Emacs loadkeys map and 8-bit stuff

1996-05-22 Thread Bill Wohler
For those of you who like Emacs AND Sun keyboards (at least the old ones--I haven't seen a new one lately), please enjoy the following map file. It makes the Caps lock key the Control key, and the control and alt keys meta keys (so your pinky can easily execute C-S-M ;-). It also make

problems with psnfss and (separately) bind

1996-05-22 Thread travis breaux
The problems I have are with psnfss-5.2-1.deb and the bind-4.9.3-P1-2.deb during the dselect installation. psnfss-5.2-1.deb throws out at me the following lines during unpacking: Unpacking psnfss (from .../debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb) ... dpkg - warning, overriding problem be

Re: Imake problems.

1996-05-22 Thread Chris Walker
Christian Hudon wrote: > > On Mon, 20 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I find the fracturing of packages into runtime and development sometimes > > doesn't make any sense. In this case, why is imake and xmkmf supplied in > > xbase, but the configuration files they need to run properly in the x

Re: kernel headers

1996-05-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Kevin" == Kevin M Bealer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> But will it break anything major if I don't follow this Kevin> guideline, and esp. is there a temporary way to set things up Kevin> 'the old way'? Most of what I compile right now wants kernel Kevin> headers so it can be compatib

Re: more trouble with 1.1 upgrade

1996-05-22 Thread Scott Barker
Ian Jackson said: > Yes. cron needs to have savelog removed. ok. So what happens when I install the new cron, and /usr/bin/savelog isn't in it? Won't dpkg remove it, since /usr/bin/savelog has been removed from /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.list? Could be trouble... > > Also, I notice that at did not

Re: kernel headers

1996-05-22 Thread Scott Barker
Manoj Srivastava said: [reasoning for putting kernel headers in with libc packages] Your reasoning is understandable, however, we will just have to agree to disagree on this issue. I still don't feel it is right to put kernel headers anywhere except with the kernel (or perhaps as their own package

Compiling the kernel..

1996-05-22 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hi all! I'm familiar with retrieving and compiling new versions of the Linux kernel under Slackware. With my switch over to Debian though I was wondering if there are different things I should keep in mind when compiling new kernel versions. I noticed that for Debian 1.1 a kernel release under d

Re: mgetty-0.98-2: Fax page is compressed

1996-05-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Oz Dror wrote: > When I convert received faxes using the package g3topbm. > Then when viewing either with xv or postscript, > the page appears about half the size in length and the characters are > "compressed" to half their sizes > > Any one know how to fix this problem? add

Re: where is dftp 1.5?

1996-05-22 Thread Brian C. White
> I remember seeing a *long* time ago that dftp 1.5 had been uploaded to > the Debian FTP site. Yet, I still only see 1.4. What happened to 1.5? I was just wondering the same thing myself. It seems to have been put on HOLD for some reason. Could the archive maintainer please move this into:

Re: which..

1996-05-22 Thread Mark Eichin
>I would just like to add, as which is originally from tcsh (IMHO), why not >use tcsh to run which and we'll have the same behaviour in bash as in tcsh. *Actually*, which comes from the BSD shell script /usr/ucb/which. Using it as a usage example would probably be poor, since it did things like

nvi segfaults

1996-05-22 Thread Scott Barker
Is anyone else getting Segmentation Faults out of version 1.34-12 of nvi? -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get y

Re: Root login is waiting

1996-05-22 Thread Bruce Perens
It should be possible for sysklogd to check if a write is going to block by setting O_NONBLOCK on the file descriptor. If the write fails with EAGAIN, the pipe is full. It's easy enough to tell if something is a pipe or named pipe using fstat(). Bruce

Re: Root login is waiting

1996-05-22 Thread Michael Meskes
Erick Branderhorst writes: > > I have a problem with root login again. All other logins are fine, > but root login is waiting after I typed the password. Even > su isn't working anymore. I updtated some packages, including > a few from Incoming this morning, after reboot, this behaviour > is prese

Re: Where are the new packages put?

1996-05-22 Thread Michael Meskes
Yves Arrouye writes: > > I'd like to know if new packages (like dpkg 2.0, xtel, etc) go: I can't > easily find them on the ftp.ibp.fr mirror, for example. > Is there a list of newly released packages with their location in the > Debian archives>? I assume you mean dpkg 1.2.0. These files are curr

new installation floppies - please test

1996-05-22 Thread Bruce Perens
I have uploaded new installation floppies to ftp://ftp.i-connect.net/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current/ Please download them and test them. Changes: More support for installation on systems with 4MB RAM. Module configuration should work now. Non-US keyboards can be confi

netbase: ifconfig error messages

1996-05-22 Thread Derek Lee
When I use ifconfig, I get the error messages: May 22 01:18:19 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 May 22 01:18:19 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-3 May 22 01:18:20 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5 Is something missing? I have a PPP connecti

RE: ping!

1996-05-22 Thread Simon Shapiro
Hi Craig Sanders; On 23-May-96 you wrote: > > > ping > > is the list still alive? > > Yes, very much so, but moved several months ago to lists.debian.org. Pixar does not want the indecency law implications, I think. So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will do the trick. Sincerely Yours, (Se

ping!

1996-05-22 Thread Craig Sanders
ping is the list still alive?