Re: Timeline for potato

r. > >Hopefully they appear *after* the release and not between freeze >and release again. Just because 2.4 comes out doesn't mean it's stable enough to put in a dist, 2.2.0 wasn't particularly stable, and there wasn't a really solid kernel until 2.2.5. -- Joel Klecker

ncurses 5 (was: Re: Timeline for potato)

I suggest that libreadline4-dev depend on libncurses5-dev so that people don't end up inadvertantly linking with two different ncurses libs (once from -lreadline and once from -lncurses). Packages in base need to be relinked with libncurses5. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

e for your country, there's nothing I can do about it. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: PPC linux

At 09:17 -0700 1998-06-03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There are 3 motorola PPC boxes here gathering dust now that they are >Windows NT orphans. I don't know what the model number is but they are in >standard mini-tower cases with PCI/ISA mother boards with SCSI drives. >What linux distribution woul

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

At 07:07 -0700 1998-06-02, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called >OpenPIC or similar. Cyrix use the same spec. Intel use a different spec >though and no motherboards available support the open one. No motherboards for x86 processors that is.

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

At 15:12 -0700 1998-06-02, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >Or going Alpha or PPC. Cost effectiveness seems to indicate PPC to me, >though there are 1,000,001 different PPC for Linux branches it seems. There are five PPC subarchitectures of Linux: * CHRP-compliant PowerPC machines * PC

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

At 13:12 -0700 1998-05-23, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Sat, 23 May 1998 20:01:53 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > >>Not really. Other than that it's the default and is more or less considered >>standard so I left it that way. > >*chuckle* There are quite a few people in quite a few newsgroups tha

Re: Tulip Network drive

At 10:38 -0400 1998-05-10, Alex Yukhimets wrote: >> Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive? > >Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the "tulip" >driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.) Also, the de4x5 driver is better, Documenta

Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI card

At 21:19 -0400 1998-05-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The AudioPCI is available with the OSS/Linux drivers... >there is also an OSS/Free set of drivers but AudioPCI >is alas, unsuported by those :( >It looks (maybe im just guessing) like Ensoniq is being a PITA and >not releacing info without NDAs a

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

At 14:37 -0500 1998-04-29, Nathan E Norman wrote: >Now for the hashed over part. Is there a sane and reasonable way to >either convert an existing RedHat machine to Debian, or to start the >Debian install from what I have now? project/experimental/dpkg_*_.nondebbin.tar.gz -- Joel "Espy" Klecker

Re: DL at other computer

At 18:47 +0200 1998-04-29, Vaclav Hula wrote: >Hi All! >I want to upgrade my machine (HAMM, last upgrade about half month ago) >and I need to download packages at other (non-debian) linux machine. >Is there some program to simplify this task, as there's too much packages >to download? Yes, it's ca

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card

At 16:05 +0200 1998-04-21, Fabian Knittel wrote: >On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 01:33:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can get some Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA and/or PCI cards for free, and >> I'm asking myself, if these cards are making any problems with Linux. I > >> found the dr

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

At 10:14 -0400 1998-04-21, Stephen Carpenter wrote: >Nils Rennebarth wrote: >> * ^TOdebian-user.* >> debian-user >I used to use that also but a number of them got through >I don't think that handles cc: to the list >From procmailrc(5): If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will be

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

At 23:23 -0400 1998-04-19, Alain Toussaint wrote: >> where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other >> platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. >> >> So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where >> are the instructions? >> > >i don't

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

At 14:59 +1200 1998-04-20, Richard L Shepherd wrote: >where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other >platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. There aren't any, the port is not quite to the point that install disks can be made. We are very close, however. >So h

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

At 12:17 -0400 1998-04-20, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >$ cd [tab] > -> shows and completes to directory names only >$ latex [tab] > -> shows and completes to .tex files only >$ emacs -[tab] > -> shows and completes to available options for that command. > >Who would want to live without it? >Can bash

Re: I need hellp installing debian....

At 09:35 +0800 1998-04-05, Lindsay Allen wrote: >I made a linux boot disk yesterday and linux spat out the first four >floppies. Linux is _very_ picky about floppies. Try some more disks. >Sometimes old floppies are better than the new ones which are very much >built to a price now-a-days. > >Tha

Re: PGP key server

At 20:14 -0500 1998-03-28, Darren Renaud wrote: >Could someone give me some advice on setting up a key server for PGP? You can get source for a key server daemon at: . I am also doing a Debian package of it, but it'll be awhile before I have it done. -- Joel "

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

At 17:13 -0800 1998-03-28, George Bonser wrote: >Not from what I understand. I was told that it will run in either graphic >or comman-line modes completely replacing dselect. That's true, deity has both a slang and a GTK interface, the coolest thing is that both interfaces are in a single executa

Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect

At 15:20 -0500 1998-03-28, Wintermute wrote: >Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? >I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other >day that my package list went to nothing. You should always use dists/*. In this case, dists/frozen/* for h

Re: mail server

At 13:07 -0500 1998-03-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >May I suggest www.qmail.org. Forget Smail & Sendmail and get a good >MTA. Check the archives of the qmail list. There are Debian users >that have qmail running, even tho it is not a debian package. Save >yourself a LOT of grief! Use qmail! If

Re: Debian & PGP 5.5.3, importing keys question

At 12:16 -0500 1998-03-26, David S. Jackson wrote: >Personally, I would recommend using one of the PGP 2.6.X variants >with RSA keys. Since PGP has gone commercial, I've heard of several >inconsistencies and incompatabilities with 5.X keys. Yes, but that has very little to do with PGP going comme

Re: bo-unstable bash

At 13:20 -0600 1998-03-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I tried to install the bo-unstable bash and it has a dependency on both >libc5 and libc6. Is this correct? No, it's not, there's a corrected version in bo-unstable now. -- Joel "Espy" KleckerDebian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: hamm bugs

At 21:59 +0100 1998-03-02, Jonas Bofjall wrote: >I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation. >Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems >during installation which might be of value to someone: > >* The disk partitioning program did not work

Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

At 13:39 -0700 1998-03-02, Bob Nielsen wrote: >This is the classic symptom of running the somewhat-buggy bash-2.0 in bo. > >I would suggest upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo >version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to >be very careful when you do upg

RE: 80 MB ram in debian system

At 14:52 -0500 1998-03-02, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: >I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine. >However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from >a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk). >What should I do in that case? lilo's append option means "ap

Re: NAT solution for Linux?

At 16:41 -0600 1998-02-28, Nathan E Norman wrote: >Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address >Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)? There is an implementation of NAT for Linux at

Re: ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd-academ, hamm)

At 15:32 -0500 1998-02-27, Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\) wrote: >I've got ls working - using libc6... but the owner/gid names are >not displayed, only the numeric values. > >I verified that Joel's system exhibits the same problems! > >We must be missing something in ~ftp/etc that deals with the getg

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

At 10:26 -0800 1998-02-26, Alan Su wrote: >Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST) ): >|>Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically >|>does a chroot when someone logs in as "anonymous" or "ftp." Here is an >|>excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you

Re: Anon FTP and other conflicts

At 20:52 -0500 1998-02-26, Ossama Othman wrote: >I did notice one thing about the libs. Why is the hamm wu-ftpd package >installing libc5 instead of libc6? It's a bug. >Also, there were conflicts with the netstd ftpd man page that didn't allow >me to install the package. To make it work I had t

Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

At 03:19 +0100 1998-02-25, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:50:06AM +, Deniz Dogan wrote: >> Is there any other options to use as MDA? Preferably, how can I solve >> `connection >> refuse` problem? > >Sorry, don't know. Try to look hard at the various files in /etc, as >/etc/

Re: BGP

At 19:22 -0600 1998-02-23, Jeff Noxon wrote: >On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:36:16PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: >> At 20:23 +0100 1998-02-23, Peter Paluch wrote: >> >I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using >> >BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ?

Re: BGP

At 20:23 +0100 1998-02-23, Peter Paluch wrote: >I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using >BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it >doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there w

Re: ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd, hamm)

At 12:00 -0700 1998-02-23, Bob Nielsen wrote: >With the hamm version of wu-ftpd (also wu-ftpd-academ), an anonymous user >gets nothing returned with the ls command: [snip] >Am I missing something here? The hamm wu-ftpd and wu-ftpd-academ packages have a script that configures anonymous FTP, this i

Re: Executing a process on another virtual terminal

At 12:19 -0700 1998-02-23, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: >Is there an easy way to start a process on another virtual terminal? Install the 'open' package. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: PAM: where to get the binaries using PAM

At 12:15 +0100 1998-02-23, Florian Helbing wrote: >I am running Debian 1.3.1 and I've written some configuration files >for PAM but unfortunately the login and other programms in the >distribution do not make any use of the PAM libraries. So could someone >please tell me where to find login, ftp, .

Re: HELP! Bash 2.01 for bo?

At 23:56 +0100 1998-02-19, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: >Hi! > >I'm looking for bash 2.01 for bo (1.3.1). Preferrably the source version. I am building a 'bo-unstable' release of bash 2.01 as per your request. I will email you again as soon as it is uploaded. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linu

Re: Monitoring ppp0 Packets

At 15:34 +1100 1998-02-18, Ian Perry wrote: >I would like to know if there is a way where I can monitor the number of >ppp0 packets transmitted and received as a continuous update on the screen. Try netload, it is in the `netdiag' package along with several other neat utilities. -- Joel "Espy" Kl

Re: about the FAQ and /etc/init.d

At 00:36 +1030 1998-02-18, John Spence wrote: >Using "defaults" was supposed to add symlinks for runlevels 2 to 5 but the >output of the command was the following which seems to indicate that it >did more than that. I assume that each of the following directories is >for a specific runlevel: > > Ad

Re: Can't install samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (the one in hamm)

At 11:14 -0500 1998-02-16, David Gaudine wrote: >dselect was unable to upgrade my samba using samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb. >I then rather foolishly used "dpkg --purge samba" to see if a >fresh install went better, this was a mistake since it left me with >no samba at all instead of the older one. I have

Re: Debian and FHS?

At 17:08 +0100 1998-02-14, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: >At the moment Debian follows the directory structure found in the >FSSTND. > >Are there any plans to follow FHS in the near future? It is intended that Debian 2.1 follow the FHS, with the exception that /var/lib/dpkg will not be moved to /var/sta

Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?

At 14:19 -0500 1998-02-09, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: >Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> jpmaster.dvi >> This is a application/mac-binhex40 > >Check out the program "frommac" in the macutils package (which >contains all sorts of utilities for converting to/from binhex and >macbinary format

Re: file system copying nightmare

At 09:03 + 1998-02-08, David Maslen wrote: >In the past I used a rescue disk, called I think rescue that I got from >the linux archives at sunsite. It's probably a boit out of date by now. >I really should learn how to make my own rescue disk, but it would >be nice if there was a debian one tha

Re: hamm (fresh) install considerations

Regarding "Re: hamm (fresh) install considerations" of 00:32 -0800 1998-02-02, David Stern wrote: >On 01 Feb 1998 22:42:53 EST, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> I'm considering a fresh hamm install, however I haven't found much >> information about installing hamm fresh. I presume that bash and libc >> would b

Re: HELP: eth0 not recognized

Regarding "HELP: eth0 not recognized" of 16:25 +0900 1998-01-30, David Iannucci wrote: >I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and >so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper >note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the >ethernet card is IRQ 7, a

Re: max mount count?

Regarding "max mount count?" of 7:23 AM -0500 1/24/98, Gerald Wann wrote: >Sometimes when i boot i get the message: > >/dev/hda3 maximal mount count reached.. check forced. > >What exactly does this indicate? Each ext2 volume has a count of the number of times it has been mounted, and also a maxim

Re: Updating the kernel via patches

Regarding "Updating the kernel via patches" of 5:14 PM +0100 1/19/98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I >used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files > > patch-2.0.31.gz > patch-2.0.32.gz > patch-2.0.33.gz Th

Re: hamm screen

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: hamm screen" of 12:07 PM + 1/15/98, Norbert Veber wrote: >On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 04:52:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: >> > I am having a strange problem with the hamm version

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d" of 9:04 PM -0800 1/11/98, Joey Hess wrote: >Sen Nagata wrote: >> what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to >> having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all >> runlevels) desc

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD" of 03:26 AM -0800 1997-12-17, Christian Hagemeier wrote: >My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I >can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the >"Official CD" such a bo

Re: Spreadsheets

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Spreadsheets" of 05:42 PM -0800 1997-12-11, Mark Phillips wrote: >Hi, > >Two questions: > >1. Is the spreadsheet wingz available for debian - I couldn't find it. >Or is there a spreadsheet which allows the importation of wingz files? There's a Linux

Re: crypt problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "crypt problem" of 04:54 AM -0800 1997-12-11, Martin Madlik wrote: >I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. > libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : >I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message

Re: PGP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: PGP" of 03:37 PM -0800 1997-12-04, Pete Harlan wrote: >Sorry for the off-topic. I hope nobody bothers to package this up for >Debian unless source is released. There, now it's on-topic. > >And please correct me if source for 5.0 is available...

Re: Compiling kernel "rm -rf asm linux scsi"?

means of # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! >> - -- Joel Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.espy.org/> Apple Flavored Unix (Unix

Re: 2.0.31 kernel

ackage/README.gz", "kernel-package" allows one to build a "kernel-image", "kernel-source", or "kernel-headers" (or all three) package from any Linux kernel source tree. --