Re: Debian 2.0 & Cheaper Bytes again

1998-09-28 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
ing stuff of the extra CDs. : : Another option might be the "dpkg-multicd" method written by Heiko : Schlittermann; it's available from : ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/ : : Unfortunately, the .deb doesn't have a copyright file, and the source for : 0.5 (the 0.7 s

Re: [off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2

1998-07-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
2 came out : BM> when the name is 2.0-beta-1998-7-9. Our unofficial images and sold CDROMS are named similar to ``2.0 beta [98-07-10]''. This is the cleanest solution. IMHO Heiko Schlittermann ------- datom * i

Debian GNU/Linux and e-Commerce ??

1998-06-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Heiko --- datom * internet * support ** Heiko Schlittermann & Partner GbR mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datom.de/is voice:+49-351-8029981 Heiko Schlittermann HS12-RIPE finger:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

netscape -- hamm ---- shared libs?

1998-03-27 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
bug or feature or to late for today? eremit:~ $ ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape libXt.so.6 => not found libSM.so.6 => not found libICE.so.6 => not found libXmu.so.6 => not found libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x4000b000) libXext.so

gated debianized (again?) ;-)

1997-09-08 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
... completly ignoring the 50MB discussion about the gated licence I've debianized the current (?) 3.5.7 gated. If somebody wants to share the ./debian files (plug an play ;-), please mail me. (Though, I've not tested the gated yet. ... perhaps tomorrow) Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: weird routing problems.

1997-06-25 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 24, Shaya Potter wrote : : I somehow did something that affects route. I have the simple settings : that the debian installer automatically sets up in my /etc/init.d/network : file. : : This ifconfig's the eth0 interface appropriatly, set's up the network, but : when it tries to set the d

Re: CDROM with DOSish hidden files? SOLUTION (?)

1997-06-23 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 22, Heiko Schlittermann wrote : Hi out there, : : I'd like to copy (for private use, of course) a CDROM. This CDROM : is usable under DOS/Windows and contains files with the DOSish : hidden/system attribute. Mounting this CDROM on Linux works, but : these hidden files are r

CDROM with DOSish hidden files?

1997-06-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi out there, sure, not very Debian specific, but this is the list I expect the fastest answer from I'd like to copy (for private use, of course) a CDROM. This CDROM is usable under DOS/Windows and contains files with the DOSish hidden/system attribute. Mounting this CDROM on Linux works,

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-17 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 17, Hubert Palme wrote : Heiko Schlittermann: : > Reads as an DNS problem. Try to turn on more debugging in smail : > (-v1000 or somewhat similar, see the manpage ...). This way you should : > be able to find what actually is the BIND failure. No MX (but that : > sh

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 13, Robert D. Hilliard wrote : I posted this on June 10, but have not had any response, so I'm : trying again. My ISP says "we do not offer support for linux mail". : I hope someone can give me a clue. I'm getting tired of going into ... probably the wrong ISP. (But not the help

Re: xforms, offix: what are they?

1997-06-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 11, Randy Edwards wrote :I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete. : They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and : whether it's safe to remove them? :I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also : rep

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > ... but what about sending messages from a disconneted site to the world? : : Do what all us poor smucks who have only part-time dial-up connections do: : configure smail with smart_host= and queue_only, and : run smail -q from ip-up. IMHO the very best solu

Re: Setting up UUCP over TCP

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 11, Chris Brown wrote : : When setting up Taylor uucp over tcp it looks to me that the : only configuration files that are needed are. : : 1. config: : : hostname foo : : 2. sys: : : system foo2 : address foo2.bar.com : timeAny : porttcp-conn :

Re: Network setup question again

1997-06-06 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > ps. Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke : > around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how : > that meshes with what's supposed to be going on. : > : Thanks for the suggest

XFORMS0.8{1,6}

1997-05-15 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi out there, since it seems to be impossible to do a successfull upload to master (my ISDN connection was up from 6.00am until about 5.00pm, and almost nothing went through -- and here in Germany we have horribly fees, even for local area and city calls!) --- I finally use the queued uploader

Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms? --- SOLUTION (I hope)

1997-05-15 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi all you Lyx/xisp/... users and maintainers, I'm the current maintainer of xforms. The previous xforms version was 0.81, the current version is 0.86. Since the version numbering doesn't fit into the major/minor scheme as used for most of the shared libs, I've had serious problems. Now I hop

Re: debian-non-us archive

1997-05-09 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On May 9, Camm Maguire wrote : Greetings! Are the source files for pgp and ssh no longer : distributable? The mirror at os.inf.tu-dresden.de has the permissions : on these files set so that they are no longer available via anonymous : ftp. ... yup, I fixed the permissions in the binary dirs, bu

Re: where can I find pgp-i ?

1997-04-28 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 28, Rick Jones wrote : : Look in the Debian ftp directory. There are symlinks the guid you along. Or: ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92

Re: Error: Too Many Open files

1997-04-27 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 27, Troy Hanson wrote : I am running debian linux 1.2, when I log in from the console or telnet, : I get an error on running fortune: : : /usr/share/games/fortunes/art.dat: Too many open files Did you installed lshell? Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Please help me!: No Network answer

1997-04-25 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 25, Hamoperator SM7UGT Marcel bos wrote : what happended. Then The gateway aderess is correct, and the IP adress : is correct. But Hey, I never got an qestion about in the installation. DNS : server?! Probably you should send you /etc/init.d/network to this list. And all available informa

Re: A few questions

1997-04-23 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 23, Christian Leutloff wrote : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: : : > 1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like : > to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can : > be done with a shell script (Bash) but I have know idea

Re: 16bpp in xdm?

1997-04-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 22, Anthony Dien Yiu Cheng wrote : Hello all, : : How to start 16bpp in xdm? I know how to do in in startx. But I prefer : to access X window using xdm and everytime I start xdm and it : automatically set it to 8bpp. : : Your help is greatly appreciated. : Edit /etc/X11R6/xdm/XServers an

Re: vi

1997-04-15 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 15, Britton wrote : : Wow, you guys sure think fast :) But I know where you are coming from. I : am a pretty speedy typist and have often been annoyed by odd keys. Now I : am wondering: is there an easy way with emacs or some other editor to : assign a short string to a 'wierd key'? I

Re: vi

1997-04-15 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 14, Philippe Troin wrote : : On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:34:53 +0300 Vadim Vygonets ([EMAIL PROTECTED] : ) wrote: : : > Well, in vi you can do: : > 1G Go to the beginning : > :%s/129.168.1/129.168.200/ (if I remember it right) : > Still better... : : To be a purist, t

Re: Trolltech changing license for QT?

1997-04-14 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 13, Bruce Perens wrote : They don't seem to be changing the license. It's "free software" only when : used with X. That was the story before. : Nevertheless I filed it to non-free. (qt-1.2 is out and will be uploaded today.) Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: Debian 1.3 again

1997-04-13 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 12, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote : Not a complete answer but ... : : I wouldn't recommend using /dev/modem link. This makes it : more difficult to gurantee the uucp locking protocol. Use : the actual device name instead. No, if all your call out programms use /dev/modem, it's ok. And then it

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 9, Paul Wade wrote : On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : : > : > Or wait for a new release of the bind package ;-) : I can't seem to find a '}' anywhere near line 120. 1 #!/bin/sh -e 2 # 3 # Debian package postinst 4 # Version

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 9, John Foster wrote : : It unpacks OK, but then during the config it crashes with an unknown : syntax error near line 120 'done'. This is just after an esac, and ... : Any help at all would be nice, as I can't see anything wrong with the : bash script, but it's not my strongest suit anyway

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 2, Stan Brown wrote : Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? Pipe through MetaMail ... Use mutt as your mailreader ... Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 fi

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-04-01 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Mar 28, Kai Grossjohann wrote : > Eloy A Paris writes: : : Eloy> I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path : Eloy> name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire : Eloy> filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT : Eloy> present. : : upd

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort > files.exist sort < searchlist > files.search comm -1 -3 files.exist files.search Heiko Schlittermann ----- Heiko Schlittermann / Internet & Unix-Support Kamenzer Str. 52

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-19 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Mar 19, Marcus Brinkmann wrote : Hello! : : I have the same line in my /etc/smail/config, but I feel *VERY* sick about : it, because *EVERY* mail gets this From: field. No! The From: field must be : user dependent, or there is something wrong. But after spending too much : time about too much d

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
: : Martin, : : As I read this, that "unchanged" word would prevent us from building a : Debian binary package of Qt and distributing that. That's a very serious : restriction. : : Thanks : : Bruce : : From: Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Trol

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: : : Hi guys, : : I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. : : How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? : : Where do I change it if it needs to be increased? Installed lshell? Became root via su? Heiko -- email

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1996-09-26 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
d. mashao wrote: : : I am trying to upgrade from linux kernel 1.2.1 (Unifix 1.6) to either Debian : or Slackware. I have been persuaded by all this talk about Debian system. nice. : I followed the instructions on making floppies but unfortunately the process : stops after reading the boot

Re: dpkg-1.4.0.1

1996-09-26 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Alex Romosan wrote: : : i upgraded dpkg on one of the machines here to 1.4.0.1 and i've found : that dpkg-name is gone. was it intentional, or did it accidentally get : left out of the package? It's in dpkg-dev now, as Ian proposed. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: vgetty as answering machine

1996-09-18 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Martin Schulze wrote: : : Good evening folks, : : I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough : information to configure this. MGETTY comes definitfly with enought and complete docs. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7

Re: how to exclude a directory from find?

1996-09-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : : Certainly it would be nice to have something like: : $ find . -type !d find ! -type d or depending on your shell find \! -type d Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7

Re: what is -ltk looking for?

1996-08-29 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
David Morris wrote: : : I am trying to compile the Embedded Tk source code and run into an error : when the compiler tries to link to the tk library (gcc ... -ltk ...) : : Should I modify that to specify the particular version of the library to : look for. I do have the tcl74 tcl75 (current point

Re: Kernel headers

1996-08-23 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Miroslav Ruda wrote: : : 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 : kernel_source and not yet libc5 to have same version of kernel headers. : : Is any reason why not to use this schema in

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: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-21 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Bruce Perens wrote: : : Thus, I'll ask Ian Jackson. How about three flags to dpkg? : : --select package-name [package-name ...] : Selects a list of packages for later installation. : --deselect package-name [package-name ...] : De-selects a list of packages

Re: Duplicating Debian Installations?

1996-08-20 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Tres Hofmeister wrote: : : Can someone point me towards info. on how one can duplicate the : packages installed on one Debian system on another? Going through : dselect by hand seems just a bit too tedious for multiple : installations... Thanks. : Just install the base system from the fi

Re: dselect returns error code

1996-08-15 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Heiko R. Selber wrote: : : I started dselect in order to install various packages after I had the base : system running. : : When I tried it once more I got the cryptic message: : : internal error at -e line 12 chunk 16 Yes, I saw this too ... My private solution: changed to the debian to

Re: The "*" character (was: Latex )

1996-08-08 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Mark Phillips wrote: : : >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands: : > dpkg -l *tex* : I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under : bash. Is there a difference between how the * character is treated : under the two shells? Under sh-lish shells

`Packages' not synced with *.deb files --> Solution

1996-06-19 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi, since I've experienced some problems when I used `Packages' (.../binary/Packages) files which weren't in sync with the corresponding *.deb files and since I asked twice for a tool to create these Packages files from scratch and since I got no answer ... I made a first attempt to write this too

Re: `Packages' not synced with *.deb files --> Solution

1996-06-19 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Christian Hudon wrote: : : > files from scratch and since I got no answer ... I made a first : > attempt to write this tool (and I'm sure, that I reinvented the wheel). : : You might want to look into dpkg-scanpackages... Uhhm ... it's true, I reinvented the wheel :-/ Ok, Thanks. [ so it w

Re: 1.1 problems

1996-06-17 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Mark Phillips wrote: : : : Next problem: when I boot I now get the following error messages: : Configuring serial ports/dev/cua0: No such device : done. : /dev/cua0: No such device : /dev/cua1: No such device : /dev/cua2: No such device : /dev/cua3: No such device Perhaps you serial driver i

Re: .xinitrc

1996-06-14 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Yves Arrouye wrote: : : Rick Hawkins writes: : > one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the : > .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious? : : When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have : one that looks like: :

Re: installation notes

1996-06-13 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: : :The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect : tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the : ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This : causes dselect to try to retrieve a non-existing f

Re: installation notes

1996-06-13 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Guy Maor wrote: : : On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: : >The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect : > tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the : > ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This : > caus

Re: Dselect + NFS

1996-06-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: : : Hi, : I have just had something strange happening to me. I tried to update some : packages using dselect with the NFS option. When going into the install option : I would get an error from find about not being able to find the directory. The : strange thing thoug

Re: superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Paul Wade wrote: : : Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in : as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply : using a Windows system as a Linux console over : ethernet. How do I fix this? Have a look into /etc/securetty: # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which ro

Re: dselect ( dpkg 1.2.3 (i386 elf)) unable to install 1.1

1996-06-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Oz Dror wrote: : : Hi, : : I want to upgrade my debian 1.0 to 1.1. : I have installed the new dpkg (1.2.3 elf) : then followed the steps in dselect. : then dselect failed in the Install step with the following error: : : Running dpkg -iGROEB /u2/debian/binary : find: /u2/debian/binary/admin/tob-

Re: printing in debian/unix is hard...

1996-06-04 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : : Carlos> Moral: if you want to have smart printing, use window$ :-( :-( :-( : : Narrr. I am quite happy with one simple entry in /etc/printcap, plus one : gs_filter. All I print is in postscript (generated by genscript or dvipsk) : and printed via gs. That I can s

Re: mgetty-0.98-2: Fax page is compressed

1996-05-20 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Oz Dror wrote: : When I convert received faxes using the package g3topbm. : Then when viewing either with xv or postscript, : the page appears about half the size in length and the characters are : "compressed" to half their sizes : : Any one know how to fix this problem? Yes. Faxing knows abou