cleaning up

I've been running debian on a certain system since about v0.93 or so; It's a great system and I've loved beinga ble to just keep upgrading it wihtout having to go in for long downtimes. However, I now have some packages listed int eh Obslete section that I think should be gotten rid of, but I'm

smail errors

Hi, I've got Linux zachs 2.0.32 #1 Tue Nov 25 17:21:48 CST 1997 i686 unknown running ii smail 3.2.0.92-3 Electronic mail transport system. and smail has started exiting apparently randomly; I'm wondering if 1) anyone has suggestions on how/why it might do so 2) whether debian 2.0 i

updates to 'stable'

What is policy on software updates to the 'stable' tree? Software there is somewhat 'stale' and has unacceptable security risks such as Smail lacking the anti-relay features, bind still being v4.9.6, etc. Should I just not run 'stable' ? (This might mean I shouldn't run Debian at all, I unders

jdk 1.1.2?

Where can I find the jdk 1.1.2 packages? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

BIND 8.1.x ?

any word on when/if we'll have a bind 8.1.x package? It's got some bugfixes and things over 4.9.x that make the upgrade well worthwhile... I mailed the maintainer of the bind package a few days ago but have no response yet. --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thouroughly hacked apcd for private use adding the following features: > - - Close and reopen logfiles on HUP signal. > - - Make shutdown dependent on the remaining battery load. > - - Slave uses init for shutdown. > - - Master uses shutdown code fro

Help! kernel compile problem

I thought I'd build a nice slim 'n trim kernel for one of my machines... so I went and did a make config, then did 'make zImage' and got: ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel

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I ocassionally get emails like the below... ideas? >Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily >X-Cron-Env: >X-Cron-Env: >X-Cron-Env: >X-Cron-Env: > >run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/apache exited with return code 1 dpkg says: ii apache 1.1.3-6Highly versatile,

Re: elm filters?

ap over to procmail. --Zachary On Thursday, Jun 19, 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Jun 18, Zachary DeAquila wrote >> The package elm-me+ that I got doesn't include /usr/bin/filter. >> Where'd it go? > >As I recall, "filter" is dropped from elm proper (and

elm filters?

The package elm-me+ that I got doesn't include /usr/bin/filter. Where'd it go? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

hen there was an IRQ conflict. >Try changing the PCI slot of the network card. > >-- >Jean Pierre > > >On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > >> I just installed debian 1.3 on a new machine. Config is: >> ppro 200 w/72MB RAM, ET6000 PCI vidcard, 3c50

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

I just installed debian 1.3 on a new machine. Config is: ppro 200 w/72MB RAM, ET6000 PCI vidcard, 3c509b ethernet running default debian kernel with 3c509 module installed. The network interface (eth0) gets configured okay... that is, it gets the right IP, Broadcast, and Mask, but it won't come

console screenblanker?

How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on and not have to plug in a kbd just to be able to hit a key... --Zachary -- TO UNSU

URGENT: 586 assumptions?

Are there vital packages (like libc maybe?) that are compiled with the assumption of a Pentium processor? I've lately (approximately but not exactly since I upgraded to libc 5.4.2x) started having machine failures with untrappable divide-by-zero errors. The machine is a 3 year old 486/33, so

Re: Bizarre hard drive

Uh, it's a SCSI drive and my BIOS dun do SCSI... and my SCSI controller is an Adaptec 1522, kind of old and crufty and with no BIOS of its own. --Zachary On Wednesday, Dec 18, 1996, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Trie to format under BIOS. It could help you > >

WANTED: MMDF Package

Someone was telling me that MMDF was a really good MTA, but that it was kind of a pain to configure; I was thinking that a debian package would probably remove most of this pain. any volunteers? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Bizarre hard drive

Someone gave me a spare 2.3GB drive to use, but it's got 534byte sectors... which wreaks all sorts of mayhem: neither linux or DOS fdisk will touch it. I'd like to reformat it to 512 bytes/sector, etc... any ideas? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

WANTED: pthreads package

anyone feel like taking a shot at a libpthreads package? I'm thinking of the kernel threads library, not the userthreads one that's already there. Or is it already incorported into some base package someplace? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

package versining problem

can dpkg be modified to ignore non-numeric, non-punctuation in the version numbers/? lyx, for instance, was originally lyx_pre-10.3_1.deb or somesuch but is now lyx_10.6_2.deb or something like that. but p>10, so going to the new version is 'downgrading'. bleh. --Z -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

/usr/include/asm

some software looks for /usr/include/asm, which doesn't exist, but probably should as a symlink to asm-i386. Just a minor bug report that's probably well known. --Z -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

perl4?

does anyone ahve an old debian perl 4 package lying around? I need one for compatability reasons... and, what are the possible ramifications of trying to install it when I have perl5 already installed? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

IP aliasing question

I have a single machine on the net (zachs.place.org) with ip aliases to make it also be (eth0:0) juggling.place.org and (eth0:1) www.worldwind.com. Which all works fine. Except... that anywhere I telnet to from that machine sees me as coming from www.worldwind.com instead of from zachs.place.org

xdm problem

I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1 system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server? whatever) and then... it comes back to the xdm prompt. I can log in fine if I do a ctrl

traceroute 1.1 upgrade problems

I just upgraded my 0.93 laptop to 1.1, and now traceroute doesn't work... traceroute to anyplace returns traceroute: IP_HDRINCL:Protocol not available any ideas anyone?

1.1 upgrade?

Where are current instructions on upgrading from debian 0.93 to 1.1 ? --Zachary

dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb ?

In someone's 0.93-to-1.1 upgrade docco, they mention dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb... I can't seem to find this, but it's said to be necessary to upgrade... I've currently got a .93 aout system with dpkg-1.0.17... but now I'd like to upgrade, so... help! thanks! --Zachary

1.1 upgrade docco?

where does the latest docco on what to and not to do to upgrade from .93r6 to 1.1 reside? --Zachary