dists/{bo,stable} temporarily unavailable

1998-04-19 Thread Guy Maor
I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait a while for all ftp sites to get t

Mailing List Archive Search Works

1998-03-28 Thread Guy Maor
The search engine works again. My apologies for the long downtime. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy Maor wrote: > > All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this > > directory. > > Then someone (me ?) should log a bug against xlib6 cause it doesn't. It > loads everything into /usr/lib/libc5

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > add : app-defaults Yes, and I held down the shift key too long when typing XKey. So do: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKeysymDB locale app-defaults ; do ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/$i $i done The next version of xlib6g w

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My fix was: > > ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 Yipes! That's very wrong, and you don't want to link through the X11 dir, as at least one package was (incorrectly) using that. Safest is: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKEYsy

Debian 1.2 (rex) will be removed on August 8

1997-08-01 Thread Guy Maor
Debian 1.2 (rex) will be removed from the ftp site on August 8. If you want to get any files out of there or press a CD, you should do it now. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mail Archives Stopped?

1997-07-18 Thread Guy Maor
Mail is being archived again. I inadvertantly left the crontab entry commented out while I was away. Bugs in glimpse are still keeping me from getting the search engine fully working. I want to use 4.0B1 as it has some useful features. I'll keep debugging it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Guy Maor
I have to fix the NIS stuff in passwd. Then I'll release a new one with this fix also. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where and can't find the source again.

Re: screen capture tool for Debian

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes: > I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool > on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb > file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right > direction, I woul

Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just "passwd", and has shadow > support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new > package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid. Yes it is. I'll fix it. Guy

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-22 Thread Guy Maor
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This will strip the shortest suffix that matches ".*" > > ${var%.*} > >This will strip the longest suffix that matches ".*" > > ${var%.*} Oops. ${var%%.*} strips the longest. And using # instead of % will strip from the begi

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Guy Maor
Debian - Leander Berwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I > type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I > correct this 'problem'? The simplest way is with the reset command. Guy

Re: List of changes...

1997-03-12 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Lever) writes: > Is there a list of changes from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/ChangeLog Guy

Re: identd

1997-03-10 Thread Guy Maor
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no entry for identd in /etc/services. > > What is the well known port(tcp or udp)? > > Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security? It's in /etc/services auth113/tcp authentication tap ident and it's on by

Re: pgp?

1997-03-09 Thread Guy Maor
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Yes, we should add a symlink README.PGP -> README.non-US. ] Yes, I did it yesterday, so mirrors are seeing it now. I estimate that will cut the volume of debian-user by 50%. Guy

Re: Down Loading

1997-03-09 Thread Guy Maor
Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are somefile that are like 7 meg, and take 1 1/2 hours to > download and the service I use kick me off after 1 hour. How could > I download it? Either use reget command in ftp, or `get -r' in ncftp. Both do the same. reget remote-file [loca

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: > Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and > dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall perl. > bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. > >

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-06 Thread Guy Maor
Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently jumped from stable to unstable. Just a moment ago I thought about > installing TeX and it's friends in my system. However dselect lists many > packages that are not in the tex section of unstable tree. E.g. mflib, mfbin > are not in unst

Re: netscape 3.01_4

1997-03-06 Thread Guy Maor
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #!/bin/sh > > export LD_PRELOAD=libc.so.5.2.18 <<< > > export MALLOC_CHECK_=0 MALLOC_CHECK_ is only meaningful on 5.4.20-1 and higher. btw, for me, Netscape reliably crashes running Java apps under 16 bpp, but it works ok under 8 bpp. Could that be

Re: Suddenly, my debian mirror timestamps out by 1 minute

1997-03-06 Thread Guy Maor
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You probably have upgraded the timezone package. > This nice package has offset the PST timezone by one minute, and you probably > had (like me) your clock set to GMT. The change wasn't arbitrary, btw. The timezone package used to come with POSIX tim

Re: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-26 Thread Guy Maor
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many people > take this things into account when deciding which distribution they > like best. My mind is reeling. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-25 Thread Guy Maor
Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. Couldn't debian fit the last release in > total on the ftp site in a 'frozen' state for ftp users? I for one was > happy with the 1.2 release 'out of the box' and would probably not have > bothered upgrading until the next release

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-24 Thread Guy Maor
Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it > > is pretty much impossible to upgrade an "old" installation like mine > > without re-installing. That's an extremely harsh criticism. Upgrading to

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-21 Thread Guy Maor
Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in unstable, isn't the > unstable stuff more stable than stable? All the new bugs go into stable too. Sometimes they are very bad. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)

1997-02-18 Thread Guy Maor
"Daniel Stringfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As soon as I visited the logo page, I found myself surrounded > > with peguins and ducks: gkie, gkie, gkie! > > Foul play! No, Fowl play!! Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the /etc/messages file

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
"Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan 17 11:28:58 unix kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. > Jan 17 11:28:59 unix kernel: Cannot find map file. > > What does it mean when it says it cannot find map file? klogd will look for a map file in /boot/System.map, /System

Re: Two last problems...

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing > in /var/log/messages' Is there

Re: Making kernel using "make install"

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What exactly does "make install" do? See installkernel(8) and mkboot(8). Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-1.4.0.6

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am really puzzled by the behaviour of the latest dpkg. why did > dselect automatically "upgrade" mailx from 8.5.5-1 to 8.1.1-2 as per > example: The new mailx is version `1:8.1.1-2', not `8.1.1-2'. 1:8.1.1-2 > 7.5.5-1. If you type `dpkg --status mailx

Debian 1.2.3

1997-01-16 Thread Guy Maor
pecify directory (Bug#5564). * Applied patch to main/archive.c to correct problems setting set[gu]id binaries, courtesy of Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#5479). * Applied patch to dpkg-source to correct debian-only package names, courtesy of Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: libc5_5.4.14-1?

1997-01-16 Thread Guy Maor
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have > dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available. It's in unstable. > Is this a bug? Yes, but has been fixed in Debian 1.2.3. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: purged package base while update to Debian 1.2.2

1997-01-15 Thread Guy Maor
Dirk Luetjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > during an update form Debian 1.1 to Debian 1.2.2 I purged the base > package "base" from Debian 1.1 (dselect show this package as obsolete) > Afterwards all files in /dev where missing. > > Are there any substitutions for this package? Which package mu

Re: New login logs everybody

1997-01-11 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathieu GUILLAUME) writes: > Hi. It seems the latest login package now puts every login process in > /var/log/auth.log, instead of the former root logins, su and login > failures. Is there any way to revert to the former behavior without > having to revert to the former package

Re: More diald problems.

1997-01-11 Thread Guy Maor
"Kevin Traas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. From the docs, I thought diald would establish the default route to the > gateway automatically. Am I wrong in my assumption? If so, is what I did > to "fix" the problem the "right" way to go about it? The right way is to add `defaultroute' to /et

Re: How to produce the file Packages

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes: > What I'd like to know is how is the file Packages constructed. dpkg-scanpackages(8) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
"Nathan L. Cutler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my system at least, there is no 'xterm-color' binary, so, if I > understand things correctly, when I run 'xterm', only the XTerm > app-defaults file is checked, not XTerm-color. If you want color on by default, just add this line to /etc/X11/Xre

Re: PEX? XIE?

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > No, he meant (or at least I do now): why does X (when it starts, > and it does on my mashine, with that path in /etc/ld.so.conf) > say that it didn't load the PEX and XIE extentions? And, how > can I load them? The answer is in XF86Config(5x). There'

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and > it will usually not do "the right thing". It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in the directory

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-09 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes: > |"You might want something like the following: > |" > |" 50MB / > > Is 50 Mb enough ? My / is 16 megs and currently half empty even with four different kernels in /boot. If /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home are elsewhere, / is kept small and low-access.

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) > > > > > >Connecting to ftp.debian.org... > > >Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm > > >line 405 > > >FTP ERROR Is DNS working? Can you do `ping ftp.debian.org'? Gu

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
"Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror? Without Incoming and WebPages, 1018149 Kbytes for the whole thing. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [

Re: debian updates tree structure

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i then went back to caldera to grab the 1.2.1 release thinking that it > would be mostly links back to the 1.2 release (other than the updated > packages). > > however, all i got was a bunch of links. All the updates are in Debian-1.2-updates. Debian-1.2.

Re: xterm color

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding: You must install the xterm-color package which > replaces the default monochrome xterm with the color knowledgable > binary. That should do it. No, xterm-color is obsolete. Color abilites have been folded in to the X11R6.1 xt

Re: Debian source tree and incremental diffs question..

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hiya, i thought I saw someone mention that upgrades to existing > packages were available via diffs to the source. debian/doc/source-unpack.txt on any mirror. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Buggy "mime-support" package? :-( (re:)

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: > While we are on the subject of mime-support, I'd like to know > if there is some command that I can run at the command line to > decode a mime'd file? munpack (1) - unpack messages in MIME or split-uuencode format in the mpack package.

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-06 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dselect will not work because there is no ftp. No, dselect's ftp method, dpkg-ftp, uses perl's Net::FTP to do ftp (the protocol). It does not require ftp (the client). Use dselect to get netstd and you'll have ftp (the client). Guy -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: pls, send to the right address

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why don't you just check the X-Mailing-List: header instead of To:? It's > better than trying to dictate how everyone replies to the list. Probably because, like me, he doesn't want to see the personal copy if someone also sent it to the list. And he'd lik

Re: Password

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I get around this [forgot his root password]? Boot off a floppy, mount your root partition, edit /etc/passwd to remove root's password. Use debian/stable/disks-i386/current/resq1440.bin if you don't have a boot floppy. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically > I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary > to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another > hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper > than a *qualit

Re: No ftp? Have I missed something?

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Norman Widders) writes: > i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and > debian distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian > being too large. downloading six megabytes doesnt take that long B) I was also incredulous the first time I he

Re: gcc

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: > ld: cannot open -lncurses: no such file or directory Have you installed ncurses3.0-dev? You need the libncurses.so link provided by this package to compile (among other things). > both libs are in /lib: > libncurses.so.3.0 > libtermcap.so.2

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That hardwires your machine to run at a different time than the CMOS > clock... which means you have two different clock versions on your > system. > > The appropriate option, is to control the representation... I'm not sure what you're saying her

Re: No ftp? Have I missed something?

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck, > I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed > something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless > system installed here. Is t

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-04 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Roesch) writes: > Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should > I set CMOS time to GMT and use some sort of timezone info (which I don't > know how to setup)? Or?? # as root unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set i

Re: LI???

1997-01-03 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just curious... I also just noticed there is "1.2 fixed" at the Debian site, > so I am about to re-install with those images... The boot disks are the same though (for now). You can upgrade to 1.2.1 by just installing everything in 1.2-updates or by p

Re: rex-updates/binary where can I find it?

1997-01-02 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The last mesg I received from Debian Installer indicated that updates for > rex were being uploaded to rex-updates/binary It will show up on mirrors in the next day or two. I made the directory unreadable by mirrors until I was finished preparing it.

Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work

1996-12-31 Thread Guy Maor
Don Prezioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \; find . -name TRANS.TBL -print0 | xargs -0 rm is better as it starts many fewer processes. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??

1996-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What package(s) do I upgrade to fix it? We are running the 2.0.27 kernel. Upgrade libc5. Version 5.4 of libc5 uses dl-malloc, while 5.2 used gnu-malloc. You'll also need to upgrade ldso. Long-running, memory-intensive apps, like X servers, will

Re: Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hiya, I'm using g++ under Debian 1.2 and have the following compile error: The problem is almost assuredly with an.cc, or some header of your own. This compiles fine, for example: -- #include -- Try to cut lines out of an.cc until the problem goes a

Re: Problems with Talk under Debian

1996-12-27 Thread Guy Maor
Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name > of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. That's exactly right. > And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every > other OS's talk that I

Re: root crontab?

1996-12-17 Thread Guy Maor
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does a root-installed crontab (i.e. crontab ) interfere with > /etc/crontab (the system crontab)? No. Note that they're not in exactly the same format though. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Directory Format of CDROM

1996-12-17 Thread Guy Maor
"Shane Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does the Debian CD looklike? > /debian/binary-i386/ Stick to the organization on the ftp site. I don't think it matters where you put the top level directory as dselect asks you where it is. Bruce - will be bootdisks ask you where the base disk i

Re: Problems with mkaliases

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
System Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to > smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases. > it tells me: > /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases > > the mode for /etc

Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please tell us the md5 sum of the md5sum.txt file? 344cbc40324ebd10a526a1e83263c7b7 md5sum.txt Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm-color : green cursor??

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a > nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a > specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? Set the `XTerm*pointerColor' resource. Guy

Re: Getty

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
"Lord Of The CLUTZ's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering, when I installed debian it installed getty (or so I thought) > however when I do "man getty" it gives me the man page for agetty, I would > prefer to have getty, because it does a clear screen after logout, I prefer > that bett

Re: suid problem

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh dear. I have just installed a complete Debian system for a new recruit > who is now 4 hours away by jet. Is there any automated way of finding > missing bits? Yes - track updates to 1.2 as they are released, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, etc. > Or what is my best

Re: Reading X manual pages

1996-12-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes: > I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the > manual pages for X. You probably have the MANPATH environment variable set. Unset it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: GS 3.33 vs. 2.61, weak rendering, WHY?

1996-12-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler) writes: >-> The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is >-> unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61 >-> (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in >-> letters as "H", "f" and so on. Try looking at it with antialiasing

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread Guy Maor
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various > binaries losing their suid bits. This is bug 5479 in dpkg. It contains a patch which you can use until a new version of dpkg fixes it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-

Re: PGP

1996-12-09 Thread Guy Maor
Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in > the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. > Is this right? Yes. > Which one should I be using? Which country are you in? I know of sever

Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-06 Thread Guy Maor
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >So my question is this: how do i fsck the filesystem in a file? Use losetup(8) to associate the loop device with a file first, then fsck, and then mount. losetup /dev/loop0 /the/loopback/file fsck -t ext2 /dev/loop0 mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /

Re: checksecurity in cron.daily/standard HELP!

1996-12-06 Thread Guy Maor
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks! > > I went to try to upgrade it to the frozen version (and also to get the man > page), but couldn't find any packages named check* when I did a find... > > What's the package that I should install? $ dpkg --search checksecurity cron: /usr/

Re: checksecurity in cron.daily/standard HELP!

1996-12-06 Thread Guy Maor
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see no man page for checksecurity... There is a man page in version in frozen, 3.0pl1-34, and it has an answer for you: The checksecurity command scans the mounted files systems (subject to the filter defined in /etc/checksecurity.c

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

1996-12-06 Thread Guy Maor
"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > procedure will be welcome :), but I believe you will need the > following: > > 1) The boot, root and base disk set > 2) Any of the following which are not on the base disks: > [...] Everything you need is already on the base disks. That's t

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

1996-12-06 Thread Guy Maor
"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The development > releases (which are in general relatively stable, although things > break from tinme to time) are only given code names. That's not completely accurate. Every release is given a code name, but only stable releases are given

Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-06 Thread Guy Maor
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about > from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't > it still need to be a ro file system? You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, and then mou

Re: Debian for AXP?

1996-11-28 Thread Guy Maor
Martin Budsj| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How complete is the Dec Alpha dist? Last i took a peek it looked quite > uncomplete but i may have been looking in the wrong place... It's totally incomplete. A few developers just bought Alphas, so it'll get rolling pretty soon. The Sparc distributio

Re: package sizes

1996-11-28 Thread Guy Maor
Actually I was totally wrong before. The Size field gives the size of the actual .deb file (in bytes). The Installed-Size field gives the amount of disk space required to install the package (in kbytes). See the dpkg Programmer's Manual 4.2.11 and 4.2.20 for more details. Because the Installed-

Re: package sizes

1996-11-28 Thread Guy Maor
Antony F Ware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and > find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed > *before* having to download it. Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed size is the 'Size' field. T

Re: Question on updating X

1996-11-28 Thread Guy Maor
David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I use same XFConfig script in x-3.2 that I used in x-3.1?? Yes. > BTW. What happen to ../unstable and ../bo where x-3.2 used to be??? They're still there. unstable is a symlink to bo, btw. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: displaying pgp public key and xface in finger info???

1996-11-26 Thread Guy Maor
Andrew Y Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What file do I put my PGP public key in to have it displayed in my > finger info in Debian Linux? .pgpkey This is in cfingerd(8), which you've obviously installed. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

Re: Printing on different paper trays with Linux?

1996-11-26 Thread Guy Maor
Jean Orloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I have a printer with 2 paper trays [...] You've already figured out how to do it - multiple queues. Each uses some small program to send the proper escape codes. It's straight- forward to set up. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Re: Odd X message

1996-11-26 Thread Guy Maor
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Add this to your XF86Config file: > > Section "Modules" > Load "pex5.so" > Load "xie.so" > EndSection Sorry, that first line should Section "Module" Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Odd X message

1996-11-26 Thread Guy Maor
Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everything (at this point) under X is working. But... > I'm getting a message saying: > " > PEX extension module not loaded > XIE extension module not loaded > " > > It starting saying that since I upgraded to 3.2 of X. Add this to your XF86Confi

Re: Managing a network of Debian machines?

1996-11-25 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes: > One solution would be to automate the package updates This is pretty easy to do with dpkg. The two important commands are dpkg --get-selections [ ...] get list of selections to stdout dpkg --set-selections set package selections

Re: bo is full of symlinks to rex?

1996-11-21 Thread Guy Maor
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Prior to the freezing of rex, "unstable" (rex) contained all of the > physical files of the distribution. > > Now, "unstable" is "bo", and it has many links back to rex. > > At what point will "bo" loose the links to rex and be self-contained > again?

Re: How to choose safe configuration at boot time?

1996-11-21 Thread Guy Maor
"Mike O'Donnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WHAT I THINK I NEED: I think that I need to boot the system in single-user > mode To reboot in single user mode, pass the `single' flag to LILO. (For example, if your image is called linux, type linux single). To reboot in emergency mode, pass the

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-20 Thread Guy Maor
Vatiainen Heikki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are still known problems (see the bug list on our FTP site), so > > Where exactly is this bug list? I checked ftp.debian.org but did not find it. Oops. Bruce meant the web site. http://www.debian.org/ Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: T130 driver for win95

1996-11-20 Thread Guy Maor
"Arthur D. Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does a guy find a driver for A Trantor SCSI T130 controller card for > Win95. By posting to unrelated mailing lists of course!! Just in case the mailing list idea doesn't pan out, try standing outside your front door and shouting your request

Re: bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Guy Maor
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? If you look at the symlinks, you'll see that unstable points to bo and frozen points to rex. rex is the frozen 1.2 tree. Lots of packages are still going into it as bugs get fixed, but no new pa

Re: Probs with g++ and cout

1996-11-15 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Rathert) writes: > since updating to "rex" I've got some problems with C++. > libg++27: 2.7.1-3 You need to update to libg++27 2.7.2.1, which right now is only in unstable, or bo. But I will move it to frozen, or rex right now, so it'll be in mirrors in an

Re: Corrupt kernel-source package?

1996-11-15 Thread Guy Maor
Lamar Folsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb today and found that dselect/dpkg was > unable to install it. I tried to extract the copy on the master site, and it's fine. Maybe your download got corrupted? md5sum is: fee75e4ed7841c6b4b18d1e13d97859b kerne

Re: Netscape and libc5.4.7

1996-11-15 Thread Guy Maor
"Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm curious how much problems you had using just libc 5.4.7. I started > netscape without the PRELOAD line and it worked fine. Practically any java code will crash it. Try http://www.gamelan.com/ > I have since restarted it as you list above (well

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

1996-11-15 Thread Guy Maor
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname > (libreadline.so.2.0), skipping That's a bug in libreadline2. I'll upload a fixed one tomorrow. > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname > (libtix.so

Re: XF86 3.1.2 Memory hunger

1996-11-13 Thread Guy Maor
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that the latest libc deb package (5.4.7-7, I think) has a special > malloc lib file to be used in much the same way. I haven't installed it > yet, but it's the better way to handle this. Yes, it works fine. I use this as /usr/local/lib/netscape:

Re: XF86 3.1.2 Memory hunger

1996-11-12 Thread Guy Maor
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do recall reading somewhere that a benefit of the newest libc is that > it can now give freed memory back to the system. I'm guessing that I'm > seeing this feature. Yes, that is true. Big long-runnning apps (like X) will use less memory with libc5.

Re: where is e2fsprogs_1.06-1?

1996-11-11 Thread Guy Maor
Warwick HARVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > when I install e2fsprogs_1.06-2, it displays the following error mesg. > > > > dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: > > e2fsprogs pre-depends on e2fsprogs (>= 1.06-1) > > dpkg: cannot satisfy pr

Re: Clock in error in NTP client env.

1996-11-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( WILLIAM M BURNS) writes: > How does the CMOS clock affect the running system? There must be > some program that reads to CMOS clock and then sets the UNIX clock to > the same value. That program is clock(8). > Is there a way to set the CMOS clock to the UNIX clock without

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