Re: Installing from floppies

1997-08-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > I'm planning to install Debian from a pile of floppies. However, there > are some packages that won't fit on 1 floppy. How should I do this? If you have pkzip available, and are really set on using floppies: 1) use pkzip to put the file in a multipart ar

Help! Problem w/ sh at boot

1997-08-17 Thread rir
I am getting the following at boot and shutdown, with linux 2.0.29. What should I do? Starting system daemon: syslogd klogd Starting kerneld, version 2.1.34 (pid 119) sh: no job control in this shell sh-2.00# _ Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. sh: no job control in this shel sh-2.00# _

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > The Official CD will have a slower release schedule than the system > available via FTP. Those who wish the latest fixes should be willing to > update a few packages on their systems via FTP between each CD > purchase. Nobody can press new CDs every two we

tty with non-standard irq

1997-08-17 Thread Ricardo Muggli
How do I set up a com port in debian that has a non standard irq? The port I want to use is 0x2E8 irq2 This is what I tried. edited /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and added this line: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 2 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} and commented out this line: #AUTO_IRQ=aut

Debian on a PS/2

1997-08-17 Thread Zim9781
Hi, I have just installed Debian sucessfully on a IBM PS/2 56 with SCSI, but I have run in to a little problem. At the end of the installation I selected to make a boot disk, but when I put the disk in to boot from I get a message saying "Boot Failed: Change disks and press any key". Could someone

FTP updates (was Re: Is this the Debian ...)

1997-08-17 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > The Official CD will have a slower release schedule than the system > available via FTP. Those who wish the latest fixes should be willing to > update a few packages on their systems via FTP between each CD > purchase. Nobody can press new CDs every two we

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is Debian not including fixes into the "official" CD image > because of COMMERCIAL concerns??? Are the bug/security > fixes there, but the name just not changed? Which is it? The Official CD will have a slower release schedule than the system avai

Re: Installing from floppies

1997-08-17 Thread lc29b50
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > I'm planning to install Debian from a pile of floppies. However, there > are some packages that won't fit on 1 floppy. How should I do this? > > Adam Klein Buy the package on cd from www.cheapbytes.com Its only around $2 a copy, save you a lot of time

Re: man pages?

1997-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >> Hi. >> >> I expose my problem whith "man" when I try help about some commands. >> >> Supose that I want search "xman" help. >> >> If I do "man xman" I get help about "xman". But If I open the xman >> application and search for help about

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-08-17 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v1.6, August 17, 1997 Recent Changes: o Moved ldso above libc6, incase they have an ancient ldso. o Raised versions required for bash and libreadline(g)2 to the official main

Installing from floppies

1997-08-17 Thread Adam Klein
I'm planning to install Debian from a pile of floppies. However, there are some packages that won't fit on 1 floppy. How should I do this? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-17 Thread Richard G. Roberto
This kind of information would look good on our web site. On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > By the way, I return an error message rather than simply delaying the > > connection until it times out because under the Electronic Communications >

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're > > currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only) > > mailing list right now. If bash 2.0 is sufficiently broken, then tha

Re: ifconfig delay

1997-08-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Dale Thomas Harrison wrote: > Quick question: > > Does anybody know why theres a noticable pause when running ifconfig? > Running Debian 1.2, theres a pause of [at a guess] a second or so > before the devices are listed. I've never noticed this delay on any > other Linux or Un

Re: heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-17 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Dear shellutils maintainer, > > > > Debian 1.3.1 sports a who which many are saying is "slow" while others > > > > are saying the slowness is due to slow named servers. Were there > > any notable changes leading up the t

Re: Needing more than 8 chars for usernames

1997-08-17 Thread joost witteveen
> Hello, > > I need more than eight characters for usernames. Where can I configure this ? > Or wich packet do I need to recompile ? Never tried it myself, but I believe others have just gone ahead and used longer usernames. They reported no problems. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #

Re: man pages?

1997-08-17 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi. > > I expose my problem whith "man" when I try help about some commands. > > Supose that I want search "xman" help. > > If I do "man xman" I get help about "xman". But If I open the xman > application and search for help about it, I don't get help. Well, you _can_ get help on xman in xman

ifconfig delay

1997-08-17 Thread Dale Thomas Harrison
Quick question: Does anybody know why theres a noticable pause when running ifconfig? Running Debian 1.2, theres a pause of [at a guess] a second or so before the devices are listed. I've never noticed this delay on any other Linux or Unix system.. Any takers? :) D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Lilo boot get stuck after upgrade to 1.3.1

1997-08-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just upgraded one of my servers from 1.2 to 1.3.1 and now I can't boot using LILO. It gets stuck after printing "LI". The kernel is 2.0.29 with Equinox multi-modem pull module and a compiled-in Sangoma Frame-Relay driver. It used to boot just fine until the upgrade. As it is now, I

Re: microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 17, 1997 at 04:47:30PM +0800, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:59:30 +0800 "A.D.Y. Cheng" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, > > > wave audio data into .voc file? > > Sox. In debian package sox. >

Re: microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
> On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:59:30 +0800 "A.D.Y. Cheng" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, > > wave audio data into .voc file? > > Sox. In debian package sox. It does not work. When I did "sox max.wav max.voc", it gives an e

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-17 Thread ioannis
> > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libreadline.so (No such file or > > directory), skipping > > [ started after libreadline, fixed after libreadlineg ] > > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libhistory.so (No such file or > > directory), skipping > > [ same as above ] > > > > ldc

Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-17 Thread Carey Evans
Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > So there is no "me" in the network sense that you can allways > "nslookup birnam" and get an IP address. Whenever I connect > I get another IP. What's the prerequisites that Qmail expects > from "me"? Something that looks like a FQDN. What's m

Re: auto power-down via shutdown -h?

1997-08-17 Thread Carey Evans
lc29b50 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > It's a minor problem, but I > would like to find out how I can tune debian to shut-off (power off) > automatically after shutdown -h now It's a setting you specify when you compile the kernel. You'll need to install the kernel source, configure and

Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, David M wrote: > > >I had this happen when I was porting qmail to qnx.. it had to do with > >not being able to lookup the host name. I'm not sure if there are > >other hard errors though. > > While we are at it - what did you do ab

Re: microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:59:30 +0800 "A.D.Y. Cheng" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, > wave audio data into .voc file? Sox. In debian package sox. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, wave audio data into .voc file? Thanks Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

smailconfig

1997-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
when I type smailconfig I get the following error message: Error: system's FQDN hostname (www.3dillusion.com) doesn't match RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system. perhaps '3dillusion' is invalid because of the '3' at the beginning? I thought this only applied to the hostname. DNS loo

Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, David M wrote: >I had this happen when I was porting qmail to qnx.. it had to do with >not being able to lookup the host name. I'm not sure if there are >other hard errors though. While we are at it - what did you do about that? My problem with Qmail is that my home machine

[Update] Re: program fails on debian, runs on redhat

1997-08-17 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
For those of you that are not aware of my problem, see below. I have taken the risk of trashing the redhat system by copying the following libraries from my debian system. libc libm libdl libtcl I ran ldconfig after copying the [more recent debian] libraries to the redhat system. I also removed

host/domain names.. aliases

1997-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
my box is called 'paul.3dillusion.com' (not a reg'd dns).. I have a registered dns of 'www.3dillusion.com' and '3dillusion.com' I want mail to be sent to '3dillusion.com' ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anyhow, I'm having trouble setting it up. Can someone tell me want I should have in each configuration fi

auto power-down via shutdown -h?

1997-08-17 Thread lc29b50
I used to run slackware 3.1 and similar to win95, everytime I do a : shutdown -h now, the computer shuts off (power off) automatically after "system halted." I switched to debian a few days ago, and I have to do this manually after the system is halted. It's a minor problem, but I would like to

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-17 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Scott, I had some problems. Specifically: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1):bhmit1$ /bin/bash > /bin/bash: error in loading shared libraries > : undefined symbol: rl_get_string_value_hook > > > o lib

Re: restarting daemons

1997-08-17 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Aug 15, 1997, at 21:25, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > > Just to make things clear, kill doesn't stop anything; it's purpose in > > life is to send a given signal to a given process. When you do a > > > > killall -HUP inetd > > > > you are sen

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Jason Killen
I think numbering things this way is a great idea. I would like to see Debian succeed(?) on and off, in the "real world", the net. The one thing that I have always liked about Debian is the ability to be easy but not so easy that I have to be an ape to setup it up. I hope that with this move t

Re: Administration question

1997-08-17 Thread Shaya Potter
If she has access to the system, just tell her to do a ctrl-all-del, and then when the machine reboots turn it off during the memory check. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Scott, I had some problems. Specifically: [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1):bhmit1$ /bin/bash /bin/bash: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_get_string_value_hook > o libc6_2.0.4-1- check > o ldso_1.9.5-1 - check > o ncurses3.4_1.

Re: sound module: /dev/audio: Device or resource busy

1997-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 16, Phil Schniter wrote: > > hello, > > i am experiencing strange behavior when attempting to load sound > support as a module. i have a debian 1.3.1 system and a SB AWE-64 > PNP card, which i have installed using the isapnptools. the fact I have a SB AWE-32 PNP (does someone know:

Re: Error meesage from bootup,

1997-08-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:20:05 MDT lc29b50 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is part of the message I recevied from the bootup, although > everything seems to be working fine, is there a scsi module I should > install?? > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > Failed initializa

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're > currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only) > mailing list right now. If bash 2.0 is sufficiently broken, then that might > merit putting 2.01 into 'stable'. I'm

Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the way, I return an error message rather than simply delaying the > connection until it times out because under the Electronic Communications > and Privacy Act it is unlawful to intercept electronic mail without an > indication to the sender. From: Ca

Q: Rolodex-type app

1997-08-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Greetings ; I'm trying to find some decent x11-based app for names and addresses; sort of like a Xrolodex idea. I know Debian is packaging addressbook, is anyone using it? And does anyone have any other suggestions (based on your own experience Thanks, DamirN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI