Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bruce, you must have missed the latest editor war while on vacation! :). > As a result, we have elvis-tiny (the reduced elvis) on the base disks (no > impersonators! ). Oh. I hope nobody gets too used to it - eventually I'd like to shrink that disk some mor

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Igor Grobman
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote > > From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Bruce, you must have missed the latest editor war while on vacation! :). > > As a result, we have elvis-tiny (the reduced elvis) on the base disks (no > > impersonators! ). > > Oh. I hope nobody gets too used to it - eve

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Note that I said "on the base disks". Rescue disk still has the good old > ugly ae on it :). OK. Try "ae -f /etc/ae2vi.rc" on a 1.3 system sometime. It's impressive what you can do with a 23k editor! Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Security packages?

1997-05-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 22, Kendrick Myatt wrote > Be happy to make them... what all is involved? Do I have to have permission > of the author or anything weird like that? Please point me in the direction > oif whatever I need to get started. Sorry for the delay... To get started building Debian packages, you s

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards..

1997-05-30 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Thu, 29 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just wondering if anyone out there has gotten any of the > PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards working under Debian/Linux on > a laptop? I'm looking at buying one.. but, of course I would > like to buy a brand that I should be able to get to work > under Deb

File version conflicts...

1997-05-30 Thread Curt Howland
I am trying to install the basic ftp file set, and I get the following errors: - dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreadline2-dev: libreadline2-dev depends on libreadline2 (= 2.0.1-2); however: Version of libreadline2 on system is 2.1-2.

efax

1997-05-30 Thread Jim Smith
Is anyone using Efax? According to Page 15 of the manpage one can add an entry to /etc/printcap and then print to efax as though it was a regular printer. It didn't work for me as expected, I was given an error message "fax: No Such printer". Has anyone had success using this method and if so could

Re: File version conflicts...

1997-05-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 29, Curt Howland wrote > > I am trying to install the basic ftp file set, and I get the > following errors: The problem is that the versions of libc5 and libc5-dev don't match (and likewise for libreadline2 and libreadline2-dev). If you're not planning on doing development, you don't need

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Bruce, you must have missed the latest editor war while on vacation! :). : > As a result, we have elvis-tiny (the reduced elvis) on the base disks (no : > impersonators! ). : : Oh. I hope nobody gets too used to i

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Che Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Pretty much everything went well -- the biggest surprise was that > > the base disks, although there were 5 of them, offered *much* more > > functionality this time around than ever before. Having elvis was > > lovely

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Igor Grobman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Note that I said "on the base disks". Rescue disk still has the good old : ugly ae on it :). Ooppsss. Sorry for my last message. I read this one too late :-) E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Tele

xvmount

1997-05-30 Thread Jim Smith
Attempting to run xvmount, I get an error msg: "can't load library 'libxview.so.3'". Doing an "ls" in /usr/X11R6/lib shows that in fact libxview.so.3 is there (and is a link to libxview.so.3.2.3). Something missing here? Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY

Arggggghhh!!! Why is this so hard???

1997-05-30 Thread Seth Rutenberg
I solved the compiling problem I was having b4. Now I'm having all kinds of fun new problems trying to compile one with ppp and other options. Just thought I'd gripe... :P Thanks 4 listening :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

Compaq modem?!?

1997-05-30 Thread Rick Jones
I have a compaq presario 336 modem that isn't plug-n-play but doesn't seem to be recognised. Is their a trick to it or is it another of Compaq's little tricks to isolate their hardware? L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227

PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards..

1997-05-30 Thread Christian Lynbech
I have just tested out a laptop, and I recommend that you AVOID the Dell Latitude. They newer ones comes with an unsupported graphic card (MagigGraph or NeoMagic). The result was both that I could not combine X in high resolution (800x600) and text mode (if one was working the other was unusable)

amd - errors / not working

1997-05-30 Thread loki
I'm trying to use amd 5.2.2.2 unoficial patch lev 102 under debian 1.2 could some other users please post their amd configuration files, with copious comments? As far as I can tell from the error messages, the NFS systems are never mounted anywhere in any way. Trafshow tells me that no udp request

svgalib

1997-05-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Hi! I use the debian-linux distribution for some month. Now I have a small problem: If I start the game squake as user, I get the message: svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console. Exit -1 If I start this game as root then everythink is ok. But I don't like to start any game as root. Also few weeks ago

Type1 fonts for X11

1997-05-30 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I recently installed Staroffice on my Debian computer. I found a problem, which is caused by Debian, not by StarOffice. When I start a screen presentation with star draw, it uses large X fonts, which look ugly, because they are zoomed pixel fonts. As far as I know, there are Type1 fonts availab

Type1 fonts for X11 <2>

1997-05-30 Thread Rainer Dorsch
http://goblet.anu.edu.au/~m9305357/type1inst.html contains information about type1 fonts, if it is neccessary to build such a package. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universität StuttgartTel.: 0711-7816-215 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Mark Boyns
29 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually Bruce, although the ae imposter is still included, it has been > superceded by a tiny version of elvis. The worst part of it is that this > version refuses to let other versions of vi execute after they have been > installed. I haven't had the time

Re: gzip always gives me error

1997-05-30 Thread joost witteveen
> # dpkg -i povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb > > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe Could you check the file povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb ? Is it equal to: bo/binary-all/graphics$ ls -al povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb -r--r--r-- 1 joostusers 1518294 Apr 10 21:57 povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb bo/binary-all/g

drop dead?

1997-05-30 Thread tomk
I've been experiencing sudden loss of subscription to this list. No warnings, nothing to indicate that the list might have a problem with delivering mail. One day I will have new mail from the list, the next day, nothing... and nothing afterwards. Has anyone else had this experience as well? -- -

Re: File Verision Conflicts

1997-05-30 Thread Curt Howland
>From: "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On May 29, Curt Howland wrote >> >> I am trying to install the basic ftp file set, and I get the >> following errors: >The problem is that the versions of libc5 and libc5-dev don't match (and >likewise >for libreadline2 and libreadline2-dev). If yo

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 30 May 1997, Mark Boyns wrote: > 29 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Actually Bruce, although the ae imposter is still included, it has been > > superceded by a tiny version of elvis. The worst part of it is that this > > version refuses to let other versions of vi execute after they h

libc6 version 2.0.3-4 and ecvt

1997-05-30 Thread Douglas Bates
I have reported this as a bug in the libc6 package but I think it is important enough to warn people on this list also. It appears that the ecvt function in libc6 version 2.0.3-4 is producing incorrect results. A test program shown below produces different results when compiled against libc6 and

Re: svgalib

1997-05-30 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > problem: If I start the game squake as user, I get the message: > > svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console. > Exit -1 > > If I start this game as root then everythink is ok. But I don't like to > start any game as root. Also few weeks ago there was no proble

nameserver problems after 1.3 upgrade! HELP

1997-05-30 Thread Brian K Servis
HELP, Here is the problem. I upgraded to frozen from uiarchive.uiuc.edu over the weekend. I am having all kinds of network type problems now. Everything upgraded ok with no real problems that couldn't be fixed with a second run of install in dselect. I am running on a stand alone machine at hom

Re: ppp packet errors

1997-05-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > When ifconfig reports packet errors, does this mean errors that > were caught and corrected, or does it mean errors that got through? Note that the ifconfig output showed the packets as "dropped". Thus, the packets didn't get through. ppp has a CRC checksum in e

Re: crypt

1997-05-30 Thread Rick Jones
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The crypt (1) algorithm is based on the German WWII era "Enigma" cipher > - except that it's not as good. It emulates an Enigma machine with one > rotor. I'll point out that the chaps at Bletchley Park cracked four > rotor ciphers in the 1940s using

Re: mgetty & ppp

1997-05-30 Thread Kevin Traas
> On Wed, 28 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > This sounds like a device lock contention problem. Try using > > /dev/ttyS1 for incoming (i.e. mgetty) and use /dev/cua1 for outgoing > > (i.e. PPP). > > NO! > > Don't use cua devices for anything. They're obsolete and doing this will > CAUSE locki

Re: drop dead?

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
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Re: mgetty & ppp

1997-05-30 Thread Kevin Traas
> On Wed, 28 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > This sounds like a device lock contention problem. Try using > > /dev/ttyS1 for incoming (i.e. mgetty) and use /dev/cua1 for outgoing > > (i.e. PPP). > > NO! > > Don't use cua devices for anything. They're obsolete and doing this will > CAUSE locki

Re: couldn't get a free page

1997-05-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Kernel 2.0.30 changed the way it handles memory. It's supposed to be a > stable kernel (by this I'm saying it's a 2.0.x and not a 2.1.x), but > problems like this make me think it shouldn't be used in 1.3. Could you > try downgrading to 2.0.29 and let me (or the whole

minor debian 1.3 buglet, in fvwm2_2.0.45-BETA-4?

1997-05-30 Thread John M. Rulnick
Can anyone confirm the disappearance of window outlines (those that appear during window placement) under fvwm2_2.0.45-BETA-4? Restoring 2.0.43-BETA-0 fixes the problem for me. If I get a confirmation I'll send a note to the maintainer or submit a bug report as appropriate. Apologies to all if t

ps, pdf viewer

1997-05-30 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Can someone suggest a good PS or PDF viewer. Debian has the GhostView and GV packages, but which does everyone like ? >From reading the descriptions, GV looks better. Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMA

Re: drop dead?

1997-05-30 Thread Pete Templin
On Fri, 30 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been experiencing sudden loss of subscription to this list. No warnings, > nothing to indicate that the list might have a problem with delivering mail. > One day I will have new mail from the list, the next day, nothing... and > nothing afterwar

Re: libc6 version 2.0.3-4 and ecvt

1997-05-30 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:05:16 -0500 > From: Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: libc6 version 2.0.3-4 and ecvt > Resent-Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 17:03:58 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Res

Re: File version conflicts...

1997-05-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 30, Curt Howland wrote > > Believe me, that was the first thing I thought of. Trouble > is, ftp.debian.org is exactly where I'm getting it from. Well, I just checked the version of libc5 and libc5-dev for every distribution on ftp.debian.org and they match, so your problem is elsewhere. Yo

fetch (leafnode) doesn't get anything

1997-05-30 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
I just tried leafnode, and by me fetch does'nt suck anything :( I put my NNTP server in /etc/leafnode.conf, ran fetch ran tin : error rtin with NNTPSERVER=myself ok : lists my newsgroups as empty fetch : does nothing. ? here is a transcript : bash# fetch -v -v -v verbosity level is 3 LIST ACTIVE

iBCS for kernel 2.0.30

1997-05-30 Thread Mika Marjamäki
Hi! Does anyone know, if there's a .deb-packet of iBCS that is compiled for kernel 2.0.30? I've installed Debian 1.3 (frozen) from mirror at ftp.funet.fi, and when i try to install iBCS i get this: atuki_linux# modprobe iBCS /lib/modules/misc/iBCS: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modul

Re: File version conflicts...

1997-05-30 Thread Curt Howland
>On May 30, Curt Howland wrote >> >> Believe me, that was the first thing I thought of. Trouble >> is, ftp.debian.org is exactly where I'm getting it from. In reply to 30 May message from "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Well, I just checked the version of libc5 and libc5-dev for every d

exim and virtual domains

1997-05-30 Thread Tim Sailer
I know there are a few of you Debian users running exim for a MTA. I need some help in getting virtual domains running the way I want. What do I need to do to make the following alias file work? info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I set up the virtual stuff right out of the manual, but the mail die

PPP,Samba and Linux

1997-05-30 Thread Marc D. Jones
Does anyone know how to setup linux so that when a Win95 machine dials in you can see the linux and any other Irix, Unix, or other machines in the Workgroup.Right now we've been able to dial in to the debian sys and in turn go out to the ISP and access the web.  I am able to ping all machines on my

Re: minor debian 1.3 buglet, in fvwm2_2.0.45-BETA-4?

1997-05-30 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 30 May 1997, John M. Rulnick wrote: > Can anyone confirm the disappearance of window outlines (those that > appear during window placement) under fvwm2_2.0.45-BETA-4? Restoring > 2.0.43-BETA-0 fixes the problem for me. > > If I get a confirmation I'll send a note to the maintainer or sub

rcp with root?

1997-05-30 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I just finished upgrading our Debian cluster to the frozen distribution and now the mechanism we used for synchronizing important system files is no longer working. With the previous setup we used the rcp command as root to copy passwd files and system.fvwmrc files to all of the machin

Re: rcp with root?

1997-05-30 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Upon a more careful observation of the new man page for rshd (I can't imagine how I failed to see it except that the option was buried in the paragraph and not on the left margin where it is visible) I noticed that using the -h option for rshd will re-enable the feature allowing rcp as root. Sorry

Re: exim and virtual domains

1997-05-30 Thread Behan Webster
Tim Sailer wrote: > I know there are a few of you Debian users running exim for a MTA. > I need some help in getting virtual domains running the way I want. > What do I need to do to make the following alias file work? > > info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I set up the virtual stuff right out

Re: crypt

1997-05-30 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Ok, first I'd like to say, that although I know Rabin and Shamir (the R and S from RSA, not the Israeli prime ministers) personally, I have no clue in cryptography, and I do respect what Rick says, but... But. On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > These are not "strong" encryption methods. T