Re: New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty

1997-07-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new machine and I found two problems: > > 1. After installing xbase and the SVGA server, the file > /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver refers to /usr/X11/X11R6/bin/X (or something like > this, I don't recall well). The rig

Re: libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb

1997-07-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading to -5 from -3 ... here is my output: > > # ldconfig > # dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 13971 files and directories currently installed) > Preparing to replace libc5 5.4.33-3 (using lib5_5.4.33-5_i386.d

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-20 Thread H Huang
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > (I'm Cc:ing this to debian-devel in an effort to get it fixed. :)) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to debian-user: > >When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys: > > > >F1 gives P > >F2 gives Q > >F3 gives R > >F4 gives S > > > >F5 - F10 wo

Re: Using "suck" to transfer news....

1997-07-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On 19 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > I am currently setting up suck, and thought that batchmode would suit > perfectly, but that requires something called "innxmit". Does anyone > know if there's a debian package containing this somewhere? It is part of the inn package. I believe y

Re: Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-20 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm > missing... I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working. > My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly: > This is just a guess, but their

Re: BIND 8.1.x ?

1997-07-20 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > > any word on when/if we'll have a bind 8.1.x package? It's > got some bugfixes and things over 4.9.x that make the > upgrade well worthwhile... I mailed the maintainer of > the bind package a few days ago but have no response yet. > I believe I

Any chroot experts

1997-07-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I think I have quite a challenge for the experts. I recently attended an internet security talk, and one thing that caught my attention is placing an offender in a virtual playpin or jail cell, where they could do all the damage they wanted without hurting the actual setup. I figured this was don

Re: Any chroot experts

1997-07-20 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:02:51 EDT Brandon Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recently attended an internet security talk, and one thing that caught > my attention is placing an offender in a virtual playpin or jail cell, > where they could do all the damage they wanted without hurting the ac

qmail? (was:Re: sendmail vs smail)

1997-07-20 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. Yes, I know that there is qmail in project/experimental (at least my mirror has it), but I'd rather not use alpha software -- and I think I would be violating Dan's copy

Very weird X experience...

1997-07-20 Thread d1temp
Hi all, just had/am having a very weird experience in X; it just spawned a new server at VT8... while the old one at VT hanged If I switch to VT7 from the xdm login screen I see the top of my desktop and the rest is a static picture of xdm login screen (I run xlock -nolock -mode star in the login

Re: Using "suck" to transfer news....

1997-07-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On 19 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > I am currently setting up suck, and thought that batchmode would suit > perfectly, but that requires something called "innxmit". Does anyone > know if there's a debian package containing this somewhere? innxmit is a part of the inn package. Howeve

XFree86 3.3 problems

1997-07-20 Thread Ralph Winslow
Having switched to 3.3 when it became available on stable, I at first was disabled by xdm coming up, crashing, and respawning in an endless loop. I've reapired that with my resq disk (by removing /etc/rc3.d/S20xdm) and by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config am now able to run X using startx at 640x480. I'd

Is there not a debian package of gimp?

1997-07-20 Thread Stan Brown
I looked in the stable source and binary locations for a package of gimp (Graphic Image Manipulator). This package is under the GPL, so I would expect it to be there. Am I overloooking something? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can anyone recomend a Debian package finder web page?

1997-07-20 Thread Stan Brown
The one I was using has gone awaya. Any recomendations? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead.

Re: [man pages, groff] How to set a wrap point?

1997-07-20 Thread Riku Saikkonen
> When groff formats a man page file like 'bash.1', > the formatted main text will be centered. > > Do you know how to change this so I can wrap the text > at a certain column (e.g. at column 75). ... > But when printing it on paper I'd rather save paper > and not hold a heavy stack of paper!

Re: Is there not a debian package of gimp?

1997-07-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Stan" == Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stan> I looked in the stable source and binary locations for Stan> a package of gimp (Graphic Image Manipulator). This package Stan> is under the GPL, so I would expect it to be there. I'm the new maintainer of The GIMP. The

Reading news offline (Was: Using "suck" to transfer news....)

1997-07-20 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "JC" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> innxmit is a part of the inn package. However, it is almost JC> *never* directly invoked. It usually gets called by nntpsend, JC> after it parses the nntpsend.ctl file. Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't

Re: Is there not a debian package of gimp?

1997-07-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On 20 Jul 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > I've made packages of 0.99.10, but there are problems with the patent > of the LZW compression, so I have to figure out how to separate things > properly. > > If you'd like an interim version (with gif and tiff support, so you'll > be breaking the law, you

Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using "suck" to transfer news....)

1997-07-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten > it to work yet. Suck transfers some articles from the server, and > makes a batchfile for innxmit, but innxmit wants to read from > /var/spool/news/out.going, which seems to be

Re: Is there not a debian package of gimp?

1997-07-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jason" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Uh, no need to split things up at all. According to the Jason> Unisys LZW FAQ, you just need to contact them. If your Jason> software is free, so is LZW. Ah, yes, but the policy is still restrictive, so either all

Re: qmail? (was:Re: sendmail vs smail)

1997-07-20 Thread Dima
>>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: >A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized >distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. You can use a non-debianized version: the only difference is that Debian already have qmail users and groups in /etc/passwd & /etc/

netscape-beta Package

1997-07-20 Thread Jason Ish
I'm just curious what happened to the netscape-beta package. I can't seem to find it tho it is listed in the search at www.debian.org. Thanks Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: netscape-beta Package

1997-07-20 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Jason Ish wrote: > I'm just curious what happened to the netscape-beta package. I can't seem to > find it tho it is listed in the search at www.debian.org. > Brian White is reworking it since it didn't work with most recent betas. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb

1997-07-20 Thread Johnie Ingram
Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc5.postinst to remove the "set -e" at the top, then run dpkg --configure libc5. "Paul" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I'm having trouble upgrading to -5 from -3 ... here is my Paul> output: # ldconfig # dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb (Reading Paul> d

2GB filesize limit in tar or linux?

1997-07-20 Thread Steve Hsieh
Does anyone know if tar is limited to generating tar files that are 2GB or smaller? Or is this due to some other limitation of linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Netscape and ical printing problems with gs-aladdin

1997-07-20 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, After I installed gs-aladdin, the lpr-command wil not work from netscape or ical. Printing of ps-files produced by dvips have no problems. My printer just print something about an "Unrecoverable error: invalidexit in .stop Operand stack: tru Times Roman 12" ... If I print to a .ps file

SB Sound driver full duplex?

1997-07-20 Thread Rick Jones
Does anybody know if the current SB Sound driver is full duplex or not? I'm trying to get speak freely working and I get audio device errors when I try to use speaker and mike at the same time. L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47,

lprng and Get_local_host: hostname 'xxxx' bad

1997-07-20 Thread Richard Morin
Hi folks, I'm receiving the following error when I try to do anything with lprng. I did have a working printer setup for awhile, but in one of the upgrades (I track unstable) something has gone amiss. Get_local_host: hostname 'joanrich' bad I did a search of dejanews, and came up with folks who

Odd error message from Cron

1997-07-20 Thread Graham Hughes
I'm getting this quite a bit, and it's puzzling me. I'm not entirely sure *why* it seems to be whining at me. Any suggestions? -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: 20 Jul 1997 13:42:06 -00

Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using "suck" to transfer news....)

1997-07-20 Thread Randy Edwards
On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Does anyone else use suck+inn to get news offline, in that case I > would be happy if anyone could drop me a hint on how. I'm using suck and inn and things are working pretty well from what I've seen. I just use the /usr/bin/get-news command as

Re: SB Sound driver full duplex?

1997-07-20 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Jones wrote: > Does anybody know if the current SB Sound driver is full duplex or not? Half duplex as far as I know (for most cards anyway) > I'm trying to get speak freely working and I get audio device errors when > I try to use speaker and mike at the same time. Try speak freely version