apology to list

1997-11-12 Thread JD Thomlinson
In a fit of pique I added to the spam on this list regarding a misplaced question that did not belong here. I immediately realized my reply might result in a further inquiry to the list. I hereby apologise to the list and will not post unappropriate and off-topic replies in the future. Best Re

What is PPS

1997-11-12 Thread tmalloy
I am about to start a new job. My boss sent me some documentation with some attached files that pine lists as PPS application. These are unreadable. I tried forwarding them to myself so I could read them with netscape. This did not work, and in fact they caused netscape to crash. I tried loadi

Re: space, time, matter

1997-11-12 Thread JD Thomlinson
Dear Brendan - Matter does exist. However, it has no place to be since space and time have gone away to visit energy. At 16:38 11/12/97 -0800, you wrote: >I was wondering if you had any documentation on whether space time and >matter really exsist. I am a first year physics student at mcgill

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> > file, so I'm wondering if the debian inewsinn package puts the > > configuration file somewhere else. Still, I'll try copying the example > > inn.conf and see if it works.) > > Forgot to answer this: There should be a /var/lib/dpkg/info/inewsinn.conffiles file which lists all the configuartion

Re: space, time, matter

1997-11-12 Thread joost witteveen
> My theory is that people like you don't really exist. You are simply a > figment of my imagination. You have no existence independent of me. If > I stop thinking about you, it will be as if you never were. > > I will now add your name to my e-mail "kill" file, and will consciously > perform an a

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-12 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 11-Nov-97 Glenn Amerine wrote: >> "ychim" == ychim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >ychim> MS said that there is no Linux port. Brian K Servis wrote: >>> Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! >>> >>> M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. >>> http://w

how to keep multiple computers updated

1997-11-12 Thread Michael Lachmann
Hi, This is probably a faq, but I haven't found the answer in the faq. We have several systems running linux, using debian. They might share /usr/ over the network. How can I update packages on all systems? I can update them on the server, but is there a quick way to update files which do not resid

Re: space, time, matter

1997-11-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Brendan, Many people find discussion groups like ours by searching for keywords on the web, and then they post questions to those groups without really understanding what the groups are for. This is the conventional theory. My theory is that people like you don't really exist. You are simply a fi

console blanking

1997-11-12 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How does one turn off the console blanking so that the x-windows screen saver is on all the time? thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNGoxeSwk+M1fFNmTEQLr1wCdFP6woz3ajKHA0pIMkiBeAEnOIlE

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean here... are you just referring to the fact that > I can't receive e-mail as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", since "drollden" > isn't actually known to ibm's nameserver? > Yes. > I think i

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-12 Thread Peter Mutsaers
>> On Sat, 08 Nov 1997 00:30:22 -0800 (PST), George Bonser >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: GB> I would like to request that exim replace smail as the default GB> MTA for Debian. Bad idea. It doesn't do UUCP, which is still widely used. smail (and sendmail) do. -- /\_/\ ( o.o ) Peter Mutsa

Re: space, time, matter

1997-11-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if you had any documentation on whether space time and > matter really exsist. I am a first year physics student at mcgill > university in Montreal Canada. My argument is that they do not exsist, > however, i am having trouble formulating m

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Aaron" == Aaron Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aaron> Close, but not quite. I would like 'make install' or similar Aaron> to build the programs, configuration files, pre/postinst Aaron> scripts, and then install them, _without_ actually building a Aaron> .deb binary package file, but s

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Tim Ferrell
On 12 Nov, Aaron Denney let loose with: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Santiago Vila Doncel writes: >> > That extra step does often take just a little more time. The build takes >> > often much more time. *.deb files have an internal structure that only >> > dpkg know

Re: [side question] Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > > My /etc/procmailrc rules catch nearly all of the spam which makes it > > through the spamm address, domain and IP blocking rules. > > Are you willing to share your procmail rules? It would be quite nice to > have these for myself to get rid of the spam

space, time, matter

1997-11-12 Thread Brendan
I was wondering if you had any documentation on whether space time and matter really exsist. I am a first year physics student at mcgill university in Montreal Canada. My argument is that they do not exsist, however, i am having trouble formulating my ideas, if you have any information, it wo

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Aaron Denney
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > > That extra step does often take just a little more time. The build takes > > often much more time. *.deb files have an internal structure that only > > dpkg knows about. I'm not sure what you want to achieve

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-12 Thread Bill Moran
HI Tibor > does the error persist when you run: `startx /usr/bin/X11/olvwm' with > _empty_ .xinitrc file? if not, how olwm behaves? > I get the same error. An X-session seems to start and then closes down immediately. Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: base64

1997-11-12 Thread joost witteveen
> I have been receiving e-mail messages in base64 and my computer is uable > to translate it. I have a powerPC. How can I get my computer to > automatically translate this language. Thanks At least one of uudeview (uudeview package), munpack, from the mpack package, will do that. -- joost wit

Re: md driver

1997-11-12 Thread Pere Camps
> /dev/hda4 is a 3.3G linux partition \ > /dev/sda1 is a 4.0G (whole drive) | > /dev/sdb1 is a 4.0G (whole drive) | > /dev/sdc1 is a 2.0G (whole drive)/ I don't have the documents right here, but are you sure that the md drive can handle 13.3 GB partition? > 3 months ago I

Re: makefile problems...please help

1997-11-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, if this is in a makefile, try $$dir instead: -- : [...] for dir in tcl7.6/unix tk4.2/unix itcl/unix itk/unix \ iwidgets2.2.0/unix; do \ (cd $$dir; $(MAKE) all) ; done

Re:makefile problems...please help

1997-11-12 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Why don't you get the debian ptolemy package and then you won't have to worry about porting it yourself. Note: Ptolemy has a nasty suprises. They encourage you to set some variables that will affect your compilation using their gcc instead of the system installed one. I found the debian package

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"john" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Santiago Vila Doncel writes: >> That extra step does often take just a little more time. The build >> takes often much more time. *.deb files have an internal structure >> that only dpkg knows about. I'm not sure what you want to achieve. jo

makefile problems...please help

1997-11-12 Thread Manos Papantoniou
Hi all, I am trying to port into Debian a package called ptolemy, written for sun workstations. I am getting an error during make. I am not an advanced linux user so any advise, even a simple one, will be appeciated. Here are the details: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ptolemy/obj.linux/tclt

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #992

1997-11-12 Thread Daniel Martin
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > Two questions: > > Can the JDK.1.1.1 package be installed on the stable (bo) distibution, > or will it only work with the unstable (hamm). And if it only works on > the unstable, has anyone had any luck just installing 1.1.1 from the > Java-Linux ftp sit

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #992

1997-11-12 Thread Andrew Akins
Two questions: Can the JDK.1.1.1 package be installed on the stable (bo) distibution, or will it only work with the unstable (hamm). And if it only works on the unstable, has anyone had any luck just installing 1.1.1 from the Java-Linux ftp site? How about the Netscape4 package? Will it work with

amd mounting local filesystem

1997-11-12 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! Lately I am having (not so much) fun with amd. I am trying to get it to mount a local filesystem on a mount point of *my* choice. First I tried this and int works fine: /etc/amd/amd.master -r -a /amd /home /etc/amd/amd.home ---

md driver

1997-11-12 Thread RedHat Linux User
I am having a problem with the md driver /dev/hda1 is the boot partition 300M /dev/hda2 is a 127M swap partition /dev/hda3 is a 127M swap partition /dev/hda4 is a 3.3G linux partition \ | /dev/sda1 is a 4.0G (whole drive) |

Re: xbiff's bitmaps?

1997-11-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the traditional old mailbox > bitmaps (the ones that are "ugly") for xbiff are? > > I've dug around /usr/X11R6 quite a bit and can find neither the bitmaps > nor an app-defaults for xbiff that would contr

Re: installing a library

1997-11-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
clif smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to know how to install a library, "lmlib 0.5.2" for use with > Enlightenment desktop. It has its own install function but I need to know > where to install it from. Like where is the best place to gunzip/tar files > in, like "c:\temp" in DOS. I

Re: More newbie setup stuff...

1997-11-12 Thread Daniel Martin
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at > /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. > > Any idea what this means? Any suggestions? This means you've encountered

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread john
Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > That extra step does often take just a little more time. The build takes > often much more time. *.deb files have an internal structure that only > dpkg knows about. I'm not sure what you want to achieve. I thought he was fairly clear. He wants 'make install' to cre

Re: [Q] half-duplex mode with EEPRO100

1997-11-12 Thread Bruce Perens
I think full-duplex mode is valid only for a point-to-point connection with a special cable. But I could be wrong. I suggest you look at the driver source code. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. htt

Re: Question: I2O, and how Linux is dealing

1997-11-12 Thread Louis Larry
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Dan Hugo wrote: > > > I was just reading over the NDA agreement (for fun) that the I2O > > organization (http://www.i2osig.org/) makes people sign before they > > THINK about the "technology" in I2O, and I recall reading some

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-12 Thread Behan Webster
C'mon guys, leave it alone. This flamefest is getting us nowhere. Whether or not maildir or mbox is the way to go, the point is that qmail cannot be Debian's preferred MTA because Debian does not consider qmail to be DFSG free. This renders any fight over whether qmail is better than other MTA's

Re: mailx_8.1.1-3.1

1997-11-12 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Obi wrote: > Am I the only one in trouble with this version? When I try to send a mail as > soon as I hit return the mail is gone but no body is actually sent: only the > header. Am I missing some dependencies? No, that version is just br

More newbie setup stuff...

1997-11-12 Thread Andrew Akins
My thanks to everyone who helped me set up my laptop for a Debian install...the PCMCIA drivers loaded perfectly, and in no time at all I was connected to my ISP and finishing my install via ftp. My problem is in the config section - when trying to config the man-db package I eventually get this e

[Q] half-duplex mode with EEPRO100

1997-11-12 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, I am using eepro100.o module for my Intel EExpressPro 100B card. My current kernel version is 2.1.59. No matter what kernel I try to use I always see that when the module gets loaded it tell that it operates in half-duplex mode. I ran out of ideas. Does any one know how to change it to fu

Re: dmsdosfs

1997-11-12 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Luka Pravica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 11:22 PM Subject: dmsdosfs >Hi, > >I tried to use dmsdosfs-0.8.3.0 to access doublespace 3 compressed drive >on >my widows partition. I followed all instructions,

Re: JDK 1.1.4 deb

1997-11-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Is the JDK 1.1.4 debian package available yet? Thanks! The short answer is no. As 1.1.4 is only a bug-fix, is there any reason you especially need it or will 1.1.3 do? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: PostgreSQL for Debian (fwd)

1997-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >I packaged PostgreSQL for Debian system. It isn' t a official release. If >somebody that uses PostgreSQL 6.2.1 can try it and tell me if it wors for >him (as for me). Binaries are compiled against glibc2 and not libc5. > >You can find it at: > >

PostgreSQL for Debian (fwd)

1997-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
I packaged PostgreSQL for Debian system. It isn' t a official release. If somebody that uses PostgreSQL 6.2.1 can try it and tell me if it wors for him (as for me). Binaries are compiled against glibc2 and not libc5. You can find it at: http://www-linux.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/local/post

Re: HELLO

1997-11-12 Thread DebianUser
In a message dated 11/11/97 5:55:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Depending on the game you can do it under Win95. > > > Doh!!, sorry, I meant that it was my Understanding that AOL Users > where un-able to connect to the AOL Servers, via LINUX. I know this > is the cas

Re: Question: I2O, and how Linux is dealing

1997-11-12 Thread Bruce Perens
The i20 group left their specification on their anonymous FTP server and we all have a copy now. They then took it back off the server. Go figure. We have no problem with them now, there is no possible non-disclosure case and when the hardware comes out we will write drivers for it. Thanks

base64

1997-11-12 Thread Donovan Anderson
I have been receiving e-mail messages in base64 and my computer is uable to translate it. I have a powerPC. How can I get my computer to automatically translate this language. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Panasonic KxP 6300

1997-11-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer and the cheapest one I found is the Panasonic KxP 6300. Is anyone using this printer with Debian ? Are there any problems ? Is it any good ? Thanks George

Is it possible to compile gnome-0.9 in debian with libc6?

1997-11-12 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I noticed that gnome_0.9-1.deb had "obgtk stuff" left out, so I try to compile gnome from source. This is the error I got: gcc -g -O2 -o phaser_chess board_view.o coord_list.o logical_board.o phaser-ches s.o ../../libgnomeui/_libs/libgnomeui.a ../../libgnome/_libs/libgnome.a ../../ob gtk/

[side question] Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> My /etc/procmailrc rules catch nearly all of the spam which makes it > through the spamm address, domain and IP blocking rules. Are you willing to share your procmail rules? It would be quite nice to have these for myself to get rid of the spam which is arriving in ever increasing droves to my

mailx_8.1.1-3.1

1997-11-12 Thread Obi
Am I the only one in trouble with this version? When I try to send a mail as soon as I hit return the mail is gone but no body is actually sent: only the header. Am I missing some dependencies? graziano -- Nessuna cosa è che più c'inganni che 'l nostro giudizio. Leonardo da Vinci -- TO UNSU

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Aaron Denney: > Looking through the available documentation, it seems that the only way > to install source package This is a contradiction. source packages are not "installed". > is to use it to create a binary package, and > then install the newly created bin

HE: color in xterm and jed

1997-11-12 Thread Andrea Mennucci
Hi to everybody Maybe there is an easy answer to this but I couldnt find it When I used Slackware there was a command like ``color-xterm'' and I would have an xterm with color support In debian if I run ls --color=auto or jed (with ANSI_COLORS enabled)I see colors; but if I run a script which

Re: CD recording question

1997-11-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a good program to read audio from an audio CD and > store it in a file suitable for later recording. I am aware of the > cdda2wav program, which will generate WAV files that then need to be > converted back to cdr format by a program like

CD recording question

1997-11-12 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I am looking for a good program to read audio from an audio CD and store it in a file suitable for later recording. I am aware of the cdda2wav program, which will generate WAV files that then need to be converted back to cdr format by a program like sox. But surely there has to be an easier

Re: Error: Unknown PCI file card adapter

1997-11-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
> I have an ASUS TX97e motherboard. So do I. > Will I be able to proceed with the Debian GNU/Linux install even though > I'm missing this driver? Is there a site I can find a list of hardware > supported by Debian GNU/Linux? Just ignore the error message. I have no problems and get the mess

Re: magicfilter permissions

1997-11-12 Thread Brian K Servis
Orn E. Hansen writes: > > >> This is what is currently set mode wise: >># ls -l /usr/local/bin/hpset >> 11 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root10445 Jul 10 16:47 >> /usr/local/bin/hpset* >># ls -l /dev/lp1 >>0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 May 28 17:16 /dev/lp1 > > You can either,

Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) migration Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-11-12 Thread Scott Ellis
Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.10 1997/11/12 15:23:04 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will ut

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

1997-11-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 12:36:22AM -0500, Simon's Mailing List Account wrote: > We also need to fix the mailing list configuration so it doesn't happen > so much. Smartlist (which is what the debian lists apparently run on) > has a configuration setting that has it drop postings from people > not o

Re: Flow of boot process.

1997-11-12 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, R Chris Ross wrote: > I am looking for some sort of flow diagram or detailed text on the > boot process used by Debian. The Linux System Administrator's guide > has a small text on this and the /usr/doc/sysvinit has little. > Some pointers in the right direction wou

Re: Trouble with dselect

1997-11-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jim Kennedy wrote: > The dselect program is having trouble seeing the packages for > installation; I put them in a directory named "install" on the c drive, > and also copied the "packages" file into the same directory. Only 20 or > so packages come up in the screen for select

Re: dmsdosfs

1997-11-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: > I tried to use dmsdosfs-0.8.3.0 to access doublespace 3 compressed drive > on > my widows partition. I followed all instructions, recompiled kernel... > But when I try add module to the kernel with insmod dmsdos, I get > following error messages: > Look

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: > Nor mine, though I didn't look that carefully. There was some hoopla from > the guy who ran the client that found the key saying he wished it had been > a Mac (it was found by an NT machine), but I don't recall anything about > Linux. I have been meaning to

Re: syslogd beserk (solved)

1997-11-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I think I found what caused it: I recently purged inn from the system. > In the /etc/syslog.conf file there were lines about files that weren't > there anymore: > > # Logging for INN news system > # > news.crit /var/log/news/n

Error: Unknown PCI file card adapter

1997-11-12 Thread Howie
I have an ASUS TX97e motherboard. Checking out their site for driver, I found one driver for a Unix efs143.z PCI/E-P54NP4 & PCI/I-P54NP4D dual processor M/B APIC driver for SCO UNIX MPX R.3.2 V4.2.3.00. Will I be able to proceed with the Debian GNU/Linux install even though I'm missing th

Trouble with dselect

1997-11-12 Thread Jim Kennedy
The dselect program is having trouble seeing the packages for installation; I put them in a directory named "install" on the c drive, and also copied the "packages" file into the same directory. Only 20 or so packages come up in the screen for selection. How can i get dselect to see all the package

Re: Question: I2O, and how Linux is dealing

1997-11-12 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
Hello! The guys from I2O left the specifications a good while on their server for anonymous ftp :) Many people that writes hardware drivers for linux should have this document, I can imagine there was a good rush on their server before they removed the access to it... I2O is neither a problem n

Flow of boot process.

1997-11-12 Thread R Chris Ross
I am looking for some sort of flow diagram or detailed text on the boot process used by Debian. The Linux System Administrator's guide has a small text on this and the /usr/doc/sysvinit has little. Some pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Chris --

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-12 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > > > Hello, nice to meet you after so long. Well... did they mention Linux in > > > > Same to you Nicola. I have finally given up and dropped on

[Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Aaron Denney
Looking through the available documentation, it seems that the only way to install source package is to use it to create a binary package, and then install the newly created binary package. Am I missing something or is this the only way? If this is the only way, why is this necessary? I would thi

Re: LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...

1997-11-12 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My experiences with this indicate that LILO CANNOT configure itself > on any except the first logical drive. I didn't experiment with it, > but since removeable media (jaz drive) can be /dev/sda that made > my hard drive /dev/sdb. When I tried to make lilo

Re: Question: I2O, and how Linux is dealing

1997-11-12 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Dan Hugo wrote: > I was just reading over the NDA agreement (for fun) that the I2O > organization (http://www.i2osig.org/) makes people sign before they > THINK about the "technology" in I2O, and I recall reading somewhere that > the Linux community was NOT in favor of the w

Re: Make, LDFLAGS, library, wrong order?

1997-11-12 Thread joost witteveen
> I want to setup a makefile for a newbie user, so that all of his C files > (that use math) compile and link OK. I was hoping to do that by simply > creating a Makefile with only the line "LDFLAGS=-lm", but then the > compiler is called with > > cc -lm file.c -o file > > i.e., the wrong order

Re: Make, LDFLAGS, library, wrong order?

1997-11-12 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 12:45:25PM +0100, joost witteveen wrote: > I want to setup a makefile for a newbie user, so that all of his C files > (that use math) compile and link OK. I was hoping to do that by simply > creating a Makefile with only the line "LDFLAGS=-lm", but then the > compiler is cal

Make, LDFLAGS, library, wrong order?

1997-11-12 Thread joost witteveen
I want to setup a makefile for a newbie user, so that all of his C files (that use math) compile and link OK. I was hoping to do that by simply creating a Makefile with only the line "LDFLAGS=-lm", but then the compiler is called with cc -lm file.c -o file i.e., the wrong order (-lm should have

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-12 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > Hello, nice to meet you after so long. Well... did they mention Linux in > > Same to you Nicola. I have finally given up and dropped one of my > classes, and I immediately took steps to make sure this

Re: syslogd beserk (solved)

1997-11-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is > constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system. It appends messages to > /var/log/messages like > > Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number > Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times

Question: I2O, and how Linux is dealing

1997-11-12 Thread Dan Hugo
I was just reading over the NDA agreement (for fun) that the I2O organization (http://www.i2osig.org/) makes people sign before they THINK about the "technology" in I2O, and I recall reading somewhere that the Linux community was NOT in favor of the whole concept (for obvious reasons, given the lim

syslogd beserk

1997-11-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system. It appends messages to /var/log/messages like Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times Nov 12 11:13:37 peb

Re: wish and tclsh packages missing

1997-11-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[snip] > > The "Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO says to install > libreadline2_2.1-4 > but I only find libreadline2_2.1-2. > I never did find this debian package. Go to http://www.debian.org/packages.html and do a search for libreadline2. Then you'll find libreadline2_2.1-7.deb (I just

Re: How honest is top

1997-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > USER PID %CPU %MEM NI VSZ RSS SHRD TT STAT TIME COMMAND > daniel3418 98.0 88.4 4 989M3 110M6 364 ? R N 425:45 train -iter > > How can my program use 989M3 of virtual memory while I only have 128M > real memory and 138 Swap memory. I am assuming t

minicom startup message

1997-11-12 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I recently reinstalled Debian 1.1 because of a flaky disk. Minicom has changed slightly since the new install. It still works fine, but now, when invoked from the shell prompt (where else ?) I get the following message below the prompt before minicom actually takes over the scree

Diald/Ipmasq problem solved and working *great*!

1997-11-12 Thread Michael Legart
Hi, just wonna thank all those who helped me with questions on ipmasq and diald. It's working, and really rocks compared with ie. Wingate. All my frinds who before doubted linux, now has surrenderd ... Linux ruuulz! regards, b a d p i x e l of bad sector [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq uin: 2565176 --

Re: wish and tclsh packages missing

1997-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jameson Burt wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find the packages "wish" and "tclsh"? > Are these packages in some developers' directory, since they seem to not > notice missing dependent-packages? I belive wish and tclsh are provided by the various tcl packages. tcl80 ce

xntpd & syslog

1997-11-12 Thread Zlatko Rek
Hi, Can someone tell how to disable xntpd logging facility. Now, I have 2 xntpd logs per minute. Regards. Zlatko __ Dr. Zlatko Rek | Phone: +386 61 1771 200 Faculty of Mecha

Re: Where to nice fetching mail?

1997-11-12 Thread tko
David Morris writes: > > I have a cron job that runs every half an hour to grab my waiting email > and whatever usenet messages are applicable for the groups I am reading. > The trouble is that once it starts the system load increases rapidly (to > anywhere from 3 to 5) and causes any other proces

wish and tclsh packages missing

1997-11-12 Thread Jameson Burt
I see no wish or tclsh packages. These are required by the Debian hamm package exmh_2.0zeta-3.deb. I have had this problem with other packages that required dependent-packages not at ftp.debian.org. The following packages were missing for gimp gimp-data-min_0.99.14-1_all.de b libmpeg1_1.2.2-

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

1997-11-12 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
We also need to fix the mailing list configuration so it doesn't happen so much. Smartlist (which is what the debian lists apparently run on) has a configuration setting that has it drop postings from people not on the list. Simon On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > We need an attorney wh

dmsdosfs

1997-11-12 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi, I tried to use dmsdosfs-0.8.3.0 to access doublespace 3 compressed drive on my widows partition. I followed all instructions, recompiled kernel... But when I try add module to the kernel with insmod dmsdos, I get following error messages: /lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/dmsdos.o: unresolved symbol msd

Re: Netscape 4 question

1997-11-12 Thread Shaleh
It turns out that my preference.js file in ~/.netscape was corrupt. I had to amnually add a line or two. Mike Hallock wrote: > > Shaleh wrote: > > > > When i try to run Netscape I get a "IOT trapped/abort (core dump)" > > message. Anyone seen this. It just started last night and to my > > know

Re: Debian Newbie Setup Questions...

1997-11-12 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Akins) writes: > Hello. I'm considering trying out Linux (Debian in particular) and I have > some questions concerning the Debian distribution. > > My machine: > Pentium 90MHz laptop (DFI model 7200) > Mouse Port mouse > 32 meg ram > 800 meg IDE hardrive > 1.4meg

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-12 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > MS said that there is no Linux port. > sorry, but I am not disappointed. > > Brian K Servis wrote: > > > > Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! > > > > M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. > > http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie4

Re: HELP! smail won't deliver!

1997-11-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > Received FROM: ... HOST: 3dillusion.3dillusion.com [198.109.162.43] ... > Deferred TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ERROR:(ERR164) router > inet_hosts: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out > > before, all my mail was coming to '3dillusion.com' ... and not >

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-12 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > # user's mail address, if not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > mail_address= > > > > Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice > > if I could figure out how to get trn to work.) > > > You should set a line like this in tr

Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-12 Thread Charles Read
I have not yet tried to install LILO. But I have rebuilt Linux with a different device-set about 2-3 times. I'm not sure how that could impact the /dev/hda1 partition since that drive is excluded from my boot setup files. BTW, /dev/hda1 has about 2GB of Win95 software, so my preference is to avoi

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-12 Thread Britton
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > MS said that there is no Linux port. This is not surprising and you can't blame MS really. Despite all their success, they live on a weak OS whose purpose in life is to run a buggy word process

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-12 Thread Britton
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > Hello, nice to meet you after so long. Well... did they mention Linux in Same to you Nicola. I have finally given up and dropped one of my classes, and I immediately took steps to make sure this didn't artificially inflate my GPA by downloading t

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Collin Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got that same error when I ran liloconfig and tried to install LILO on my > Win95 drive. Big mistake :-( I tried to boot Windows 95 with a boot disk > and got an invalid media type error on accessing drive c. Now I have had to > reinstall every thing a

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-12 Thread Collin Rose
I got that same error when I ran liloconfig and tried to install LILO on my Win95 drive. Big mistake :-( I tried to boot Windows 95 with a boot disk and got an invalid media type error on accessing drive c. Now I have had to reinstall every thing after formating my hard drive. ># mount -t vfat

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
For anyone planning to write new code using /var/spool/mail or /tmp: http://www.netspace.org/lsv-archive/bugtraq.html contains many examples of insecure code produced by programmers who thought, incorrectly, that they understood how to use world-writable directories. > it is not at all difficult t

Re: 1997 World Series

1997-11-12 Thread Andrew J Tarr
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Great News from Nikco Sports... > > Because of your noted sports interests, you have been selected to Gosh, I wonder what gave him that idea. Someone been discussing bas

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

1997-11-12 Thread Bruce Perens
We need an attorney who really hates spam. Someone who is willing to work pro-bono to collect an advertising fee from our spammers. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.ht

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