On Tuesday, October 27, Lukas Eppler wrote
>
> I have [dists/hamm/main dists/hamm/contrib dists/hamm/non-free] in my
> selection in dselect. is there a directory to mention to have the security
> updates quicker than a week, without going slink/unstable?
The best thing to do is to subscribe to de
> > > The bug is real, and Debian has a fix. See security
> > > lists in Debian. If you are running Debian 2.0
> > > you might have a security hole. There was also security
> > > problems with bind. The fixes appear in the current distributions
> > > (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates.
> >
Could anyone explain to me what the "Group Shift/Lock behavior" stuff in
the Keyboard section of XF86Setup is all about? It contains options like:
- Use default setting
- R-Alt switches group while pressed
- Right Alt key changes group
etc.
Was does it do??
Additionally, does anyone know of an u
On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote
> What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a
> SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware).
If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by on the
debian-devel-changes mailing-list recently. You might want
On Friday, May 15, George Bonser wrote
>
> Find a mirror of the Debian incoming directory ... I think there are some
> listed on the Debian web page ... and grab the new debianutils and install
> it manually with dpkg -i
Debian 1.3.1r8 has been released with a debianutils that makes gzip happy.
I
On Thursday, May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
[snip]
> I can't seem to find a debianutils_1.6* under any of the bo*
> directories on the ftp sites.
Mea culpa.
debianutils 1.8.9 has been uploaded to Incoming, and will be installed into
bo.
Sorry for the trouble.
Christian
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On Monday, March 02, Paul Rightley wrote
> Thanks for the information. I edited the appropriate tripwire
> config file and had it use /var/tmp instead. Everything is
> working fine again. Should this behavior be filed as a bug
> against tripwire (if it hasn't already been done).
In short, yes.
Since I've upgraded to anacron 2.0, I'm getting this email every day:
Stopped /usr/sbin/boa (pid 196).
Starting boa...
File /usr/sbin/suidexec registered but not installed
/usr/lib/emacs/20.2/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was
root.mail 2755 changed to root.mail u=rwx,g=rxs,
Hi,
I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work.
Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that
(1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and
Mod4, which is nonsensical.
I filled a bug report about that, but in the meantime how do I make this
On Saturday, August 16, George Bonser wrote
>
> I am not sure if some daemon in Debian installed this while I was not
> looking but I am taking it as an attack until I know more.
>
> I looked in /home and noticed a user account that I do not remember
> setting up. It is /home/bc
>
> It was owne
On Jul 11, Rob Browning wrote
>
> Do any of the ftp sites still have the last round of X 3.2 based
> packages? I looked around on ftp.debian.org, but couldn't find them.
Couldn't log on to ftp.debian.org, but try
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian/Debian-1.2-fixed/
Christian
PS Be awar
On Jul 7, Jason Westervelt wrote
> nah.. that only gets a few other icons to pop up... don't ask why, but
> the TOP button (the one that has the lock buttons, shutdown, etc) will
> ** NOT ** have an icon until you install procps and xproc.. very
> weird..
Even if you don't "swallow" an xload in
On Jul 7, Rick Hawkins wrote
>
> I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having
> problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think).
>
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot
> create executables.
> bash-2.00#
You'll need the g++, libg++ and
On Jul 6, Niklas Hoglund wrote
> I accidently removed my linux partition *GAAAH* ...
> anyway (after an couple of days depression ;)) I´d like to install debian
> again ... heres the problem...
> I "destroyed" my floppy =(is there ANYWAY(!) to install debian without
> floppy?? (I´ve got a r
On Jul 5, Dave Cinege wrote
> I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works.
> But whatis always returns "Nothing appropriate".
>
> Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0
> install, but I have installed quite a bit of extra junk.
Try doing "m
On Jul 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
> I have a ls-lRa.gz of ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian and have
>
> ' zcat ftp.debian.org-pub.debian-ls-lRa.gz | grep sh-util '
>
> but found no such package ...
>
> Any ideas how on debian do I upgrade the 'date' program
> ( and the rest of the sh-utils pro
On Jul 6, Bob Billson wrote
>
> I am curious what the difference is between the 'Official Debian 1.3' and
> LSL's '"Oficial" Debian 1.3'. I thought I saw something that if the CD
> vendor changes or doesn't use something they can't use the former title.
> What did LSL not use or leave out?
Than
On Jul 4, Jason Westervelt wrote
[snip]
> After asking several sound card questions, I get
> error messages stating that stdio.h and 4 other *.h files could not be
> found.
Do you have libc5-dev installed? If not, install it and try again.
Christian
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On Jul 4, Will Lowe wrote
> Ok. I upgraded from 1.2 -> 1.3 the other day. Got an error saying that
> "mandb" conflicted with "man", so I purged man and installed "mandb",
> thinking that the latter replaced the former. Now I've got no man. Any
> clues?
Reinstalling mandb should fix it.
Chr
On Jul 3, Bob Nielsen wrote
> I updated to 1.3.1 from 1.3 and now I get the following when I try to run
> slrn:
>
> [nielsen:nielsen]$ ls -al /usr/bin/slrn
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171072 Jun 23 08:26 /usr/bin/slrn
> [nielsen:nielsen]$ /usr/bin/slrn
> bash: /usr/bin/slrn: No such file
On Jun 23, Ed Urenda wrote
> Hello, any help with the folowing would be greatly appreciated:
>
> I have an ide with debian 1.3 and win 95 on it and decided that the
> rewrite_table option in lilo would be the easiest way to dual-boot the
> system.
>
> The recompilation of lilo with the rewrite_
On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote
> > Hi,
> > I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem
> > to have some problems.
> >Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it
> > any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below;
> >
> >
On Jun 18, Bruce Perens wrote
> It looks as if someone is trolling the Debian mailing lists and spamming
> their subscribers. The spammer may be getting them via the news gateway.
Hmm. But wasn't the news gateway taken down a few monts ago?
Christian
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On Jun 18, joost witteveen wrote
>
> Seriously, though: Is there a way (with procmail or other) that
> I can automatically forward all email with non-existant
> Reply-To: addresses to /dev/null? That would probably halve the
> amount of spam I get.
Huh? You meant 'invalid', not 'non-existant', ri
On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
>
> Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
> I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
> That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit superstitious to
> me! Actually, the giberrish itself is p
On Jun 19, Mark Phillips wrote
>
> The file kernel-source-1.99.7.list is empty. Can you give me a list
> of files to check for before removing mention of it from status?
Oh. It looks like none of the files from the package (except the dpkg
'control' files) got installed. Then just edit the file
On Jun 18, Mark Phillips wrote
>
> Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go and came up with:
>
> # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
> reinstall it b
On Jun 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
> I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package
> of elvis still needs termcap.
Nope.
Package: elvis
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 775
Maintainer: Erik B. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Vers
On Jun 16, Mark Phillips wrote
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a package "kernel-source-1.99.7" which for some reason is half
> installed. When I try to deinstall it I get this:
[snip]
>
> How do I get rid of it?
If reinstalling the package really isn't an option, you can try passing the
--force-remove-rei
On Jun 13, Hanno Wagner wrote
> Hi,
> I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It
> works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me
> following:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock
> xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording.
> Contact your administrator.
> -
On Jun 4, Joerg Friedrich wrote
> Hi!
>
> Debian 1.3 is announced on www.debian.org, but stable is still linked to
> rex on ftp. When will 1.3 be available?
The Debian 1.3 symlink has been made on master, so it's just a matter of
waiting for the mirrors to catch up now.
Christian
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On Jun 3, Jaakko Niemi wrote
>
> 2) xmkmf has diappeared from xbase-package. It is still in
> xbase3.2-3, but not in 3.2-6! Should this package be moved
> to X-files ? :) I couldn't find any information nor relevant docs.
> Where is changes-file from /usr/doc ?
It was a 'd
On Jun 3, Marcelo wrote
>
> Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian
> (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)?
There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while
ago but it required the NetKit source to compile...
Peter, wo
On Jun 2, Ed Donovan wrote
>
> You could just add
>
> xhost +localhost
>
> to your .xinitrc file, if you don't have any xhost commands there
> already. Jens has suggested "export XAUTHORITY=~paul/.Xauthority"; I
> don't immediately know which method would be preferable. The xhost
> method wo
On Jun 1, Carey Evans wrote
>
> I would prefer not to be told that www.debian.org, for example, is
> authoritatively known not to exist, especially if there was just a
> temporary problem with the name servers. Should I report this as a
> bug against libc6?
Looks like a bug to me. Better to repo
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote
>
> Perhaps I didn't set up shadow stuff correctly? I kind of stumbled
> upon it: I noticed references to it, and I typed pwconv (which I
> recognized from my solaris systems) and things seemed to work pretty
> happily (except xlock), so I figured that this was it.
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote
>
> Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm
> missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow
> passwords?
Are you sure you're running the latest version from frozen? (i.e. 4.02-1)
It's got not problem with my shado
On Jun 1, Randy Edwards wrote
>
>I read a fragment of one message somewhere that 1.3 is actually in the
> frozen subdirectory; is that true? If I were to make my dselect point at
> stable, non-free, contrib, and frozen would that cause the upgrade? Or
> should I wait until it's moved from fr
On May 30, Curt Howland wrote
>
> Believe me, that was the first thing I thought of. Trouble
> is, ftp.debian.org is exactly where I'm getting it from.
Well, I just checked the version of libc5 and libc5-dev for every
distribution on ftp.debian.org and they match, so your problem is
elsewhere. Yo
On May 29, Curt Howland wrote
>
> I am trying to install the basic ftp file set, and I get the
> following errors:
The problem is that the versions of libc5 and libc5-dev don't match (and
likewise for libreadline2 and libreadline2-dev). If you're not planning on
doing development, you don't need
On May 22, Kendrick Myatt wrote
> Be happy to make them... what all is involved? Do I have to have permission
> of the author or anything weird like that? Please point me in the direction
> oif whatever I need to get started.
Sorry for the delay...
To get started building Debian packages, you s
On May 26, Tony Finch wrote
>
> Which package (if any) contains the hosts(5) man page?
Using the nifty search engine at http://www.debian.org/packages.html
(scroll to the bottom of the page), no package in the latest release
contains a manpage for hosts(5).
Christian
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On May 24, Igor Grobman wrote
> Just wanted to remind you that #debian channel is still available.
[snip]
It would be nice if someone who knows IRC well could write up a description
of the resources available to Debian users over irc and get it included in
the FAQ and on the "Support" section of t
On May 22, Kendrick Myatt wrote
> Hello :)
>
> I have looked but not found many Debian packages of popular security
> programs such as crack, lsof, cops, iss, satan, swatch, etc. I did find
> tripwire on the debian site, though.
>
> Are these kept somewhere else, or do they not exist? Just wond
Hi,
During a recent cron run, I got a complain about the file
"srm.conf"... Could someone tell me which program uses this file? There's
no manpage for it and dpkg -S doesn't know about it.
Thanks,
Christian
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On May 20, joost witteveen wrote
> > I don't want to
> > install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks
>
> As far as I know, there are *no* glitches, at least not with
> the old libc5 programmes still on your system. The only thing
> that *might* go wrong, in case there are bugs in libc6
On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote
> Recently I have started getting the following message when running
> dselect:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
> LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LC_
On May 18, Glen Carreras wrote
> First let me apologize if this has been answered previously, however I
> scan the list daily and have found no reference to this yet.
>
> It seems that I cannot get dselect to successfully complete operation when
> I try to work with the unstable ditributions. (i.e
On Apr 29, Nathan E Norman wrote
>
> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> >
> > > [ description of problem ]
> > >
> > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no
> > > backup system and have installed from ftp. S
On Apr 28, Kevin M. Luck wrote
> Hello. I'm a new debian user who just installed the floppy version of 1.2
> to a p75, and I'm now trying to add X11R6. I've installed xbase, xfntbase,
> xlib6, xserver for vga16 and s3 (my card), but am unable to run any x
> software because I always get a "xini
On Apr 20, Paul J. Clegg wrote
>
> I tried to move the 0setserial file out of rc.boot, but during boot I
> still saw setserial assign everything. When I moved 0setserial back in,
> setserial was called >twice setserial in any of the other rc*.d directories, nor in init.d. I tried
> editing 0sets
On Apr 20, Ron Murray wrote
>It seems a few of you are using a mail agent that's capable of
> generating a detached PGP certificate of your message and including it as a
> MIME type of application/pgp-signature, apparently under the impression
> that we're all going to take the time to check wh
Could someone explain this to me...
To automate the configuration of some of my debian packages, I need to be
able to replace the first (or second, etc.) line in a file by a line I
supply. Now it would seem that this is a job for sed. But the sed 'c'
command expects "\\\n" (i.e. backspace, newline
On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote
>
> Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or
> whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something
> else.
Hmm. There's one slight problem. It doesn't work. :)
First, there's no mention of 'umask' under the mount manpage, so
On Apr 17, Philippe Troin wrote
>
> Here it is: man mount.
> Explained a little further:
> add a line like this in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007
>
> Now everyone can mount and umount the floppy, but only the users
> belonging to group floppy (GID 25)
On Apr 15, Dale Scheetz wrote
> Isn't this already available with get_selections and set_selections?
Yeah, but only 'oldtimers' know about that. I'd be nice if it could be
integrated in a more user-friendly way into "dselect 2". Something like:
Select Packages
- Full list (provides collapsible
On Apr 16, Rick wrote
>
> There is nothing listed under /pub/Linux/Debian any more. Did you hide the
> directories for some reason? Is this a, dreaded, file system problem?
>
> What happened guys?
This sounds like a ftp daemon problem on master. The files are still there
when I log in to maste
On Apr 11, Rick wrote
>
> I sent this a few days ago but got no answer.
>
> Does anybody know how to clear dselect status? I used hold to select only
> the bo pkgs I wanted to install thinking I could reset the suggested status.
> But it don't work. How do I reset the pkgs to the suggested sta
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
> of the list. A subjec
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
> My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when
> I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still
> shows the time in GMT. The same happens with the headers generated
> by qmail. Does anyone know why? If I use exmh or xfmail t
Hi,
I'm subscribed to a few mailing lists (lynx-dev is an example)
that are configured to add the mailing list name to the subject of all
messages they receive. So for instance all the email from the lynx-dev
mailing list comes with 'LYNX-DEV' in the subject line. I'd like to undo
that as I sort t
On Apr 3, Kevin J Poorman wrote
> Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file
> dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I
> can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the
> format of this file??
You can't lose 'di
>
> if (!$nowrite && !link("$infodir/dir","$infodir/dir.lock")) {
> die "$name: failed to lock dir for editing! $!\n".
> ($! =~ m/exists/i ? "try deleting $infodir/dir.lock ?\n" : '');
> }
>
[snip]
>
> Others on the list may have a better understanding of perl to see what
> exca
On Apr 1, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote
> I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or
> ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic.
>
> I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found
> any routines. Aix has a function calle
On Apr 1, Joseph Skinner wrote
> Hi
>
> I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found
> after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there.
>
> The missing packages include
>
> libc6*
> gcc_2.7.2.2-2
These packages are in the experimental sec
On Mar 31, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote
> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> Yes, not many programs use DLLs... And how many Windows programs do you
> know that can share a DLL's that provides some funcionality? In Linux
> there are lots of things using libraries l
On Mar 30, Michel Beland wrote
>
[snip]
>
> In bash, write
>
> "\e[A":history-search-backward
> "\e[B":history-search-forward
>
> in your ~/.inputrc file. There are two problems with bash, though.
> First, if you log on your linux machine with a terminal that does not
> use ESC [ A for the up a
On Mar 31, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote
>
> Yes.. but...
> * Windows users probably don't need dependencies. Programs doesn't
>usally depend on external libraries...
???
Most of the Windows programs I've seen kindly install a DLL or two in the
\Windows directory.
I don't know is dpkg would cat
At some distant point in the past I used to get color in my xterms... I
had even customized the colors using X resources. But after installing a
bunch of things, I don't get color anymore. The xterm still understands the
color escape sequences, but it maps them all to either black or white
It does
On Mar 28, Pete Harlan wrote
> >
> > I also came from tcsh, therefore I put this in my ~/.inputrc and I'm
> > happy ever since 8-)
> >
> > ,-
> > | M-p: history-search-backward
> > | M-n: history-search-forward
> > `-
>
[snip]
>
> Customization is great, but if you learn unmodified bash
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Paul Chau wrote:
> Could anyone tell me if the afterstep 1.0pre5 been debianised yet or
> not?
Don't think so. The Debian package is still at 1.0pre4. If you want, email
the maintainer (Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) and tell him that
1.0pre5 is out.
Christian
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
[snip]
>
> I am not worried about gwm: I don't use it anyway. But I am
> worried about trashing all my other X stuff if I install this
> package.
>
> Is it OK to upgrade to xlib6 and let the chips fall where they
> may with respect to elf-x11r6lib, or w
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinian wrote:
> I have almost finished the installation of Debian
> when I noticed that the board clock
> was not set corectly (YY was 1996 :( ,shame! ).
> Though, a can tolerate the wrong files time stamp, but ...
> Can it cause some problems? I mean some depend
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote:
>
> > I've got Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 installed and working and have
> > installed XFree86. It is working fine except for when it comes to
> > displaying an xterm it says that is cannot find a usable TERMC
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use
> shared libraries? Note that I'm also interested in the portability of
> the solution - my project also is working with Linux/Alpha, and
> Solaris machines...
If you need something por
On 24 Feb 1997, David Sewell wrote:
> Just wondering if any Debian users have tried the new Netscape
> Communicator beta, released a couple of days ago.
>
Tried it with MALLOC_CHECK_=0, only got one bus error. The newsreader was
working fine for me.
Christian
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On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Francesco Tapparo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have read in this Mailing List that some packages in Debian 1.2 (e.g.
> shellutils and fileutils) are internationalized.
> I have installed the package wg15-locale, and I hav set LANG and LC_ALL to
> it_IT, but the error messages are in
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Did we go through this already? Try putting "ppp" in /etc/modules. It seems
> it gets loaded too slowly if kerneld loads it.
Hmm. I'm getting my ppp module loaded through kerneld and everything works
fine here.
Christian
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On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I am curious as to why there is no `Reply to' field from this list? Is
> this a deliberate technique to decrease traffic. Just wondering...
Because "Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" is evil. :-)
Actually, I had a pointer to a site that explained why Reply-t
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, joost witteveen wrote:
> >
> > On my new 1.2 system
> > root is not allowed to run xterm in a user's session under xdm.
> >
> > Is there a way to anable root and other user access to my display session
>
> typing "xhost +" will allow root (and anyone else on the net)
> to c
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, David Lutz wrote:
> of Debian Packages. I would like to know how I can fix the problem
> however. Dselect swears that the binutils package is up-to-date and
> refuses to attempt to reload it. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Reinstalling might indeed be a good thing. Get
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, David Engel wrote:
> > I had to relink as described in the
> > /usr/src/linux/README.
>
> For the umpteenth time. You don't need these links to compile the
> kernel. I haven't had those links on any of my systems in over a year
> and it hasn't stopped me from compiling hund
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Robert Platt wrote:
> Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk
> and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount
> it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this?
Work is being done on a NTFS driver for
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
>
> I need clarification on two issues:
[nsip]
>
> * I need to file a bug report for ncftp-2.4.2: the get -R command is not
> excecuted, I only get the prompt for the next command.
> Few days ago I was looking at a debian bug list. Now tha
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
> Why is svgatextmode important to the kbd package?
>
> This is especially annoying since kbd is in base, and so dselect is going
> to pretty well force the installation of svgatextmode on all debian
> systems.
Indeed!
Especially since (correct me if I'm wro
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
[snip]
> Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
> make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
> pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy?
I'm pretty sure you can do either and it will work. Eve
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Alec Clews (S) wrote:
>
> > 'hdb irq timeout : status = 0x58
> > hdb ATAPI reset complete'
> >
[snip]
> >
> I have a Goldstar 8-speed CD-ROM drive giving me the same messages but i
> don't know how to handle/evaluate/change this. An
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the
> terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty wierd.
>
Do you have the TERMCAP environment variable defined? I had that problem
too, and undefining TERMCAP fixed it.
Christian
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> Where do I tell X what apps to start when starting an X session ? I'd like
> several xterms in various colors/places etc.. I'm using the debian xdm.
>
> .xsession is just the name of the window manager, right?
Wrong. .xsession is responsible for star
On 13 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Well, I'm not sure that installing the most recent one is the right
> answer. Take ghostscript for example. There's the GNU version in
> .../text and the Aladdin version in ...
On 12 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Then I say it's a bug in dftp.
>
> So what's the right way to handle this?
Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two
of the files it h
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
> Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see
> the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently
> (gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the
> same name confuses dftp. I don
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> I'm seriously considering changing to sendmail or perhaps qmail, or
> whatever. One of the reasons is that I need virtual e-mail domains. Does
> smail handle this? Is is reasonable to use it for this? How about qmail?
> Are there plans to packa
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm encountering some annoying (and apparently well-known) problems
> with dselect from dpkg 1.2.14elf (e.g. after a search the arrow keys
> loose their function).
>
> I wonder if it is safe to install one of the 1.4 version of dpkg on
> my m
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joe Manarolla wrote:
> On startup and shutdown I have been receiving messages which read as
> follows:
> /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd
> :/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: no such file or
> directory.
>
> Being relatively new to Debian, I do not understand the meaning of these
> messages
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Stephen Millard wrote:
> The xemacs support package size is formidable (over 12 meg). I have
> been a little apprehensive in letting dpkg uncompress it into something
> possibly much larger, especially since I am not sure what the benefits
> would be. Does it contain the above
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Susan:
> > the manpages (in English, German (man-NNN-de), and Spanish (man-NNN-es)).
>
> I think some Italian language man pages have also recently been uploaded.
> I communicated with the maintainer last week. They are probably in
> "unstable" or the In
On 16 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> master.debian.org is down since Sunday. Any plans to bring it back up?
>
> yggdrasil.com is also down (Even the DNS Servers are not reachable!) and
> is the gateway from the usnet linux.debian.user group to the mailing list.
> Can we establish alternate
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I'd like to hear a good explanation of what the security problem is,
> and why anyone would want to use source routes.
The security problem? Basically, if you've got source routing enabled, I
can send bad IP packets to your machine and they'll get there.
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote:
> Is there a good reason why all the start stop functions in /etc/init.d
> are executable by anybody by default. It seems to me that this allows
> your average user to stop an important system service. Anyone have
> comments?
No it doesn't. Normal (i.e.
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