making dpkg on non-debian systems

1996-11-13 Thread Marty Leisner
What the value of ARCHITECTURE I need? I tried building dpkg-1.2.[6,11] on slackware systems, and configure failed to pick a good ARCHITECTURE? Shouldn't this build on vanilla Unix systems? Also, what documentation should I read about handling .deb files as an experienced tar user? -- marty

Re: JDK

1996-11-13 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Evan Thomas wrote: > kazem wrote: > > > > Is anybody can help describe me how i can install JDK in my > > box. Or if there is a package for it. > > > As far as I know there is no Debian package. You can download the Linux > port from http://www.blackdown.org/

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-13 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Grossjohann, You wrote: Grossjohann> Grossjohann> This does ftp but not http. oh sorry didn't understand - 'lynx -dump > file &' should do the trick d879e90x8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg failed

1996-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am baffled. I am not aware of anything in kernel-package scripts that needs a display to run. I am running a 2.0.25 built exactly the same way, except: 1) I used the latest kernel-package (3.02, I think) 2) I did not use the -r option. Could you please see if not using

Re: Lilo problem after kernel upgrade to 2.0.25

1996-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Umm, I made a bzImage, and my image boots just fine with LILO. manoj >>"Bryn" == Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bryn> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: >> LILO Loading linux Wrong loader, giving up... >> >> I've never seen this error before.

Re: Hylafax packages?

1996-11-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
Dermot Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: : : > You mentioned that one of your hylafax packages conflicts with mgetty - are : > you working on fixing that? : : It has been suggested that I use "diversions" to handle the conflict. : Anyone got a example

Re: DOSEmulator for linux

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was just wondering if any of you out there had installed this on > your linux boxes. > Yes, works wonderful here! > > Compile Begins < > make[1]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/Makefile', needed by > 'include/kversion.h'. Stop. > make[

Re: Linux and SoundBlaster

1996-11-13 Thread Rob Browning
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For just playing CD's, you don't necessarily > need to do all this if your CDROM is already recognized. In > that case, the program 'workbone' will play CD's for you. One > problem may be the default volume level of your sound card. Also don't fo

Suspend to Disk Support on Winbook XP5 Laptop

1996-11-13 Thread Martin Gallant
Does Debian-1.1.13 support suspend to disk functionality on laptops? Whenever I resume from disk, all my network routes are deleted. This worked fine in a previous life running Red Hat. Is there something I need to tweak? Where should I look? BTW, I have manually upgraded to kernel 2.0.23 and PC

Automounter troubles

1996-11-13 Thread Stan Brown
In an attempt to fix my automnter troubles (amd'd directories habg after time). I downlaode the latest amd binary from unstable, as some kind soul sugested. Wehn I installed it I got a message to the effect that there are new config files and it would convert my old ones for me.

Re: JDK

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
> > > Is anybody can help describe me how i can install JDK in my > > > box. Or if there is a package for it. > > > > > As far as I know there is no Debian package. You can download the Linux > > port from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html. The site points to > > installatio

Summary: Re: memory over 64Meg

1996-11-13 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 board > running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. Thanks for the help. The answer is use the "mem=80M" parameter to the kernel. More info is in the boot HOWTO.A -- TO

Mounting of Sun filesystem disk

1996-11-13 Thread John Roesch
I have an old Sun workstation that has some hardware problems but I need a couple of files from the hard disk. Will Linux recognize the Sun's file structure? If so, what is the file structure? John Roesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: JDK

1996-11-13 Thread David Engel
Evan Thomas writes: > kazem wrote: > > Is anybody can help describe me how i can install JDK in my > > box. Or if there is a package for it. > > > As far as I know there is no Debian package. You can download the Linux > port from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html. The site

Problem with mgetty's "faxspool"?

1996-11-13 Thread Joe Emenaker
I was tinkering around with mgetty's fax scripts and came across something wierd. When I use "faxspool" to spool up a fax, it generates a file called "JOB" in the /var/spool/fax/outgoing tree which describes the job (who spooled it, what the original file is, what g3 files to send, recent status

Re: DOSEmulator for linux

1996-11-13 Thread Adam Heath
-- > From: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: DOSEmulator for linux > Date: Tuesday, November 12, 1996 7:44 PM > > On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I was just wondering if any of you out there had in

Re: DOSEmulator for linux

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Adam Heath wrote: > > I have this same problem to. And I installed kernel-headers 2.0.6, > kernel-source 2.0.6, then I manually untarred the kernel source for 2.0.24. > And I still get the problem. > Do you have then kernel sources installed as outlined in the accompanying

Re: How do I make xautolock run all the time?

1996-11-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:18:24 EST Kevin McEnhill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Howdy, > > I have xautolock and xlock and I am tring to get xautolock to restart > after xlock finishes. Should I do this in a shell script or is there a > way to "deamonize" xautolock? Xautolock should ``daemonize''

Re: xconsole stops logging

1996-11-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Pete Templin wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > > I have noticed that xconsolo stops logging any kernel messages when the > > daily > > cron scripts get run and the current /var/log/messages file gets renamed to > > /var/log/messages.0 and a new one gets created.

Re: pgp

1996-11-13 Thread M. Filizzi
Sorry I did that by accident... I tryed sending a message saying that I couldn't figure out how to do that kind of stuff... and well I don't know how I did that... I grabed the pgp stuff and was trying to figure it out... sorry... so Far all I can't figure out is how to add keys to my public key ri

any tcp/ip meter?

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
is there any program to display the bps of each socket/port? I have tried the pppstats and it only displayed the total bps. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mgetty and ppp -> cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP ?

1996-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to connect two linux machines together with ppp. I have previously done this using vanilla getty and ppp started with login as special ppp-user, which starts pppd as login shell. The calling machine is connected to the internet, called machine has a small local ethernet network. At t

Mail server for MIME supported MUA's

1996-11-13 Thread Carl Greco
I am setting up a Debian Linux e-mail server for a small Windows for Workgroups based LAN and need to use a MIME capable agent like pine. Pine uses Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) instead of POP to transfer mail to WfWg clients. IMAP is available as a (non-free) debian packages and pine cl

Solved: make-kpkg failed (-> StarOffice install)

1996-11-13 Thread schulte
Hi, thanks to all who answered to my make-kpkg failure: yes, there should be no display. And yes, there is another install. I accidwntally found the solution reading some StarOffice newsgroup. One guy complained the existence of an "install" binary in the /usr/local/StarOffice hierarchy (under

Re: socket permission problems

1996-11-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> > rlogin to another host gives "rmcd: socket: permission denied" > > Works fine for root. > > > > On starting X, I get the grey background, but no windows; > > I kill it, and it's been trying to connect to a socket > > and getting connection refused, errno = 13. > > Again, works fine for root. >

Re: socket permission problems

1996-11-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> > rlogin to another host gives "rmcd: socket: permission denied" > > Works fine for root. > > > > On starting X, I get the grey background, but no windows; > > I kill it, and it's been trying to connect to a socket > > and getting connection refused, errno = 13. > > Again, works fine for root. >

urgent question : can't map /lib/libc

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
I don't know why after my linux always displays can't map /lib/libc after few hours run and I have to reboot my linux box. anyone know why? is it ld.so problem?? the only things I did was that I upgrade ld.so to 1.8.x from 1.7.x lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

X problems solved

1996-11-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Fixed my X problem; the permissions on /tmp had become stuffed (only read/write/execute for root). Removing /tmp and reinstalling base fixed this. Seems I got quite a lot of permissions problems recently due to unclean shutdown. Mind you, even if I have no improper shutdowns between two forced ful

Re: pgp

1996-11-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Lars wrote: > To sign e-mail by hand, you should save the text into a file, > say foo, and then run PGP with the -sta options: [example deleted] You can do this from inside an editor too; for VIM, select the body (shift-V) and do !pgp -fast (pgp as [f]ilter; [a]

XFree and GD7543

1996-11-13 Thread Johan Allard
Hello, I cant get my Cirrus Logic GD7543 Chip work in 800x600 resolution in Xfree 3.12. Anyone have any ideas? I had to tell Xfree I was running a clgd5424 chip to get it to work at all. //johan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
Thanks for all guys sent me mails. I found that the most easy command is GET http://xxx.xxx.xxx/www/zzz/abc.zip > abc.zip & lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree and GD7543

1996-11-13 Thread Zlatko Rek
Hi, > Hello, > > I cant get my Cirrus Logic GD7543 Chip work in 800x600 resolution in Xfree > 3.12. Anyone have any ideas? I had to tell Xfree I was running a clgd5424 > chip to get it to work at all. > > //johan Get XF86_SVGA server with cl7543 driver from: http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Martin Konold
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Kevin K. Lewis wrote: > A la GLINT, I suppose, though I've never seen it. I think it would be > fun to work on something like this. Maybe Debian could just use GLINT > and massage the backend (and add stuff for the additional Debian > package features). Can GLINT be used wi

Re: mgetty and ppp -> cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP ?

1996-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, it worked. I have tried to find the reason for a week now, and 2 hours after I write to ask it, I find that I do havea proxyarp command in my ppp/options file. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Jouni I am trying to connect two linux machines together with ppp. I have previously > done th

Re: pgp

1996-11-13 Thread Ezio Manini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > A better way is to use a mailer that understands PGP. I don't know > how well elm can do that. I use exmh myself. exmh is excellent. BTW I use pine and a shell tcsh script mkpgp1.6, it work fine. Unfortunately don't

debian+emacs problem

1996-11-13 Thread Marco Prandini
Hello, I'm a sysadm at a Civic Network in Italy. I got a problem with emacs 19.31-2 installed with Debian 1.1.4. When I edit long lines reactions become unpredictable: sometimes it works well, other times it truncates the line or melts it with the surrounding lines. I've tried to install emacs bi

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > > I would like to be able to install packages on stand alone systems > without X11 > I second that! I'd prefer it the way 'dselect' already is working on the console and in an xterm under X11. A GUI oriented installation tool is a waste of CPU time, memo

CD-ROM IRQ Timeout

1996-11-13 Thread Alec Clews (S)
Deal All, I am installing Debian 1.1 from the Infomagic Sept 96 Developers Resource. My platform is a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5100. I can read the CD-ROM fine under DOS and copy and untar gcc However after booting debian and when trying to install packages I get lots of 'hdb irq timeout : status

Re: debian+emacs problem

1996-11-13 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I got a problem with emacs 19.31-2 installed with Debian 1.1.4. When > I edit long lines reactions become unpredictable: sometimes it works > well, other times it truncates the line or melts it with the > surrounding lines. > I've tried to install emacs binaries 19.29,

LILO Problem

1996-11-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I just installed Debian Linux (the latest stable version from debian.org) and now I'm having a problem with LILO. First, my setup: 1)P6 180MHz with integrated dual IDE controller on the motherboard. 2)1.6GB IDE disk, master on primary IDE (partitioned in 3 400MB partitions, a 300MB partition and

16-bit X modes and clients from Suns

1996-11-13 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello all, users on my machines have X set to 16-bit 1152x900 on S3 cards. The problem is that when running clients from a Sun displaying on their screens the colours are completely messed up unless they go down to 8-bit colour, where everything is fine but, of course, colours aren't enoug

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Martin Konold
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > > I would like to be able to install packages on stand alone systems > > without X11 > I second that! I'd prefer it the way 'dselect' already is working on the > console and in an xterm under X11. A GUI oriente

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Mark Carroll
> I would prefer a much improved dselect. > Todays dselect is not convinient to be used. > It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny > keyboard accel keys, no menues...) Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any documentation about it,

corrupted krn-src-2.0.23

1996-11-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi I'm trying to install the kernel-source package from: Debian-1.1.14 | rex | buzz-updates |..., but the '.deb' file, (from 2 mirrors) gets corrupted, with a problem in the tarfile. Does anybody succeed in dpkg'ing it? Thanks, Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo-

VIM: filtering (Was Re: pgp)

1996-11-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
I wrote: > On our Sun systems, we have two versions of vim, > with 4.2, you don't get too see pgp's prompt for the passphrase, and > pgp's stderr output is captured by the pipe too; > with 3.0, you get too see pgp's prompt, and the pipe command doesn't > capture stderr. > > Stuart, I like 3.0

RE: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Wieboldt, David
> >> I would prefer a much improved dselect. >> Todays dselect is not convinient to be used. >> It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny >> keyboard accel keys, no menues...) > >Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any >documentation a

Not really Linux

1996-11-13 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi, I am stuck and am turning to the list as a last resort. To those of you who find this improper, I crave your indulgence. My problem is to do with variable argument lists. More precisely given the following double sum_series(int num, ... ) 12{ 13double sum=0.0,t; 14

shownonascii

1996-11-13 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, today I upgraded several things to the rex distribution. One of them was metamail. Before I was able to see iso-8859-8 without spawning a new xterm but now it seems, shownonascii always does that. This means that I can't see any non pure ascii characters in the a virtual console. Is there a wa

Re: debian+emacs problem

1996-11-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
Marco Prandini wrote: > I got a problem with emacs 19.31-2 installed with Debian 1.1.4. > When I edit long lines reactions become unpredictable: sometimes > it works well, other times it truncates the line or melts it with > the surrounding lines. Next time this happens, press CTRL-l to refresh t

install problem...

1996-11-13 Thread Mitch, W4OA (ex WA4OSR)
help! i'm obviously doing something wrong trying to install... the boot disk works fine, & initial boot finds my ide drive & ide cd... then when i put the first ramdisk, i get a kernel panic??? any ideas? mitch -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: Lilo problem after kernel upgrade to 2.0.25

1996-11-13 Thread Bryn Paul Arnold Jones
On 12 Nov 1996, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Bryn" == Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bryn> You did build a zImage didn't you, I think you'll get this > Bryn> message from LILO if you try to boot a bzImage. > > Hi, > > Umm, I made a bzImage, and my image boots just fin

HELP - libgpm.so.1 :(

1996-11-13 Thread Magic
Hi! I instaled debian and, have one problem. When i try to run mc i see: mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' I have: gpm_1.10-2.deb, mc_3.2.1-1.deb Hehhh... Where can I find this library? :( Any ideas? Thank's a lot... Magic ---

HELP - libgpm.so.1 :(

1996-11-13 Thread Magic
Hi! I instaled debian and, have one problem. When i try to run mc i see: mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' I have: gpm_1.10-2.deb, mc_3.2.1-1.deb Hehhh... Where can I find this library? :( Any ideas? Thank's a lot... Magic ---

Re: XF86 3.1.2 Memory hunger

1996-11-13 Thread Guy Maor
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that the latest libc deb package (5.4.7-7, I think) has a special > malloc lib file to be used in much the same way. I haven't installed it > yet, but it's the better way to handle this. Yes, it works fine. I use this as /usr/local/lib/netscape:

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Christenson
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: >> I would prefer a much improved dselect. Todays dselect is not >> convinient to be used. It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, >> non-standard interface, funny keyboard accel keys, no menues...) > Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginni

Re: DSelect Suggestions...

1996-11-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ami Ganguli wrote: > An "install almost > everything" option that doesn't result in any conflicts would be > nice too. After starting from some reasonable base, users could > customize by adding or removing packages as today. If you say so, but I can't imagine anybody doing this other than for te

Re: HELP - libgpm.so.1 :(

1996-11-13 Thread Magic
Sorry, that it was twice... And... THANKS! : It was it! :) Magic --- Artur Zaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Public Key http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic --

Making dselect use unstable packages

1996-11-13 Thread GREENE KENNETH ADAM
I tried to install DOSEmu, but dselect wouldn't take it, it just skipped it. How do I get it installed (dpkg -i doesn't do it either). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]