XFree 3.2 International Users HOWTO

1996-12-05 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello all, this message is intended for those of us out there who _don't_ have a US keyboard and are installing XFree 3.2. If you have a US keyboard ignore all that follows. To begin with I assume you have a relatively up-to-date Debian tree, i.e. all X stuff is version 3.2-1 or better. W

Re: modules 2.0.0-14

1996-12-05 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote: > 'Bruce Perens wrote:' > > > >Use "dpkg --force-downgrade package-name.deb", I think. I haven't tried it. > > Use -i instead of --force-downgrade. I wouldn't recommend --force > anything in general. One of the big wins IMO of dpkg over rpm is that > dp

too many syminks?

1996-12-05 Thread Richard Morin
Sorry to be back to the list so soon, This is the error I'm getting after upgrading many packages to frozen: (which was a joy for this novice) Dec 5 15:33:24 joanrich init: open (/dev/console): Too many symbolic links encountered What have I done? Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

1996-12-05 Thread Paul Rightley
Regarding this discussion... I still do not understand the mechanics of upgrading my 1.1 distribution to 1.2 Assuming I get dpkg-ftp to work, when I fire up dselect, what do I need to do to upgrade ALL of the various packages I have installed? I am concerned regarding all of the security updates

Re: Rex install report

1996-12-05 Thread Michael D. Mattice
> "BP" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BP> From: Chow Chi-Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> When I am offered to install additional drivers (modules), how >> may I find out what options does a module take and its syntaxes? >> This information would make the loading of mod

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

1996-12-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Eloy A. Paris wrote: !Hola! > I am sorry if I ask a couple of dumb questions... No such thing! ;-) > > 1) When 1.2 is released, will it be named 1.2 or 1.3? I thought > odd revision numbers were for stable releases and even ones for development > releases (I guess this was

X 3.2 and utmp entry

1996-12-05 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello all, X 3.2 seems to be corrupting the utmp entry for :0, LoginName Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone arrigo Arrigo Triulzi *:036d Dec 5 20:26 () unprintable arrigo Arrigo

Re: Can't load the nfs module

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
This is fixed in 1.2 . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: A newbie recursion problem...:-))))

1996-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > BTW I'm running the 2.0.25 kernel. Oh...where can I define the max > number of processes > for a user??? Its defined in the Kernel Headers. The number of processes allowed for a user is half the number allowed on the system. 4 process slots are reserved for root. You can limit this with set

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: > > > Try MS-KERMIT 3.14, you won't believe you're connecting from a DOS > > > machine.. > > > Looks great. Too bad it says: > > > > NOTE: MS-DOS Kermit is not a Winsock client. > > Why would you want to run it as a Windows app? You're using i

Re: creating custom boot disk

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Oops, that CONFIG wasn't complete. Here it is again. Bruce # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # CONFIG

Re: creating custom boot disk

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Dirk Luetjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Look for a file "CONFIG" in /usr/src/linux after you've installed the > I didn't find it. Oops. It's at the end of this message. Copy it to .config and run "make menuconfig", "make xconfig", or "make config". Then change anything you want, or just exit th

install debian with resq1440 and AHA2940

1996-12-05 Thread prinzen
I want to install debian for first time with the disk. But the "fdisk" cannot find my second SCSI-drive, where I want to install debian (the 1st is WinNT). What should I type on "boot:"-prompt? I boot up with 3 hard-disks; a old EIDE (for backup, ...) and the two SCSI-Disks. Can anyone help me?

Re: Swap overdraft ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, Bruce: > No, but if you add some swap space you can test if that's the problem. > If you can find an empty partition, you can set it up with "mkswap" and > "swapon" to be a second swap partition. If that works, you can add it to > /etc/fstab so that it's started automaticaly. for testing or t

[Update] X 3.2 login problem

1996-12-05 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello all, sorry for the previous rushed message. So, the problem is better described as follows: o login from virtual consoles is OK, both local and NIS accounts o login from X11 results in "Login incorrect" both for root (clearly local) and NIS accounts. Passwords ha

Re: Mirroring a private account?

1996-12-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Just to enlighten you: > could anybody please help me with a particular problem. > > I have important data on one machine I have an account on. It's the > complete home directory. To provide better security and to be able to > work from another machine I would like to mirror these data on another

Can't load the nfs module

1996-12-05 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am trying to set up an NFS client in my PC, but when I issue the command "modprobe nfs" I get the following: ~> modprobe nfs nfs_mknod undefined nfs_sillyrename_cleanup undefined nfs_create undefined nfs_mkdir undefined nfs_lookup_cache undefined nfs_rename undefined nfs_lookup undefined

Re: wrong name of kernel-packages?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I have this problem in "frozen" too. The full name of the package is kernel-image-2.0.25, the version is 1.00 . The dselect screen is just wide enogh to show kernel-package without the 2.0.25, although you see the full name in the description. The name is that way so that you can install multiple k

How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

1996-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I am sorry if I ask a couple of dumb questions... 1) When 1.2 is released, will it be named 1.2 or 1.3? I thought odd revision numbers were for stable releases and even ones for development releases (I guess this was a side effect after a wrong version of Debian was put on CD, I think origina

Re: Compiling Perl from Source

1996-12-05 Thread kao
Hi! > Perl ought to compile just fine on Debian, since I use Debian to test the > perl distribution before I release it. (Of course since no two Debian Maybe you can tell me why perl tree has changed from /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.003, to /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307 and also /usr/local/l

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1996-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, > > Wed Aug 21 13:10:46 1996 Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (Debian 1.1.6) > > o Added mount 2.5l-1 > > Fixes major security hole. > > It seems to me that Bernd Eckenfels did not known about the mount security > hole. Sure I did, thats why I told the user to upgrade. I had never a s

Re: A newbie recursion problem...:-))))

1996-12-05 Thread a2863057
ken (k.y.) chan wrote: > > In message "A newbie recursion problem...:-", > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' writes: > > >Hi to all, > > > >well I do not know whether this is a bug or not... > >Suppose a user would create a file with say ten lines, each line > >containig just the word test. Then s/he will

Serious: X 3.2 and YP don't work!

1996-12-05 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello, serious problem: X 3.2 (from unstable) does _not_ work correctly with NIS, I can only log in from text consoles, X will not even allow root login. Also, the keyboard freezes on entering X - I need to connect via the net to kill xdm and regain the keyboard in text mode. Mach

Re: Swap overdraft ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Linux always runs in over commited mode. Pages are only used if a program is > writing to it. And yes, this may crash the System if is trashing cause of > fullswap. From: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This might explain some strange problems I've been having. Is there

Re: creating custom boot disk

1996-12-05 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Bruce Perens writes: > Look for a file "CONFIG" in /usr/src/linux after you've installed the I didn't find it. > kernel-source 2.0.25 package. That's the config that I used to build the > kernel. The biggest change from previous ones is that you must configure > in the initial ram disk driver.

Re: /etc/passwd and /etc/groups not consistent?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
This is fixed in Debian 1.2 . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

status file probs??

1996-12-05 Thread Todd Tyrone Fries
I don't think this is serious, but whenever dselect's helper programs (I use dpkg-ftp) access the list of installed packages, one of the lists is missing something. How do I correct this error: Processing status file... Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install line

Re: Wrong permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm sorry, that was fixed in a later upload that seems to have not made it to your mirror. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: creating custom boot disk

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Look for a file "CONFIG" in /usr/src/linux after you've installed the kernel-source 2.0.25 package. That's the config that I used to build the kernel. The biggest change from previous ones is that you must configure in the initial ram disk driver. You can probably just replace the "linux" file on

Re: Rex install report

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Chow Chi-Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I am offered to install additional drivers (modules), how > may I find out what options does a module take and its syntaxes? > This information would make the loading of modules A LOT easier. > In particular does anyone know how to specify base address

Re: problems with notebook suspend feature

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I think the 2.0.6 kernel that is currently in the archive doesn't have APM. Certainly the 2.0.25 one in "frozen" doesn't have it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

/etc/passwd and /etc/groups not consistent?

1996-12-05 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, I installed yesterday debian1.1 via NFS on a brand new computer. I used dselect and tried now dpkg. I installed also postgres95 with dpkg. This was the only program I installed which said that it would change the /etc/passwd or /etc/group. Now I installed majordomo-1.94 by hand and discovered,

Re: restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Richard . Dansereau
> > > Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, > and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm > positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals > nothing. > > Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot? > > Is ther

Hint / Call to use emacs outline mode

1996-12-05 Thread Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler
When editing many resource files and regarding debian packages files I thought, these lines could be of some help for someone. It is a hint and a call for using the emacs outline mode, which is great in folding any files in pieces of information of the desired level. All sort of files that allo

Re: restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, > and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm > positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals > nothing. You can end the Server by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace. (if you a

Re: Swap overdraft ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, > This might explain some strange problems I've been having. Is there a > way to to turn this off? No. You can only add some swap to your system if you reach the mimit. AFAIK there is somewhere a small 'daemon' which adds swap if needed. Of course the swap needs to be reserved, first. You

restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Gavin Koch
Chris R. Martin writes: > Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot? > > Is there a keystroke to restart xdm (and re-read the XF86Config file) ? Turn off xdm while doing this kind of tweeking, instead use startx to start the server. Once it's working the way you want, reinable xdm.

creating custom boot disk

1996-12-05 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello, is there a way to create a custom boot disk for replacement for the /rex/disk-i386/current/resq1440.bin disk? Is there a list what must be minimal included into the kernel to get the system to boot, e.g. ms-dos support, ... ? Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-05 Thread Brian C. White
> I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change > with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking > for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the > correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-). It's in "contrib".

restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Chris R. Martin
Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals nothing. Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot? Is there a keystroke to rest

Re: Debian vs. floppy install

1996-12-05 Thread Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler
: home PC. Now, with Debian there seems to be no information whatsoever on : how to choose the packages after you install the 4 or 5 base set : floppy disks. I know that if you use other methods like dpkg-ftp (I don't We considered too the floppy emulsion (it's not a solution). But who should m

wrong name of kernel-packages?

1996-12-05 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello, why are some packages named in this way, with the underscore behind the version number, kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb ^ and not in the form kernel-source_2.0.23-0.deb ? This causes dselect to treat this as "available version 0" All the kernel packages are named like this

Re: restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread mike
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, > and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm > positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals > nothing. > > Can I just kill xd

URGENT: tgif_3.0p5-1.deb is buggy

1996-12-05 Thread Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler
Just got a reply from Christian Linhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, that he is too busy at the moment to do any useful for the debian project. Here is my warning about tgif with respect to debian 1.2: : Thanks for maintaining the tgif package for debian. The tgif : version 3.0p5-1 has at least the f

TeX DC fonts not working

1996-12-05 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi all: I installed package mfdcfnt_1.0-1 from non-free, which contains TeX DC fonts (international version of standard TeX fonts). However, when I try to process a document using those fonts I get the following output: This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (programa.tex LaTeX2e <1996/06

Re: I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-05 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Howdy, > > I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change > with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking > for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the > correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-). It'

I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-05 Thread Kevin McEnhill
Howdy, I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-). BTW I'm trying to

apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-05 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hello, when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages. (I use Debian 1.1.4) Look at this: BEGIN pretty good example rudi:~$ apropos -w XDraw* apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> About once every 6-8 weeks my /tmp permissions get set to 755. Does > anyone know what causes this? Happens here all the time. I just before I did "man " and was told (as a user, not root) it couldn't create a temporary file. Permissions, especially on /tmp, seem to be the first thing to suffer

Re: problems with notebook suspend feature

1996-12-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> I don't build the default kernel with APM because it crashes some systems > when I do. You need to build a kernel with APM for notebook suspend to work > correctly. As I recall the boot floppies for 1.1 did have APM, and there were big warnings in the installation guide telling you to turn it of

Re: Rex install report

1996-12-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > Dear Deianers, > > Just intalled rex (files downloaded via dpkg-ftp on the 4th and 5th > Dec from ftp.debian.org). The installation was very smooth and things > are mostly working. I have the following questions however. > > - When I am offered to in

Re: modules 2.0.0-14

1996-12-05 Thread Mark Lowes
The entity claiming to be Chris Fearnley wrote... > 'Bruce Perens wrote:' > >Use "dpkg --force-downgrade package-name.deb", I think. I haven't tried it. > > Use -i instead of --force-downgrade. I wouldn't recommend --force -i worked a dream last night and things a lot more stable now. :) -- Ma

Re: mpeg_play, can't load libXt.so.6

1996-12-05 Thread D M-L
As root add the line "/usr/X11R6/lib" to "/etc/ld.so.conf" then run "ldconfig" > Hi > == > > I am trying to use mpeg_play to visualize some videos (in mpeg > format). > > The installation with dselect (or with dpkg -i) seems OK, no > error messages, but when I try to run mpeg_play t

Debian security list (was Re: security)

1996-12-05 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Eckenfels) writes: > > /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 ... > whats your version of the mount package? Should be fixed long ago... (if it > isnt another bug in mount): > > Wed Aug 21 13:10:46 1996 Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Debian 1.1.6) > o Added mount 2.

Wrong permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp?

1996-12-05 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Dear all, Just installed rex and found that the /tmp and /var/tmp directories do not have write permission for others. Are they supposed to be used by all? -- Billy C.-M. Chow Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with NIS

1996-12-05 Thread Harald Schueler
I don't know, if this is a bug with libc5 or with nis, but I am trying to use nis-2.0-1 from rex to connect to a master server in another subnet. What I do is: ypbind -ypsetme (any other possibility?) ypset master After that, ypcat and friends work ok. I can login fine. But every minute 6

Rex install report

1996-12-05 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Dear Deianers, Just intalled rex (files downloaded via dpkg-ftp on the 4th and 5th Dec from ftp.debian.org). The installation was very smooth and things are mostly working. I have the following questions however. - When I am offered to install additional drivers (modules), how may I find ou

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

1996-12-05 Thread H.J. Lu
> > I guess ld-linux.so is a special case - we can provide it unstripped. > > Thanks > How about this patch? It should make everyone happy. BTW, I am using binutils 2.7.0.3. -- H.J. Lu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Index: linux/ld-so/Config.mk diff -c linux/ld-so/Config.mk:1.1.1.1 linux/ld-s

qmail.deb?

1996-12-05 Thread lars
Is there a qmail deb package anywhere? or should I install the rpm version? Is there a deb? Thanks -lars -- My sig file is only one line long! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restoration of ~ftp

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Re-install the ftpd or wu-ftpd package. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: /debian/buzz/binary-i386/devel Packages

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
The files should return to that directory sometime this evening. We've been having real serious problems with our "master" system that caused the mirrors to remove some files. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6

Re: modules 2.0.0-14

1996-12-05 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Bruce Perens wrote:' > >Use "dpkg --force-downgrade package-name.deb", I think. I haven't tried it. Use -i instead of --force-downgrade. I wouldn't recommend --force anything in general. One of the big wins IMO of dpkg over rpm is that dpkg -i supports downgrading. -- Christopher J. Fearnley

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I uploaded a bad version of base-files. I have fixed it, but if you upgraded using "dselect" you might have had your permissions messed up. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

restoration of ~ftp

1996-12-05 Thread Pete Templin
Hello all. In an attempt to move some things around on my Linux server, I forgot that a reboot clears /tmp, and subsequently erased parts of the ftp home directory which I was shifting from one disk to another. What's the best way for me to restore ~ftp/bin, ~ftp/etc, and ~ftp/lib? For the curi

Re: kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb corrupted?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
There should be a 2.0.25 in "frozen". Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

/debian/buzz/binary-i386/devel Packages

1996-12-05 Thread Jon Ross
Is the /debian/buzz/binary-i386/devel directory supposed to be empty? Does anyone have copies of the files that were there. I tried to upgrade to Debian 1.2, but it breaks a few things I don't have time to fix. Thanks Jon Ross

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes. I fixed this in a later version of the boot-floppies package. Sorry! Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- This message was delayed because the list mail deli

Re: problems with notebook suspend feature

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I don't build the default kernel with APM because it crashes some systems when I do. You need to build a kernel with APM for notebook suspend to work correctly. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88

Re: Is it ok to install from frozen?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I've been installing from frozen on ftp.debian.org, and nothing has broken yet, but I have not yet had a chance to test X. There are unsatisfied dependencies on 3 non-essential X accessory packages that I have yet to fix. Otherwise, it's "safe". Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: xbase install fails - where is xlib6?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I think this is because the Packages file is not updated on your FTP mirror. This would be fixed, but the Internic and UUNET gave our master system's IP number to someone else two days ago, and thus the mirror can't get to the master system. The operators of the master system have renumbered their

Re: Configuring Network Card problem (More info)

1996-12-05 Thread Lindsay Allen
All this looks fine to me but for one thing. Your output from ifconfig shows:- > eth0 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr ^^^ > inet addr:143.122.16.109 Bcast:143.122.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > BROADCAST RUNNI

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.J. Lu) > How do you debug a stripped binary? Unless I am wrong, if you want > to debug ld-linux.so.1, you have to compile it with -g and don't strip > it. It doesn't cost much in disk space. I think he was making the point that the .dynsym section is present in "strippe

kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb corrupted?

1996-12-05 Thread Bill Wohler
It seems that Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/base/kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb was copied without errors, but was corrupted. Have others been successful? The same thing happened when I first tried a week ago. Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to bina

Re: start-stop-daemon busted

1996-12-05 Thread edwalter
On 4 Dec 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ME? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My whole mail setup is fscked, again, but this time I think it's > >not sendmails fault. > >When my machine boots, when the init scripts run, i get lots of error > >messages, and when

Re: Mirroring a private account?

1996-12-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Martin Schulze wrote: > Good morning folks, > > could anybody please help me with a particular problem. > > I have important data on one machine I have an account on. It's the > complete home directory. To provide better security and to be able to > work from another machine

Re: mpeg_play, can't load libXt.so.6

1996-12-05 Thread Shaya Potter
you probably need to install the xcompat package Shaya -- -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.

Re: Given up on word viewer..

1996-12-05 Thread Brian C. White
> Thanks all for suggestions on trying to get the MS Word Viewer to run > under wine. I've finally given up! :( > WINE segfaults under wordview.exe now. (At least it starts to execute it.. > before I got the share errors)... Wine is still very-alpha. In addition, if you installed the wine packa

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Note that I am stripping all executables on the base floppies (to get them to fit). This means if ld-linux.so has to be unstripped, simply changing the package won't be enough. You have to tell me to fix it in the install floppy set. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROT

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

1996-12-05 Thread David Engel
H.J. Lu writes: > > Douglas Bates writes: > > > I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb > > > I get the warnings > > > warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. > > > warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers > > > warning: a

Re: Swap overdraft ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
From: H C Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there a way to make Linux run programme which requires more virtual > memory than the system can provide through real memory and swap ?? I wasn't aware that Linux _needed_ this facility. The OS has a choice of mapping your pages when you ask for them, or mapp

NFS ?

1996-12-05 Thread wb2oyc
(Sorry for the formatted message the first time) Hi Deb'lers! I'm having a really confusing problem with NFS. Running Debian 1.1 here. The problem is in mounting filesystems on our Vax, which is running TGV's Multinet. The problem appears to be related to the uid/gid passed to the server fro

Re: /etc/hosts and BIND autoconversion

1996-12-05 Thread Lindsay Allen
The O'Reilly book mentions h2n, which might be what you are after. Email me if you would like a copy (an old one.) On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > > > A while back I saw mentioned in a message about some utility that would > > read the '/etc/hosts' fil

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Lindsay Allen
About once every 6-8 weeks my /tmp permissions get set to 755. Does anyone know what causes this? On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Spineux Alain wrote: > > A user can't run "man ls" > > to correct this, I did "chmod a+w /tmp" > > > -- > > Spineux Alain > > =

Re: Netscape - bus error

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Do you really have to replace the _entire_ libc, or can you just do LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5 ? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: start-stop-daemon busted

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Are you perchance running a 2.1 kernel? There was an exec bug that would break interpreter scripts. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Given up on word viewer..

1996-12-05 Thread Daniel Stringfield
Thanks all for suggestions on trying to get the MS Word Viewer to run under wine. I've finally given up! :( WINE segfaults under wordview.exe now. (At least it starts to execute it.. before I got the share errors)... -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL