Re: ipfwadm?

1996-08-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone here on the Debian-L know the secrets of using the ipfwadm > utility to set up masquerading? I've built a kernel with the proper > options but I'm concerned about whether I'm really masquerading, or > just forwarding packets. How do I prove i

Digested version of this list?

1996-08-22 Thread Randy Gobbel
Is there a digested version of this mailing list? I'm being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic here. If there isn't a debian-user-digest, I think it's high time somebody created it--please. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGE

Fwd: missing a new gsfonts

1996-08-22 Thread Ervin D. Walter
-Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ervin D. Walter)- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:32:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ervin D. Walter) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: missing a new gsfonts X-Mailer: Mutt 0.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gs was upgraded but a new ver

bable won't configure

1996-08-22 Thread Shaya Potter
I just upgraded to the newest Babel (3.6-4) and it seems to have gotten screwed. It won't configure because it says it doesn't know how to generate manfnt.mf, and then it says it can't find manfnt.mf. It then writes a huge log file to disk, which has crashed my machine already because it fil

Re: Where to find the pcmcia package

1996-08-22 Thread Brian Mays
> "EDWARD" == EDWARD FORREST URENDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EDWARD> I once ftp'ed the pcmcia package from virginia, but then EDWARD> uninstalled it. Where can I find it once more? I really EDWARD> need it. It works really well with my pc card and laptop. The PCMCIA package

Re: mailagent and MH

1996-08-22 Thread Brian Mays
> Regarding Re: mailagent and MH ; "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: Susan> $ popclient -3 -P ~/.tiac pop1.tiac.net Susan> QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version |214r3+TIAC|) Susan> at mailserver1 starting. Susan> 1 messages in folder Susan> rea

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Bruce Perens wrote: > > There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all > prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package, > Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might > not want to install it. > However, it's worth unpacking the > package

Kernel headers

1996-08-22 Thread Miroslav Ruda
I'm really mazy from kernel headres in Debian distribution. I have installed libc5, kernel_source and kernel_headers and I have 3 different headers! I think old Slackware idea (/usr/include/{linux,asm,net} are links to /usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm,net}) is more better. I can simly upgrade

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all > prospective Debian developers to read. The documentation is also available at: http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/policy.html/ http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/programmer.html/ Note the t

RE: Non-existent .deb's

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: Daniel Lynes[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 9:07 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Non-existent .deb's On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote: >If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect >will offer to scan the .

Re: No Subject

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: Charles A. Schuman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 11:52 PM To: Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE Cc: Happy Linux Users Subject: No Subject On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: > For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I prefer > to

Re: ipfwadm?

1996-08-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, # ipfwadm -F -i masquerade -P all -S 192.168.210.0/0 -D 0.0.0.0/0 this is OK. > The reason for the question is this; the ipfwadm -M -l shows no masquerade > rule set. ipfwadm -M -l (or netstat -M) will only show you masqueraded connections, not the rules. The rules are displayed with "ipfwa

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-22 Thread Martin Str|mberg
Hello. > > I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine > with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS > partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows: > > >Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1

MooTeeth

1996-08-22 Thread Shaya Potter
(couldn't mail directly to netcom.com) Look at http://www.cheapbytes.com they hace a lot of linux stuff on the cheap side. They also have other versions of Motif, that are a little cheaper, but they don't really mention what the difference b/w them are. Shaya -- Shaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] On We

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Charles -- >I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux: > > mkdir ./dos > mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos > cp /boot ./dos > Your mount command (as given above) is making a DOS file system accessible under a Linux directory. That seems unusual. If you j

Re: perl

1996-08-22 Thread Gilbert Ramirez
> I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these > questions.. > why does the perl package depend on csh? You can glob filenames in perl @filenames = <*>; print @filenames; But perl doesn't have the globbing built in. It actually calls csh to do the magic for it. >

Re: Apache - catch 22?

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Fun -- You said: > Hi i just grabbed the "unstable" apache package. I tried to install it > and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these > packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what, > libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version lib

Re: heads-up about SCSI tape drives

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Bill -- You said: > One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run "mt -f > /dev/st0 setblk 0" (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS > and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the > default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa. >

Re: perl

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Todd -- You said: > why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't > let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion. dpkg --info libc5-dev_5.2.18-9.deb yields . . . DEPENDS: libc5 (=5.2.18-9) CONFLICTS: libc (<<4.6.27-11), libc-dev, pthreads-dev PROVIDES: libc-de

Re: Runq missing from cron package ?

1996-08-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
|" |" |"> a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron |"> process generates a lot of output along the lines of "runq: command not |"> found". I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-) |" |"What kind of mail-transport agent are you using. On my system

Re: Runq missing from cron package ?

1996-08-22 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron > process generates a lot of output along the lines of "runq: command not > found". I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-) What kind of mail-transport agent are you using. On my system runq is part of

Re: Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Gerry Jensen wrote: : : might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is : legal to have a dash (-) in a domain name? If it is legal, could any : problems arise from it's use (like confusing mail readers)? Read some RFC's or simply ask the DNS for e.g. `ardenne-at.de' ...

Re: ipfwadm?

1996-08-22 Thread Emanuele Pucciarelli
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The reason for the question is this; the ipfwadm -M -l shows no masquerade > rule set. My setup command is more or less like yours, and I can see my masquerade rule set with 'ipfwadm -Fl', as it is shown with a "msq" type. /___ /_ /___manuele ([EM

does Linux support 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI?

1996-08-22 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone using it? Does the kernel support it yet?

EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-22 Thread Luca Maranzano
Hi all, I'm happily running Debian 1.1 with Kernel 2.0.10 on several different machines here, but last week one of these began to show these messages (after a crash due to a power failure): EXT2-fs warning (device 16:01): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 24481 EXT2-fs warning (dev

RE: Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Dashes are allowable, but you'll probably be refused the new name because it's too similar to the old one. If it confuses a mail reader, the mail reader's author should be shot. Casper Boden-Cummins. >-- >From: Gerry Jensen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 21 August 1996 20:43 >To:Debi

RE: Help: sendmail/filter locking errors

1996-08-22 Thread Casper BodenCummins
I'm unfamiliar with filter and elm, so this may be on the wrong track. Anyhow, I had a similar problem trying to use two mail user agents simultaneously (on a Sun, as it happens). The first program had placed a lock on the mailbox while the second program, using the same protocol, saw the lock ref

Re: Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is > legal to have a dash (-) in a domain name? If it is legal, could any > problems arise from it's use (like confusing mail readers)? There are bazillions of them, like my old one: 't

ppp-on and ppp-off

1996-08-22 Thread James A. Robinson
It seems like most ppp interface programs expect ppp-on and ppp-off or up/down to be around. Since I assume this can be just like /etc/init.d/ppp start|stop, would it be bad for me to create a C wrapper program (suid root) to call start-stop-deamon on pppd? What things do I have to watch out for

Re: perl

1996-08-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:19:21 CDT Todd Tyrone Fries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these > questions.. > > why does the perl package depend on csh? Duh, sure about that one ? Never seen it > why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting

Re: NFS trouble

1996-08-22 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > > >> I keep getting the following message when trying to NFS mount any of the > > >> exported filesystems. > > >> > > >> mount clntupd_create: RPC: Program not registered > > >> > > > > > >Check that on the nfs server that mountd is running.

Security holes in bash

1996-08-22 Thread Steffen Mueller
Please excuse the german prologe. Here's a warning concerning the actual bash shell. -- Forwarded message -- Nachfolgend an Sie weitergereichte Informationen bezueglich eines Problems mit der "bash"-Shell erreichte uns von IBM ERS (ein Team, das kommerziell Emergency Response Servi

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-22 Thread Lazaro . Salem
You only need to copy the kernel image to the DOS partition, for example: cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.6 ./dos/vmlinuz Then when you've booted DOS type (make a batch :-) loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro Or have alook at the loadlin documentation. Some tips for "advanced" use of this boot

Runq missing from cron package ?

1996-08-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
Hello Debian-world, a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron process generates a lot of output along the lines of "runq: command not found". I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-) -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

hard drive problem - cannot mark bad blocks

1996-08-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
Recently, I posted that I got these errors with my hard drive: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2342358, sector=2342294 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 2342294 It also crashed on occasion. Running "e2

Unidentified subject!

1996-08-22 Thread Charles A. Schuman
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: > For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I prefer > to boot with a floppy and rerun LILO on my MBR. You will > set it by replacing your boot line by boot=/dev/sda who > will write on your sda MBR, in place of /dev/sda2 who > would wri

Re: Debian quirks?

1996-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vebjoern Forsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. >> /tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp . > >I too thought about doing it this way, but I'm a bit unsure about what >happens if the partition /var/tmp

Re: perl

1996-08-22 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Todd Tyrone Fries wrote: > why does the perl package depend on csh? Perl uses 'csh' for filename globbing (that is, for <*.*> sort of constructs.) Yes, that's strange behavior, and the dependency probably will eventually be removed, but not anytime soon. Andy Dougherty

Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-22 Thread renald loignon
>renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >: Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the >: following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting >: overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1 >: and kernel 2.0.6), th

Re: Debian Package Setup

1996-08-22 Thread Jeppe Sigbrandt
> I have read the help and information docs on dselect but could not find > or understand what I should do to make this work. Hi, dpkg, is a manual version of dselect. dselect is simply a user friendly interface to dpkg. I think the best way to find out more about dpkg is to do dpkg -h

Re: Non-existent .deb's

1996-08-22 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote: >If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect >will offer to scan the .deb files that are actually on your disk. But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists, either. I kind of like that information,

Re: /tmp, /var/tmp (was: Debian Quirks?)

1996-08-22 Thread Dominik Kubla
> Pete Harlan writes: > I believe the way to do it is to have /tmp be a real directory in > the root filesystem, and then mount a larger filesystem over it > later. Programs that get run before /tmp is mounted over have the > limited space, and all others (i.e., just about everyone) see the >

Re: /tmp, /var/tmp (was: Debian Quirks?)

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
> > > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. Bruce: > /tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp . From: Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I believe the way to do it is to have /tmp be a real directory in the > root filesystem, and then mount a larger filesystem over it late

Re: Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Gerry Jensen, you wrote: > > Recently, another company approached us requesting to take our domain name > from us. They claim they have it trademarked which we haven't really Research it. IF you had the domain before they had the trademark, they are SOL. Check with the inter

Apache conundrum?

1996-08-22 Thread Fundamental
Hi, im trying to install the apache package from unstable. The package needs libc5 and libdbgm1 (i cant remember exatly what it was called:) i found both lib packages after installing libc i tried installing libdb1, guess what, this package wants libc5-16 i have libc5-18 (grr) where can i get lib

Apache conundrum?

1996-08-22 Thread Fundamental
Hi, im trying to install the apache package from unstable. The package needs libc5 and libdbgm1 (i cant remember exatly what it was called:) i found both lib packages after installing libc i tried installing libdb1, guess what, this package wants libc5-16 i have libc5-18 (grr) where can i get lib

Re: simple but useful debian enhancement

1996-08-22 Thread renald loignon
>Following the thread about how to enhance dselect/dpkg to ease >re-installation, I would like to suggest my idea: > >A menu item in dselect to store the present configuration on the >base diskettes. Or on a separate diskette reserved for that purpose...

new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package, which you can find in the project/experimental directory on our FTP archives. Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might not want to install it (o

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

1996-08-22 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 02:59:43 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >Vi and clones aren't completely safe, either. In some circumstances, at >least, they load a .exrc (and/or .vimrc or whatever) from the current Well, I don't use vi under Linux; only under DOS and OS/2. The Linux version (Debian installat

Re: heads-up about SCSI tape drives

1996-08-22 Thread Bill Wohler
"Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Suggestion: if you have a SCSI tape drive, you might wish to check that > you can read from it, and/or you might wish to upgrade your kernel. Here's a data point: I didn't have any problems reading my Exabyte SCSI drive with 2.0.0 last night

Re: libtiff?

1996-08-22 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Well, it would seem that the problem is that the libtiff package is not in the released version, only the unstable. So installing the stable version sort of failed to find the libtiff package :) Thanks for the response tho :) -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation i

ipfwadm?

1996-08-22 Thread wb2oyc
Anyone here on the Debian-L know the secrets of using the ipfwadm utility to set up masquerading? I've built a kernel with the proper options but I'm concerned about whether I'm really masquerading, or just forwarding packets. How do I prove it? There was a recent LJ article on using masqueradin

lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-22 Thread Charles Blair
I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows: >Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda111 35

Apache - catch 22?

1996-08-22 Thread Fundamental
Hi i just grabbed the "unstable" apache package. I tried to install it and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what, libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16 while i have libc5-18

RE: configuring packages as a separate step

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps I misunderstand the dselect installation process, but I thought > that dselect unpacks the all selected packages before running the > installation and configuration scripts. If one configuration goes badly > wrong, doesn't this leave a bundle

dvips/metafont and Stylus 800

1996-08-22 Thread Dirk Bernhardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! I just installed the whole tex stuff. I now am trying to configure it to make the fonts for my Epson Stylus 800 printer. I've changed the dvips-file config.ps: D 360 M epstylus and added to Metafont's modes.mf mode_def epstylus = % Ep

perl

1996-08-22 Thread Todd Tyrone Fries
I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these questions.. why does the perl package depend on csh? why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion. -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where to find older pcmcia that uses 2.0.6 kernel

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Eddie -- You asked: > is there a record of pcmcia packages that use 2.0.6 kernel. the new one > expects the 2.0.7 kernel and I need the older one. > I'm not sure, but the general answer is: > should I just upgrade my kernel? Yes. >is this hard to to? No. Go to any Linux FTP archive.

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-22 Thread Todd Tyrone Fries
>Eric> Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiat PPP, >Eric> then ask 'pppd' to start? > There is a way using minicom, [...] > but the cycle: > > becoming root > issuing pppd > reading /var/log/messages > killing pppd > reissuing pppd with another

Re: kernel size

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Hamish -- You asked: > Will dselect still work with nothing but a local directory, Sure. Just specify the local directory with option 1, Access method. > or should I just use dpkg by hand? That would work too. Regards, Susan Kleinmann

Re: output of shutdown -h now

1996-08-22 Thread Brian C. White
> I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few > months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So, > at the risk of rehashing this problem (if that is what it is), I am > submitting it again since I am now having the same difficulty myself. > > I am using the o

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-22 Thread Todd Tyrone Fries
diald will allow one to dial manually and start ppp w/out requiring minicom. -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Package Setup

1996-08-22 Thread Me
Hi folks here's what I want to do: I have a dos partition that I made of about 20megs that I put DOS/WINDOWS install programs on. so now I have 4 partitions one for WIN95, Linux, Linux-swap,and a Dos partition. I have read the help and information docs on dselect but could not find or understand

Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
Recently, another company approached us requesting to take our domain name from us. They claim they have it trademarked which we haven't really investigated yet. Anyway, if we do have to change our domain name, we might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is legal to have

Re: ALPHA: pe package - periodic execution

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Christian -- Your pe package sounds very interesting. You asked: >It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be >included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they >seem pretty old and I didn't find any information. If you get any version of dpkg

Re: Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: > John Houwen wrote: > > > > Miro, > > > > I appreciate your comments, but that is part of the problem ... smail > > *won't* install unless sendmail is removed! At the same time, dpkg > > refuses to remove sendmail unless smail is installed ... like Ca

Re: /tmp, /var/tmp (was: Debian Quirks?)

1996-08-22 Thread Pete Harlan
> > > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. > > /tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp . I believe the way to do it is to have /tmp be a real directory in the root filesystem, and then mount a larger filesystem over it later. Programs that get run before /tmp is mounted

Re: Debian quirks?

1996-08-22 Thread Sherwood Botsford
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Vebjoern Forsmo wrote: > > /tmp > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. I have a 30MB / > partition, and only about 10MB space free on /tmp. This didn't work very > well while trying to restore a 50MB file from taper. (I've now mounted > 100MB on /tmp to av

Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the : following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting : overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1 : and kernel 2.0.6), there a

How to automate pppd dialing with minicom

1996-08-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've seen many people mention that they manually dial their ISP with minicom and manually suspend minicom, then manually start pppd or whatever at each end. The following is one way to automate this, free for your enjoyment! I've been using minicom's runscript for automating this proceedure fo

RE: Need help to set right ownerships

1996-08-22 Thread Casper BodenCummins
If you like, I'll email you a script to run through a file containing filenames and permissions as set on my system and set the permissions similarly on yours. This would cure most of your files. My installation is quite new and I've made no radical permission changes, so it's safe enough, I think.

Help: sendmail/filter locking errors

1996-08-22 Thread Eamon Daly
I just made the switch the debian distribution, and I'm fairly impressed with it so far. However, with the installation of the elm 2.4pl25-2 package, filter appears to be broken. It panics when it tries to lock, reporting: filter (Wed Aug 21 09:30:32 1996 eamon): Mailing message to eam

Checking version

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: Hamish Moffatt[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 4:56 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: kernel size > I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. The > option in dselect to 'configure remaining unconfigured packages' could > han

Re: Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOffice under Debian)

1996-08-22 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the > issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif? > > Thnax! > > Chris -)- > (Anybody should jump in here if I make a mistake) Motif is a widget s

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ PCI Lan Adapter Driver Wanted

1996-08-22 Thread Stormy Henderson
I just picked up the LAN adapter mentioned in the subject; it replaces a Cogent BusMaster 960 that sporadically locked up under heavy load [ick!]. It works perfectly under my primary OS-- NEXTSTEP-- but I can't find a driver that works for Linux. The driver that dri

lesstif and mp

1996-08-22 Thread Douglas Bates
The recent discussion of the Motif and lesstif libraries reminded me of my desire to compile the `mp' and `mptool' programs. The source code is available as ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/mpdist-3.3.2.tar.Z `mp' provides pretty PostScript printing of mail messages, digests, etc. I pr

FW: #1, make it boot! Engage.

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: Bruce Perens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 1996 9:34 PM To: bruce; salwen; Happy Linux Users; Charles A. Schuman Subject: Re: #1, make it boot! Engage. From: "Charles A. Schuman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # fdisk (then "p") > Device Boot Begin Start End

Re: libtiff?

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Larry -- You said (ages ago, sorry): > > Trying to install libtiff3-gif says it depends on libtiff3, but the > dependency listing says libtiff3 doesn't appear to be available. > What's the deal here and how can I fix it? This means that the list of available packages in dselect's memory does

Re: Netscape Library Error

1996-08-22 Thread Brian C. White
> > Background: Got and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and > > netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the right tar.gz file off of Netscape's > > Well, you need libXpm. Which you can get in the xpm4.7 package. > netscape should probably be fixed to depend on this package. Consider it done.

Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOf

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: James A. Robinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 2:48 AM To: Christopher R. Hertel Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOffice under Debian) > Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the > iss

Re: Netscape Library Error (netscape without .deb)

1996-08-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > > XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB > > XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH > > Do those XKeysymDB and XNLSPATH really provide something useful or have > you used them only because they are provided ? Th

simple but useful debian enhancement

1996-08-22 Thread Jeppe Sigbrandt
Hi all, Following the thread about how to enhance dselect/dpkg to ease re-installation, I would like to suggest my idea: A menu item in dselect to store the present configuration on the base diskettes. One of the main uses for the root, boot and base diskettes is in case there is serious damag

Re: Netscape Library Error (netscape without .deb)

1996-08-22 Thread Brian C. White
> However, given the amount of problems seen recently on the list about > Netscape, > and matching the right debian Netscape package with the right Netscape tar > file, let me tell you how I do it for myself without netscape.deb package. There are no problems. People just have to be a little pat

FW: Checking version

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: Hamish Moffatt[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 4:56 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: kernel size > I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. The > option in dselect to 'configure remaining unconfigured packages' could > han

Re: Fixing timezone info in Debian

1996-08-22 Thread Klee Dienes
> Problem is, most of Arizona doesn't observe Daylight time. > Good old Slackware used to let me select US/Arizona, which > got things right. You can get Arizona by using America/Phoenix (submenu 3 from 'tzconfig'). You should probably file two bug reports with the debian bug tracking system (th

RE: kernel size

1996-08-22 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Hamish, >One thing I find a bit annoying with dselect/dpkg is the way it checks >the version of EVERY package when you pick Install. Last night I did >an NFS installation (and the remote source was from CD-ROM), and this >step was very slow. Can anything be done about this, eg trusting >the packag

RE: configuring packages as a separate step

1996-08-22 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Perhaps I misunderstand the dselect installation process, but I thought that dselect unpacks the all selected packages before running the installation and configuration scripts. If one configuration goes badly wrong, doesn't this leave a bundle of unpacked and unconfigured packages lying about? Pr

Re: mailagent and MH

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
I discovered (more or less) what was happening, by a fluke experience! I have another account at another ISP on which I had never previously checked my mail til today. My user name at the other ISP is just "susan". Now, the likelihood that they've had (in the past) another user named susan is

RE: X11 and LaTeX minimal install

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
-- From: salwen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 1:23 AM To: billy.chow Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: X11 and LaTeX minimal install > A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages, >but most people either do not want X or want at leas

*REPRODUCIBLE CRASH* with 2.0.12 kernel (earlier kernels also)

1996-08-22 Thread Randy Gobbel
After hearing all this stuff about viruses and password security I started getting nervous, so I grabbed Crack 4.1 off of the net, compiled it, and started running it over the password files of all the systems whose security I care about. On the very small password file of my personal machine it c

Re: mailagent and MH

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
A couple of days ago, I wrote: > > I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like: > popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost > > This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't > automatically refiled as a result of matching one of the rules are then > stored in t

Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug? + a note for the list maintainers

1996-08-22 Thread Jim Worthington
Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > Hello. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. > > > > I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system > > identifiers for HPFS partitions: > > > > /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS > > > > /dev/hda2 i

Re: NFS trouble

1996-08-22 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
> >> I keep getting the following message when trying to NFS mount any of the > >> exported filesystems. > >> > >>mount clntupd_create: RPC: Program not registered > >> > > > >Check that on the nfs server that mountd is running. This one is usually > >NOT started from inetd but instead is st