Re: Trying to fix a mistake in upgrading Netscape...

1998-01-16 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Tim Thomson wrote: > What about installing Netscape in /usr/local/? I guess it would not follow the FSTND/Debian's politic. Normally, Debian packages are installed in the /usr directories; /usr/local is left for local/non-debian applications. However, you can install Netscape 4 wherever you want:

Taper settings w/ Exabyte 8505

1998-01-16 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi, I'd like to know if anybody knows how to make taper work correctly with an Exabyte 8505 streamer (or whatever you call it:-)). My only problem is that I cannot use the "can seek" functionnality (if I use it, taper doesn't seem to be able to retrieve the good block; I guess my block-size settin

Strange...

1998-01-16 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi all ! First, I'd like to thank every people in this mailing list who helped me configuring my Debian/Gnu Linux network (35 PCs + a server running great !). I've noticed a strange message sometimes when I read root's mail on my server: 1) I read mail (with mail) 2) I delete all the messages 3)

Debian and the MANPATH variable

1998-01-09 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi, I've solved quite all the problems I had with my server/clients running Debian:-) I now have a little trouble with the MANPATH environment variable... I have set up my clients so that I can mount several servers quite the same way: /home is splitted into several parts, each belonging to a spe

What's that RPC error ?

1998-01-07 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi all, I'm having trouble with a NFS client: when I try to mount /home from my server, I get the following error: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive Both the server and the clients run Debian 1.3.1, have network support correctly enabled (NIS and FTPed dsele

Changing the domain

1997-12-19 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi, I was wondering about the way one can manually change the domain name of a debian system. On other systems, I was used to have an /etc/domain file, or something similar, but not with debian. I do change the fqdn of my host in the files /etc/hosts and the local domain name in /etc/resolv.conf.

Special boot disks...

1997-12-18 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi, I'm working as a technician/system/network admin in a french college. We use Debian as our Linux distributions, with a dual PPro machine as file/printing/mail server and router. My problem is that the former installation of Debian on our 35 PCs was done by someone who was not very used to Un*

Re: xforms, offix: what are they?

1997-06-12 Thread Sébastien Phélep
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: >I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete. > They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and > whether it's safe to remove them? xforms is a library for creating X applications, offix is a set of X c