i'm running debian 1.3.1 and i need whatever help i can get on all these problems!
problem one: bitchx i have bitchx73 installed, and i cannot get it to run properly. when run, it tells me the current term (defaulted to 'linux') doesn't have a termcap entry. upon starting, everything looks cool until it logs into an irc server, and then the text wigs out (shifts to the right...which setfont/clear doesn't fix, so i have to log out) and i can't see the topic bar. i telnet into my box at work and run bitchx fine, with topic bar and all. i've tried exporting 'ansi', 'vt100', and any other guessable terms to the TERM variable with no avail. has anyone else had these problems running bitchx with debian out of the box? problem 2: icmp firewalling how do i prevent incoming icmp traffic (read: nukes) from coming into my system? using ipfwadm just yields the "unknown protcol" command when specifying ICMP (using correct syntax...verified with many users). problem 3: telnet lockups when i telnet into my solaris box to run bitchx, the telnet session locks upon loading bitchx. i kill the pid and do it again, and it works fine every time. the first time i open a telnet session with my shell, it totally locks up. i find this error strange because it always corrects itself on the second attempt. problem 4: joystick the joystick module in the debain 1.3.1 package doesn't work for my 2.0.30 kernel, and the joystick.tgz from the hardware compatability howto (which links to sunsite) won't compile correctly problem 5: xview (or not?) xview clients from dselect claims that it needs xtoolfind (or something like that), but it doesn't appear to be available. is the actual xview program in the debian distro, or just the libs? problem 6: mpeg_play this isn't necessarily a problem, because i switched to mtv, but i was unable to run mpeg_play because i was missing libm.so.4 (with libc installed). shouldn't a module dependency notification come up if i need something? problem 7: windowmaker i cannot get windowmaker to install because it doesn't believe i have the xpm libs (although they are clearly in /usr/X11R6/lib/). what is causing this? i appreciate any help that could be sent my way...thanks! justin honold [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
