, this version was tested on a "fresh" install by myself and at least one other tester, with no problems,

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Check out the Linux parallel port page : http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html (It depends on your CDROM) Adrian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet

1997-07-03 Thread Joergen Haegg
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as >outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or >the only problem. Just wanted to say that you are not alone. :-) I installed 2.0.30 kernel-image and pcm

Re: help with exmh

1997-07-03 Thread Mark Longair
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Clint Adams wrote: > [] > > Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. > > In psckf's man page: > > BUGS >Packf doesn't handle the old UUCP-style "mbox" format >(used by SendMail). To pack messages into this format, >

Re: xfree 3.3

1997-07-03 Thread Shaya Potter
It's in unstable, and should be in stable for version 1.3.1 Shaya On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for XFree 3.3 (I have got a matrox mystique video card) > as a debian package ? Does it exist ? Where ? > >

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: >On 2 Jul 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: >> that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi >> CD-ROM 8-( >But it didn't put them in the category of "SCSI hosts that will NEVER >work". Doesn't this su

xfree 3.3

1997-07-03 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
Hello, I am looking for XFree 3.3 (I have got a matrox mystique video card) as a debian package ? Does it exist ? Where ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

1997-07-03 Thread Rolf Obrecht
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > cd /dev > ln -s lp0 printer > > I think that MAKEDEV complaint is an internal-array-full in MAKEDEV problem, > not a full disk. I don't know why that happens in this case. Do look in > /dev for large files with the names of devices - someti

TeteX and French

1997-07-03 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
Hi, I would like to know if someone tried to install the Bernard Gaulle 'french' package with TeteX. Is it possible ? How to do it ? Thanks F. LE Gall -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Netscape 4.01b6 for Linux is out! :)

1997-07-03 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello! Probably you all know about this already, but anyway: Netscape 4.01b6 is out! It is in: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.01/4.01b6/english/unix/other I am downloading it right now! Wow, over 9MB? It looks big. I sure hope it works great! Crossing my finger! (Still an hour

laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet

1997-07-03 Thread Mark Phillips
This is really a follow up of the email I just sent. I am trying to install debian for a friend on his laptop. I have installed the base system as well as pcmcia-cs. I have configured IP addresses etc, rebooted but I still have no access to the network. The problem could be that I can't instal

pcmcia-modules_2.0.29 won't install !!

1997-07-03 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to install Debian on a friend's laptop. I have the base system installed and I tried to install pcmcia-modules_2.0.29 but it failed, complaining: pcmcia-modules_2.0.29 depends on pcmcia-cs (=2.9.5-2) however: version of pcmcia-cs on system is 2.9.5-3 The version of the Kernel instal

Re: epson Stylus 600

1997-07-03 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello! :) On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Britton wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > > Hello, > > I m a new user of linux and I have a question > > I bought an Epson Stylus 600 and I have now idea how to print with it > > I would like to print both ascii and

disk partitioner that handles 6.5G disk?

1997-07-03 Thread Bjoern-Bernhard Schad
Hi, I noticed that neither my fdisk nor cfdisk display my 8th partition on a 6.5G Quantum BF Cyclone disk while the kernel has no trouble with it. I created the partition with cfdisk btw. Are there any know patches/ updates/ other partitioners which work with these big disks? Thanks for any help

Re: kde window manager locks up

1997-07-03 Thread Bjoern-Bernhard Schad
Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Victor Torrico: > > > The newest kde window manager 0.10.01-1 locks up whenever any of the > > > > > functions in the right-mouse-button pop-up are selected. Must do a > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to login again to cure situation. Any

Re: Window Managers

1997-07-03 Thread David Kohel
I just set up and configured xdm (thanks to those who responded with advice on shadow passwords, etc.), and by default, xdm sources the $HOME/.xsession files, not $HOME/.xinitrc files. Actually, by default, my initial setup didn't source any user files. See the /etc/X11/Xsession file (read by

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-03 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi again, thinking a bit more of it, it might be a good idea to make an ldconfig (as root) to see what's the matter with your libraries. Maybe it even solves your problems. By the way, how much experience do you have with Linux in general? I hope this question doesn't sound rude, it's just goot t

Re: Window Managers

1997-07-03 Thread George Bonser
In their .xinitrc On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joe Lillibridge wrote: > How can users specify their own window managers? I.E., User A wants to > run fvwm & User B wants to run afterstep. I'm using xdm. > > thanks, > joe > George Bonser http://corsica.shorelink.com -- x hosting for $XX.XX

Re: I just can't get 1.3 to work using dselect....

1997-07-03 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Tom, first of all I didn't see your reply on the list. To get as many people involved in helping with your problem it is really a good thing to discuss on the list - otherwise people simply don't hear you. By now, I'm getting the feeling that something with your set is horribly broken - your h

Window Managers

1997-07-03 Thread Joe Lillibridge
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Re: ISDN in UK

1997-07-03 Thread Scott Hanson
olly@lfix.co.uk ("Oliver Elphick") writes: > I see that a new isdnutils package has been released; I would like to use > ISDN, but I don't want to spend the money on buying equipment and getting > a line installed until I know whether the Linux utilities will work with the > UK system. I know t

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