Glitches during stable -> frozen transition

1997-05-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, debianians, martians and other sapiens ! i upgraded from stable to frozen just yesterday (got around 40M from debian including kernel-image 2.30) and discovered several glitches: 1. During booting time looks like there is no /proc/modules, while after login it's there. Still figuring

hosts(5) man page

1997-05-26 Thread Tony Finch
Which package (if any) contains the hosts(5) man page? Tony. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Connecting to Novell network

1997-05-26 Thread Michael Hill
I tried to follow this through the HOWTOs but I must have gotten lost. I've installed Debian on the computer at the office (the second place I installed it), connected to a Novell network with an SMC EtherPower card. The kernel is 2.0.27 with support compiled in for... Networking PCI bios TCP/IP

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-26 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > /usr/sbin/pppd -d connect 'chat "" \ >AT\&C1\&D2\&F2%G1%E0X4M0L0DT \ >CONNECT "" ogin: word: ' \ >/dev/cua2 defaultroute -detach > connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect > /dev/cua1 I'd suggest ttyS2 and ttyS1 instead of

My Glitches during upgrade.

1997-05-26 Thread George Bonser
At boot time, system reports can not find hostname but after login a hostname command returns the proper name. installed the new kernel image but system reboots (resets) when it tries to load the 2.0.30 kernel. The old 2.0.27 kernel boots fine. Root .bash_profile did not have /sbin and /usr/sbi

Re: hosts(5) man page

1997-05-26 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 26, Tony Finch wrote > > Which package (if any) contains the hosts(5) man page? Using the nifty search engine at http://www.debian.org/packages.html (scroll to the bottom of the page), no package in the latest release contains a manpage for hosts(5). Christian pgphfgt07bfUw.pgp Descri

Re: 486SX33 --> 486DX2 66 ??

1997-05-26 Thread Tim O'Brien
At 08:42 PM 5/24/97 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, >I have here a 486sx33 and i would like to know if i can change the cpu for >a dx2 66 ... In the specification of the board, i seen that a 486 sx2 66 A 486SX/33 and a DX2/66 are both 5 volt chips, so that's probably ok. Just be sure to check your motherbo

Re: debian 1.2 install

1997-05-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
On Sun, 25 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote: > Richard Lough writes: > > > From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", > IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 25-MAY-1997 03:49:04.98 > > Subj: debian 1.2 install > > > > > > I ran into a problem at the early stages of installing debian. > > > > I have a soundbl

xemacs-19.15p4 segfault on new frame -- xlib problem?

1997-05-26 Thread stephen farrell
I recently upgraded to debian from redhat, and an interesting new problem has surfaced with xemacs. I use a scrpt with gnudoit to create new frames frequently. now when I run this script xemacs coredumps frequently, especially after it's been running for a while. When I look at the back-trace, t

Re: Connecting to Novell network

1997-05-26 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Michael Hill wrote: [IPX woes] > debian# ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on > debian# slist > slist: No primary IPX interface found in ncp_initialize > debian# ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 > ipx_interface: Requested device (eth0) is dow

NFS configuration

1997-05-26 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
I just set up NFS for my two pcs as the following hardware: System #1 586/120MHz 2GB Hard Disk Ethernet Card S3 Graphic Card Running X System #2 386/33MHz 20MB Hard Disk(about 10MB were used by Linux software) Ethernet Card Tri

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread Eugene Sevinian
I also was advised to use ip-masq. to solve some routing problems, but when I tried to compile kernel (2.0.27) enabling ip-masq. I found that this option could not be activated from 'make xconfig' menus. Why? How should I activate this option? Thanks, Eugene Sevinian -

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-26 Thread Andy Mortimer
On May 26, Kendall P. Bullen wrote > Hi All, > > I'm having weird problems with EMACS. I just installed Debian 1.2 > (rex-fixed, actually, so that would be 1.2.15 at the time I snarfed > it, methinks) -- a clean install, onto a fresh HD. As I recall, EMACS > required some X library or other (I d

Re: failure notice

1997-05-26 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 26, Alexander Koch wrote > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ^ > > Your message was addressed incorrectly. Here is a list of all of the > > valid addresses in the lists.debian.org domain: > > debian-admintool-REQUEST: request ser

Re: xemacs-19.15p4 segfault on new frame -- xlib problem?

1997-05-26 Thread Carey Evans
stephen farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently upgraded to debian from redhat, and an interesting new > problem has surfaced with xemacs. I use a scrpt with gnudoit to > create new frames frequently. now when I run this script xemacs > coredumps frequently, especially after it's been r

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I also was advised to use ip-masq. to solve some routing problems, but > when I tried to compile kernel (2.0.27) enabling ip-masq. I found that > this option could not be activated from 'make xconfig' menus. Why? > How should I activate this option?

Form Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, How?

1997-05-26 Thread jr_martinez
I have installed Debian 1.2, Linux kernel 2.0.27, in my home PC and I would like to migrate to Debian 1.3, I download the files from Internet . As I am not very skilled in this matter, Could anybody give the basics guidelines?. Many thanks in advance. Juan Ramon Martinez Miro e-mail:

Re: failure notice

1997-05-26 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at debian.novare.net. > > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. > > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn'

Re: Form Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, How?

1997-05-26 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have installed Debian 1.2, Linux kernel 2.0.27, in my home PC and I > would like to migrate to Debian 1.3, I download the files from Internet . > As I am not very skilled in this matter, Could anybody give the basics > guidelines?. Man

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 26, 1997 at 01:33:03PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > I also was advised to use ip-masq. to solve some routing problems, but > when I tried to compile kernel (2.0.27) enabling ip-masq. I found that > this option could not be activated from 'make xconfig' menus. Why? > How should I

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 11:23:36AM +0800, A. M. Varon wrote: > Long answer: You have to say yes to the experimental drivers in order for > the option ip masq to appear. kernel 2.0.27 partially supports ip masq, so > you have to patch the kernel with some files to fully use it. If possible, > get th

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > > I also was advised to use ip-masq. to solve some routing problems, but > when I tried to compile kernel (2.0.27) enabling ip-masq. I found that > this option could not be activated from 'make xconfig' menus. Why? > How should I activate this option? You should have been first enable prom

help with perl

1997-05-26 Thread Craig Sanders
I'm modifying my squid redirection script to use a database...I'd prefer not to have to restart squid every time i update the redirections list. The non-database version (i.e. hardcoded perl S&R statements) works perfectly. The db version fails on some patterns. here's a summary of what the scrip

smail paniclog/ftape problem?

1997-05-26 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In the last two days, I have found these two entries in /var/log/smail/paniclog: 05/26/1997 02:02:03: [m0wVsp6-0002CyC] write to spool failed, \ dir=/var/spool/smail 05/26/1997 02:02:03: [m0wVsp6-0002CyC] incoming mail lost: spool file \ write error: No such file

Re: help with perl

1997-05-26 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Mon, 26 May 1997 23:40:35 +1000 (EST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The database is a .db file created with 'makemap hash redir from [:space:]-delimited source input like the following: [...] > //.*riddler.com/Commonwealth/bin/statdeploy.* //www.taz.net.au/blank_ad.gif The prob

Kernel freeze during install

1997-05-26 Thread Brian Candler
I am trying to install Debian-1.2.10 and the kernel freezes during bootup at the following point: [my BusLogic KT445C host adaptor is detected successfully as scsi0] Ux4F0: address 0x330 in use, skipping probe. NCR53c406a: no available ports found qlogicisp : PCI bios not present eata_dma: No BIOS

Re: Form Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, How?

1997-05-26 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Debian 1.2, Linux kernel 2.0.27, in my home PC and I > would like to migrate to Debian 1.3, I download the files from Internet . > As I am not very skilled in this matter, Could anybody give t

Re: Form Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, How?

1997-05-26 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have installed Debian 1.2, Linux kernel 2.0.27, in my home PC and I > > would like to migrate to Debian 1.3, I download the files from Internet . > > As I am not very skilled in this matter, Could

core when running C++ programs..

1997-05-26 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello all! I'm having a weird problem compiling anything with the C++ libraries. When I try to run the program, I always get the message: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Just to give an example, for instance if I compile the following program I get this core dump: main.cc: int m

Re: Kernel freeze during install

1997-05-26 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian Candler wrote: > I am trying to install Debian-1.2.10 and the kernel freezes during bootup at > the following point: > > [my BusLogic KT445C host adaptor is detected successfully as scsi0] > Ux4F0: address 0x330 in use, skipping probe. > NCR53c406a: no available ports f

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-26 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> Long answer: You have to say yes to the experimental drivers in order for >> the option ip masq to appear. kernel 2.0.27 partially supports ip masq, so >> you have to patch the kernel with some files to fully use it. If possible, >> get the kernel 2.0.

GCC Libraries

1997-05-26 Thread Adam Klein
In my /usr/lib/gcc-lib directory, the only directory entry is for "i486-linux". My machine is a 386. Do I have to get the GCC sources and recompile, or will these libs work on my machine? Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: help with perl

1997-05-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The pattern you have is: //.*riddler.com/Commonwealth/bin/statdeploy.* //www.taz.net.au/blank_ad.gif However, on adding printing to your script, I discovered the key came out to be: DEBUG key = //.*riddler.com/commonwealth/bin/statdeploy.* See? the capitalization

net-acct & outgoing PPP lines?

1997-05-26 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
Hi there, recently I asked about how to do IP-Accounting, and it looks like net-acct is the package to go for. But, after trying it - has someone managed to account the traffic on an outgoing (dialOUT) PPP connection? I mailed the two people who hinted towards using net-acct, Heiko Schlitte

Get this when using perl...

1997-05-26 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I get this error when using perl scripts: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = (unset), LC_COLLATE = (unset), LANG = "us"

Can't find loadable object for module Msql in @INC

1997-05-26 Thread Steven Tonnesen
I've been trying to use the msqlperl package but I keep getting: Can't find loadable object for module Msql in @INC... Does anyone know what I'm missing? Steve. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Glitches during stable -> frozen transition

1997-05-26 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 25 May 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > Hi, debianians, martians and other sapiens ! > > i upgraded from stable to frozen just yesterday > (got around 40M from debian including kernel-image 2.30) > and discovered several glitches: > > 1. During booting

Re: Get this when using perl...

1997-05-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From my .bash_vars file: LANG=en_US export LANG LC_ALL=C export LC_ALL hope this helps, manoj -- "DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT blow the hatch!"

Re: Glitches during stable -> frozen transition

1997-05-26 Thread Jim Pick
> Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > 1. During booting time looks like there is no > >/proc/modules, while after login it's there. > >Still figuring out what's going on > > Wierd, I thought they fixed that. The problem may be that /proc isn't > mounted until later in the boot process. Do you hav

Re: /home was DESTROYED last night.

1997-05-26 Thread Kevin Traas
> : When I woke up this morning I went to check my E-Mail and found > : that everything in /home was gone. Directories data and everything. > : To top it all the /home directory had permissions of 555 and was both > : root owned and root group. "/" is mounted read only and there is a >

TeTex as Replacement for LaTeX - Bug or Feature?

1997-05-26 Thread Gernot
Hi, just wonderd if its a bug or a feature that the Latex-package is replaced by TeTex-Latex as a default-setting What happens with the extra installed *.sty-Files? Just curious. Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-26 Thread Kevin Traas
> But is it possible to exclude traffic based on source and/or destination > IP separately? What we'd like to do is exclude any traffic where BOTH > source and destination are local, and record all other traffic (e.g. for > international traffic billing, where if either source or dest are > non-lo

Re: 486SX33 --> 486DX2-66

1997-05-26 Thread JD Thomlinson
Currently Intel is the only manufacturer selling 5v 486 chips. It *should* be a straight drop-in, no jumper changes required. A *very* old motherboard *could* have a problem supplying enough current for the doubled chip. But I haven't seen that happen yet, and I've upgraded a number of machines

Re: Glitches during stable -> frozen transition

1997-05-26 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He probably didn't choose to replace /etc/init.d/boot when asked. It's > a conffile - we really need to improve the way conffiles are handled, > I think. One suggestion: give an option to show a diff -c2 old-conf-file new-conf-file |more command before any

Problems configuring fetchmail

1997-05-26 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
My current system is debian 1.2.4. I use smail version 3.2-3 as my MTA and popclient version 3.05-3 to retrieve mail. I have installed bo on a separate partition. Bo includes the same version of smail, but popclient has been replaced with fetchmail version 3.8-0. When I try to

Re: Problems configuring fetchmail

1997-05-26 Thread Clint Adams
> reading message 4 (1753 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed I experience this and other problems when using dynamic IPs. Using '-S localhost' on the commandline solves it for me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

1997-05-26 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs. looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth cards. But I only have a null-modem cable. Is it still possible ? with what packages? Other possibilities would be: -getting 2 more netcards -installing linux on a sma

ADSM/iBCS

1997-05-26 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is anyone successfully using any version of the ADSM backup software (client) with the iBCS module package? I can easily get the modules installed (although I had to rebuild the package), and I used to be able to run the sco client under 1.1, but I am now running

X and modmaps

1997-05-26 Thread Richard Kettlewell
I'm attempting to exchange the meanings of my left CTRL key and my Caps Lock key, as I have recently got used to an X terminal where they are in different physical locations to the PC keyboard. After determining the keycodes generated by these keys, I set them with xmodmap as follows: keycode 66

Re: Glitches during stable -> frozen transition

1997-05-26 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 26 May 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: > Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > He probably didn't choose to replace /etc/init.d/boot when asked. It's > > a conffile - we really need to improve the way conffiles are handled, > > I think. > > One sug

Re: Form Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, How?

1997-05-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > This is correct except for 2 specific upgrades which will require manual > intervention. I am not sure what the plan is for the final upgrade > instructions but this is what I had to do. > > The first is the removal of the 'modules' package and the in

alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-05-26 Thread Alex Yukhimets
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alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-05-26 Thread Alex Yukhimets
>alien 5.1 -> 5.2 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/admin >alien (5.2) unstable; urgency=low > * Turns out alien has been broken for processing slackware packages >since >version 3.0. It was leaving an /install directory behind. Fixed this. Joey, why did you upload only to hamm? Why do you think it

root

1997-05-26 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, Curious thing just happend on my machine. All of a sudden, I'm no longer allowed to su to root. An attempt results in "You are not authorized to su root". Could this be related to the "secure-su" package? The "suauth" file is the standard one and doesn't forbid me from switching to root. On a

Supplemental Info about kernel problem

1997-05-26 Thread Seth Rutenberg
Please allow me to repeat myself and add some more (relative?) info: I am having difficulty compiling kernel v. 2.0.27. I was/am using a precompiled kernel which is also v. 2.0.27. I am using Binutils v. 2.7.0.3, which is the version listed as current in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes I am u

Re: alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Yukhimets: > why did you upload only to hamm? Why do you think it is OK to have > broken package in what is even not yet Debian 1.3 and considered to > be the most stable? Frozen is closed for all but critical bugs. The bug I fixed in alien was not a critical bug. -- see shy jo -- TO UNS

Re: help with perl

1997-05-26 Thread Craig Sanders
Thanks for the help...it explains why the syntax was (as far as I could tell) OK yet it still didn't work properly. I should have diffed the output of my test script rather than relying on a visual grep late at night :-). On 26 May 1997, Roderick Schertler wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 1997 23:40:35 +

root user and nfs mounts

1997-05-26 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Currently I mount my home directory from a departmental AIX machine using the following exports on the AIX machine: /home3/telmerco -access=sargan:terrapin and the following fstab on my debian hamm machine: qed:/home3/telmerco /home/telmerco/qed nfs defaul