printing in debian/unix is hard...

1996-06-06 Thread Matt Birkholz
From: Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] The System V scheme is much more flexible, yet it seems that nobody who works with Linux or BSD is even aware that it exists. Is there any kind of implementation

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
> net - no modules are detected; however modprobe from the shell seems > to detect the network modules. Are you using the boot1200.bin or boot1440.bin or something else as the boot disk? Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's "Toy Story": Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"): ... > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb ... >gzip:stdout: Broken pipe >dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 >dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status

Re: new boot floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Brian C. White
> Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been > merged into dselect? That would be good. No. 'dpkg-ftp' is a method for dselect to read from an FTP site in much the same way that it would read from an NFS mount or CD-ROM. This seems only fair since 'dftp' has added the

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread llucius
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This is a bug in one of: > The getty you're using. > (Some versions of getty_ps are known to have this problem.) You hit on the head for me anyway. I thought I was using agetty, but I was using an older version of getty_ps (2.0.7g) and after repl

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Pino Smith
Bruce writes: >Are you using the boot1200.bin or boot1440.bin or something else as the boot >disk? boot1440.bin. Pino

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"): >... >> $ dpkg --install package_x.deb >... >>gzip:stdout: Broken pipe >>dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 >>dpkg: error processing package_x

libc.so.5 the stuff from non-free requires

1996-06-06 Thread Juhani Luhtanen
Newbie alert on!!! Hi the problem is this: I need to install a linux-box that will run WWW-server and a couple of mailing-lists. Just something very straight-forward. I installed the stable 0.93 and got the cern-server up and running. Now majordomo requires libc.5 and the distribution doesn't

Re: libc.so.5 the stuff from non-free requires

1996-06-06 Thread branderh
> Newbie alert on!!! > Does anyone know of majordomo.deb package that would run with the 0.93 > distribution and the libc that the distribution carries. Do not use 0.93, install 1.1 aka unstable from now on, it is far more stable than 0.93. "Unix: 30 definitions of regular expressions living unde

program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the *.tar?

Re: program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread branderh
> Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the > *.tar? dpkg --contents file.deb "Unix: 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof" D.E. Knuth Erick Branderhorst http://www.iaehv.nl/users

Re: program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the > *.tar? > Try: dpkg --contents package-xxx.deb Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone:

Amd (or other problems)

1996-06-06 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Ok, I've got an interesting problem with my debian 1.1 machine. Pertinent packages -- Customized kernel, 1.99.11 amd upl102-3 (using NIS maps) netbase 2.03-1 netstd 2.04-1 nis 1.10-2 In general, the system works well. However, at various, semi random times, the system will parti

dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb ?

1996-06-06 Thread Zachary DeAquila
In someone's 0.93-to-1.1 upgrade docco, they mention dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb... I can't seem to find this, but it's said to be necessary to upgrade... I've currently got a .93 aout system with dpkg-1.0.17... but now I'd like to upgrade, so... help! thanks! --Zachary

Howto upgrade 0.93 --> 1.1

1996-06-06 Thread Juhani Luhtanen
Is there anywhere a simple step-by-step guide on how to go and upgrade one's debian? Juhani .signature ? did you really expect a .signature? Sheesh.

Re: dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb ?

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > > In someone's 0.93-to-1.1 upgrade docco, they mention > dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb... I can't seem to find this, but > it's said to be necessary to upgrade... I've currently > got a .93 aout system with dpkg-1.0.17... but > now I'd like to upgrade, so... >

sysklogd upgrade

1996-06-06 Thread Richard Lovison
I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system. I proceeded to purge syslogd but was informed I couldn't because it was a re

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Alexander Goldstein
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For > reasons too complicated to explain here this means that dpkg can't do > proper error trapping (it always gets an error indication, and can't > tell whether it's really an error). > > This

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Attila Megyeri
On Wed, 05 Jun 1996 21:58:07 +0200, Pino Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I fetched the new disks (June 2nd version) and they do not seem to >work as they should. Here is my report. > > + module configuration (most remarks are trivial ...): > > fs - binfmt_java and ufs lack an explanation >

getty-1.0-4

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
This is a very confusing package. The man page for getty says that the command is agetty, but there is no agetty installed (only getty). If you try the example: /sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS1 vt100 the command is not found (it's not there!). If I try getty with these parameters it just hangs. As you

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Attila Megyeri) > I have the same problems. Choosing the net menu point > for a moment I see 'Segmentation fault' and I'm not able to choose any > net module. For 'lp' module everything work OK. OK. That's two people with the same problem. This does not happen on my test