Perl 5 screw up ?

1998-10-29 Thread Fred Yankowski
sts/slink/main/binary-i386/interpreters/ Do the same for the perl-suid package. And, I suppose, for any other perl-based packages that you have that have reverted to versions based on Perl 5.004. The exact package-version numbers may be different now, but you get the idea. -- Fred Yankowski

slink package upgrades fail

1998-10-15 Thread Fred Yankowski
matic netstd upgrade works correctly. This bug is going to cost hundreds of hours of wasted time across all Debian users, I'm sure of it. The problem has been known for some time -- could the responsible package owners (I can't figure out which package is to blame) please get us a fix! -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

video-cam/conference hardware recommendation?

1998-10-14 Thread Fred Yankowski
reported to be slow. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
ght now!" So I did and then I could not for the life > of me figure out how to get back into X. Control-Alt-F7 restores the X display on my system. I often get a spurious popup menu from emacs when I return, but it's OK otherwise. -- Fred Yankowski

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Kent West writes: > At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: ... > >Anyway, I had to boot from a Debian Rescue floppy to get in. ... > Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X > virtual console? I thought I tried that at the time and it didn't

crypt++el 2.84-2 mistakenly identifies file as Mac format

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
of binary files will match that pattern. There's got to be a better way. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smail delays delivering mail from fetchmail

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
running fetchmail 4.6.0-1 and smail 3.2.0.101-5 on a fairly current slink system. A slightly-obscured version of my /etc/smail/config file is attached. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] visible_name=XXX.net -domains hostnames=xanadu:XX

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
/etc/init.d. Then reboot from your hard drive as normal. I'm not going to use xdm again until such time as I have a backup root partition set up (with xdm disabled) so that I can boot and repair things without having to use the Rescue disk. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Fred Yankowski
would see was an 'lpr' command that would run quietly, but no job would be queued and nothing would print. The '--debug' option to magicfilter was useful though. -- Fred Yankowski