Re: Book
I don't think there is enough demand to warrant publishing a Debian book
on paper yet. If such a document existed on other media, I (and quite a
few others) wouldn't mind using some supplies to print out, punch, and
bind a copy. I prefer documentation that can be updated by easily
repla
From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Re: stupid non-free restrictions
>
> Is there anything in non-free that can't be given away?
I'd suggest you read the licenses in there really carefully. We don't
make any guarantees about the way we have interpreted the software
licenses, _even_for_programs_
On 17 Jun, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I compiled Emacs myself and put it in /usr/local. How do I tell dpkg
> that it's OK to install packages that depend on Emacs though it's not
> a Debian package install?
>
Try the equivs Package from Paul Seelig's "unofficial debian packages"
site.
http://www.un
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for this silly question. I am new to both Debian
and Linux.
My disk has following partions:
/dev/hda1DOS
/dev/hda2extended partion
/dev/hda3swap
/dev/hda4Red Hat linux
/dev/hda5Debian 1.3
In you /etc/smail/config file append together.net to your hostnames= line
thusly:
hostnames=gologotha:whatever-else-you-have:together.net
then add the following new config parameter:
visible_name=together.net
That should do it but the visible name must also appear in the hostnames
line.
>
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Re: stupid non-free restrictions
> >
> > Is there anything in non-free that can't be given away?
>
> I'd suggest you read the licenses in there really carefully. We don't
> make any guarantees about the way we hav
I upgraded a bunch of hamm packages this morning including the perl 5.003.07 to
5.004 (ok, its been a while since I did a dselect run) and it seems that
majordomo.pl from 1.94.1 isn't liked much by perl 5.004.
Two issues:
/bin/perl disappeared -- I added a soft link back in
/usr/lib/majordomo/m
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do:
> >
> > 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including
> >the Packages file.
> >
> > 2. Up
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> Re: stupid non-free restrictions
>
> Is there anything in non-free that can't be given away? If you buy a CD-R
> from me, I can put the non-free software on it. Why? Because I will put it
> on a CD-R that you don't buy from me at no charge. The CD-ROM vendo
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> On 16 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>
> > ECL> The "plain" Emacs (GNU Emacs) works very nice under X
> > ECL> windows. Some though prefer XEmacs.
> >
> > And XEmacs works very well on a console. It even does colors!
> >
> Has a better html mo
From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I understand that you can't make guarantees and put SPI in a position of
> potential liability.
Right.
> Is there anything excluded from bo or contrib on the Official Debian CD?
No.
> Is everything in main and contrib under GPL?
There are a variety of lice
( I took out all the extra cc's on this thread. You're welcome. )
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Be very careful here. You have made the common blunder when thinking about
> non-free. It has absolutely nothing to do with money! The fact that you
> are not intending to sell the CD doe
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> > > 3. Can the downlaoding tool also be used to uplaod mail to my Betcom
> > > account?
> > >
> > No, but smtp will do that for you.
>
> Note that if you use SMTP, you should use your ISP as your smarthost. This
> is because if you have dynami
Concentric will not allow mail carrying a From: address outside its
network and a To: address outside its network.
SO if the mail was From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], CNC will refuse it as it looks suspiciously
like a relay attempt.
Also, the rules are different depending on wh
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Is there anything excluded from bo or contrib on the Official Debian CD?
>
> No.
>
> > I hope so, because I use a lot of it for my (commercial) operations.
>
> We intend them to be OK for this.
Good. That means things haven't changed since I first v
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Would you or anyone know how I could implement a rule so that
> smail (or whatever program handles this sort of thing) would rewrite
> any outgoing messages to correct the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to become
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (together.net is of course
The situation: here at the Monash library, myself and a colleague
are setting up three or four Debian systems. The intention is that,
by NFS mounting /usr, the space required to hold the binaries (not
insignificant at the best of times :-) should be greatly reduced,
along with the redundancy of th
Hi,
I urgently have to backup my Linux box. But tar hangs after a while,
and to get the /dev/st0 free, I have to reboot. The task isn't
killable (D flag in the ps listing). My configuration: Adaptec SCSI
adapter, DAT tape. I want to backup the whole disk, including a vfat
partition.
My first ques
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> Let me clairfy. non-free contains packages that have some sort of
> restriction either on use or on distribution or on modification. Not
> all of the packages in non-free can be put on the Official CD although
> some of them can. debian-
> "W" == W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
W> I very much dislike that the two cannot co-exist together. I
W> have refused to try XEmacs because I do not want to give up
W> what I am mostly happy with to try that which I may or may not
W> like.
There's talk on the XEma
> "Rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> But it seems to insist that the higher density modes don't
Rick> exist. It's startup messages (the ones that are left)
Rick> annnouce
They get deleted by the Xserver to protect your monitor.
Rick> (--) there is no
On Jun 17, Hubert Palme wrote
: Heiko Schlittermann:
: > Reads as an DNS problem. Try to turn on more debugging in smail
: > (-v1000 or somewhat similar, see the manpage ...). This way you should
: > be able to find what actually is the BIND failure. No MX (but that
: > should'nt hurd), no
Hello,
I remember seeing some messages in this list not long ago saying that
the maintainers of these two packages had agreed on a format that would
allow both to coexist in the same machine. What's the status of this?
I'd like to try Xemacs but I don't want to give up my old friend Emacs!
--
P
I am looking at setting up setting up several mail hosts. After
doing a little reading it looks like sendmail is significantly more
flexible than smail though possibly a bit more difficult to learn.
Initially the only need to have a host that will pick up mail if our
primary server is d
Hello all,
I know my question is not quite appropriate in this mailing list. But
hopefully, someone can answer my question.
I am looking for a maths C library which has the function which can find
the inverse cumulative standard normal disturbtion. It seems that the
standard maths.h does not hav
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> X is now running, but it seems to be ignoring options. It's a Diamond
> stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
> and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher
> density modes don't exist. It's start
Hi Rick,
You wrote:
But it seems to insist that the higher density modes don't
exist. It's startup messages (the ones that are left)
annnouce
(--) there is no mode definition mamed "1024x768"
(--) removing mode "1024X768": from list of valid modes"
then again for 800x600.
This
Gernot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Im having a problem with the tetex-packages. I upgraded from Debian 1.2
> to 1.3 and have now TeTex installed (not the normal latex-packages
> anymore...). Now I cant compile my files anymore. I always get:
>
> > mother:~/Uni> latex document.tex
> > This i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max Stevens) writes:
>
> Though I have yet to upgrade to TeTeX myself, I encountered this
> problem when I installed the old latex packages.
>
> As root, go to /usr/lib/texmf/ini (or the TeTeX equivalent) and, if
> there's a makefile there you can just type 'make' but otherwis
On 16 Jun 1997, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
< Problems getting lilo to boot different linuxen/partitions. >
Hi,
Take a look at my /etc/lilo.conf. It does all that you ask for.
I have the current and an older kernel on /dev/hda1, a rescue installation
on /dev/hdc9 an
On 17 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Rick> 3) the file /etc/xdm.dpkg-dist exists, but xdm isn't
> Rick> launching. However, xdm from a root window successfully
> Rick> launches.
>
> ? /etc/X11/xdm/*, and /etc/init.d/xdm are the files it uses.
You might also want to check /etc
This is the first time that I use afterstep. When I run Netscape in fvwm,
fvwm95, or almost every other wm, it works fine. But when I run it in
afterstep I get the following message:
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
I also get a error window message saying that
On Jun 17, Alberto Ruiz wrote
> This is the first time that I use afterstep. When I run Netscape in fvwm,
> fvwm95, or almost every other wm, it works fine. But when I run it in
> afterstep I get the following message:
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
>
> I
> This is the first time that I use afterstep. When I run Netscape in fvwm,
> fvwm95, or almost every other wm, it works fine. But when I run it in
> afterstep I get the following message:
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
>
> I also get a error window messag
As adduser, useradd are still not quite compatible with NIS, it is a major
headache to add a NIS-only users(with alternate "passwd" map).
Is there some workaround that I don't know about?
It really is painfull to add NIS users by hand and change their passwords.
Yppasswd wouldn't change password
You can run netscape with the option -install so that it will use it's own
colormap for better resolution. The downside is that when your mouse is
resting on netscape aftersteps colors will shift, but once you move it to
another application or onto the background afterstep will appear
normal ( I
I hope somebody can help me how to restore a broken CD-structure. The CD was
written as a multi-session CD. The first session is more than 400MB-s, and
contains Debian 1.3 without the sources. It was written from a rockridge
cd-image (made by mkisofs), with all the unix-filenames, sym-links. etc.
I
I don't know what happended, but what I upgraded from fvwm95 to fvwm95-2,
fvwm95-2 doesn't work anymore. I'm not even getting any errors in the
.xsession-errors file or on the console. Did the new installation
wiped-out the default settings or is just not working?
Alberto Ruiz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm pretty sure that what I want to do is possible because I know some ISPs
do it.
Here's what I want: to allow users to have an e-mail address and a pop
mailbox that is greater than 8 characters. For example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's my setup: smail 3.2.3, fetchmail 3.9.8 and the standard in.po
Joost Kooij wrote:
> If you are running xdm (that is, you see a login screen in X) look at the
> configuration files in /etc/X11 and /etc/X11/xdm. /etc/X11/config has
> some
> options that may be affecting you; mine looks like this:
>
> ===
> # This f
/usr/doc/X11/debian.README says
* run-xconsole
Start xconsole on the local X server before login
but I don't see an xconsole getting created. I don't use xdm; I run
startx manually.
Here's my config file:
---
# This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System.
Hello all...
I need to do an install of the 1.3 release of debian on one of my
machines here - on a single IDE type disk. However I must have a copy of
MS NT/4.0 installed as well, sob-weep-sob...
Can anyone advise me on how this is done? I would like to use the
Micro$oft boot manager to swit
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Doro Ferrante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>> 3) the file /etc/xdm.dpkg-dist exists, but xdm isn't launching.
>> However, xdm from a root window successfully launches.
>
> If you get answer for this one
Will there be a debian-1.3-fixed (bo-fixed) directory soon?
bo-updates just contains a bunch of individual packages.
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> From: "Al Youngwerth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:"debian-user"
> Subject: long user names for POP mailboxes
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:12:53 -0600
> I'm pretty sure that what I want to do is possible because I know some ISPs
> do it.
>
> Here's what I want:
I've got a new computer with a 2GB SCSI disk which I want to partition for
linux. I've stuck a second-hand IDE drive in for DOS, so I was going to
use just primary partitions on the 2GB disk.
Following other people's experience on this list, I was going to try
Swap64MB (there's 32M memory)
/
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Chris Jason Richards wrote:
: Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin
: can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not
: removed completely, etc. ?
:
: I know when I remove some debian packages usuing dselect, it usually
I have an order in with I-Connect, but for some reason it is taking them a
long time to get me a CD out this time.
I CAN'T wait any longer. I have 5 servers sitting here and my deadline to
deliver them is quicky approaching. If I don't have a Deb 1.3 CD in my hands
by Friday I am screwed.
I nee
Dave Oswald wrote:
>
> Hello all...
>
> I need to do an install of the 1.3 release of debian on one of my
> machines here - on a single IDE type disk. However I must have a copy of
> MS NT/4.0 installed as well, sob-weep-sob...
>
> Can anyone advise me on how this is done? I would like to us
Christoph wrote
>Gernot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>
>> Im having a problem with the tetex-packages. I upgraded from Debian >1.2
<> to 1.3 and have now TeTex installed (not the normal latex-packages
>> anymore...). Now I cant compile my files anymore. I always get:
>>
>> > mother:~/Uni> late
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:53:56 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Alberto Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Afterstep color problem
> Resent-Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:41:17 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: r
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Will there be a debian-1.3-fixed (bo-fixed) directory soon?
> bo-updates just contains a bunch of individual packages.
>
Until these bo-updates packages have been well tested they are not
candidates for bo-fixed. As soon as such candidates exist there
Hi all,
After installing Debian 1.3.0 (from scratch):
$ nethack
NetHack, Copyright 1985-1996
By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.
See license for details.
No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!
Hit
Under the FAT16 system when a file is deleted, it's only removed from the
FAT. Though the file appears gone, it still remains on the drive.
When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
gone for good or is it just removed from view while it remains on the disk?
Than
> > I'm pretty sure that what I want to do is possible because I know some
ISPs
> > do it.
> >
> > Here's what I want: to allow users to have an e-mail address and a pop
> > mailbox that is greater than 8 characters. For example:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Here's my setup: smail 3.2.3, fetchm
I just upgraded my FAT 16 partition to FAT32, but now I can't mount it in
Linux, be the filesystem is unknown. Is there a package or module that
will let me mount my partionion?
Thanks.
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I've noticed that /etc/motd is always replaced by Debian upon bootup. I
was wondering where it gets the contents which replaces it, and how I can
stop it from doing that!!
I'm running Debian 1.3
Thanks, Chris.
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I don't think there's a .deb for fat32. However, see
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html for info about Linux and
fat32.
A friend of mine patched his kernel and has had no complaints about it so far.
If you decide to go for a custom kernel, check kernel-package in the misc
secti
innd is reporting a problem that also prevents it from allowing news-
reading connections, thus:
bash$ telnet localhost 119
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 No such file or directory writing symlinking article file -- throttling
Connection close
Hi,
>>"Will" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> And XEmacs works very well on a console. It even does colors!
Will> Has a better html mode, also.
I'm curious. I haven't used XEmacs since I moved last summer,
and I am wondering what HTML mode you are talking about? I tend to
On Jun 17, Hubert Palme wrote
> Hi,
>
> I urgently have to backup my Linux box. But tar hangs after a while,
> and to get the /dev/st0 free, I have to reboot. The task isn't
> killable (D flag in the ps listing). My configuration: Adaptec SCSI
> adapter, DAT tape. I want to backup the whole disk,
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
> gone for good or is it just removed from view while it remains on the disk?
Nope. It's pretty much gone forever.
Will
On 17 Jun 97 09:18:48 -0500, Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Initially the only need to have a host that will pick up mail if our
> primary server is down or busy then forward it on when the other
> system is back up.
You don't have to configure sendmail at all for this to work, it's
On Jun 17, compwiz wrote
> I just upgraded my FAT 16 partition to FAT32, but now I can't mount it in
> Linux, be the filesystem is unknown. Is there a package or module that
> will let me mount my partionion?
> Thanks.
Here an excerpt from comp.os.linux.development:
FAT32 support is not yet incl
On Jun 17, Tim O'Brien wrote
> Under the FAT16 system when a file is deleted, it's only removed from the
> FAT. Though the file appears gone, it still remains on the drive.
>
> When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
> gone for good or is it just removed from vi
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Brad Roberts wrote:
> I upgraded a bunch of hamm packages this morning including the perl 5.003.07
> to 5.004 (ok, its been a while since I did a dselect run) and it seems that
> majordomo.pl from 1.94.1 isn't liked much by perl 5.004.
Wow, you should tell your e-mail softw
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:38:44 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Until these bo-updates packages have been well tested they are not
> candidates for bo-fixed.
Is there a Packages file I can be downloading to help test these updates?
I'm using dpkg-ftp on stable, non-free and c
Hello All:
Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux?
Cheers,
Carlo
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Hello,
I recently bought a new VGA card, and switched to 16-bit mode for X11,
but I just found out that xfig can't handle colors now. When I try to
select a color, xfig prints the message "Can't allocate necessary
colorcells, can't popup color panel". This is obviously true, since
X11 doesn't al
Hi,
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 01:01:51 -0700
> From: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
> Subject: Re: help with man pages
> Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:59:47 +
> Resent-From: debia
> Hello,
>
> I remember seeing some messages in this list not long ago saying that
> the maintainers of these two packages had agreed on a format that would
> allow both to coexist in the same machine. What's the status of this?
It works. The XEmacs19 package and Emacs package from unstable (wha
Hi,
sorry again for the off-topic question...
following the advice several people in the list gave to me last week,
I set up UUCP to handle e-mail between our main office and our remote
branch offices.
I can write e-mail and it gets sent to the UUCP job queue. Later, when the
systems connect, th
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Manoj> Hi,
>>> "Will" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> And XEmacs works very well on a console. It even does colors!
Will> Has a better html mode, also.
Manoj> I'm curious. I haven't used XEmacs
I got X going by using XF86Setup. Initially, when done, it ran
xvidtune. Now, no such luck. I ultimately ended up removing all of the
xpackages and reinstalling, but still no. It seems to be unhappy about
a missing default font.
here's the output from startx:
XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
> I've noticed that /etc/motd is always replaced by Debian upon bootup. I
> was wondering where it gets the contents which replaces it, and how I can
> stop it from doing that!!
/etc/init.d/boot replaces the fi
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry again for the off-topic question...
>
> following the advice several people in the list gave to me last week,
> I set up UUCP to handle e-mail between our main office and our remote
> branch offices.
>
> I can write e-mail and it gets sent to the UUCP job
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, David Wright wrote:
> I've got a new computer with a 2GB SCSI disk which I want to partition for
> linux. I've stuck a second-hand IDE drive in for DOS, so I was going to
> use just primary partitions on the 2GB disk.
>
> Following other people's experience on this list, I w
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
> I've noticed that /etc/motd is always replaced by Debian upon bootup. I
> was wondering where it gets the contents which replaces it, and how I can
> stop it from doing that!!
>From /etc/init.d/boot:
---begin /etc/init.d/boot
# Set ED
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