remove from mailing list

1997-04-09 Thread Joel Valladares
Remove me from your mailing lists. thanks

PGP

1997-04-09 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I don't see a debian PGP package, just scripts...etc. Do I get it from one of the main PGP sites ? I would like to use it with PINE Matthew

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

1997-04-09 Thread Brian C. White
Here's mine... :0 * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian * !^TObcwhite { :0: * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)(board|debian-board) Filtered/debian-board :0: * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian.*-announce $DEFAULT :0: * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debia

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change? [SOLVED]

1997-04-09 Thread Steve
I solved the problem by adjusting /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime to use PST8PDT instead of SystemV/PST8PDT. On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, I wrote: > The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST > which is an hour behind the correct PDT. My CMOS clock is set to GMT. > Any suggestions?

xbase_3.2-1.1.deb

1997-04-09 Thread MR DAVID C STEIN
When I try to download xbase_3.2-1.1.deb and use dpkg -i to install it I get crc error uncompressing data from gzip error 1 or something to that effect. I've tied it twice. What's up -- why can't I install the package (I'm downloading it from prodigy and its just over 2mb - I succesfully did

New Package Manager Lib

1997-04-09 Thread Gith
I've started work on a package manager library that will hopefully combine the best features of Debian's DPKG and Redhat's RPM systems. My work upto this point is available at http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/ and it is FAR from complete. In fact it's just in its beginning stages. Some of the doc

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Adam Shand
>One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old library, then >copy the installed libraries, by hand, into /usr/local/lib. You can then >upgrade back to the current libraries and everything should work without >the need for the LD_PRELOAD. I'm very new to this but couldn't you end up w

Re: Frontpage and Debian

1997-04-09 Thread Adam Shand
>You can download them from the rtr.com site, and then you just need to >add to the httpd.conf for Apache (or the equivalent on other httpds): I found the old debian package and got it to work by downgrading. ># Make sure the FrontPage stuff finds its private lib versions >SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH

pgp-i or pgp-us ?

1997-04-09 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Ok, I don't get it... I found the pgp packages on one of the debian-non-us sites. The 2 pgp packages (pgp-i & pgp-us) have exactly the same package information, but the sizes and names are different. Why ? Matthew

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

1997-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Not to be left behind, mailagent users can try: # The mailing lists I subscribe to: #get Debian stuf outa here first X-Mailing-List X-Loop To Cc Resent-From Resent-To Resent-Reply-To: /DEBIAN/i { VACATION off;

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote: Dale> One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old Dale> library, then copy the installed libraries, by hand, into Dale> /usr/local/lib. You can then upgrade back to the curr

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > >One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old library, then > >copy the installed libraries, by hand, into /usr/local/lib. You can then > >upgrade back to the current libraries and everything should work without > >the need for the LD_PRELOAD.

Re: Question about dselect..

1997-04-09 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: > I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the > "Cheap Bytes" cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the > Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called "rex-fixe" > on the cd. I must be missing something here,

fixing dates?

1997-04-09 Thread Solomani
How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to GMT, should i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the next reboot, then it reverts to the wrong date again...? micheal An army raised without proper regard to the choice of its recruits was never made good by length of time

Re: fixing dates?

1997-04-09 Thread Adam Shand
>How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to GMT, should >i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the next reboot, then it >reverts to the wrong date again...? What I do is sync the clock from one of our servers using netdate and then use clock to set the BIOS clock so tha

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-09 Thread Bruce Perens
Is your CMOS clock on local time? That would do it. 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

Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-09 Thread Rob Browning
Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail with the following message: Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock '/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA225raven' open failed - Permission denied The only way I've found to fix this is /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.

perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc. server mail.foobar.com \ proto pop3 \ user douglas\ pass "sekret" \ mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f-" \ fetch

Re: perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Michael Harnois
Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail > filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc. > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try getting rid of the period after the TO, i.e. * ^TOdebian-user and see what happe

Re: local updatedb files ... [Was: Finding files not present]

1997-04-09 Thread Kevin Dalley
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David B. Teague wrote: > > > > On my stand-alone machine at home, I get all files by making this change > > > to /etc/cron.daily/find: > > > > > > #cd / && updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null > > > cd / && updatedb 2>/dev/null > > > BTW Please

Re: perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Ed Donovan
Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail > filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc. > [snip] > :0 > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ Well, usually I don't see that dot between ^TO and the string you want to

MPC860 Port?

1997-04-09 Thread Mark Lever
I know that this is kind of off the wall... but has anyone been able to port Linux to a Power PC derivitive? I am doing a development for work that uses an MPC860 and it would be kind of cool to run Linux on it. Comments... Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied Digital Access, Inc. San Diego, CA 9

Re: fixing dates?

1997-04-09 Thread Solomani
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > >How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to GMT, should > >i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the next reboot, then it > >reverts to the wrong date again...? > > What I do is sync the clock from one of our servers using netdat

Re: fixing dates?

1997-04-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How do i permently fix a date on a debian system? Its set to >> GMT, should i turn this off? Using date -s it works until the >> next reboot, then it reverts to the wrong date again...? > What I do is sync the clock from

What? No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-09 Thread m*
some guy wrote: > > Is your CMOS clock on local time? That would do it. > yup. all the systems here sprung forward. oh, one machine is set to central mountain... m* -- "The Shining One" --

Re: PGP

1997-04-09 Thread Steffen R. Mueller
Thus spake Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't see a debian PGP package, just scripts...etc. Do I get it from > one of the main PGP sites ? I would like to use it with PINE Hi Matthew, due to the export limitations on cryptographic software in the US the PGP and ssh packages can

Re: Debian's 'group' system

1997-04-09 Thread tgakem
Pete Harlan wrote: > > This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user > having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.) > Everything is then group-writable by default, which is probably what > you want. Can you enlighten me as to why this should be a Good Thing?

Re: Debian's 'group' system

1997-04-09 Thread Petr Barta
> > The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write > > permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory). > > > > It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be > > group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it > > shou

RE: pgp-i or pgp-us ?

1997-04-09 Thread Alec Clews \(S\)
> >I found the pgp packages on one of the debian-non-us sites. >The 2 pgp packages (pgp-i & pgp-us) have exactly the same >package information, but the sizes and names are different. >Why ? >From the PGP 2.6.3i readme.1st file " (2) It uses PRZ's MPILIB instead of RSAREF PGP 2.3a and ear

wctomb() and mbtowc()

1997-04-09 Thread Ricardas Cepas
Hello, Do these functions fail to work only for me ? Does somebody succeeded using them ? I'm using libc5 5.4.13.1. Thanks, -- Ričardas Čepas

a freeze during install

1997-04-09 Thread Aaron J. Anderson
I downloaded the files for all 6 disks, and I'm trying to boot off the Rescue disk, it's getting most of the way (I think) to where I should say I have a color monitor or whatnot, and it's saying scsi0! warning: SCSI command probably completed successfully before abortion And it's freezing after

Re: Debian's 'group' system

1997-04-09 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Pete Harlan wrote: > > > > This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user > > having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.) I agree. It is a good thing. It is a nice system. I saw this for the first time in RedHat and I liked th

whatis "kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: ..." ?

1997-04-09 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Sometimes I see these messages on my screen: Apr 8 11:44:41 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21 nxpg=0x3c. Apr 8 12:49:06 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21 nxpg=0x32. Apr 8 14:17:38 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21 nxpg=0x3f. Apr

Re: Frontpage and Debian

1997-04-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >You can download them from the rtr.com site, and then you just need to > >add to the httpd.conf for Apache (or the equivalent on other httpds): > I found the old debian package and got it to work by downgrading. Yes, but you've just broken several other pa

error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread John Foster
I decided to make the plunge and upgrade one of my machines from a 'sorta' 1.2.7 to the frozen/bo, using the most recent mirror here in OZ as of yesterday. Apart from the latex/tetex nightmare (I _cannot_ get latex to go away! I'm going to have to hack the database I reckon!) I have a major proble

Re[2]: SB cfg problem - need docs

1997-04-09 Thread David_Oswald
Sorry to bother everyone with this issue. The simple answer is that http://www.creativelabs.com/wwwnew/tech/spec/specs.html did actually have a rather nice configuration sheet for this card. Pictures and everything. I guess I just didn't think that they would have gone

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search > /usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to > put into /usr/local/lib is the shared libraries used by ld.so during > program loading. This path is on the lis

filtering

1997-04-09 Thread tomk
First I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my comment. I apologize about the length of this message. It combines the current comments and I'm attempting to show that not every message has a uniform header. So please bear with it and read on. >From dragon!cogs.susx.ac.uk!luisgh Wed Apr 9 01:

Re: Re[2]: SB cfg problem - need docs

1997-04-09 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all... > > > > I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I > > have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk. > > > > After plugging it in and powering up, the card ob

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 09-Apr-97 Michael Alan Dorman wrote: >Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search >> /usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to >> put into /usr/local/lib is the

Resetting dselect

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello All: I had added bo to my pkgs list and set everything to hold (I thought). Two questions. 1. Why does dselect seem to override holds on some pkgs? I hilighted the All pkgs line and hit hold (=) so I could selectively make changes yet there were a few p

Unidentified subject!

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To All: Just got the xntp pkg since my CMOS clock doesn't adjust for EDT. Anybody know a dependable ntp server on the east coast? Have a good one. - -- Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-Apr-97

large executables from compile

1997-04-09 Thread ljk
Hello, I have noticed that a.out's are quite large on my Debian system as compared to a previous Slackware, eg a simple program to print "hello world" is 80k. Using gcc 2.7.2 Any ideas ? Thanks Lennard

RE: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I reported this problem a few weeks ago here in this list but never got an answer back. I manage to install bind anyway basically ignoring this error (however, dselect still says that bind is not properly installed). I suspect something's wrong with bash 2.0-2 though. Try some other bash.

NE2000 card

1997-04-09 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi I think there was some discussion about the NE2000 card a while ago, how do I get in contact with it... (append io something in lilo.conf ??) Karsten

Re: perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Clint Adams
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lose the period after TO.

Re: NE2000 card

1997-04-09 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Karsten Bolding wrote: > Hi > > I think there was some discussion about the NE2000 card a while ago, how do I get in contact with it... (append io something in lilo.conf ??) > > Karsten > if card address is 300 (hexadecimal): When using modconf the parameter is entered i

Re: NE2000 card

1997-04-09 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, what is exactly is your problem? If any? I could not get my linux box to recognise my kingston ethernet card (which emulates a ne2000 card) When I installed the base system I had to choose a DEC-2*** I can't remember the rest of the name. I hope this is of some use to you. Paul McDermott

Re: filtering

1997-04-09 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Thomas. Things are simpler than one might think at first. You will receive this message twice: One directly from me, another one from the list, since I have put you in the "To:" field and the list is in the "Cc:" field. The second one will have Resent-S

Re: NE2000 card

1997-04-09 Thread Tim O'Brien
>Hi > >I think there was some discussion about the NE2000 card a while ago, how do I get in contact with it... (append io something in lilo.conf ??) > >Karsten I have Magitronic EZ2000's, which are NE2000 compatible. I got it to work by doing the following: First, I had to (ugh!) boot D

Problem with nis on client machine

1997-04-09 Thread Michael J Devine
Sorry for the continual re-posts, but I mis-stated the problem... I am not running a slave server, but rather a client machine. following the nis.debian.howto document, I need to first stop, then start nis by typing: /etc/init.d/nis stop /etc/init.d/nis start But I get a nice little message say

debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Kay Nettle
Hi, We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible. Each machine will be on the net. We've thought of a couple of ways to

RE: Problem with nis on client machine

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Check to see that start-stop-daemon is in /usr/sbin and that /usr/sbin is in your path. On 09-Apr-97 Michael J Devine wrote: >Sorry for the continual re-posts, but I mis-stated the problem... > >I am not running a slave server, but rather a client machine. foll

Seeing double: web browsers

1997-04-09 Thread Nikolaj Richers
Dear Debian users, Would anyone know why icons in the toolbar and inline images in the formatted text appear at half-width twice, side-by-side, in Mosaic and Chimera? They can be clicked on as usual, just that they are there in, say, slimline duplicate. I can't say what happens with Netscape 3.0

What is the standard ethernet frame type?

1997-04-09 Thread Chris Brown
I will be connecting several different types of systems to an ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either Ethernet_802.2 or Ethernet_803.2. The Novel boo

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Jason Killen
It seems to me the best way to do this would be to use the ftp install but that may take to much time so making a template machine and then copying everything from that machine to all the others (cp -Rap) would work. If you can open the machines and get the drives out this wouldn't be to bad, if

dpkg: an option not to run postinst scripts? / group Debian installs

1997-04-09 Thread Steve Hsieh
Does dpkg have option(s) that can be specified so that it does not run postinst scripts *and* does not replace any files (WITHOUT bothering to ask the user)? I'm trying to come up with a way to manage groups of Debian machines without having to manually log into each one. Here's one way I think

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 8 Apr 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote: > > Dale> One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old > Dale> library, then copy the installed libraries, by hand, into > Dal

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Graeme Stewart
Hi Kay, We currently have 5 Debian clients running with /usr, /home and bits of /var (shared tfm and pk font files). The system runs really well over our not too busy 10Mbps ethernet. This may be because we have a good server, PPro 200MHz with 64MB and a fast-wide SCSI disk, so your milage might v

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-09 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail >with the following message: > >Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock '/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA >225raven' open failed - Permission denied > Check the permissions on /d

Bug reporting mode?

1997-04-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Is there a bug reporting mode for reporting XEmacs crashes and package blonk spiels? I just upgraded to Debian 1.3 GNU/Linux, and there's a 'bug' command now for filing bugs on packages. It works really well! :-) I think that it will really help to even further improve the distribution's quali

Re: a freeze during install

1997-04-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Aaron J. Anderson wrote: > I downloaded the files for all 6 disks, and I'm trying to boot off the > Rescue disk, it's getting most of the way (I think) to where I should > say I have a color monitor or whatnot, and it's saying > > scsi0! warning: SCSI command probably complete

Error patching to 2.0.30....anyone else?

1997-04-09 Thread Dave Cinege
I just tried to patch up to 2.0.30 and I got an error along the lines of hunk 1 of 1 failed. Rejected 3c59x.c... I restored 'pure' kernel 2.0.27 source off of the Debian 1.2.6 CD I have and tried itup to 2.0.29 no complaints, but it gets to 2.0.30 and I get that error. Anyone else havi

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 9 Apr 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search > > /usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to > > put into /usr/local/lib is the shared libraries used by ld.s

Re: Problem with nis on client machine

1997-04-09 Thread Jim Pick
> Sorry for the continual re-posts, but I mis-stated the problem... > > I am not running a slave server, but rather a client machine. following > the nis.debian.howto document, I need to first stop, then start nis by > typing: > > /etc/init.d/nis stop > /etc/init.d/nis start > > But I get a ni

Re: Bug reporting mode?

1997-04-09 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "KMH" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KMH> Is there a bug reporting mode for reporting XEmacs crashes KMH> and package blonk spiels? Well reporter.el is something I wrote a while back that package authors can use for bug reports. It's standard now with both Emacsen

XConsole V scroll

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Anybody know why v scroll kills xconsole? Have a good one. - -- Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-Apr-97

ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-09 Thread Edgar Galvis
You might be interested in the following announcement of a public desktop environment for Linux (and other OSes). Regards, Dan Evans Freedom Desktop Lite Announcement (1.01) We are pleased to announce the public availability of the Freedom Desktop Lite. Freedom Desktop Lite is a

moxfm

1997-04-09 Thread Tim O'Brien
I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary form. I uudecoded, unzipped, and un-tarred it, and rtfm'd. Following the instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told "can't find file 'Imakefile.tmpl'". Is there anyone familiar with this problem that might be able to help? I thi

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-09 Thread Rob Browning
Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check the permissions on /dev/null -- here something has changed them > to crw--- twice already and I haven't found the offender yet. Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked and that's not the problem. -- Rob

Re: What is the standard ethernet frame type?

1997-04-09 Thread ioannis
The information you are looking for should be in the Host Requirements RFC -I think this is also a debian package in doc. For 10Mbits/sec Ethernet cable, this was the policy for a host few years ago and propably it is still in effect: 1. Must be able to send and receive packets using rfc 8

KDE/KDM

1997-04-09 Thread Kevin J Poorman
hello Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one has kde working I would appreciate info on how you got it working... -kevin

RE: KDE/KDM

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I finished d/ling it from kde.org not 5 min's ago. I'm about to take a stab at it now. I'll let you know if I have success. On 09-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote: >hello > >Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the >red hat package a

ftape and errors

1997-04-09 Thread Ken Gaugler
During a dump I noticed these messages in /var/messages: Apr 9 13:17:13 keng-ppp kernel: [044] ftape-write.c (_write_segment) - write error, retry 5. Apr 9 13:17:17 keng-ppp kernel: [045] ftape-write.c (_write_segment) - write error, retry 6. Apr 9 13:17:18 keng-ppp kernel: [046]ftape-w

crc error in kernel after fresh install

1997-04-09 Thread Douglas Bates
I just finished a fresh install using disks from the bo directory on ftp.i-connect.com dated April 8. I believe I saw something on the screen about the base disks being created on April 4. As I recall the rescue disk identifies itself as being a Feb 12 vintage. I got through the installation fin

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

Yamaha CR102

1997-04-09 Thread Richard Sevenich
Has any one experience using this CD recorder under Linux? One of my colleagues would like to use it to archive certain project software and is interested in knowing * if this hardware is supported * if the associated linux-based software is dependable (he doesn't require

Re: What is the standard ethernet frame type?

1997-04-09 Thread trio
On 9 Apr 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > I will be connecting several different types of systems to an > ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On > the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the > Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either Ethernet

Scanning software available?

1997-04-09 Thread Walt Tautz
that is, are there any packages that will enable one to use a scanner that is able to read in characters, or in other words, uses OCR (optical character recognition) technology? -Walter

Re: ftape and errors

1997-04-09 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 09 Apr 1997 14:47:54 PDT Ken Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > During a dump I noticed these messages in /var/messages: > > Apr 9 13:17:18 keng-ppp kernel: [046]ftape-write.c (write_segment) > - warning: 1 hard error(s) in written segment. >^^^

Journalling: Upgrades, Kernel patching, ...

1997-04-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I just upgraded BitterSweet to Debian pre1.3, over the modem. It took all night at 33.6, to ftp the files I selected. Everything I'd carefully chosen, a 1 hour job, with `dselect` transfered without a single glitch, from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian>. I selected files from bo, contrib, and non-

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when > I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still > shows the time in GMT. The same happens with the headers generated > by qmail. Does anyone know why? If I use exmh or xfmail t

Re: Journalling: Upgrades, Kernel patching, ...

1997-04-09 Thread Jim Pick
> I glanced over the new 'dwww' documantation interface, and its really > looking good! Cool. > I hadn't had the menu package installed previously. > The documents under that hierarchy look really nice! Is that the > debiandoc DTD that the doc people have been talking about? I'm not sure.