Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
open -ltermcap: No such file or directory > make: *** [pico] Error 1 > > What should I do !? > > If I remove -ltermcap option on makefile it still doesn't work ! > I already had installed termcap-compat package. -lncurses -- |

Re: non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, King Lee wrote: > May I suggest that you might make a non-free_1 and > non-free_2 directory. The non-free_1 directory would > contain software for which there is no possible legal > liability for the cdrom vendor and cdrom vendors would > be encouraged to include. The dire

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > > The graphical interface is coming along nicely, but we haven't quite bound > > it to the actual package installation routines (although those are also > > very close to completion). >

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > > I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to > > > remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). > > > > This is

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

1998-03-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > I didn't see any mention of downloading the latest "hamm" version of libc5 > _BEFORE_ you run the script. All that was mentioned was doing a clean > install of 1.3.1 and then running the script. > > I haven't done this yet but have been reading up on

Re: where is killall? (hamm)

1998-01-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > > Moved from procps to psutils by the upstream source. psutils is stuck in > > incoming. > > I thought that was psmisc (retrieved from incomming last night): > > [EMAIL

Re: where is killall? (hamm)

1998-01-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 11 Jan 1998, Joerg Plate wrote: > > 1> dpkg -S killall > sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8.gz > sysvinit: /sbin/killall5 > > ii sysvinit2.73-2 System-V like init. > > Maybe another package? Moved from procps to psutils by the upstream source. psutils is stuck in incoming.

Re: Netscape helpers, or replacing /bin/sh

1998-01-07 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 6 Jan 1998, Mark Montague wrote: > I had the same problem and ended up replacing sh with bash 1.14.5(1), > which I had lying around from an old slackware backup or something. I > don't think this is a good solution, though. > > I saw some old discussion claiming that this is a netscape bug, bu

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Yes, I did exactly that: put both packages on the same dpkg --install > line (thanks to Scott Ellis for responding within an hour of my original > post). Everything installed cleanly and the system works as expected. > Next hurdle seems to be installing

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > I'm using relatively current hamm. > All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 > That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files > are owned by user/group 1000/1000). > But that doesn't ex

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: > > bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail > fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are > gz. How can I read them? Thank you. If you've installed less, the 'zless' command will view compr

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

1998-01-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still > came out empty-handed: > I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm > which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6 > library. Next ste

Re: apache 1.3b3-9 ignores .htaccess

1998-01-03 Thread Scott K. Ellis
Quick sanity check, does /etc/apache/access.conf have the correct "AllowOverride" line? On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > I hate "me too" posts, but since you asked, me too. I'm using passwd files > instead of db files; same problem... > > On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 01:05:58PM +1100, Hamish

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html > >Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing > libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential > libc5 package

Re: Man Pages -- Section 2?

1997-12-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > Where did the Section 2 man pages go? They had been located in the > "manpages" package. They were moved to manpages-dev so that people who don't need the syscall info don't have to install it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: dselect ftp upgrade

1997-12-25 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > I would like to upgrade to libc6 and I tried to do so via dselect ftp, but > I can not find the unstable or hamm directory at ftp.debian and dselect > just quits on me. Can someone tell me how to upgrade packages via ftp. > > I am also insearch of an

Re: libc5 to libc6: purge or install

1997-12-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Jameson Burt wrote: > This seems the correct approach. So, the libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO should say > not just >The minimum list of packages to install to be able to run unstable- >branch packages is below. Install these packages one at a time in >exactly the order

Re: Next release of Debian - when?

1997-12-16 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > When is Debian 1.4 coming out officially? I thought Debian was now > working on roughly a three month cycle time for new releases - are we > giving up on this strategy? Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it. It doesn't look li

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO - purging -dev packages

1997-12-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Section 3. of the Mini-HOWTO says: > > If you wish to do libc6 development, you should first purge all the > > '-dev' packages on your system > > Please confirm that this does not include dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19.deb, > which was installed under

Re: The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
Quick suggestion, if you've upgraded GIMP recently, you need to do rm -rf ~/.gimp since the new version of gimp doesn't cope with the files left by the older versions. On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't draw anything in the gimp. Lines don't show up, using the pencil, > brush

Re: tar

1997-12-07 Thread Scott K. Ellis
I think so. tar isn't a shell command, so shell parameters shouldn't effect it. On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: > Even if someone has noclobber set in their shell? > > On 07-Dec-97 Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Steve Koop wrote: > > >

Re: tar

1997-12-07 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Steve Koop wrote: > Just Was wondering how to, or what is the switch to untar a file to > overwrite and replace the existing files? No switch required, tar automatically overwrites files when extracting. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: Simple Unix utility?

1997-12-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Now I notice that "cut" seems to buffer everything up. > > You should file a bug against cut, it should do line buffering when output > is a tty. It may be something in the middle of the pipe doing the buffering. Not certain how to

Re: Simple Unix utility?

1997-12-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 5 Dec 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > One task I do commonly is monitor my system log files using > 'tail -f'. > > I was wondering if there was a commonly used method for doing the > same thing, but filtering it at the same time. > > For example, I like to view the logs on the LinuxHQ website as they

Re: file-rc problem?

1997-10-13 Thread Scott K. Ellis
Do not, I beg you, Scott K. Ellis |look for anything behind phenomena. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | They are themselves their own lesson. | -- Goethe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-10-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.8 1997/10/11 03:02:12 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the

Re: update-menus: segmentation faults

1997-10-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
e wrong? Yes, upgrading libc6 broke libg++272. The new libg++272 should have gotten to the mirrors (or will soon). Upgrade that and it should work again. - -- Scott K. Ellis | The world is its own magic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > The xproc package, as well as several other packages, has an obsolete > > dependancy on the virtual packag

Re: xcontrib and xproc packages

1997-10-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
n to dpkg will allow you to install it anyway. - -- | Do not, I beg you, Scott K. Ellis |look for anything behind phenomena. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | They are themselves th

Re: Announcing TIND: This Is Not Dselect

1997-10-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
of xlib6 that xlib6g doesn't conflict with. That is also located in unstable. If you haven't upgraded yet, check out my howto at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
wasn't linked with '-lc'). A quick "mostly-fix" of the problem is to make sure that '/usr/lib/libc5-compat' is below '/usr/X11R6/lib' in your /etc/ld.so.conf file and rerun ldconfig. This may temporarily remedy the problem. > BTW. Where are (if any) t

Re: dpkg & other assorted questions...

1997-09-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
anx in advanced. For that you want the documentation in /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README. You want to start xdm on system startup. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [

Re: Motif and libc6

1997-09-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
altdev, etc.). If you're planning on upgrading (or partially upgrading) to libc6, check out my Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO which I post here about weekly and which can be found at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ - -- |If you will practice being fictional

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-26 Thread Scott K. Ellis
e mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief in injustice and tragedy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, | the master calls a butterfly. |

Re: Upgrade to libc6 ok?

1997-09-21 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ing the latest versions of the libgdbm1 and libgdbm1g package from unstable. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] | other's life. Rarel

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-09-21 Thread Scott K. Ellis
howto - Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.5 1997/09/16 03:31:27 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version

Re: sendmail errors on console

1997-09-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
RC mean? I doubt it's related to Internet Relay > Chat. Stands for "If I Recall Correctly" -- | Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMAIL

Re: HELP! what debian package provides 'elf-x11r6lib'??

1997-09-14 Thread Scott K. Ellis
o check and file bugs against the packages I missed (I only filed against packages on my system). You should be able to force dselect to leave them installed, a 'Q' when the conflict screen comes up (after making sure they're still selected as installed) should do it. -- Scott K.

Re: A problem compiling Qpopper

1997-09-09 Thread Scott K. Ellis
of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief in injustice and tragedy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, | the master calls a butterfly. | --

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-09-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.4 1997/08/28 22:02:32 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the

Re: libc6 upgrade

1997-09-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
m bo. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] | other's life. Rarely do members of one

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO

1997-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.4 1997/08/28 22:02:32 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the

Re: Lost the POP in smail.

1997-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
elp would be MUCH appreciated. What happened is that the POP3 server was removed from the netstd package since both qpopper and cucipop are far superior. Install one of those packages and you'll get your POP3 server back. - -- Scott K. Ellis|The reason angels can f

Re: Netscape installation problems

1997-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
: > netscape Um, rename the archive to what it's expecting. The warning is to make sure you don't try to install a DIFFERENT VERSION of Netscape with this installer package. Correcting a mangled filename can't change anything. - -- |I

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-- | Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will know you in a thousand years. | -- Illusions --

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.1, August 22, 1997 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will utilize the new

Re: Qmail package, where?

1997-08-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
url would > be appreciated) It is available in your local debian mirror at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/qmail* - -- |Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMA

Re: Forking debian-user?

1997-08-22 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ut since we're the only ones with it public, I really can't tell for sure. - -- |In order to live freely and happily, Scott K. Ellis | you must sacrifice boredom. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Re: Debian only like larger businesses

1997-08-22 Thread Scott K. Ellis
s. Do that if you wish, but in any case, GO AWAY! - -- |In order to live freely and happily, Scott K. Ellis | you must sacrifice boredom. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-08-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.0, August 19, 1997 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will utilize the new

Re: rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question

1997-08-19 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ibreadlineg2 first. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] | other's life. Rarely do members of one | family

Re: FTP Server

1997-08-18 Thread Scott K. Ellis
stem to a state where it is bootable, you should install the required and recommended packages (at least) with dselect. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-08-17 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v1.6, August 17, 1997 Recent Changes: o Moved ldso above libc6, incase they have an ancient ldso. o Raised versions required for bash and libreadline(g)2 to the official

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-17 Thread Scott K. Ellis
nk, probably an earlier problem with my system. > It was fixed by installing libdl1-dev ] Those ldconfig warnings are usually a symptom of a package being out of sync with its coresponding '-dev' package. It can be safely ignored until you upgrade the '-dev' package, just do

Re: ? about Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO

1997-08-16 Thread Scott K. Ellis
with new libreadline packages screwing up if installed in the wrong order. I've run the install as listed on a clean v1.3.1 system and it worked flawlessly. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, bu

Re: system rescued, some quirks left

1997-08-15 Thread Scott K. Ellis
un)register commands in a conditional statement should have a bug report filed against it, although you may want to check that the package in unstable has the bug too before reporting it. - -- | Live never to be ashamed if anything Scott K. Ellis |

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-15 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v1.3, August 14, 1997 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will utilize the new

Re: Hamm?

1997-08-13 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ct to fetch it goes > looking for a dists/main directory for every file, which it says doesn't > exist. This is using the ftp.debian.org site. Use "hamm/main hamm/contrib hamm/non-free" for your distributions. - -- |Your friends will know y

Re: kernal-package in stable not including config in /boot

1997-08-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
o uses it. > What's the purpose of psdatabase? psdatabase used to be used for the 'ps' and related commands and is most likely obsolete now. It has been removed from the latest kernel-package generated kernels. - -- | The bond that links your true family i

Re: Howto run glibc2.0 compiled programs on 1.3.1 system?

1997-08-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
6-dev has been reported to cause segfault problems with man-db, you may wish to reinstall man-db after libc6-dev if you experience these problems. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in eac

Re: 128MB of RAM?

1997-08-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
rts: > > $ dmesg |grep Memory > Memory: 62740k/65536k available (1004k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1408k > data) > > "top" also shows only 64MB of RAM. Anybody have any ideas? in /etc/lilo.conf append="mem=128M" - --

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > > When I attempted to remove (as root) an old subdirectory under > > > /usr/

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-10 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-d option to rm. That will seriously corrupt your filesystem (it deletes the directory inode without deleting the files in the directory). The proper way to remove a directory and its comments is 'rm -rf ' - -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth o

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
; > I can't delete those either, in order to restore them using dpkg. Check out chattr, they may have the immutable (+i) bit set. Remove it and you may be able to delete them. - -- |In order to live freely and happily, Scott K. Ellis

Re: /etc/crontab.daily and the security hole in find | xargs

1997-08-07 Thread Scott K. Ellis
only shortens the race. The only solution is to come up with a program that never follows syslinks, and checks that the i-node of the file it is removing remains the same. - -- |Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you mee

Re: A question about debian oficial CDs!!!

1997-08-07 Thread Scott K. Ellis
everal different packages conflict with each other and couldn't both be installed. However, since Debian is much more granular than Slackware, you can install only what you need. - -- | Do not, I beg you, Scott K. Ellis |look for anyt

Re: Netscape plugins don't work

1997-08-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > Established bug in bash-2.00. The solution would be to upgrade to > > bash-2.01, but that is a libc6-based release available only in unstable, > > s

Re: Netscape plugins don't work

1997-08-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
release available only in unstable, so it will be a little more trouble. Check the archive for postings on installing libc6 and the new libraries required for bash. - -- | You are never given a wish without also Scott K. Ellis |being given the p

Re: More problems with unstable/base

1997-08-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
DO NOT USE E2FSTOOLS_1.10-4 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BACK OUT TO THE VERSION IN STABLE. - -- | Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: sambades_1.9.16p11-1.deb

1997-08-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will know you in a thousand years. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAw

Re: Easing security on "public" server.

1997-08-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
s. - -- | The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief in injustice and tragedy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, | the master calls a butterfly.

Re: newaliases

1997-08-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
c/aliases directly. Simply ignore any instructions telling you to run it. - -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief in injustice and tragedy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| What the caterpillar calls th

Re: 3Com Vortex freezes

1997-08-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
clears the problem. - -- | The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief in injustice and tragedy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,

Re: Libc6 Upgrade Howto?

1997-08-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
nts? There was a postinst bug in one package that caused it to eat your inetd.conf file, grepping for all of the update-inetd commands in the various postinst scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info and running them should rebuild your inetd.conf. - -- |If you will practice being f

Re: Installing the new libreadline and Packages that depend on the old libreadline

1997-08-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
er making sure you also have the latest ldso package. libreadlineg2 only conflicts with older versions of libreadline2, not the one in hamm. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictio

Re: Libc6 Upgrade Howto?

1997-07-30 Thread Scott K. Ellis
nal for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more real than |people with bodies and heartbeats. | -- Illusions -BEGIN P

Re: atd - at daemon?

1997-07-29 Thread Scott K. Ellis
every minute, so disks can cycle down. If you aren't running any at tasks, atd will get itself swapped out and stay there in any memory crunch. - -- | Live never to be ashamed if anything Scott K. Ellis | you do or say is published around t

Re: smartlist

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
es command to be run when updating the alias file. Just skip the last step. Technically, the Debian policy for MTAs requires that the command be provided, even if it is a no-op, but smail has a bug in that regard. This has already been reported to the maintainer. - --

Re: update-menues 1.5

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
nu files, change the permissions, and check to see if a bug has been filed against them for it. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ch

Re: Removing packages

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
mand, then delete the symlink. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more real than |peop

Re: compiling apache 1.2.1 - where is -lcrypt??

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ted out of libc6, but is integral to libc5. If you're compiling for libc5, just remove the -lcrypt from the link command. - -- Scott K. Ellis | Argue for your limitations, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sure enough, they're yours.

Re: Question on libc5 5.4.33-5

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
further information. Also note that we aren't completely finished migrating the libraries, so if you use some estoric libraries, you may have to wait. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of res

Re: Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
| The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] | other's life. Rarely do members of one | family grow up under the same roof.

Re: libreadlineg2

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ith libc6 (glibc2) instead of libc5. We are working on migrating to libc6 for Debian 2.0, while also assuring backwards compatibility and hopefully providing both libc5 and libc6 development environments. - -- | You are never given a wish without also Scott K

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ion of libc5. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more real than

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
for a more recent driver which should fix it. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more real than |

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ie, but we quickly realized the possible unwanted confusion that would result. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more

Re: changing dpkg depends/tcl7.6-dev

1997-07-19 Thread Scott K. Ellis
c6-dev packages, and installing the older libc5 stuff on hold until we finish shaking down libc6 support. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] | oth

Re: cua vs ttyS and diald

1997-07-18 Thread Scott K. Ellis
before a good locking scheme was developed for the ttyS devices, simply use the ttyS devices instead of the cua ones. - -- |Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: compiling ftools on debian machine

1997-07-18 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ncurses-dev package installed? - -- |Your friends will know you better in the Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will know you in a thousand years. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP S

Re: man pages, etc.

1997-07-15 Thread Scott K. Ellis
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Re: Anacron/Cron

1997-07-15 Thread Scott K. Ellis
cron. Most of the time it is sitting blocked and gets paged out anyway. smail uses cron to run its mail que. And it is useful for running tasks every x/minutes or whatever. - -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belie

Re: message problems...

1997-06-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
etected 1 SCSI cdrom 4 SCSI disks > total. > > And /dev/sr0 does not exist. How do I create it? Thanks in advance for > any help. /dev/scd0 - -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis | your belie

Re: libgpc problem

1997-06-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
ween xlib6 and xlib6-dev will cause those errors. - -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis | your belief in injustice and tragedy. http://www.gate.net/~storm/ | What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
l? Anything > that could have triggered this? This is frequently a relic of unpacking archives directly into /tmp. This may inadvertantly change the permissions of the directory, causing the problems observed. Doing dpkg -x pkgname /tmp would do that. Create a temporary directory to unpack th

Re: Problem with scalable fonts

1997-06-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
> uses these fonts. This may be a problem with the switch from compressed to gziped fonts between xfree3.2 and xfree3.3. Did you install xbase and xlib6 first? Try reinstalling all the font packages and see if that helps. - -- | Live never to be ashamed if a

Re: libshadow.a ?

1997-06-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
If I'm not mistaken, shadow support is built into both libc5 and libc6, and there is no need for a libshadow as the functions already are included. The shadow support was merges into the default login and passwd packages. - -- Scott K. Ellis| Live never to be ashamed

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
gt; it would be useful. How is this any good? > > alias a alias > alias loada 'source ~/.alias' > alias loadalias loada > alias log watchlog It is good because it contains csh/tcsh aliases, not bash aliases. A slightly different beast. - --

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
affected lib and dev packages. ++ || Your friends will know you better in the | | Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wil

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