Re: mirror

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
hi timothy, you might want to try ncftp, this is a nice program. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle to learn how to setup my Debian/Linux to > connect to an ISP. I'd like to know if there any doc. for > (privately) mirroring the debian distribution. >

Xemacs?

1997-06-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

mirror

1997-06-02 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'm in the middle to learn how to setup my Debian/Linux to connect to an ISP. I'd like to know if there any doc. for (privately) mirroring the debian distribution. Many thanks in advance! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --

Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3

1997-06-02 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
Can someone enlighten me on two problems?  I can't  seem to solve them with the available documentation 1) Irqtune was working for me under v.1.2, but though my configured hardware is the same I now get an error message.  Here is the message at boot time: "  irqtune: setting system IRQ priority

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Good morning, > > I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times > to snag interesting or "oops, needed that" packages since. I've > found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many > packa

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Curt Howland
I don't disagree with you at all. However, case in point: *** Perl 5.x shows up in the dselect list. Perl 5.xxx is then downloaded and installed. Again. What might I have misconfigured? Curt- In reply to 2 Jun message from Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I don't think you have somethin

Re: ISP connect doc.

1997-06-02 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 2 Jun, Kevin Traas wrote: >> Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection >> for Debian/Linux? Thanks! > > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/ISP-Hookup-HOWTO.html > >> What are the software packages required for ISP connection setup? > > netstd and ppp for starter

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Hilman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0" > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background > Probably running on an 8-bit display. Netscape trys to get lots of colors and quickly runs out with only 8-bit display. Try

Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
A Debian 1.3 pre-release user at Pixar gets this complaint when running Netscape. I think he gets the same complaint when running remote stuff with Debian doing the display. This is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, I think. > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0" > Warning: Cannot alloca

Re: sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread Mark Boyns
2 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring > /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in > /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register > changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert th

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't think you have something set up quite right (or possibly you are not correctly interpreting what you see.) Those packages which are already installed will show up in the "uptodate" categories with the mark ***. Those which you do not have installed show up as "available" with the mark __

Re: sparc port

1997-06-02 Thread Eric Delaunay
stephen farrell wrote: > > What's the status on the sparc port of debian? Is there a > mostly-stable-but-not-yet-released version? I'd hate to have to go > back to redhat for that... > > --sf Not really :-( Only few packages are available, most of them to help in port (developers packages like

sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread pete
I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert the .mc to .cf). Any pointers would be much app

Netscape problem

1997-06-02 Thread David B. Teague
Hi I'm running a 486-dx2/66, 16 MB RAM, VL Bus, 2840 SCSI disks, with Debian 1.1 I had a problem getting X up. I finally edited /etc/X11/XF86Config directly, following an example I found posted. With X runnign, I down loaded netscape, netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz,

Is the libXt security hole fixed in Debian 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Farzad FARID
Is the XFree86 3.2 provided with the soon to be released Debian 1.3 free from the recently announced security hole? -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau SGIP - Publicis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Good morning, > > I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times > to snag interesting or "oops, needed that" packages since. I've > found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many >

Re: ISP connect doc.

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
> Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection > for Debian/Linux? Thanks! http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/ISP-Hookup-HOWTO.html > What are the software packages required for ISP connection setup? netstd and ppp for starters. Others might include diald, ircii, lynx

diald problem

1997-06-02 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
Howdy, On my system at fairly regular intervals (every couple of days) diald dies without reason. When that happens the routing table shows no sign of sl0. The pid file is left in place (which suggests that diald didn't exit cleanly). No traces are left in any of the logs. Has anybody else expe

DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or "oops, needed that" packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently install

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
thanks jens, is there a way so i don't have to type the command all the time? thanks again. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Paul McDermott wrote: > > > > Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few > > weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tom Lees wrote: > Ooops, that should be . Does that work? > Or file="blah" (not sure if virtual is a 1.2 extension). Otherwise, try > adding XBitHack Full to .htaccess, and chmod +x the .html files. > > > It's still showing the #includes as comments. Any ideas? > > > > http

Re: 1.2 to 1.3 Upgrade - was Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
> > I'm extremely happy with the way Debian 1.3, it's a huge improvement > > over 1.2. I'm sure you'll like it too. :-) > > Is there a list of "improvements" / changes between 1.2.x and 1.3 > available? I'm not really aware of a list. Each package gets updated on an individual basis, so you c

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > > As you were doing it. Or, use a CGI, and point it at a "target" frame :) > > > > PS. the perl script you had there can be done without using perl: > > instead. Blah can . ^^^ Ooops, that should be . Does that work? Or file="blah" (n

DDD problems

1997-06-02 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Maybe someone can help me with a few problems I'm having with DDD. During start-up I get a whole bunch of the following: - Warning: Name: gdb_w Class: XmText FontTextWidth: no source At certian times (or mouse clicks) in the progra

1.2 to 1.3 Upgrade - was Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
> I'm extremely happy with the way Debian 1.3, it's a huge improvement > over 1.2. I'm sure you'll like it too. :-) Is there a list of "improvements" / changes between 1.2.x and 1.3 available? Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
> > To all the kind folks > > who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality > > product, thank you. I *must* agree. A year ago, I gave up trying to get a SCO Unix box (3.2v4.2) running all the Internet services I wanted. Every single service I wanted to get running was a complete P

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread M BAILEY
Before you "SU" to root type 'xhost +' this will disable X windows access control. Remember X windows is a network program and has to authorize every user before it will let you run an application. By the way xhost + is also not the most secure way of handling this problem. Do a 'man xhost' an

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few > weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error > message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. > This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I

vim in a xterm, del key doesn't work.

1997-06-02 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
I'm running a 99% Debian 1.3 system. Using vim in an xterm window, the del key doesn't work (it just beeps). However using vim on a console tty, the del key works as expected. How can I get the del key to work using an xterm?? I have vim 4.6-1 installed. Thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Roberto, I did use su. I can't run any x programs as su, only as user paul. Any other ideas. On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Roberto Magana wrote: > Use su - > > % > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. >

Re: BIND 8.1??

1997-06-02 Thread Raja R Harinath
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 14 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: >> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: >>> I undestand that there is a BIND 8.1 now. Why are we at 4.9.5 and >>> there's an 8.1 out? >>> >>> Does naybody know? >> >> Maybe because the maintainer of the pack

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tom Lees wrote: > > Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side > > inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers > > on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it, > > having stolen lots of bits and

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Roberto Magana
Use su - % <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. (The Physics Dept. University of Costa Rica.) % -- TO U

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > Hello, > > Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side > inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers > on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it, > having stolen lots o

SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I have check xclocks permissi

Re: CAD package for Debian?

1997-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > Are there any CAD packages similar to AutoCad for Debian/Linux? > Please let me know. > Thanks in advance. Bentley has a student version of MicroStation for Linux. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
sorry lamar, look in the file Xservers in /etc/X11/xdm that is where you change it. sorry for the miss information. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Problems with X, reprise

1997-06-02 Thread Lamar Folsom
Hi again, y'all. Though Paul's suggestion didn't solve my problem, it _did_ remind me that /etc/X11/Xserver should be pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead of XF86_W32. After I made this change, I now get a different response from the X server: (crystalcave:merlin)~$ startx Unable to load interp

Re: How to upgrade to 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I get my internet access through a freenet which doesn't provide any SLIP/PPP > services. This means that I have to use minicom to download packages; > Also, there's a 45 minute time limit and I only have a 14.4 modem. Do you have a CD drive? Your best bet

Re: Laser printer

1997-06-02 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Well, for a complete discution you could switch to comp.os.linux.hardware I bought a hp 5L recently and it's cool. Any HP (or other) which understand PCL and has, say, at least 1Mb memory should do it. I suppose the Postscript ones are too expensive for you. The GDI (=windows) printers won't wo

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Lamar Folsom
> hi Lamar, I had something similar happen to me. The problem is in your > /etc/X11/Xserver file the last line should contain the following: > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > The reason why you are not getting anything on tty7 is that you are not > starting your xserver. I hope this helps. Just fo

ISP connect doc.

1997-06-02 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection for Debian/Linux? Thanks! What are the software packages required for ISP connection setup? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: How to upgrade to 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > I get my internet access through a freenet which doesn't provide any SLIP/PPP > services. This means that I have to use minicom to download packages; Is it > possible to upgrade to Debian 1.3 using this method? Also, there's a 45 > minute time limit and I only have a 14.4 modem. This means

Laser printer

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi folks. Could anyone tell me which one of the currently available laser printers would be linux-compatible (the correct formulation would probably be gs - compatible?). I am interesting in B/W and on the lower price side. I am very confused with those "Windows compatible" slogans in advertisment

How to upgrade to 1.3?

1997-06-02 Thread Adam Klein
I get my internet access through a freenet which doesn't provide any SLIP/PPP services. This means that I have to use minicom to download packages; Is it possible to upgrade to Debian 1.3 using this method? Also, there's a 45 minute time limit and I only have a 14.4 modem. This means that it's

sparc port

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
What's the status on the sparc port of debian? Is there a mostly-stable-but-not-yet-released version? I'd hate to have to go back to redhat for that... --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
hi Lamar, I had something similar happen to me. The problem is in your /etc/X11/Xserver file the last line should contain the following: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X The reason why you are not getting anything on tty7 is that you are not starting your xserver. I hope this helps. Just for grins do

Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Lamar Folsom
Howdy, y'all. Before I explain the problem, let me provide a little background. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my system from 1.2 to 1.3. Rather than just switching to the frozen directory and upgrading packages, I did a full install to see if I could help test the new distribution.

Re: problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread Magic
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > On Jun 2, Magic wrote > > I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... > > I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... > Are your running in 8bpp mode (256 colours) perhaps? Hehhh... I forgot... It was in 16bpp [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: postgres can't find libbsd.so.1.0.0 - where / how

1997-06-02 Thread sasharma
OK, I went and searched each of the archives for the last 9 months, starting last Nov. and in the May (april? - near the end of the search, anyway - natch)archives I found the answer, I need to download 6.0 from the postgres site and compile. Is there a cleaner way? should I place the entire b

Re: problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 2, Magic wrote > I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... > I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... Are your running in 8bpp mode (256 colours) perhaps? >From /usr/doc/afterstep/FAQ.gz: 3.3. Icons disappear from Wharf. What's wrong? You are most li

Weird Pine/Slang/Terminal interaction?

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
Here's the scenario ... I'm forced to use Win95 by my employer. To get to my Linux boxes I use either CRT, a shareware telnet client which I really like, and F-Secure's SSH, which I also like. About the time I upgraded to 1.3, I noticed that after running Pine (in other words, not until I got to

Possible bug in libc6...

1997-06-02 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. I recently upgraded to libc6 (dev,dbg, pic, etc) using the package from the "hamm" directory. (I realize this is VERY unstable stuff - I'm just glutton for punishment :-) Everything appears to be working well, although I have hit two minor snags. The first is that the new version of "am

Re: alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-06-02 Thread Brian White
> > If only bug fixes could be allowed in, this would be a good idea. > > Unfortunately, this isn't a practical possibility. Every time a new > > package is uploaded to fix a bug, there is the possibility of introducing > > new bugs either in the "patch" code, other code that got added for some >

problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread Magic
Hi! I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... Part of .steprc --- # Paths... IconPath /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/ PixmapPath /usr/X11R6/includ

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on the client machine: ~> ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash ~> su rover su: user rover does not exist However, t

Re: Leafnode permissions

1997-06-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: > I`m using leafnode from 1.2.8 Iconnect CD. A damn good prog for dial-up > stuff and much easier to use than the heavier cnews and INN. comes from the permissions. I want to be able to "fetch" news using > my personal account "oz" but no matter how I setui

Re: Help: Problem in setting up network

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to connect my compute to a LAN in the lab. > The network card (NE2000 IRQ 03 0x300) works fine and is detecked by the > kernel. After setting up all the stuff (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, > /etc/sysconf/network, ...), it still cann't reco

Leafnode permissions

1997-06-02 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi, I`m using leafnode from 1.2.8 Iconnect CD. A damn good prog for dial-up stuff and much easier to use than the heavier cnews and INN.

Re: What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Matt Bartley wrote: > The xoj package also no longer exists in bo/binary/games, though the > Contents file for bo still shows it. There is a version of xoj in > unstable/binary/games/xoj_1.01-2.deb, but it depends on libc6 so it > can only be used on an hamm system. Why did t

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, System Account (what a cute name!:) wrote: > Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try > the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to > use Bo or Frozen??? Frozen, I think. BTW I always use unstable for this purpose. >

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 01, 1997 at 10:56:02PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? > > You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. > If you are running xdm, you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/X

Re: keymapping, consolefont and mc

1997-06-02 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Markus Schneider wrote: > > > I am also using bash-2.0, kbd-0.94 and de-latin1.map. I didn't set a > > > special font. The only thing I had to do for mc to display german > > > umlauts was to selecet "Full 8 bits" in the options menu under "Display > > > bits...". If this doesn't do what You want

Re: What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread joost witteveen
don't know about seyon, but > The xoj package also no longer exists in bo/binary/games, though the > Contents file for bo still shows it. There is a version of xoj in > unstable/binary/games/xoj_1.01-2.deb, but it depends on libc6 so it > can only be used on an hamm system. Why did the libc5 depe

Re: Networking Win95, Debian Linux and Cable Modem

1997-06-02 Thread Paul Wade
1) If you don't have the IP masquerading howto, I mirror the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.wtop.com/LDP/ 2) I use the following setup to get around the above: a) I run apache on the Linux box that is connected to the Internet with cached proxy service enabled. This allows the other m

OMT and interaction diagrams with debian

1997-06-02 Thread Markus Diesmann
Hi, I need to construct OMT and interaction diagrams. Does anybody know of a tool available under debian for doing this? Maybe a simple flow chart software combined with a class browser, which allows me to save the class tree in an editable format is currently good enough for me. Thanks, Markus

CAD package for Debian?

1997-06-02 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
Are there any CAD packages similar to AutoCad for Debian/Linux? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-06-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Rich Morin > > Personally to read .pdf files from the screen I really like the acroread > package. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to print, but gv worked like a > charm. I can't say exactly why, but the fonts are much cleaner, and > readable in acroread, for me anyways. Just a wild guess: ha

Re: shadow-login -> shadow: how?

1997-06-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 1, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote >I installed the shadow stuff from experimental a while back, and now I'd >like to move to the newer shadow suite with 1.3. When I `dpkg -i` it >though, `dpkg` tells me that shadow-login is essential, and won't let the >upgrade happen. I had this to, but I don't r

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-02 Thread Pawel Wiecek
On May 29, 3:26pm, Pete Templin wrote: > > Hello, > > Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side > inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers > on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it, > having stolen lots

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 1 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? > > You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. Actually, this is what I tried originally and it doesn't work. > If you are r

What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread Matt Bartley
Because I keep a (very) partial mirror of Debian on a machine at work (which is not Net connected), particularly the Packages files, I track changes to the Packages files closely. Recently I've noticed at least 2 packages have disappeared from the pre-hamm distribution. They've stayed that way fo

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. If you are running xdm, you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add -bpp 16 to the command line. If you are using startx or x

"undefined reference" errors when compiling tcl-7.6p2

1997-06-02 Thread Jonathan Hankins
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but I have been fooling with it for several days and can't seem to work it out. I have checked all the applicable entries in the bug archives, and RTFM'd where appropriate. For some reason, the references to the "inet_ntoa" and 'inet_addr" get "__" append

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try > the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to > use Bo or Frozen??? frozen is actually a symlink currently pointing to bo/ In a couple of days a symlynk "stable" will point to the same directory

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread System Account
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > Just set dselect to point at: frozen non-free contrib Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to use Bo or Frozen??? Also i am going to setup a mirro

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > :> Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > :> Now it's not ... I see that it's in uns

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:14 PM 1/06/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >It works here. > >I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? I think he's right Jim - I did a fresh install, made sure I was using the latest versions of libc and the like and I can't setup a _slave NIS server_. I can howev

Re: Debian FTP Installation through Internet (fwd)

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
I think he needs to load the serial driver. This was a problem in some 1.2 systems. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 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

Re: ATI video card

1997-06-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
On Sat, 31 May 1997, John Maheu wrote: > > I recently upgraded my video card to a ATI 3D Xpression (PCI MACH64 GT) > > On bootup I notice: > > May 30 20:05:23 macrae1 kernel: Probing PCI hardware. > May 30 20:05:23 macrae1 kernel: Warning : Unknown PCI device (1002:4754). > Please read include/

Re: Help setting up a daemon

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: >I've been using fetchpop to grab my mail from my ISP. I recently got > diald up and working and now I want to run fetchpop as a daemon process. > I've set up a script (using apmd as a guide) in /etc/init.d called > fetchpop and it contains the follow

Re: Debian FTP Installation through Internet (fwd)

1997-06-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Support is normally a module. The module must be loaded to work. > Can somebody help this guy. Problem is that pppd tells him that > kernel lacks PPP support - I told him that he should recompile the > kernel but seems like it didn't work. I think I r

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : :> Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. :> Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big :> deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around wi

Re: Why not swap to files?

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
It's my understanding that the overhead of the filesystem (ext2, or whatever you have) as opposed to writing to a "raw" partition, is the advantage of dedicating a partition for swap. I usually just find a smaller drive that's laying around not doing anything and make it the swap drive ... this ma

Re: gethostby* different in libc6

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Carey Evans wrote > > I would prefer not to be told that www.debian.org, for example, is > authoritatively known not to exist, especially if there was just a > temporary problem with the name servers. Should I report this as a > bug against libc6? Looks like a bug to me. Better to repo

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Perhaps I didn't set up shadow stuff correctly? I kind of stumbled > upon it: I noticed references to it, and I typed pwconv (which I > recognized from my solaris systems) and things seemed to work pretty > happily (except xlock), so I figured that this was it.

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
> Does anybody have a NIS installation running ok with Debian 1.3? I would > appreciate if any one can help me figure out what's going on. It works here. I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? Cheers, - Jim pgp6heaSQqBd4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
> >--n2rw/3z4jIqBvZU5 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote >> >> Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm >> missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow >> passwords? > >Are you sure you're running the

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm > missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow > passwords? Are you sure you're running the latest version from frozen? (i.e. 4.02-1) It's got not problem with my shado