Re: Tape Drive Suggestions Under Debian

1998-08-04 Thread servis
*- Jason Michaelson wrote about "Tape Drive Suggestions Under Debian" | I'm looking to purchase a new tape backup drive. I'm looking for | something fairly large (8-10GB or more), in addition to fast (i.e. | it can't be a floppy or a parallel port connected device). Of | course, it also need

[Solved] cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Jay Barbee
> On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:50:07AM +, Jay Barbee wrote: > > > Can't find ../debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb! > > aborting upgrade. --- > > > > It is true my official cd does not have: /debian/hamm/hamm/binary- > > i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb > > It's not you, a coupl

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jay Barbee wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > > > : Hello all, > > : > > : I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am > > starting to : up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. : : After > > mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I not

Re: DES encryption

1998-08-04 Thread vaidhy
> Do we have a package to encrypt single files using a DES (or whatever) > algorithm? I've been using cipher for this which hasn't been packaged. > However, before spending time on it, I'd like to know if there's an easier > solution. Try PGP -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Apache Logs Rotations and related questions

1998-08-04 Thread Eric Marsden
> "PE" == Pure Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PE> I'm still running the older Apache/1.1.3 Debian/GNU web server. PE> I run a number of Virtually Hosted sites with it and was PE> wondering if it's posible for each virtual site to have PE> different log rotation times. Some sites wo

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Paul
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, the minute Red Hat changes their version numbers and > starts following the Linux File system standards, we shall all be in > sync. > > At the moment, moving to the new Linux File Heirarchy Stnadard > (FHS) is way more important than d

Re: PPP Server Package?

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> There is Debian package: s> Package: xringd [...] It still surprises me sometimes how many packages debian has... It is also amusing to ask a question and get pointed to a small utility living on the disk. It has been there since the beginning,

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Young, Ed wrote: > > I may be out to lunch on the following but I believe we're zeroing in on > something anyway. That's what lists are all about, right? > > One thing I've gotten out of the thread is that RH and SUSE, (etc) are not > adhering to standards but have the market share. Therefore com

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 4 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As you have surmised, this is entirely a doable task. I have, > (and I suspect any number of people on this list do too) a setup > similar to what you envisage; however, I am not sure of the cost of > the required hardware. I did the same here to

Re: Package maintainer script policy.

1998-08-04 Thread Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if $@ is empty, "$@" expands to ""; Is this mandated by the posix standard? If so, this is an example of how debian's current /bin/sh is not posix. If not, then this is just plain bogus. -- Raul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

I'm one of that boring newbies, and have a question.

1998-08-04 Thread Mikael Eriksson
How do I install enlightment for my Debian system ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re[2]: Nedit, Revisited...

1998-08-04 Thread Bob Bernstein
Oh dear. I see I replied to Ed only, and missed sending a copy to the list. > Forwarded message from Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Ed! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a warning in the message box under dselect for Nedit that > points out that the debian version is linked a

Re: I'm one of that boring newbies, and have a question.

1998-08-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mikael Eriksson wrote: > How do I install enlightment for my Debian system ? Fire up dselect, point your aquisition method at the "slink" distribution, and select "enlightenment" for installation. It'll figure out the dependencies for you.

Re: Package maintainer script policy.

1998-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This just goes to prove even Debian developers may not be up to the task of passing all commandline arguments to a binary in a shell script. So, if one can write a C program that handles the task, it should be valid to have that called directly in a postinst, rather than mess up wr

Re: Package maintainer script policy.

1998-08-04 Thread Ruud de Rooij
On 1998/08/04, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Raul> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, if $@ is empty, "$@" expands to ""; ^ > > Raul> Is this mandated by the posix standard? If so, this is an example of > Raul> how debian's current

gnome 0.20

1998-08-04 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Hi, Where would I find libgnome0 and libgtkxmhtml0 for gnome 0.20 Not shown in Contents-i386 and have scrambled up & down the tree. tia, Mike +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres

Epson Stylus Color (or color 400) on hamm

1998-08-04 Thread Akop Pogosian
I have Epson Stylus color 400 and do not really know how to get it working properly on hamm. I redhat 5.1 the configuration was a breaze. I just told the redhat prit tool that my printer is Epson Stylus color and it worked grreat. I just instaled the ghostscript 5.1 package and in the evening I wil

No Debian Erratas page ?

1998-08-04 Thread Akop Pogosian
I was just wondering if Debian has something like Redhat erratas or updates page for hamm. Is there one ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: No Debian Erratas page ?

1998-08-04 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 08:55:28PM +, Akop Pogosian wrote: > I was just wondering if Debian has something like Redhat > erratas or updates page for hamm. > Is there one ? I don't think there was one prior to thge releace of 2.0 (I looked once when I first migrated form RedHat) but... http://ww

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread John C. Ellingboe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, making more > computing resources available, without encumbrances of commercial software. snip > 486 linux garbage can computer (in part to show what can be done). Should be fine for the job. > snip

Re: No Debian Erratas page ?

1998-08-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote: > I was just wondering if Debian has something like Redhat > erratas or updates page for hamm. > Is there one ? > All the hamm updates go into the hamm directory on the ftp sites, and then you can point dselect or apt at the hamm directory and get any pac

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Taren
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Peter Granroth wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who > > > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? > > > > Of course I forgot to write down the error message, but I also had problems > > getting fetchmail t

Re: Package maintainer script policy.

1998-08-04 Thread Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > amazed Raul, of all people, had to have this pointed out to him. I fail to see that you've demonstrated that ${1+"$@"} is different from "$@" for any posix shell. Which, I thought, was the issue we were talking about. -- Raul -- Unsubscribe? m

apt?

1998-08-04 Thread Robert Rati
I've heard of apt, but am not sure what it is. I thought it was supposed to be the new graphical package manager for Debian and was going to be released in 2.0, but I can't seem to find a package for it? Is it to be released in 2.1 or am I just looking in the wrong place? What advantages does ap

LILO: Map segment is too big.

1998-08-04 Thread John Marter
Hi, I'm looking for some advice about digging myself out of a hole a got into. After upgrading to Debian 2.0 beta and seemingly fixing the problems that popped up (maybe I'll need to explain some of that later), I rebooted and got stuck at the LI of the LILO prompt. I used the rescue disk that c

Debian 2.0 in Linux Gazette

1998-08-04 Thread AJT60
There's a review of Debian 2.0 in Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com). The basic thrust of the article is that Debian is technically a good distribution, but dselect is a little daunting, especially for people installing linux for the first time. Also, Linux has a nice write up in my l

libc6 upgrade

1998-08-04 Thread AJT60
Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just blithely replace the library? Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" |___ http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html |~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

Re: LILO: Map segment is too big.

1998-08-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Marter wrote: > 1. chroot is not one of the commands on the rescue disk. > I haven't had to do a rescue for several years, but the other > time I started by doing a chroot to my usual disk partition. > Is it normal to do rescues without chroot? Well, if your system is go

two button mouse makes clipboard copy from rxvt to nedit impossible

1998-08-04 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
I run X with a two button mouse, and I am forced to have Emulate3Button disabled. This makes it impossible to copy data from terminal emulators such as rxvt, xterm, gemvt and eterm, to standard X applications such as Nedit, Netscape Navigator, GTK text/entry widgets and so on. This is because you

Re: LILO: Map segment is too big.

1998-08-04 Thread sjc
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:16:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Marter wrote: > > > 1. chroot is not one of the commands on the rescue disk. > > I haven't had to do a rescue for several years, but the other > > time I started by doing a chroot to my usual disk partit

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