Re: upgrade path

1997-08-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > P.S. One reason to have 1.1 is because the base disk will work on the > > thinkpads that reject the 1.2 and 1.3. I think this could be fixed if we > > released a rescue disk that doesn't need to be a bzima

Re: Weird network problem

1997-08-25 Thread Bruce Perens
From: The Gardyan of Greyskull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I can connect to FTP servers but I can't "get", "dir" or "ls", although I > can "cd". > I also just noticed that I cannot receive e-mail from any outside account, > although I can receive e-mail from an account inside prognet.com (my > domain) P

Weird network problem

1997-08-25 Thread The Gardyan of Greyskull
I have a very weird problem. I can connect to FTP servers but I can't "get", "dir" or "ls", although I can "cd". I also just noticed that I cannot receive e-mail from any outside account, although I can receive e-mail from an account inside prognet.com (my domain) Any ideas what could be going o

Re: diald and ethernet

1997-08-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > I'm back at school for the fall now, and I'm back to having a full-time > 10-Base-T connection. I'd like my machine to use this as a default > instead of the diald/ppp link I used all summer from home. The problem is > that our campus ethernet is somet

Re: [Performance] 386vs486 compilation

1997-08-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs > > native code? > > I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions. > Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 4

Re: error message:shel-init: cannot get working directory

1997-08-25 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:00:48 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > shel-init: cannot get working directory : getcwd: cannot access parent > directories > > This is only with user accounts. Root doesn't do this. Check that all directories above your home directories are rwxr-xr-x. Phil. -- TO UNSU

Re: Bash upgrade,Netscape helpers...

1997-08-25 Thread Brian K Servis
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > >Damir J. Naden wrote: >> >> Hi, everyone -- >> >> I was following the thread that was going on for a while here regarding >> the bug in bash 2.0 that is holding us back in using some Netscape >> helpers. I must admit that I missed the final point: what is the best >>

Re: Debian developer How to....

1997-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi Kevin! > I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as > I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) > how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs > that I would like to see .deb's made of . I'm happy to

Re: Debian developer How to....

1997-08-25 Thread Jim Pick
> Hi, > > I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as > I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) > how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs > that I would like to see .deb's made of . > > Thanks...

Problems with bash 2.01

1997-08-25 Thread Travis Cole
I recently downloaded the source for bash2.01 from sunsite and compiled it my self. I copied the bash executable to /bin, being sure to backup the old executable. Now most things seem to work fine. I had read the reason helper apps don't work with Netscape was a bug in bash 2.0. I can now call

Re: How to setup symbolic links in a package?

1997-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Peter Weiss writes: > probably this belongs to debian devel: > > Making some experiences in generating my own .deb files I run in the > following problem: > > How do I set up an absolut symbolic link during the package generation? > > What I'd like to have is something simi

Re: Modem Test?

1997-08-25 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi, For the starters you could try /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/tty0. If /dev/ttyS0 doesn't work try ttyS1-ttyS3. The /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 are the com devices in Linux. For testing you could try minicom (comm/minicom_1.75-2.deb in stable) and issue some AT commands (ATI4 might output so

Re: Modem Test?

1997-08-25 Thread Jim Pick
> Hi > > I've been trying to connect through my schools dial up system for sometime > now with no luck. I'm starting to think that my modem is not configured > correctly. I think that my modem is on /dev/tty0. I deleted the device > /dev/modem that present initially and made a new symbolic fro

Magic filter setup....

1997-08-25 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I as per a responce to my last question I installed magicfilter to allow StarOffice to print on my arcayic(SP) Epson Lx-80 ... I also installed and setup lprng since the documention refered to it often... Now my question arises in that when I try to print something on the command line #/root

Debian developer How to....

1997-08-25 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs that I would like to see .deb's made of . Thanks... -Kevin, kc5vxy

Re: Modem Test?

1997-08-25 Thread Shaleh
Have you tried something like minicom. It just dials your modem but is nice for doing some diagnostics. You can tell it to use either /dev/tty?? or /dev/modem. You could also tell your ppp dialer to use a tty instead of modem. /dev/modem is just a convenience -- not a requirement. -- TO UNSUB

Modem Test?

1997-08-25 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I've been trying to connect through my schools dial up system for sometime now with no luck. I'm starting to think that my modem is not configured correctly. I think that my modem is on /dev/tty0. I deleted the device /dev/modem that present initially and made a new symbolic from /dev/tty0 t

list mail snafu-ed

1997-08-25 Thread Bruce Perens
Some list mail and other debian mail will have its delivery delayed. The mail delivery agent was accidentaly replaced on our main system and now I have an smail queue of this morning's messages. Smail proved it was not as fast as qmail. I'll get that queue delivered later today, meanwhile I have sw

Re: Proposal: User list forking.

1997-08-25 Thread Jorge JUAN-CHICO
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hello fellow Debian users. > > I propose that we fork the debian-user list such that there are one or two > lists whose content is limited to technical questions and answers. If we > had a debian-help list, we could have a rule to keep political/policy > discussions

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Bruce Perens
Oops, maybe bootpd is a different protocol from rpc.bootparamd. There's a Contents and Contents.gz file in the distribution that provides a mapping from file names to the package containing them. This supplements the Packages file. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when yo

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Bruce Perens
I think it's called "bootpd", and it _is_ in netstd by that name. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, write > s: > >Howdy! > > > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and it looks like I'm only missing > > one package to make this installation complete. I need to find > > rpc.bootparamd. I've attemp

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, write s: >Howdy! > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and it looks like I'm only missing > one package to make this installation complete. I need to find > rpc.bootparamd. I've attempted to look through the various pkgs > available in st