On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> >
> > The problems are easy to summarize:
> > - xlib6 version 3.3-6 has a bug in it that causes a lot of programs not to
> > find files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ . xlib6 version 3.3-5 doesn't have
> > this bug.
> > - the rest of the packages don't
Hi,
I just went on to compile the newest greatest etc version of PostgreSQL
(6.2), and the compile failed because dlfnc.h can't be found. This file
is supposed to be in ldso At least it was in ldso_1.8.8-1.deb. I
recently installed ldso-1.9.6-2, because I also want libc6, and there it
is m
Hi,
>>"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brandon> Just found it: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/MOMspider/
That's the old perl 4 version.
Brandon> What additions did you make?
Hmm. I forst started by giving it variable levels of verbosity
(on a large
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> From: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Fw: Boot Problems
> Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 4:03 PM
>
>
>
> --
> > From: Martin Str|mberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 1:21 PM
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russ
>
> The problems are easy to summarize:
> - xlib6 version 3.3-6 has a bug in it that causes a lot of programs not to
> find files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ . xlib6 version 3.3-5 doesn't have
> this bug.
> - the rest of the packages don't seem to have any bugs that break other
> things (of co
On 3 Oct, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
>
>> Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related
>> to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking
>> for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found tzconfig
>
> Yeah,
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 .
> However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a
> number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can
> somebody briefl
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
> Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now.
> I can actually do usefull work ;-}
>
> I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...)
> *) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
> I noticed /
Consider the report made. This thread should also be complete now.
Thanks again to Monoj, Remco, David Wright, Phil and anyone else whose
name I didn't mention for the excellent help and advice,
David Stern.
On 3 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"David" == David Stern <[EMAIL PROTEC
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Debian 1.1 and am having problems with "bad blocks." I would
>> appreciate any help in solving my problem.
>>
>> This is the error message:
>> Bad Block 1384505 in group 169's inode table. Relocate? Yes.
>> WARNING: Severe data loss possible!
>> Bad Block 1384521 in grou
On 3 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Brandon> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >> Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the
> >> links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly bug
Hi,
>>"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brandon> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the
>> links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly buggy script
>> on sunsite, but that was all.
Brandon> M
Hi,
>>"David" == David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Someone should probably make a report. At the time I wrote
David> this I hadn't noticed the companion copyright and
David> changelog.Debian files, or else I'd already have made such an
David> attempt.
David> Should one simply e-mail
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russ Cook wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit.]
: I have built a custom kernel (2.0.30) to remove unnecessary file system
: support, and add IP Masquerading. I've followed the instructions in
: /usr/src/linux/README. I've made a boot floppy with the new kernel, and I
: r
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have
> been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email
> address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these
> cases?
Yes, unstable questions sho
> "PT" == Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PT> Hello,
PT> I'm working on a project to handle email-to-pager service. I found
PT> a software tool to do so, but the C program segfaults.
PT> Can anyone suggest a software package, and/or volunteer to help me
PT> debug the proble
> No, no, no, no, no. *smacks Galen about a bit*
>
> gnats != gnat. _gnat_ is the Ada compiler that does/did evil
> diversions, _gnats_ is the problem report management system, and it
> has (afaik) 0 reason to be diverting gcc.
>
Sorry, I keep getting those two confused. *whack myself on head*
Does anyone have this automated DAT changer on their network? And if
so, any troubles backing up Debian boxes with it? From what I can tell
from HP's literature, backup software for NetWare and NT are included,
and then it lists a bunch of Unix systems that are supported via "mtx
autoloader utilit
this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have
been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email
address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these
cases?
thanks,
TL
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How on earth is this supposed to work? I have been setting up a mirror.
The debian directory is /ftp/pub/linux/debian, the non-US directory is
/ftp/pub/linux/debian-non-US. There is a link,
/ftp/pub/linux/debian/local which points to "../debian-non-US". This
setup used to work: I have a user wh
Greetings! I notice there is source, but no binary package, of
apache-ssl under debian-non-US/stable at os.inf.tu-dresden.de. Is
this right?
Thanks!
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> Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ?
> If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be ?
Does anyone know how to configure a keyboard to allow the insertion
of accented characters under X?
I know it's got something to do with dead keys, but I never got this
to work.
I can thus f
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
> Does one have to compile extra support into the kernel in order
> to be able to use accented characters, etc. ?
No.
> Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ?
> If more than a key.map is needed, what might this
Hello All!
A few days ago I posted a problem I'm having at home making a custom kernel
that I can boot. I'm reposting now with some information.
I run Dos/Windows on my first SCSI drive, /dev/sda, which has three
partitions plus the boot sector. I run OS/2 and Linux on my second SCSI
drive, whi
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote:
>
> > I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I
> > have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them
> > is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt.
> > I am able to
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
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> I have a machine that I want to act as a pppd server, and have all the
> pieces in place. Win95 can dial in and bring up the link without a
> problem. When I try using linux to dial into this machine, the link never
> goes
Hi,
I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 .
However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a
number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can
somebody briefly summarise what
these are and how to upgrade safely ?
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
> Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related
> to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking
> for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found tzconfig
Yeah, this is one of those "undocumented fea
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
Thankzs!
I had a number of sleepless night because of this.
While we are on this, it occur to me that a revert feature in dselect/dpkg
would be great.
Many a time, I find myself installing package which break other package
but there was no way to go ba
Read the "Answer Guy" column in the latest Linux Gazette
(http://www.ssc.com/lg) for a thorough discussion of how to accomplish a
backup using cpio. I hope that's where I saw it :-). And I hope this
message makes it to the list OK...my first attempt to use netscape to
send mail.
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> *) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
>as su, run /sbin/tzconfig
>
Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related
to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking
for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've foun
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
> Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now.
> I can actually do usefull work ;-}
>
> I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...)
> *) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
as su, run /sbin/
>
> What are the best ways to do this ?
>
> I thought of:
>
> a) creating a gzipped tarfile on my jaz-drive (1 Gb, so I can't just copy it)
>(drawback: tar seems to have some quirks in that it doesn't always
> correctly restores permissions)
> b) reinstalling (drawback: needs reconfiguri
Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now.
I can actually do usefull work ;-}
I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...)
*) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
I noticed /etc/localtime was symlinked to a non-existant file
And that /e
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hans M. Pedersen wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I have been trying for about two days to install Debian 1.3.1 on a
> Thinkpad
> 760ED with XGA graphics - but without any luck :-( >
> When I boot from the rescue disk (yes - I have used the floppy=thinkpad
> option), the root.bin and l
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote:
> can anyone be kind enough to point me what package to install in my linux
> box, so that I can view movie from it? and where can I get it.
>
> thanks
You can try
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Hello !
I have been trying for about two days to install Debian 1.3.1 on a Thinkpad
760ED with XGA graphics - but without any luck :-(
When I boot from the rescue disk (yes - I have used the floppy=thinkpad
option), the root.bin and linux are loaded - and nothing more. After the
newline in 'L
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
> Someone recently made reference, on this mailing list, to the i18n user
> group in answer to a question about no English support with Linux. I
> couldn't find a reference to this list on the debian web site, but
>
Not specifically Debian-related, but in a way it is.
I have Linux installed on a 4 Gb disk at home. Of that space, about 1.2 Gb
is in use, by various partitions. I recently bought a Matrox Rainbow Runner,
which is a companion card to the Matrox Mystique. As far as I know though,
there are no Linux
can anyone be kind enough to point me what package to install in my linux
box, so that I can view movie from it? and where can I get it.
thanks
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To: Wiria Atmadja Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, October 04, 1997 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: mpeg and dat viewer
>
>
>On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote
> On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop?
> >
> well if you are using the default afterstep rc file hitting F4 will do a
> screenshot of the desktop, this file needs to be converted to another
> graphic format I guess but I know it
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Is there a postgresql package for debian?
> There is only postgres95 as far as I can find.
> I want to start developing a web database app and don't want
> to work with an old version. Nor do I particularly
> want to compile the source nor install the RP
what package do we need to view movie from
vcd?
tia
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote:
>
> > /usr/doc/util-linux/README.fdisk.gz says:
> >
> > You can have up to 64 partitions on a single IDE disk, or up to 16
> > partitions on a single SCSI disk, at least as far as Linux is
> > concerned; in
Is there a postgresql package for debian?
There is only postgres95 as far as I can find.
I want to start developing a web database app and don't want
to work with an old version. Nor do I particularly
want to compile the source nor install the RPM.
thanks
Hamish
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Does one have to compile extra support into the kernel in order
to be able to use accented characters, etc. ? Or is a non-English
keyboard map sufficient ? If more than a key.map is needed, what might
this be ?
I want to use a keyboard with accented characters. I chose the
key
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux
> to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient
> and seemingly buggy script on sunsite, but that was all.
Mom Spider. Hard to find, but worth the trouble. It's a perl script.
HTH,
Brandon
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, alex khalil wrote:
> >
> > > When will Debian 2.0 be available?
> >
> > "When it is ready"
>
> And, to give a little more feeling about when that may be:
> We're converting all packages to libc6. I My guess is that we're
> abo
Hi,
I'm a debian user with a diaul-up connection to an ISP.
I would like to configure smail so that it put a differen From: field if a
mail is internal in my system or if it's delivered to an external address.
I've modified my from_field:
from_field="From: ${if dest:remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] {$sen
joost witteveen wrote:
> And, to give a little more feeling about when that may be:
> We're converting all packages to libc6. I My guess is that we're
> about half-way
Good guess. To be specific (I updated my available file this morning):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>grep ^Depends: /var/lib/dpkg/availa
Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux
to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient
and seemingly buggy script on sunsite, but that was all.
thanks,
hamish
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
> Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop?
xv has a grab function built-in. It can grab a single window or the entire
root window (ie the entire screen).
...RickM...
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I believe that "xwd" will do it. This will just do a bitmap
window dump.
Another option is to use the grab feature in "xv". You can then
save it in whatever format you want.
Oh, and I don't know if it is available for Debian, but I
have run "xgrab" before under xfree86 in linux. This does bitm
David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Has anyone successfully installed Debian 1.3.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi
: laptop? If so, what it the secret? When I try booting from the
: install/rescue disk, it gets about halfway through "Loading linux..."
: and then reboots.
I installed Debian 1.1 in a
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I have a machine that I want to act as a pppd server, and have all the
pieces in place. Win95 can dial in and bring up the link without a
problem. When I try using linux to dial into this machine, the link never
goes up.
I have tried various combinations of para
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