On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:56:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 02:30:37PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > i released v0.11 of the script a few hours ago, so you'll probably
> > > want to update your rex version to that.
> >
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> > on a more general note, i think it would be better for my version and
> > your rex version to be merged into one script.
>
> At first I thought this wasn't very practical, since the rex update
> is messier than the bo update. I now think it wou
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > buzz, too, anyone?
> > is anyone still running buzz?
>
> Actually, I was a bit surprised that so many people are still running
> rexx, or at least that so much work is going into it.
rex was our first really good release. lots of people are into "
Is there anyway I can make the num lock on consoles and X default to on?
Thanks
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When bitchx tries to create a new window under X, it fails
with the message
xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/wserv
Is there a package that provides swerv, or should it
have been included with bitchx?
Mark
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On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> Is there anyway I can make the num lock on consoles and X default to on?
I don't know about X, but on the console, add:
setleds -D +num
to your .bash_profile or .login or whatever.
Adam Klein
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On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:11:23PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
>
> FWIW, I am now sending the debian.announce and debian.changes lists to at
> least one site in .au in Usenet format using uucp over tcp/ip.
>
> It looks like the Debian lists in newsgroup format are starting to spread.
>
> If anyo
Hi Dennis Drapeau; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering which version of netscape the install wrapper for hamm
> uses. I have downloaded communicator 4.04
> (communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz) and the install
> script exits with a version compatability
Hi all-
I am installing Linux on a PnP BIOS machine that currently has
a modem jumpered for PnP installation. Does Debian Linux
require any special modules to use such a setup? Is it even
possible?
(the PnP BIOS installs the modem as COM2, which is left
disabled in the CMOS)
Thanks in advance -
Hi, all --
I have tried the elvis package from hamm, didn't like it that much and settled
on vim as my editor...Now, someplace between the install-deinstall-install of
these two packages my /etc/alternatives/vi, vi.1.gz, ex, ex.1.gz, input,
input.1.gz, editor, editor.1.gz, view and view.1.gz links
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes:
[...]
> So when I need to switch
> my OS, I've been halting the system ("shutdown -h now"), then pressing
> reset after I saw a confirmation message for the halt.
More because I only use Linux, I've changed my init setup so that this
is what Ctrl-Alt-Del d
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> I've not yet seen a date for the code freeze, so there is a good change gcc
> 2.8.0 will make it in.
How compatible is 2.8.0 with 2.7.2.3? If there are problems and 2.8.0
is introduced too late, we could end up with hamm not being able to
compile itself.
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I also agree think we should stick with a single list. Though I still ask
more questions than I am able to completely answer, I do often at least
attempt an answer and sometimes can give fairly helpful responses. In
addition to the we-were-all-newbies-once argument I would like to point
out that
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Found it: type "xhost remote.addr" on the local machine before telneting
> to it.
This means *any* user on that machine can use your machine to do
things like snooping on passwords you type or sending "M-! rm -rf ."
to your Emacs.
Something I used to use
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> It looks like the Debian lists in newsgroup format are starting to spread.
We actually have linux.debian.user on our local news server, but it is
very incomplete - ie. 6 messages in the last month!
> If anyone is uucp capable and would like the lists a
I'm having trouble with nis and shadow files on my bo system. The system
works fine when I don't have shadow installed on the server, but breaks
when I enable shadow. I enable shadow on the server, modify the Makefile
to generate a shadow map and then it compiles it but when I do a ypcat,
the sh
On two occasions, I've tried to install the debian package for apfilter.
When picking an option for "further descriptions of the printers", the
script has terminated with a "Out of memory, zless."
Is there a way around this ?
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On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 09:40:12PM -0500, Gerald Wann wrote:
> I am installing Linux on a PnP BIOS machine that currently has
> a modem jumpered for PnP installation. Does Debian Linux
> require any special modules to use such a setup? Is it even
> possible?
>
> (the PnP BIOS installs the modem as
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> Wait ... Fetchmail is for pulling mail FROM individual pop3 email boxes
> from a remote host to the local host. If he is using that, he is having
> to keep track of 1000 different user passwords at the remote ISP.
I'm not sure what he's using at the m
>Hi,
>
>I am wondering which version of netscape the install wrapper for hamm
>uses. I have downloaded communicator 4.04
>(communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz) and the install
>script exits with a version compatability.
>
I had the same problem. I had to change the name of t
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
> On two occasions, I've tried to install the debian package for apfilter.
> When picking an option for "further descriptions of the printers", the
> script has terminated with a "Out of memory, zless."
>
> Is there a way around this ?
Say no when it prompts
> I have an InfoMagic developers kit and this has Metro-X server in it. What's
> the low down on installing it on my system? Can this be done or was it only
> included as part of the Red Hat release? The Metro-X server supports the
> QVision 1024. I'm not sure
if mine is a 1024 or a 2000 off th
On 17 Jan, Mark W Blunier wrote:
>
> When bitchx tries to create a new window under X, it fails
> with the message
>
> xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/wserv
>
> Is there a package that provides swerv, or should it
> have been included with bitchx?
>
if wserv is not included in the deb package the
I have recently recieved a question about Lilo in a private email
(perhaps caused by my postings to this list). I belive the answer may
be of value to others, so I will repost it here. This will also give
experts a chance to flame me for spreading misinformation if I have
gotten everything wrong :
I don't know how to do it in smail, but I had the same problem, and fixed
it by configuring pine:
user-domain = ipe.pw.edu.pl
The smail configuration is unchanged.
It is not the best solution, because it requires, that my username on my
computer has to be the same as the name of my mailbox.
Anyway
Hi all,
I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-)
He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation
is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will
ghave to move from ethernet to modem as well I have the following
ques
Hello,
if I want to use dselect from the DEBIAN-LINUX include the German magazine
CHIP I have a serious problem. By choosing the method on CD-ROM (Plextor
SCSI 12/20) I get always the errormessage " broken pipe in ...". When I
ignore this and install the Xserver_SVGA for example I never get a koml
Hi
I whant to use LifeLines, a genealogy program, but...
It uses libcurses.so.1 (executable version) and curses.h (source
version)
I have, in my system:
ncurses-base1.9.9g-7
ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-7
ncurses-term1.9.9g-7
ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-1
ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-7
When I try to us
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Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I whant to use LifeLines, a genealogy program, but...
>
>
>It uses libcurses.so.1 (executable version) and curses.h (source
>version)
>
>I have, in my system:
>ncurses-base1.9.9g-7
>ncurses-bin 1.9.9
All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding.
Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I
determine what version of Debian is on a given machine?
Thanks.
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> Subject: Re: problem with xman
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 17 Jan 1998 17:32:53 -0500
>I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and the system is
hi
I want to mount vfat partititions when Linux boots. I changed the
/etc/fstab file and by using the command "mount -a" the partititions
are correctly mounted.
But when Linux boots, it says something like "unknown filessystem..."
and the partititions are not mounted. However after "mount -a"
How similar, in terms of user interface / command structure is Debian Linux
to SCO Unix or any of the other major commercial Unix versions?
Richard
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 02:15:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to mount vfat partititions when Linux boots. I changed the
> /etc/fstab file and by using the command "mount -a" the partititions
> are correctly mounted.
> But when Linux boots, it says something like "unknown filessyst
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Found it: type "xhost remote.addr" on the local machine before telneting
> > to it.
>
> This means *any* user on that machine can use your machine to do
> things like snooping on passwords you type or sending
FE> > I would like to make it almost trivial for a user to install a
FE> > package, i.e. click in a hypertext help/wizard window and it
FE> > will install what is required for functionality set "X".
I couldn't agree with you more Fred. I thoroughly enjoy Linux, but I
found it hard to get into. I
HM> Did you ever use --force-blah with dpkg? Was it ever possible to hos
HM> your system without using --force-blah?
What is --force-blah?
HM> I upgraded my system before Scott's HOWTO was written; at that stage
HM> it was fairly simple and all the dependencies seemed to prevent
HM> me from doing
Hi all,
my Debian system is basically bo. Some time ago I upgraded to libc6 2.0.6-2 and
libc5 5.4.38-0.1 and didn't experience any problems with my old libc5 programs.
But then I upgraded xlib6 to 3.3.1-2 and installed xlib6g 3.3.1-2 in order to
use the new libc6 xfmail 1.2, and things took a bad
Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to start emacs now I get a segmentation fault (this
> happens under X _and_ tty), and gv doesn't start either but produces
> the error message "gv: No message text for "missing-resources"". Is
> this really the fault of my new xlib6? If so, wha
Hi -
Might anyone have some advice on how to go about setting up
the isapnp.config file? I have run pnpdump and it successfully
found my (2) PnP cards (modem & sound). However, there are
a number of configuration options for each, and i would like
advice on how to decide which one to uncomment in
Hi!
I just downloaded the StarOffice4 tarball from ftp.stardivision.de,
and installed it fine. However, it generates segmentation faults and
crashes with what appears to be complete irregularity. I installed it
onto /usr/local/Office40 as root. (It seemed to want to install onto the
home direct
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem.
So! Will anyone who's
Might anyone have some advice on how to go about setting up
the isapnp.config file? I have run pnpdump and it successfully
found my (2) PnP cards (modem & sound). However, there are
a number of configuration options for each, and i would like
advice on how to decide which one to unco
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem.
So! Wi
Hi,
Does anyone know of a program to share X windows from one machine to
another? Just viewing the the window on another machine would be
useful, although selectable sharing of the keyboard and mouse would be
even better.
HP has a program called SharedX for it's workstations. There seems to
be
On 18-Jan-98 James Troup wrote:
> Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> When I try to start emacs now I get a segmentation fault (this
>> happens under X _and_ tty), and gv doesn't start either but produces
>> the error message "gv: No message text for "missing-resources"".
>
> Upgrade y
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:51:24PM -0800, Obi wrote:
> does anyone know of a good bug-tracking software?
Have you had a look at 'jitterbug'? Its from Andrew
Tridgell - the father of samba ...
By
Töns
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Hi again,
I did what James recommended for gv and it worked (thanks).
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Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Ben Pfaff:
>I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
>seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
>(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
>reponses to mine or anyone else's messag
I was wondering if there were any plans to set up qddb under Debian. A
qddb package would also require packages (not yet available) for itcl.
I tried fooling some with setting these up, but they are somewhat over my
head.
One hole in Linux distributions, needed by clueless desktop users, is an
Shaleh> I do not have speakers yet. The animation window is black, no
Shaleh> motion. I did use the wrapper.
i had a similar problem; the solution for me was to add myself to the
"audio" group so that i could access /dev/{audio,dsp}.
-l
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Mine works fine. I use hamm.
.sig is not available right now. Leave you name, number and something
inspirational after the dotted line and it will get back to you as soon as
possible.
.
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
> I have been
Hello,
if I want to use dselect from the DEBIAN-LINUX include the German magazine
CHIP I have a serious problem. By choosing the method on CD-ROM (Plextor
SCSI 12/20) I get always the errormessage " broken pipe in ...". When I
ignore this and install the Xserver_SVGA for example I never get a ko
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > You can get the old MBR back with "fdisk /MBR" (the fdisk from DOS)
> >
> > > Partition table (fdisk):
> > >
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> >
I am having problems getting the DBI drivers for mSQL working on my
Debian Linux 1.3.1 system. I am using mSQL 2.0.3, DBI 0.91, and
Msql-modules-1.1814.
I have installed mSQL and the DBI module successfully (I think). Now I
am trying to install the Msql driver module. I call "perl Makefile.PL"
a
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Tom Ed White wrote:
> One hole in Linux distributions, needed by clueless desktop users, is an
> easy to use database. PostgresSQL is fine for running a hospital, but is
> not so apropriate for many of us.
Have you tried pgaccess from the libpgtcl package? It's a very nice
How do I turn off shadow passwords? I'm still trying to get ppp
working. I"ve got shadow passwords enabled, and would like to try
disabling that to see if it makes a difference
TIA!!
Steve
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(this is an all hamm system)
Ok, I've got some problems. Namely, inetd is no longer started at boot
time, whats up with that?
Here's what happened. I decided to install xinetd because I thought that
might fix some of the other random net problems I was having. (finger
connections from the out
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Steve Morrill wrote:
> How do I turn off shadow passwords? I'm still trying to get ppp
> working. I"ve got shadow passwords enabled, and would like to try
> disabling that to see if it makes a difference
shadowconfig off
Brandon
-
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED
How do I turn off shadow passwords? I'm still trying to get ppp
working. I"ve got shadow passwords enabled, and would like to try
disabling that to see if it makes a difference
shadowconfig off
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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
> That was annoying...so I removed that package. I think that inetd should
> be reinstated at this point, but the package doesn't do that. So now I'm
> without an inetd. So I use dpkg -S one inetd and see its in the netbase
> package. So I
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
> > That was annoying...so I removed that package. I think that inetd should
> > be reinstated at this point, but the package doesn't do that. So now I'm
> > without an inetd. So I use dpkg
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote:
> All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding.
> Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I
> determine what version of Debian is on a given machine?
cat /etc/debian_version
but IMO, it's worthless info
On 18-Jan-98 Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
>I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
>seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
>(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
>reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about
> Von: Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM
> Datum: Sonntag, 18. Januar 1998 00:32
>
> "Fabian Knittel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda3
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > compact
> > install=/boot/boot.b
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Fabian Knittel wrote:
> > A shoot in the dark: Try putting the "root" line after the "image"
> > line.
that wouldn't (shouldn't) make any difference at all, except that you now
have to repeat the "root=" line for every image listed in lilo.conf.
values set in the global sect
> --snip--
>
> boot=/dev/hda3
I can't rember what your exact setup was, but you might want to change
this to
boot=/dev/hda
That is how I have it set. ( I have a dual booting linux + dos/win95
machine) IIRC this will set the boot information for the whole drive
(mater boot record). The above lin
Hi all
I use fetchmail to pop my mail usually, deliviring the mail locally by
connection to smail via the standard port 25. Now smail still answers
to port 25 if I telnet to it, but it does not for some reason want to
deliver messages sent there. It does still seem to handle messages
sent by cal
Tom Ed White writes:
> One hole in Linux distributions, needed by clueless desktop users, is an
> easy to use database. PostgresSQL is fine for running a hospital, but is
> not so apropriate for many of us.
I'm pretty clueless when it comes to database stuff, but I found
PostgresSQL a snap compare
Christopher Jason Morrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok. All of that would be "yes". And when I just run inetd by hand, it
> doesn't say anything, it works perfectly fine. Maybe I should make sure
> it removes all of its config files when I remove netbase, and then install
> again. I think
My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as
described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied
indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm.
I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm thing
Hi,
I am going to be getting a dedicated 128kbps ISDN connection for my
network and am going to setup a mail server.
I plan on using sendmail and was wondering what type of delivery would
be ideal for this. The only reason I want to use sendmail, is because I
am slightly familiar with it already
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 01:12:09PM -, Richard Thompson wrote:
> How similar, in terms of user interface / command structure is Debian Linux
> to SCO Unix or any of the other major commercial Unix versions?
At least so similar as the major commercial Unix versions to each other.
Linux software
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 08:10:36AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding.
> Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I
> determine what version of Debian is on a given machine?
There is probably no su
Is there an estimate on when the fixed .deb version of procps is going to
be released? It's the last thing I need to install to complete the
transition from Bo to Hamm, and is preventing me from upgrading to kernel
2.1.78.
TIA,
Steve Martin
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On Sat, Ja
It appears that Imgstar 1.1 is only capable of converting PBM files
built around the time of xv3.00:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /newport/pkg/ImgStar/Bin : ./imgPnmToFlt <
/newport/freeway/brannon/rs/Seescape/web/pointset.pgm
PnmToFlt: started
Error: can't import image file (PnmToFlt).
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>I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
>seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
>(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
>reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem.
>
I recently installed debian on my home machine.
I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers, location of help or
actual advice, on how to set up a nameserver.
I have only one machine and I connect to the internet via ppp and an ISP.
I want to use my machine to develop some web appli
(hamm, 1week old)
Gimp seems to only be able to access about 10 fonts (with text select
tool), and of those, none are smooth, all have blocky edges and dont
scale, so, my question is: how do i fix this?
eli miller
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I have a quick question. Is there, or can there be, a file which displays
a small amount of text(motd) to incoming telnet connections. I wish to
display a statement of server ownership and liability.
Thanks,
Ian
_
> I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
> seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
> (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
> reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem.
> So! Will an
I have a quick question. Is there, or can there be, a file which displays
a small amount of text(motd) to incoming telnet connections. I wish to
display a statement of server ownership and liability.
Will /etc/issue.net work?
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I'm trying to compile various things that want to use older libs --
whether it's trying to link to stuff that wants libc5 or older versions
of tcl. I have the older versions installed as well with the alt-dev.
What do I need to do to compile with these?
Seems like it should be simple, but I can
On 18 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> Will /etc/issue.net work?
That's what I needed! Thanks.
-Ian
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I'm trying to compile various things that want to use older libs --
whether it's trying to link to stuff that wants libc5 or older versions
of tcl. I have the older versions installed as well with the alt-dev.
What do I need to do to compile with these?
Install altgcc and use i486-l
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:43:35AM -0500, Gerald Wann wrote:
> Might anyone have some advice on how to go about setting up
> the isapnp.config file? I have run pnpdump and it successfully
> found my (2) PnP cards (modem & sound). However, there are
> a number of configuration options for each, and
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