BIND 8.1.x ?

1997-07-19 Thread Zachary DeAquila
any word on when/if we'll have a bind 8.1.x package? It's got some bugfixes and things over 4.9.x that make the upgrade well worthwhile... I mailed the maintainer of the bind package a few days ago but have no response yet. --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: .login

1997-07-19 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
Stupid would have been not asking. > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > mv .bash_login .bash_profile > THANKS, I can not beleive how stupid I am. Gerald V. Livingston II Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Where is Apache 1.2's proxy module?

1997-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just upgraded to Apache 1.2 by installing libc6 from unstable and apache from project/experimental and so far it seems to run just fine. I saw someone write that they have the proxy module running under same setup (stable, libc6, apache 1.2) but I can't find it anywere. Could someone

Re: ssh

1997-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: |I know this isn't related to debian, but I do run ssh on my Debian machine |and was hoping some other users out there encountered this... | |When I ssh onto machine, it displays the motd twice... any particular |reason why? In the remote machine's /etc/s

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-19 Thread Riku Saikkonen
(I'm Cc:ing this to debian-devel in an effort to get it fixed. :)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to debian-user: >When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys: > >F1 gives P >F2 gives Q >F3 gives R >F4 gives S > >F5 - F10 work just fine. This is an old bug in the terminfo entry for xterm.

Re: Q: gcc and flex/bison ?

1997-07-19 Thread Dima
>>"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > >Have you linked with -ly. Is there a liby at all? The bison in >bo (1.25-4) seems to be missing it altogether. Dunno, it doesn't get past 'gcc -c' stage. It looks like gcc doesn't understand "extern" anymore. As for liby, I don't seem to have either. FWIW, th

Removing broken hylafax-package

1997-07-19 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I installed hylafax_4.0.1-1_i386.deb, but it would not configure as a result of some missing scripts. When I tried to remove it, I could not. Here is the result of my effort: dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --purge hylafax (Reading database

Re: Year 2000 and samba...

1997-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Baetzler wrote: > I suppose this would work the same way as setting up any other remote > printer: by creating a set of two spools. SDee the details in the > LPR-HOWTO. Where is the lpr howto? I don't see it in the debian howto package. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> joost witteveen wrote: > > > > > What on earth is wrong? I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set > > to > > > the kernel's include directories correctly > > > > Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux > > directories > > (don't know about scsi, but probably that one too)

Re: Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
Tommy Lakofski wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm > currently? > It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting > quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. > usrquota > is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab,

Re: Problem: update-menu not working

1997-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Johnny Stevenson wrote: > I have no entry's in the menu's of fvwm2. I have just installed Debian > 1.3.1 which is supposed to update the fvwm menus with all the packages > installed on my machine. > > This has not happened. I searched and read through all the > documentation I could find and fou

Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
joost witteveen wrote: > > > What on earth is wrong? I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set > to > > the kernel's include directories correctly > > Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux > directories > (don't know about scsi, but probably that one too) are provided by >

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> > > > You almost certainly can compile them > > OK. libc6 was one of the suspects when trying to compile lyx. > ultimately I had to do a clean install (we hadn't found out about the > hardware problems yet, either). Note, BTW (just realise this) that if lynx has non-POSIX stuff in it (forget

problem with subscribing to groups

1997-07-19 Thread Joseph Skinner
Hi I have been trying to subscribe to the debian-alpha and debian-sparc groups but find that I keep getting noting but useless errors back. I also tried to subscribe using the mailing list form on the debian site [is it just me or did it used to be easier to find things there in the past] and it

Re: "1FA:" prompt at boot

1997-07-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 11:31 AM 17/07/97 -0400, Chris Smith wrote: >Ran the installation program from the official CD but when I try to boot >from the hard drive I get a "1FA:" prompt. What does this mean? More >importantly where can I find a list of such messages and there meanings? >Thanks. The 1FA: at boot is ac

Re: Q: gcc and flex/bison ?

1997-07-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Have you linked with -ly. Is there a liby at all? The bison in bo (1.25-4) seems to be missing it altogether. As a temporary measure, you can define it: #define YYSTYPE int in the declarations section of your .y file but I think this is a bug. -- Jaldhar On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Dima wrote:

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
> You almost certainly can compile them OK. libc6 was one of the suspects when trying to compile lyx. ultimately I had to do a clean install (we hadn't found out about the hardware problems yet, either). > You shouldn't use programmes that use xforms anyway, as it's non-free > software. Thi

Q: gcc and flex/bison ?

1997-07-19 Thread Dima
- Hi, anyone used flex & bison lately? While compiling lex.yy.c gcc says "parse error before yylval", which is defined in bison-generated header as extern YYSTYPE. Bison part fails with too many errors to list, "YYSTYPE undeclared" being one of them.

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> > The burning quesiton on my mind is with regard to mixed applications. > Lyx, in particular, relies on xpm and xforms, which are compiled with > libc5. Can I stil compile lyx with libc6? You almost certainly can compile them You probably will not run into problems using the resulting binary,

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
The burning quesiton on my mind is with regard to mixed applications. Lyx, in particular, relies on xpm and xforms, which are compiled with libc5. Can I stil compile lyx with libc6? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: changing dpkg depends/tcl7.6-dev

1997-07-19 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > There are many packages which depend on libc5-dev. In the hamm version > libc5-dev was changed to libc5-altdev to work around conflicts w/ > libc6... How can I change some of the packages (such as tcl7.6-dev) > which d

Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> What on earth is wrong? I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set to > the kernel's include directories correctly Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux directories (don't know about scsi, but probably that one too) are provided by the libc*-dev package, and you shouldn't

Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ... > > there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about > lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this?? > The .sd.sh script which StarOffice installs has: #!/bin/bas

Re: LDAP?

1997-07-19 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I'm investigating the package. If it looks useful, I'll be packaging it. -- Jean Pierre On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Alexander LIST wrote: > is anyone working on a debianized version of the UMich LDAP package? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
I tried using the quota-1.55-8 package and I get a segmentfault when the quotacheck is ran.. so I decided to compile it from the source package (I also tried to use the regular distribution file) and this is what happened: # make cc -O6 -fexpensive-opti

Off Topic: Netscape HTML post to newsgroups broken

1997-07-19 Thread jim
Using 4.01b6, I can send HTML as mail. I have the default selection set to send both plain text and HTML without asking me. That much works. HOWEVER, if you try to send to a newsgroup, you're screwed. A window comes up titled "Netscae: HTML Mail Question". This window worked fine in the last re

Using "suck" to transfer news....

1997-07-19 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
I am currently setting up suck, and thought that batchmode would suit perfectly, but that requires something called "innxmit". Does anyone know if there's a debian package containing this somewhere? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend -- TO UNSUB

LDAP?

1997-07-19 Thread Alexander LIST
Hi, is anyone working on a debianized version of the UMich LDAP package? thanx for any hints alex -- "Maenner der Wissenschaft! Man sagt ihr viele nach, aber die meisten mit Unrecht." - Karl Kraus ***

Re: New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty

1997-07-19 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "PIS" == Pedro I Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PIS> 2. /etc/init.d/xdm is empty so my PC doesn't boot into X PIS> automatically. If I execute xdm manually everything is ok. In the same dir you I found a file called xdm.dpkg-new (or somesuch). I renamed this to xdm, and I was up and r

What soundcard?

1997-07-19 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
Any hot tips regarding what soundcard I ought to get for my Linux box? Preferably one which is well supported, won't bother my CPU all that much, and of course sounds good. I am currently considering the Ensoniq Soundscape Elite or the Soundscape VIVO 90. The 'supported' part isn't really all that

Re: Mail Server

1997-07-19 Thread Syd Alsobrook
>I have managed to send mail from the Win95 box but cannot seem to get the setup right to allow the Win95 box to use the Linux box as a mail server. Can someone point me to some documentation on how to do this? > >Thanks in advance, > >Ross You will need to setup a pop3 server on your linux box. T

Re: Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >I wrote: > >> Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm >> missing... I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working. >> My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly: > >Apparently Linus sa

Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Yukhimets writes: > > I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ... > > > > there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about > > lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this?? > > Sure. You would have to change the value of LANG variable from "us" to >

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> Mark Lever writes: Mark> Hi, I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long Mark> now, and it is limited. Someone mentioned here that they Mark> use gnus for their mail and different folders contained Mark> different types of mail. Could they elaborate and explain

Mail Server

1997-07-19 Thread Ross D. Gardler
I have a Win95 machine connected to a Linux box which in turn is connected to the Internet. I have my Linux box retrieving mail from my many mailboxes and bringing them to gether into one account. For this I am currently using Sendmail. I have managed to send mail from the Win95 box but cannot

Re: Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm > missing... I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working. > My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly: Apparently Linus said that FAT was broken in 2.1.45 I was told to try 2.1.

Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm missing... I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working. My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly: $ ls /dos ls: /dos/ibmbio.com: No such file or directory ls: /dos/ibmdos.com: No such file

Re: Year 2000

1997-07-19 Thread Bob Clark
Ralph Winslow wrote: > > Syd Alsobrook wrote: > > > > Just a curious question, does anyone know if linux in general and > Debian in > > particular are year 2000 compliant? > > We're OK until 2017 (and since I'll surely have a 64-bit system by > then, > 'til hell freezes over) for 32-bit systems.

Re: efax problem

1997-07-19 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > I am using efax with a Zoltrix 14400 modem. I have no problem with faxes > > sent from my machine, but the ones I received so far are all vertically > > compressed. The width is ok but the height is about half what it should

Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ... > > there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about > lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this?? Sure. You would have to change the value of LANG variable from "us" to "en_US" in .sd.sh or .sd.csh scripts

Re: kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> I was confused about libs. Now I think I understand. For instance, if I > use > gcc, I must use libc5 or libc6 depending upon whether gcc was compiled using > libc5 or libc6 respectively. Is this correct? Well, it's correct in the sence that it is happens to be true for most of the Debian

Re: kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Victor Torrico
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question. The kernel > does nothing special for libc6 dependent stuff. As long as you have > the shared library installed, the executables that depend on them > will work, even with older kernels. > > The

Re: Linux Journal "Reader's Choice Awards"

1997-07-19 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > claimed that Apache was used in about 50% of sites and Netscape/MS were > > barely more than 10 each! > > That jibes with the O'Reilly article; apache 60%, Netscape ~25%??, MS > ~10%, the rest <7%. A pity not too many people has discovered Roxen (www

RE: Staroffice

1997-07-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Bob Nielsen writes: > > You can download the RPMs from caldera. They are on the caldera ftp site > > but > > in a hidden directory so you will have to go to http://www.caldera.com and > > fill > > out a survey for them before they give you the path to download it from. > > > > On 17-Jul-97 Tim

Keyboard wont work under X

1997-07-19 Thread David Nillesen
Hi , does anyone have any idea why my keyboard would stop working under X? i can type my name into xdm just fine but after that it just doesnt work. Any helpful hints or suggestion would be much appreciated David Nillesen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: Debian for PPC Macs

1997-07-19 Thread Dan Hugo
Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: > > On 16-Jul-97 Rick Hawkins wrote: > >> My conclusion is if I buy my new boc next week I should buy a Intel, > >> if I buy next year PPC or Alpha. Right? > > > >this is pretty much what i've come to. If i could buy an atx ppc > >motherboard now, I would. but i can't

Re: checking that xfs is working

1997-07-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote: > Perhaps using xfs should be made the default then. > > It should be just as simple to have either be used as long as all > font packages register themselves with both /etc/X11/XF86Config and > /etc/X11/xfs/config. Oh! That reminds me, while the nice

Re: "ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-19 Thread mark powers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: : > The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I have just installed : XFree86, the > SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I : am not sure what I > did or didn't do, or could have done to make : this key work right. Is it the > Keyboard setup in the instal

Re: MS-DOS CR & directory/file timestamping

1997-07-19 Thread Carey Evans
Ingo Fischenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Use the package *recode*, so you can do "recode ibmpc:latin1 html-file.html" But recode's ibmpc uses the default DOS codepage, while Win95 and NT use Latin 1 with extra characters, so anything like Ö will get destroyed. dos2unix might be bett

Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Kevin J Poorman
I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ... there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this?? -Thanks -Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: Routing of bounced mail

1997-07-19 Thread Carey Evans
"Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the standard (if there is a standard) routing that MTAs > use to route bounced mail? Do they use the FROM: field or the > Return-Path: field? It should be the Return-Path: field (or rather, the MAIL FROM: SMTP command that was used

Re: Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
Tommy Lakofski wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm > currently? > It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting > quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. > usrquota > is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab,

changing dpkg depends/tcl7.6-dev

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
There are many packages which depend on libc5-dev. In the hamm version libc5-dev was changed to libc5-altdev to work around conflicts w/ libc6... How can I change some of the packages (such as tcl7.6-dev) which depend on libc5-dev to libc5-dev | libc5-altdev? or are there tcl7.6-dev/tk4.2-dev pa

Re: group permission & nethack

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi - > "Rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rick> I"m trying to run nethack. however, i get repsonses to hte Rick> effect of Rick> No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm! Rick> checking the permissions, Rick> 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root ga

Re: TKDesk: insufficient resources for operation (fwd)

1997-07-19 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
I've rebooted the machine, and all work's again.. :) Any ideas? Thank's for all help! Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > > Hi, I'm using tkdesk_1.0b1-1.deb and I'm getting the following > > errors: > > [stress]:~$ tkdesk & > > [1] 745 >

Re: checking that xfs is working

1997-07-19 Thread Behan Webster
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote: > > > in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs. On most stand-alone > > machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell. > > The nice people on #gimp told me that xfs makes things more responsive > because the XServer does

Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm currently? It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. usrquota is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with quota befo

Re: Kernel Compiled (at last)

1997-07-19 Thread David Densmore
>You didn't say so in your post, so I'm going to assume you may not have done >some of the additional steps to get your modules compiled and installed. Aha! "additional steps" I thought there might be some of those. You guys on the debian-user list always have the answer. Thanks Mike David De

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
> "Paul" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> How can I install *BOTH* libc5 and libc6?? Can't we all just Paul> get along? -Paul As people have said, you can install them both--the packages named 'libc5' and 'libc6'. The complications are in the '-dev' packages and the

Removal of 'base' package

1997-07-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have noticed a lot of traffic recently on how the obsolete package 'base' can be removed. This is a detailed description of what I did. If there are any flaws in this let me know, otherwise, this could be used as a guide for those who want to remove the "offender". Cheers, Carlo

Re: 16 bit color for X

1997-07-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, jr wrote: > I install Debian 1.3.1 today (i use Red Hat before) and when I start X > whitn "startx" all its OK. But when I wnat more color depth, I use > > "startx -- -bpp 16" > > but then my screen are flicking and the resolution down very much (much > like EGA card)wh

question...

1997-07-19 Thread Rafael Castillo Mejia
hello all... well my question is: i want to settup my modem, but i can get that linux start my modem.. this one is on COM3 how do i do for settup my modem thank RAFEL CASTILLO MEJIA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE