'libfdisk error reading sector' during debian installation

1998-12-04 Thread Kris van Heghe
As i am new in LINUX, a few suggestions about solving the following problem would be most helpful. I try to install the debian version (floppy media) on an old Compaq Deskpro 386/20. I installed a non-standard harddisk (Conner, not recognized by the BIOS)so I boot from my rescue disk with the start

Re: sudo doesn't ask for passwd

1998-12-04 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Joey Hess, Stardate 031298.0612: > > This is quite normal, if you have used sudo a few minutes before and it > asked for a password. The prob. is that it always does so and not only after using it. :( I cannot figure out how this can be ... I'll tried to check /etc/pamd. but i

Thinkpad 755C files

1998-12-04 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ok, here's the xf86config & gpm files for the thinkpad 755C; I forget who needed them. begin 644 xf755.tgz M'XL(``J4:#8``^T::V_B2'*^'[EMAIL PROTECTED],.]$FI,(@0FW!")#YG$:W:FQ M&_#&=OO:[1#V;O>W7U7;YI&0>:PNL[LZE_+`5=55U?7JIMMW\W;3%L'\V1." M6:DTZW5X!HV&V3!W_FLPS9II`C2;M:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&I5!'"D

Re: libstdc++.so.2.8 problem

1998-12-04 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's something someone posted a few days ago -- Folks, If you are getting the error /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info after upgrading to slink, please go through the mail below. Mitch's solution worked for me.

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 04. desember 1998 reit Jiri Baum svohljóðandi: > Hello, > > Jeff wrote: > > Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. > > Where could I get that? Thanks. > > Same place as the first .deb file, in the directory main/x11. > > Actually, if you don't have xlib6g, th

mouse speed in X

1998-12-04 Thread Daniel Elenius
Does anyone know how to change the BASIC mouse speed (not the acceleration) in X. The 'xset m' only changes the acceleration and threshold, but what I want is a faster non-accelerated mouse speed. I've tried 'xset m 4 1' which gives a good speed, but it makes the mouse 'jerky', since it moves the p

Re: Who's the ian part in Debian?

1998-12-04 Thread Greg Vence
Just another Ian... ;) President of SPI, Highly Worshiped Grand Poohba of the Debian Project. Hah, just another Ian! Now, what about Ean... Ok, its friday and I'm still caged at work -- Greg. Shaleh wrote: > > Ian Murdock is the "ian". Debra is his wife. > > Ian Jackson is just another Ian

Re: suid script

1998-12-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: > The way I remember it is: > > 1) kernel opens the file, finds it suid > 2) kernel executes the shell with that uid > 3) shell opens the same filename > > If some fast file-moving is done between (1) and (3), one can substitute > something else for the suid

dpkg-buildpackage

1998-12-04 Thread Preston Landers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: > > > Is it possible when installing a debian package with: > > > > dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc > > , followed by ./configure, make, make install, > > The correct method is: > > dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc > cd package

Re: Glossary and Nomenclature generation (LaTeX)

1998-12-04 Thread Richard Lyon
>Please could someone inform me as to the 'standard' way of generating > glossary and nomenclature entries within a latex document > \makeglossary in the preamble \glossary{entry}in the text part works in a similar manner to index.

Re: Rar for Linux

1998-12-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 10:50:00 +0100 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: archive/lates

My experiences with a scanner

1998-12-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hello! Just wanted to share with you my recently lived experiences with a scanner. This week I bought an UMAX Astra 1220S scanner. I had been looking for a scanner that worked unfer Linux for some time. I always read carefully all scanner-related messages posted to the Debian lists and to the "A

gawk: bug or feature?

1998-12-04 Thread Marco Frattola
Hi, this is not -probably- debian specific, but I have no other distribution to test, so here's my question. I'm filtering a file using gawk. since there are line that look alike, but differ only by two chars, I decided to take this approach: /pattern/ { if line-of-type-1 {

Timezone Problem

1998-12-04 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I posted this to the list not too long ago, and the only response was I got was a message saying "That's what you get for running unstable distributions." As stated in my original message, the problem began with hamm. The reason I was trying the unstable distributions was to attempt to clear up the

RE:Serial port problem/modem

1998-12-04 Thread John Greer
I have a 28.8 modem that worked under Windows 3.1 before I switched my machine over to Debian 2.0.34. I have a serial mouse that I got working fine using gpm and now I would like to configure the machine to use my modem. THe problem is that I can not seem to get the machine to recognize that

Re: [Re: Netgear NIC card support]

1998-12-04 Thread rathon
TO all: Thanks again to all who have responded to this request of mine. While following all your tips and suggestions, I also decided to drop by the BayNetworks website (http://NETGEAR.baynetworks.com) and selected the FA310TX Drivers section. For ver4.0 and higher, BayNetworks is providing a Linu

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Jeff wrote: > Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. > Where could I get that? Thanks. Same place as the first .deb file, in the directory main/x11. Actually, if you don't have xlib6g, that most likely means you are missing most or all of X11, too. If you

Re: problems+suggestions

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Would dpkg --get-selections >> foo > dpkg --set-selections << foo > > not do this? Single '>' and '<', please. Sorry to nitpick, but a beginning user would probably be quite confused by the prompt for the here-document. Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Witness a post of mine on Monday: "Upgraded to unstable, now unstable" ;-) Mind you, the problem was actually in "broken", I mean, "frozen". Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. You realise that entire volumes have been written on that topic? :-) > What are desktop environments, A desktop environment is a bunch of X programs that are designed to work well together. Typically, there's some sort of button-bar for

Re: suid script

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > > Because shell scripts are supposidly very often full of securitry holes when > > suid. ... > the executable (bash, whatever) opens the file > it closes it > it changes uid/gid to reflect suid status -> so it becames root or whatever > it reopens it > and executes it The way I remember

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > An option for showing only those packages that nothing depends on > could be useful. That bit's easy. My first PERL script did that. But what about alternatives? Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- #!/usr/bin/perl print <) { next unless /^Status:\s*\S+ ok installed\s*?$/mi; s/^(\S+?:)/lc

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Firstly, I'm not sure which way you'll want to go, so please don't hesitate to ask me for more details on some point that I skim over... > The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I don't have any experience with this, but the most common response I've seen to this proble

Re: problems+suggestions

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Did you *intend* to upgrade to slink? I have the feeling that you might be upgrading to it inadvertently, which would explain most of your problems... If so, you'll have to consider what you want to do now. In general, unless you have a particular reason to go for unstable or frozen, it's

Re: Unused libs for deletion?

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Gunnar, > Is there some script I can use to find out which installed packages > aren't used by other packages. Something like the below? Note that it doesn't even attempt to do are alternatives and virtual packages. This means that it'll miss some things that aren't necessary, and it'll li

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Really? I couldn't find that thread. In any case, the problem is > that there's no file libstdc++.so - I fixed this by (as root) doing > the following: > cd /usr/lib > ln -s libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0.so libstdc++.so Did you try ldconfig first? It *should* do this for you - that'

Re: how to shut pppd in script

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > The idea is to disconnect from ISP after all scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ > are executed. I do this also. My way is to have a script in ip-up.d, called "zzz-hangup", which calls "poff" - that way it doesn't have to check anything (the scripts get done in alphabetical order). > kill 'c

Re: Rar for Linux

1998-12-04 Thread Thomas Adams
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:54:59AM +1100, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I have a copy of rar for linux, in the form of the file rarlinux. How do i > install or execute this? > I have done a chmod (755) on the file What does `file rarlinux` say?

Re: dpkg-source -x

1998-12-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: > Is it possible when installing a debian package with: > > dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc > , followed by ./configure, make, make install, The correct method is: dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc cd packagename.dsc debian/rules build debian/rules binary

RE: USR; dialing wrong number

1998-12-04 Thread Shaleh
On 04-Dec-98 Eugene Sevinian wrote: > Hi all, > Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working > without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply > pretends that it works but dial absolutly wrong phone number :(((. > The only differens is that under w95 it

USR; dialing wrong number

1998-12-04 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply pretends that it works but dial absolutly wrong phone number :(((. The only differens is that under w95 it was installed with explicitly set port/irq. Ho

Re: What installation with Debian 2.0?

1998-12-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:51:43 +0100 Georg Lohrer writes: > after many obstacles I have running a Debian 2.0 installation. But > without looking at the cryptic usage of dselect it's still a secret > for me what installation is the best/correct/only one. On the CD-ROM > are the directories: [...] >

Re: suid script

1998-12-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 03 Dec 1998 12:58:14 -0600 john writes: > > Joey Hess writes: >> Because shell scripts are supposidly very often full of securitry holes when >> suid. > > There's a bit more to it. There is a race condition that would > permit you to substitute a script of your choice for the suid script >

Re: Unused libs for deletion?

1998-12-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 13:06:15 +0100 Gunnar Isaksson writes: > > Is there some script I can use to find out which installed packages > aren't used by other packages. > > It's about time for me to get rid of all the unused libraries that > has been installed when testing various games and other stu

pcmcia card...

1998-12-04 Thread Alan Su
Hi everyone- i'm having some problems with pcmcia on a laptop here. i'm trying to get it to recognize a 3com 3c575bt cardbus ethernet card, and the stock pcmcia modules aren't cutting it. so, i'm installing hamm from scratch. then, i install new libc6 (v2.0.7u) so that i can install v3.0.6 pcmc

Re: Xemacs scrolling

1998-12-04 Thread servis
*- Daniel Elenius wrote about "Xemacs scrolling" > I would really like it if xemacs didn't scroll two lines short of a > full screen on C-v/M-v. Is this configurable? > > Lets see: The help(describe-key) for C-v says === C-v runs `scroll-up' `scroll-up' is an interactive built-in function

Upgrading from hamm to slink

1998-12-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out for? My plan is to first upgrade to the latest version of apt (I think I'm using 0.16 on my hamm system) and then just firing off an "apt-get dist-upgrade" fro

Re: dpkg-source -x

1998-12-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: > Is it possible when installing a debian package with: > > dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc > , followed by ./configure, make, make install, > > to get dpkg/dselect to understand that the package has been installed, > so that I can later uninstall it wit

dpkg-source -x

1998-12-04 Thread Daniel Elenius
Is it possible when installing a debian package with: dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc , followed by ./configure, make, make install, to get dpkg/dselect to understand that the package has been installed, so that I can later uninstall it with dpkg/dselect?

VM and mail folders

1998-12-04 Thread Daniel Elenius
Hi list! I hope some kind soul can help me with this problem. I use fetchmail/procmail/VM for mailing system, and I have the following problem: When I start VM, the contents of my /var/spool/mail/daniel are moved to ~/INBOX, which is good, since it voids the problem of the mailbox being written to

Xemacs scrolling

1998-12-04 Thread Daniel Elenius
I would really like it if xemacs didn't scroll two lines short of a full screen on C-v/M-v. Is this configurable?

RE: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> > I have a small config feeling question? > > Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it > > would be more comfortable to have a constant string > > in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy > You could filter on part of the footer. I hae my xfmail filter set to > work on debian-use

GPM + Xemacs

1998-12-04 Thread Daniel Elenius
I am unable to copy text with gpm into my xemacs (that is, in the console, not X). The other way doesn't work either. I can't even copy within xemacs with the mouse. Anyone knows how this can be fixed?

Re: [how to shut pppd in script]

1998-12-04 Thread Vladimir Popov
Hi, Thanks to all responded, the problem was cured by specifying full path for each command (thanks, Javi). best regards, Vladimir Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

ACER extensa 390

1998-12-04 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have an ACER Extensa 390 and I am having problems with the configuration o X11. I have Debian 2.0. Any sugestions? At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PR

RE: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Mark Ciciretti
You could filter on part of the footer. I hae my xfmail filter set to work on debian-user string in the message. On 04-Dec-98 Andrea Novara wrote: > Hi! > > I have a small config feeling question? > Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it > would be more comfortable to have a constant

RE: What's in kernel 2.1/2.2?

1998-12-04 Thread Mark Ciciretti
IIRC there was an article about the 2.2 kernel in the December issue of Linux Jornal. It might be on the web page , http://www.linuxjornal.com , if you don't get the magazine. For information about the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels look at LinuxHQ, http://www.linuxhq.com . The kernel patches section list

RE: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There's a header line that I use to sort by. In one of messages, look for: X-Mailing-List: It will list what mailing list the message came from and you should be able to sort by it. On 04-Dec-98 Andrea Novara wrote: > Hi! > > I have a small config feeling qu

autofs question

1998-12-04 Thread Tim Buller
Hi all- Is it possible to use the autofs (kernel based automounter) package to do Sun hosts type maps? Thanks, Tim Tim Buller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Specialist Office: Snow Hall 643 Department of Mathemati

RE: error linking X11 lib (FIXED)

1998-12-04 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and/or xlib6-dev (for libc5) very strange that I have xlib6g-dev installed and libX11.so was missing. I reinstalled it and it's fixed now. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-

RE: error linking X11 lib

1998-12-04 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and/or xlib6-dev (for libc5) just after I replyed I checked the file list for xlib6g-dev and found that libX11.so is missing in my system. Is it a symlink for libX11.so.6.1? Thanks []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the p

Re: Who's the ian part in Debian?

1998-12-04 Thread Mitch Blevins
zhaoway wrote: > Just curiousity from a, hmmm :-) > Who is the ian part in debian? > Ian Jackson or Ian Murdock? What's the relationship between the two? > And where'e debra mentioned in the debian faq? Just curiosity, > in no means I want to be offensive. And sorry for my poor english :-) h

Re: error linking X11 lib

1998-12-04 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Mário Olímpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | The error is: | gcc -O -I../inc -I/user/openwin/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o | ../bin/Linux/hierarchy hierarchy.c ../lib/Linux/libIM.a | ../lib/Linux/libFFT.a ../lib/Linux/libjpeg.a -lm -L/usr/lib | -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11 | ld: ca

RE: error linking X11 lib

1998-12-04 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and/or xlib6-dev (for libc5) linux1: ~/progs/magick$ dpkg -s xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 3234 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source

Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, im a sort of *new* debian user (used it like 3 years on shells.. installed it like 3 weeks ago). anyway heres my question: Right now im booting from a linux bootdisk which a) takes a few minutes and b) is a pain in th ass... Now i know if i use lilo

libstdc++.so.2.8 problem

1998-12-04 Thread Janne Lof
I just updated debian (slink) via dselect, there was about 40MB of updated stuff and I did not look very carefully what got upgraded (I know I should have been more careful). Now I get this error with many programs (with dselect for example): dselect: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/l

RE: Who's the ian part in Debian?

1998-12-04 Thread Shaleh
Ian Murdock is the "ian". Debra is his wife. Ian Jackson is just another Ian (we have a few). On 04-Dec-98 zhaoway wrote: > Just curiousity from a, hmmm :-) > Who is the ian part in debian? > Ian Jackson or Ian Murdock? What's the relationship between the two? > And where'e debra mentioned

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-04 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Now I also want to write :) Ship's Log, Lt. Jiri Baum, Stardate 041298.1122: > > > Usually, when you see a system with a bunch of mount points, it's because > > there's more than one disk. Using 4 2GB drives is better than one 8GB > > drive because: > And a couple of others: > > 3. ch

Re: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Andrea Novara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I have a small config feeling question? | Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it | would be more comfortable to have a constant string | in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy | filtering. | | If anyone have better suggestions or cat filte

RE: error linking X11 lib

1998-12-04 Thread Shaleh
Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and/or xlib6-dev (for libc5) On 04-Dec-98 Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile some programs (like example.c) from > imagemagick package, that require -lX11 option in gcc/g++ command line. > Every time I tried this, I get an error

error linking X11 lib

1998-12-04 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to compile some programs (like example.c) from imagemagick package, that require -lX11 option in gcc/g++ command line. Every time I tried this, I get an error from ld not been able to find libX11. But they are all installed. linux1: ~# ldconfig -p | grep libX11

Re: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Mike Miller
> "Andrea" == Andrea Novara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! I have a small config feeling question? Since we > spawn hundreds of messages each day, it would be more > comfortable to have a constant string in subjects such as > [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy filtering. There i

Re: Kernel build

1998-12-04 Thread prabenec
i forgot to say: you can continue where you ended, with make zImage time isn't lost - hey, i'ts linux ! -- Peter Rabenecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] one night is all that stands between them and freedom- but it's going to be one hell of a night --- Begin Message ---   Javier Velasco schri

Re: Kernel build

1998-12-04 Thread prabenec
  Javier Velasco schrieb: hi javier  Hi Debian users:   I am trying to build a custom kernel based on hamm. Basically I am trying to generate a new kernel with Initio scsi card support, for Pentium processor and only the basic modules I need at home (no more scsi drivers, a few filesystems etc).

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread MallarJ
I'd suggest you read over the GCC-HOWTO... But the gcc compiler can be found at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/net/ac121/linux/distributions/debian/hamm/hamm/binary- i386/devel -Jay In a message dated 12/3/98 1:59:33 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Uh, help. Where can I get a

Re: aol.com not blocked anymore? (was Re: just a test - please ignore)

1998-12-04 Thread MallarJ
Well, if you read this, I suppose that block has been lifted (maybe just in my case?). IMHO, blocking AOL is a BAD idea - I can understand the need to control spam, but stopping messages from the world's number one e-mail service isn't a very friendly thing to do. There are people that still use

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Sean Johnson
Fist you need to boot up under linux, then using your favorite text editor (I like vi) open up your /etc/lilo.conf file. delete the line that says 'delay=' replace it with the word 'prompt' Then move to the end of the file, and add these lines: other=/dev/hda table=/dev/hda label=95 If you'r

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
AJ wrote: ... >Is it possible that when i turn on my computer i get a 'BOOT:' prompt >and i can type either: 'win' for windows or 'linux' for linux using >Lilo? if i can.. can someone give me an example of there lilo.conf file Here's a sample /etc/lilo.conf that allows booting from a choice

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok, this is my lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = MS table = /dev/hda

Re: Kernel build

1998-12-04 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Get bin86 package from debian site. ___ Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you.

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-04 Thread ferret
This is a Tulip-compatible card. The origional card was actually a DECchip Tulip, but the one with the Netgear logo is a Tulip clone. I don't know if it's as good as the DECchip one, but I have gotten it to talk to a network, using both kernel 2.0.34 and 2.1.125 Unfortunately, I haven't been able

What's in kernel 2.1/2.2?

1998-12-04 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I see that people are hoping for kernel 2.2 to be released by Christmas. I've looked (honest!) and yet I can't see a straightforward list of the major new features expected in 2.1/2.2. Can anybody point me at something I could look at? (Short of the sources :-) Thanks, Paul Moore.

Who's the ian part in Debian?

1998-12-04 Thread zhaoway
Just curiousity from a, hmmm :-) Who is the ian part in debian? Ian Jackson or Ian Murdock? What's the relationship between the two? And where'e debra mentioned in the debian faq? Just curiosity, in no means I want to be offensive. And sorry for my poor english :-) --zhaoway

Re: proxy ftp software ?

1998-12-04 Thread Guido Bozzetto
> -> The 'squid' package offers a very flexible and configurable FTP and HTTP > -> caching-proxy server. > > yes but it uses http protocol which is not very good (means it's unusable) > for FTP client; Use TIS firewall toolkit: fwtk_1.3-1.deb from Debian 1.3 distribution.

Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread AJ
Hello, im a sort of *new* debian user (used it like 3 years on shells.. installed it like 3 weeks ago). anyway heres my question: Right now im booting from a linux bootdisk which a) takes a few minutes and b) is a pain in th ass... Now i know if i use lilo linux will boot only but i also have a win

Re: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Andrea Novara wrote: > I have a small config feeling question? > Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it > would be more comfortable to have a constant string > in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy > filtering. > > If anyone have better suggestions or cat f

Re: recommendations for an X news client?

1998-12-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 08:27 +, Peter Bartosch wrote: > }-> I'm looking for something better than knews and netscape's news client -- > }-> any suggestions? > > slrn? > > if you've used mutt slrn won't be a problem ;-) You could try news-peruser. I believe the latest version has switched to

Compressing hard disk

1998-12-04 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, Did someone managed to install e2compr-1.06.orig ? My hard disk is too small to fit everything, and I heard e2compr was acting as stacker. But I was unable to install it on my linux, the compilation and the kernel patch both failed. I have a 2.0.34 kernel. Has someone tried and managed to do

Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Andrea Novara
Hi! I have a small config feeling question? Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it would be more comfortable to have a constant string in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy filtering. If anyone have better suggestions or cat filter using other header than from, can mail such t

/boot

1998-12-04 Thread Kevin McMillan
Hello. I am about to try Debian 2.0.2, in an effor to decide which of the distributions I intend to keep on my small network. Was using RH 5.2, and on initial install of RH, created a 10 Mb /boot partition. Will Debian optimally use the /boot partition, during the install and during use, or s

Re: remove mail periodically?

1998-12-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If so, then you should be able to simply delete them with an appropriate > "find" command, perhaps from a cron job (add a file to /etc/cron.daily). > > Try: > find . -mtime 7 -exec ls -l {} \; find would return files wich are exactly 7 days old. he will

Re: upgrading libc6

1998-12-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to upgrade libc6 from 2.0.7t to 2.0.7u to use apt and wine. >But when I type: " dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb ", it prompts > > libc6 conflicts with sysvinit (<< 2.75) > sysvinit (version 2.72-3) is installed. > dpkg: error pr

Re: Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

1998-12-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > I have Pentium II, 512 Mb RAM, Linux debian 2.0, > kernel 2.0.36 > I need quite big swap, so I created 7 swap partitions > hda3,hda5,...,hda10, as seen below: [...] > When the system is loading it prints that the 7 (seven) > sawp partitions are activating, a

Re: how to shut pppd in script

1998-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Vladimir Popov wrote: >Hi, > >The idea is to disconnect from ISP after all scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ ar >e >executed. When I run script: > >= >#!/bin/sh >if test -e shut.ppp >then > echo "It exists" >else > echo "It doesn't exists" >fi >= >

Re: HELP: jikes & libstdc++.so.2.8 probs

1998-12-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 15:56:15 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info > > what can i do to get this solved? Install libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2 which should be on most mirrors by now. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said th

Re: Is ssh version 2.0.x going to be added to Debian ?

1998-12-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 14:14:18 -0800, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > Is this going to be put into Debian at some time ? Perhaps. If someone volunteers to package it. > If not, what are the issue (not enough free time to do it, > not-freeware-enough-license, etc) ? SSH2's license defines "commer

Re: egcs 1.1.1

1998-12-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 21:20:51 -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > Has anyone grabbed egcs 1.1.1 and compiled it? The last egcs 1.1.1 prerelease (which is identical to the release) is available in both frozen and unstable. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose b

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Just successfully installed my first linux box with no problems. Now I want > to install KDE. If you are using Debian, you need to install it the Debian Way... Most of KDE is in the contrib, X11, extra section. If you select it with dselect or apt, it'll automatically download whatever

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > -> the /usr is the main area comparable to WINDOWS PROGRAMMS, > > it contains programs, sometimes configs, docs etc etc ^^^ I thought /usr is not allowed to contain configs? Configs should go into /etc, /var, the user's home directory or the curr

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Please help me for the right understanding: I think you have it almost right... > the /root contains only the kernel and the device drivers, Actually, that's just "/". It's called the root directory, but it's not actually under /root. (/root is the administrator's working area.) >

Re: procmail autoreply script?

1998-12-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Felix K.K. Chang wrote: > Hello all, > > I use a procmail/fetchmail/smail combination. I know that exim is > the recommended mta now, but I do not want to change right now. > I was wondering if someone could help me with the following problem. > > I have a mail address at [E

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > > I decided to partition my hard disk into: > > /boot 50MB > > /home 50MB (maybe more) > > /root 50MB > > /var150MB (maybe more) > > /usr700MB > > /etc50MB > > /swap 128MB > >

Re: Installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes?

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Does anyone know how I can go abt installing .deb pkgs on other > Linuxes such as Redhat? Others have pointed out how to do via the "convert to RPM" route. If you don't want to do that, or can't, you can do: ar x xyzzy.deb Which will give you two tarballs, one with control informatio

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 03:20:54AM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > 54.54 1060) Calling system spyur (port ttyS2) > 54.54 1060) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "ATZ\r" sleep > 55.56 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 3 "OK\r" > 55.56 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "\r\nATZ\r\r\nOK\r" (found it) > 55.56 1060) DEB

procmail autoreply script?

1998-12-04 Thread Felix K.K. Chang
Hello all, I use a procmail/fetchmail/smail combination. I know that exim is the recommended mta now, but I do not want to change right now. I was wondering if someone could help me with the following problem. I have a mail address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] This address will be obsolete within a few

Re: serial terminal hangs at login prompt

1998-12-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I've tried connecting two different terminals to the serial port on my > hamm box. One was an old pc with terminal emulator software, the other > is a genuine Digital VT100. Both hang at the login prompt. > > I ran 'getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100' m

Re: mounting /cdrom only for group cdrom

1998-12-04 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Installing sudo is a good way to go about that sort of thing... it's a very good general-purpose solution for this sort of requirement. If you like, I can email you the relevant portions of my configuration-file. On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 07:26:51PM +, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > How can

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 04:09:47 PST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America" > > > > America has nothing to do with it. Only in the net-idiot land of > > Gates

Kernel build

1998-12-04 Thread Javier Velasco
Hi Debian users:   I am trying to build a custom kernel based on hamm. Basically I am trying to generate a new kernel with Initio scsi card support, for Pentium processor and only the basic modules I need at home (no more scsi drivers, a few filesystems etc).   My problem is that when "make

Re: proxy ftp software ?

1998-12-04 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: -> > -> > is there a package to create a proxy ftp server ? -> -> The 'squid' package offers a very flexible and configurable FTP and HTTP -> caching-proxy server. yes but it uses http protocol which is not very good (means it's unusable) for FTP client; -- Matus "

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