Bo has been Frozen -- Beta Test

1997-04-05 Thread Brian C. White
I'm not sure if this was announced before, so... * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bo has now been officially frozen! If you'd like to start upgrading to the packages in that distribution, please do. We can use all the testing we can get. People who

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread Jim
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, David/Bill Benjamin wrote: > Today, I upgraded MC to version 3.5.17 from the unstable tree, and so > far, I have been unable to get the new version to run. Could it be trying to use your old .mc.ini files? It acted very strangely here until I deleted them and created new one

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread Dima
I can't help you with the *.deb package nor 3.5.17, but I've used 3.5.18 for some time without any problems -- compiled from upstream sources and installed in /usr/local. It creates mc.hot, mc.hot.bak and mc.ini in my ~ -- no "10". FWIW I just finished compiling 3.5.22. -- Dimitri (emaziuk at

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread Paul Wade
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, David/Bill Benjamin wrote: > Today, I upgraded MC to version 3.5.17 from the unstable tree, and so > far, I have been unable to get the new version to run. It prints two blank > lines and then hangs, and I have to kill it from another terminal to get > my prompt back. I have tr

Re: Postgres95 - missing library

1997-04-05 Thread softcorp
Sorry, but I didn't found the POSTGRES95 package in the unstable tree - do you know where it hides ? --- On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:22:20 +0100 Oliver Elphick wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > >Hi there, > > > >I've recently downloaded the latest stable POSTGRES95 package and i

Re: xdm?

1997-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris writes: > When ever I boot up linux xdm starts before i log in. After login i try to > run xwindows but it tells me > that it is already running. Can someone tell me which file loads the xdm > and how do i disable it? Try the following dpkg --configure xbase This might let you re-config

MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread David/Bill Benjamin
Today, I upgraded MC to version 3.5.17 from the unstable tree, and so far, I have been unable to get the new version to run. It prints two blank lines and then hangs, and I have to kill it from another terminal to get my prompt back. I have tried using different terminal definitions, turning off mo

xdm?

1997-04-05 Thread Chris
Hello, When ever I boot up linux xdm starts before i log in. After login i try to run xwindows but it tells me that it is already running. Can someone tell me which file loads the xdm and how do i disable it? I have tried the SVGA and VGA servers but i get the same results. I just installed th

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Ken Gaugler writes: > > > For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd > > > file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting > > > syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message > > > "-n unknown option" and it still doesn't start. > > > > becaus

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Christian Meder
On Apr 5, Rick Macdonald wrote > On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Here's mine. I didn't change mine either! > > > > > > case "$1" in > > start) > > echo -n "Starting system log daemon: syslogd" > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- $SYSLOGD > > S

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Ken Gaugler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd > > file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting > > syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message > > "-n unknown option" and it still doesn't start. > > because

Re: ppp loopback

1997-04-05 Thread mfrattola
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [snip] > > > But .. it doesn't start ip-up properly, since > > ip-up does the following: > > [snip] > > > and I get messages from the echo lines, but I don't get any mail > > popped or sent. Strange is, if I run ip-up by hand, it behaves > > properly. > > Do

Re: Safer package installation

1997-04-05 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > ... > If we use the "/usr/packages/*" method, though, we can separate >installation into two steps. The maintainer supplies normal install >scripts that handles everything under "/usr/packages//". >It runs as, say, user "tool", group "bin". After that's f

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Here's mine. I didn't change mine either! > > > case "$1" in > start) > echo -n "Starting system log daemon: syslogd" > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- $SYSLOGD Speaking of syslogd, when I boot the machine it hangs

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd > file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting > syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message > "-n unknown option" and it still doesn't start. > Here are

syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Ken Gaugler
For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message "-n unknown option" and it still doesn't start. I can start it manually just fine, but that is a pain. I d

Re: lilo.conf--vga=ask doesn't; APM

1997-04-05 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This may be a stupid question, but, are you typing make *config in the "/usr/src/linux" directory? It doesn't work in any other directory. If you are then you should replace your kernel source files because somthin aint right. On 05-Apr-97 Nikolaj Richers wrot

Re: lilo.conf--vga=ask doesn't; APM

1997-04-05 Thread Nikolaj Richers
Hello Douglas and Carey, On 03-Apr-97, Douglas L Stewart wrote >On 4 Apr 1997, Carey Evans wrote: >> APM support can be in a 2.0.27 kernel if it's compiled in. >> Recompiling your kernel isn't too bad, if you make sure you have all >> the information about all your hardware and use "make menuconf

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Re: ppp loopback

1997-04-05 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > But .. it doesn't start ip-up properly, since > ip-up does the following: [snip] > # routing > route del default > route add default dev ppp0 > > # send mail > echo 'doing putmail' > /dev/console > $EXECDIR/putmail > > # get mail > echo 'doing getmail' > /d

inetd dying

1997-04-05 Thread ljk
Hello, Recently my inetd daemon has been dying leaving no traces. Any ideas on this ? Thanks much, Lennard

Re: Sox - no more play?

1997-04-05 Thread Clint Adams
> The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works. > So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing > them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-) You could do something like this: sox -t au sound.au -t sbdsp /dev/dsp

Re: Sox - no more play?

1997-04-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jim wrote: > > The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works. > So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing > them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-) Try catting to /dev/audio, it does the ulaw decoding by default. Jason

Boot problem

1997-04-05 Thread Daniel Karlsson
Hello! Now, I wanted to boot my machine in Linux. There's been no problem with that until now. All that comes up is: "LIL-" And then there's no response. I haven't explicitly changed anything with the boot mechanism. The only thing I have done is installing ssh (Secure shell). I've got another