Re: [SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

1998-05-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thursday, May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > [snip] > I can't seem to find a debianutils_1.6* under any of the bo* > directories on the ftp sites. Mea culpa. debianutils 1.8.9 has been uploaded to Incoming, and will be installed into bo. Sorry for the trouble. Christian pgpWSi309JchO.p

Re: [SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

1998-05-17 Thread Christian Hudon
On Friday, May 15, George Bonser wrote > > Find a mirror of the Debian incoming directory ... I think there are some > listed on the Debian web page ... and grab the new debianutils and install > it manually with dpkg -i Debian 1.3.1r8 has been released with a debianutils that makes gzip happy. I

Re: Text to Speech?

1998-06-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote > What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a > SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware). If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by on the debian-devel-changes mailing-list recently. You might want

What's "Group shift/Lock behavior" in Xfree86 configuration?

1998-06-07 Thread Christian Hudon
Could anyone explain to me what the "Group Shift/Lock behavior" stuff in the Keyboard section of XF86Setup is all about? It contains options like: - Use default setting - R-Alt switches group while pressed - Right Alt key changes group etc. Was does it do?? Additionally, does anyone know of an u

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Christian Hudon
> > > The bug is real, and Debian has a fix. See security > > > lists in Debian. If you are running Debian 2.0 > > > you might have a security hole. There was also security > > > problems with bind. The fixes appear in the current distributions > > > (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates. > >

Re: Security problem

1998-11-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tuesday, October 27, Lukas Eppler wrote > > I have [dists/hamm/main dists/hamm/contrib dists/hamm/non-free] in my > selection in dselect. is there a directory to mention to have the security > updates quicker than a week, without going slink/unstable? The best thing to do is to subscribe to de

Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' (fwd)

1998-03-01 Thread Christian Hudon
Since I've upgraded to anacron 2.0, I'm getting this email every day: Stopped /usr/sbin/boa (pid 196). Starting boa... File /usr/sbin/suidexec registered but not installed /usr/lib/emacs/20.2/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.mail 2755 changed to root.mail u=rwx,g=rxs,

Re: Where did /usr/tmp go?

1998-03-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Monday, March 02, Paul Rightley wrote > Thanks for the information. I edited the appropriate tripwire > config file and had it use /var/tmp instead. Everything is > working fine again. Should this behavior be filed as a bug > against tripwire (if it hasn't already been done). In short, yes.

Meta key doesn't work anymore in xemacs!

1998-02-01 Thread Christian Hudon
Hi, I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work. Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that (1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and Mod4, which is nonsensical. I filled a bug report about that, but in the meantime how do I make this

Re: Problem with TERMCAP in Xfree86

1997-03-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: > > > I've got Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 installed and working and have > > installed XFree86. It is working fine except for when it comes to > > displaying an xterm it says that is cannot find a usable TERMC

Re: wrong time; is it dangerous ?

1997-03-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinian wrote: > I have almost finished the installation of Debian > when I noticed that the board clock > was not set corectly (YY was 1996 :( ,shame! ). > Though, a can tolerate the wrong files time stamp, but ... > Can it cause some problems? I mean some depend

Re: to xlib6 or not to xlib6?

1997-03-23 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: [snip] > > I am not worried about gwm: I don't use it anyway. But I am > worried about trashing all my other X stuff if I install this > package. > > Is it OK to upgrade to xlib6 and let the chips fall where they > may with respect to elf-x11r6lib, or w

Re: afterstep 1.0pre5

1997-03-24 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Paul Chau wrote: > Could anyone tell me if the afterstep 1.0pre5 been debianised yet or > not? Don't think so. The Debian package is still at 1.0pre4. If you want, email the maintainer (Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) and tell him that 1.0pre5 is out. Christian

bash keybindings

1997-03-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mar 28, Pete Harlan wrote > > > > I also came from tcsh, therefore I put this in my ~/.inputrc and I'm > > happy ever since 8-) > > > > ,- > > | M-p: history-search-backward > > | M-n: history-search-forward > > `- > [snip] > > Customization is great, but if you learn unmodified bash

Can't get color in xterm!

1997-03-30 Thread Christian Hudon
At some distant point in the past I used to get color in my xterms... I had even customized the colors using X resources. But after installing a bunch of things, I don't get color anymore. The xterm still understands the color escape sequences, but it maps them all to either black or white It does

Re: RPM

1997-03-31 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mar 31, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote > > Yes.. but... > * Windows users probably don't need dependencies. Programs doesn't >usally depend on external libraries... ??? Most of the Windows programs I've seen kindly install a DLL or two in the \Windows directory. I don't know is dpkg would cat

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-31 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mar 30, Michel Beland wrote > [snip] > > In bash, write > > "\e[A":history-search-backward > "\e[B":history-search-forward > > in your ~/.inputrc file. There are two problems with bash, though. > First, if you log on your linux machine with a terminal that does not > use ESC [ A for the up a

Re: RPM

1997-03-31 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mar 31, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote > On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > > Yes, not many programs use DLLs... And how many Windows programs do you > know that can share a DLL's that provides some funcionality? In Linux > there are lots of things using libraries l

Re: Missing packages

1997-03-31 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 1, Joseph Skinner wrote > Hi > > I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found > after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there. > > The missing packages include > > libc6* > gcc_2.7.2.2-2 These packages are in the experimental sec

Re: shared library tutorial?

1997-03-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use > shared libraries? Note that I'm also interested in the portability of > the solution - my project also is working with Linux/Alpha, and > Solaris machines... If you need something por

Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa

1997-04-01 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 1, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote > I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or > ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. > > I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found > any routines. Aix has a function calle

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-03 Thread Christian Hudon
> > if (!$nowrite && !link("$infodir/dir","$infodir/dir.lock")) { > die "$name: failed to lock dir for editing! $!\n". > ($! =~ m/exists/i ? "try deleting $infodir/dir.lock ?\n" : ''); > } > [snip] > > Others on the list may have a better understanding of perl to see what > exca

Re: Dpkg gone haywire

1997-04-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 3, Kevin J Poorman wrote > Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file > dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I > can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the > format of this file?? You can't lose 'di

How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

1997-04-06 Thread Christian Hudon
Hi, I'm subscribed to a few mailing lists (lynx-dev is an example) that are configured to add the mailing list name to the subject of all messages they receive. So for instance all the email from the lynx-dev mailing list comes with 'LYNX-DEV' in the subject line. I'd like to undo that as I sort t

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when > I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still > shows the time in GMT. The same happens with the headers generated > by qmail. Does anyone know why? If I use exmh or xfmail t

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

1997-04-10 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit > the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect > the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members > of the list. A subjec

Re: dselect

1997-04-11 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 11, Rick wrote > > I sent this a few days ago but got no answer. > > Does anybody know how to clear dselect status? I used hold to select only > the bo pkgs I wanted to install thinking I could reset the suggested status. > But it don't work. How do I reset the pkgs to the suggested sta

Re: master.debian.org???? BIG PROBLEMS??

1997-04-17 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 16, Rick wrote > > There is nothing listed under /pub/Linux/Debian any more. Did you hide the > directories for some reason? Is this a, dreaded, file system problem? > > What happened guys? This sounds like a ftp daemon problem on master. The files are still there when I log in to maste

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 15, Dale Scheetz wrote > Isn't this already available with get_selections and set_selections? Yeah, but only 'oldtimers' know about that. I'd be nice if it could be integrated in a more user-friendly way into "dselect 2". Something like: Select Packages - Full list (provides collapsible

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 17, Philippe Troin wrote > > Here it is: man mount. > Explained a little further: > add a line like this in /etc/fstab: > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007 > > Now everyone can mount and umount the floppy, but only the users > belonging to group floppy (GID 25)

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote > > Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or > whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something > else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It doesn't work. :) First, there's no mention of 'umask' under the mount manpage, so

Help with sed!

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Could someone explain this to me... To automate the configuration of some of my debian packages, I need to be able to replace the first (or second, etc.) line in a file by a line I supply. Now it would seem that this is a job for sed. But the sed 'c' command expects "\\\n" (i.e. backspace, newline

Re: Detached PGP signatures in mail?

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 20, Ron Murray wrote >It seems a few of you are using a mail agent that's capable of > generating a detached PGP certificate of your message and including it as a > MIME type of application/pgp-signature, apparently under the impression > that we're all going to take the time to check wh

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 20, Paul J. Clegg wrote > > I tried to move the 0setserial file out of rc.boot, but during boot I > still saw setserial assign everything. When I moved 0setserial back in, > setserial was called >twice setserial in any of the other rc*.d directories, nor in init.d. I tried > editing 0sets

Re: where is libXmu.so.6?

1997-04-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 28, Kevin M. Luck wrote > Hello. I'm a new debian user who just installed the floppy version of 1.2 > to a p75, and I'm now trying to add X11R6. I've installed xbase, xfntbase, > xlib6, xserver for vga16 and s3 (my card), but am unable to run any x > software because I always get a "xini

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 29, Nathan E Norman wrote > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > > [ description of problem ] > > > > > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > > > backup system and have installed from ftp. S

Re: dselect and unstable packages

1997-05-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 18, Glen Carreras wrote > First let me apologize if this has been answered previously, however I > scan the list daily and have found no reference to this yet. > > It seems that I cannot get dselect to successfully complete operation when > I try to work with the unstable ditributions. (i.e

Re: deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote > Recently I have started getting the following message when running > dselect: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: > LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_

Re: libc6 question

1997-05-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 20, joost witteveen wrote > > I don't want to > > install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks > > As far as I know, there are *no* glitches, at least not with > the old libc5 programmes still on your system. The only thing > that *might* go wrong, in case there are bugs in libc6

Which program 'owns' srm.conf?

1997-05-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Hi, During a recent cron run, I got a complain about the file "srm.conf"... Could someone tell me which program uses this file? There's no manpage for it and dpkg -S doesn't know about it. Thanks, Christian pgpvy6zb8hEKd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Security packages?

1997-05-22 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 22, Kendrick Myatt wrote > Hello :) > > I have looked but not found many Debian packages of popular security > programs such as crack, lsof, cops, iss, satan, swatch, etc. I did find > tripwire on the debian site, though. > > Are these kept somewhere else, or do they not exist? Just wond

Re: #debian irc channel

1997-05-25 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 24, Igor Grobman wrote > Just wanted to remind you that #debian channel is still available. [snip] It would be nice if someone who knows IRC well could write up a description of the resources available to Debian users over irc and get it included in the FAQ and on the "Support" section of t

Re: hosts(5) man page

1997-05-26 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 26, Tony Finch wrote > > Which package (if any) contains the hosts(5) man page? Using the nifty search engine at http://www.debian.org/packages.html (scroll to the bottom of the page), no package in the latest release contains a manpage for hosts(5). Christian pgphfgt07bfUw.pgp Descri

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: 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: 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

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Randy Edwards wrote > >I read a fragment of one message somewhere that 1.3 is actually in the > frozen subdirectory; is that true? If I were to make my dselect point at > stable, non-free, contrib, and frozen would that cause the upgrade? Or > should I wait until it's moved from fr

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm > missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow > passwords? Are you sure you're running the latest version from frozen? (i.e. 4.02-1) It's got not problem with my shado

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Perhaps I didn't set up shadow stuff correctly? I kind of stumbled > upon it: I noticed references to it, and I typed pwconv (which I > recognized from my solaris systems) and things seemed to work pretty > happily (except xlock), so I figured that this was it.

Re: gethostby* different in libc6

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Carey Evans wrote > > I would prefer not to be told that www.debian.org, for example, is > authoritatively known not to exist, especially if there was just a > temporary problem with the name servers. Should I report this as a > bug against libc6? Looks like a bug to me. Better to repo

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 2, Ed Donovan wrote > > You could just add > > xhost +localhost > > to your .xinitrc file, if you don't have any xhost commands there > already. Jens has suggested "export XAUTHORITY=~paul/.Xauthority"; I > don't immediately know which method would be preferable. The xhost > method wo

Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 3, Marcelo wrote > > Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian > (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... Peter, wo

Re: Couple little things (bugs?)

1997-06-05 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 3, Jaakko Niemi wrote > > 2) xmkmf has diappeared from xbase-package. It is still in > xbase3.2-3, but not in 3.2-6! Should this package be moved > to X-files ? :) I couldn't find any information nor relevant docs. > Where is changes-file from /usr/doc ? It was a 'd

Re: When will Debian 1.3 be available?

1997-06-05 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 4, Joerg Friedrich wrote > Hi! > > Debian 1.3 is announced on www.debian.org, but stable is still linked to > rex on ftp. When will 1.3 be available? The Debian 1.3 symlink has been made on master, so it's just a matter of waiting for the mirrors to catch up now. Christian pgppjiy5Cm6

Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 13, Hanno Wagner wrote > Hi, > I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It > works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me > following: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock > xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. > Contact your administrator. > -

Re: Can't deinstall package

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 16, Mark Phillips wrote > > Hi, > > I have a package "kernel-source-1.99.7" which for some reason is half > installed. When I try to deinstall it I get this: [snip] > > How do I get rid of it? If reinstalling the package really isn't an option, you can try passing the --force-remove-rei

Re: Elvis problems in X (was: Re: No Termcap)

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package > of elvis still needs termcap. Nope. Package: elvis Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 775 Maintainer: Erik B. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Vers

Re: Can't deinstall package

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 18, Mark Phillips wrote > > Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go and came up with: > > # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7 > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it b

Re: Can't deinstall package

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 19, Mark Phillips wrote > > The file kernel-source-1.99.7.list is empty. Can you give me a list > of files to check for before removing mention of it from status? Oh. It looks like none of the files from the package (except the dpkg 'control' files) got installed. Then just edit the file

Re: Linux FS Question

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote > > Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it. > I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly. > That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit superstitious to > me! Actually, the giberrish itself is p

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 18, joost witteveen wrote > > Seriously, though: Is there a way (with procmail or other) that > I can automatically forward all email with non-existant > Reply-To: addresses to /dev/null? That would probably halve the > amount of spam I get. Huh? You meant 'invalid', not 'non-existant', ri

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 18, Bruce Perens wrote > It looks as if someone is trolling the Debian mailing lists and spamming > their subscribers. The spammer may be getting them via the news gateway. Hmm. But wasn't the news gateway taken down a few monts ago? Christian pgpNLeBtO04r7.pgp Description: PGP signatu

"xauth +", not a good idea...

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote > > Hi, > > I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem > > to have some problems. > >Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it > > any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below; > > > >

Re: putting lilo on the mbr, help please

1997-06-27 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 23, Ed Urenda wrote > Hello, any help with the folowing would be greatly appreciated: > > I have an ide with debian 1.3 and win 95 on it and decided that the > rewrite_table option in lilo would be the easiest way to dual-boot the > system. > > The recompilation of lilo with the rewrite_

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 3, Bob Nielsen wrote > I updated to 1.3.1 from 1.3 and now I get the following when I try to run > slrn: > > [nielsen:nielsen]$ ls -al /usr/bin/slrn > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171072 Jun 23 08:26 /usr/bin/slrn > [nielsen:nielsen]$ /usr/bin/slrn > bash: /usr/bin/slrn: No such file

Re: No man

1997-07-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 4, Will Lowe wrote > Ok. I upgraded from 1.2 -> 1.3 the other day. Got an error saying that > "mandb" conflicted with "man", so I purged man and installed "mandb", > thinking that the latter replaced the former. Now I've got no man. Any > clues? Reinstalling mandb should fix it. Chr

Re: Audio support

1997-07-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 4, Jason Westervelt wrote [snip] > After asking several sound card questions, I get > error messages stating that stdio.h and 4 other *.h files could not be > found. Do you have libc5-dev installed? If not, install it and try again. Christian pgpUT0p4swhKr.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-06 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 6, Bob Billson wrote > > I am curious what the difference is between the 'Official Debian 1.3' and > LSL's '"Oficial" Debian 1.3'. I thought I saw something that if the CD > vendor changes or doesn't use something they can't use the former title. > What did LSL not use or leave out? Than

Re: 'date' >>>>>>>>>>>

1997-07-06 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I have a ls-lRa.gz of ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian and have > > ' zcat ftp.debian.org-pub.debian-ls-lRa.gz | grep sh-util ' > > but found no such package ... > > Any ideas how on debian do I upgrade the 'date' program > ( and the rest of the sh-utils pro

Re: I broke 'whatis'. How do I fix it?

1997-07-06 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 5, Dave Cinege wrote > I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works. > But whatis always returns "Nothing appropriate". > > Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0 > install, but I have installed quite a bit of extra junk. Try doing "m

Re: Installing debian

1997-07-06 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 6, Niklas Hoglund wrote > I accidently removed my linux partition *GAAAH* ... > anyway (after an couple of days depression ;)) I´d like to install debian > again ... heres the problem... > I "destroyed" my floppy =(is there ANYWAY(!) to install debian without > floppy?? (I´ve got a r

Re: gcc, libraries, & executables

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 7, Rick Hawkins wrote > > I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having > problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot > create executables. > bash-2.00# You'll need the g++, libg++ and

Re: Afterstep problem solved

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 7, Jason Westervelt wrote > nah.. that only gets a few other icons to pop up... don't ask why, but > the TOP button (the one that has the lock buttons, shutdown, etc) will > ** NOT ** have an icon until you install procps and xproc.. very > weird.. Even if you don't "swallow" an xload in

Re: FTP availability of last set of X 3.2 packages.

1997-07-12 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 11, Rob Browning wrote > > Do any of the ftp sites still have the last round of X 3.2 based > packages? I looked around on ftp.debian.org, but couldn't find them. Couldn't log on to ftp.debian.org, but try ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian/Debian-1.2-fixed/ Christian PS Be awar

Re: [SECURITY] Weird user

1997-08-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Saturday, August 16, George Bonser wrote > > I am not sure if some daemon in Debian installed this while I was not > looking but I am taking it as an attack until I know more. > > I looked in /home and noticed a user account that I do not remember > setting up. It is /home/bc > > It was owne

Re: smail does virtual domains?

1996-10-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > I'm seriously considering changing to sendmail or perhaps qmail, or > whatever. One of the reasons is that I need virtual e-mail domains. Does > smail handle this? Is is reasonable to use it for this? How about qmail? > Are there plans to packa

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-11 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see > the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently > (gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the > same name confuses dftp. I don

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Christian Hudon
On 12 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Then I say it's a bug in dftp. > > So what's the right way to handle this? Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two of the files it h

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Christian Hudon
On 13 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, I'm not sure that installing the most recent one is the right > answer. Take ghostscript for example. There's the GNU version in > .../text and the Aladdin version in ...

Re: .xinitrc / .xsession / .fvwmrc ???

1996-11-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > Where do I tell X what apps to start when starting an X session ? I'd like > several xterms in various colors/places etc.. I'm using the debian xdm. > > .xsession is just the name of the window manager, right? Wrong. .xsession is responsible for star

Re: A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-11 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the > terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty wierd. > Do you have the TERMCAP environment variable defined? I had that problem too, and undefining TERMCAP fixed it. Christian --

Re: CD-ROM IRQ Timeout

1996-11-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Alec Clews (S) wrote: > > > 'hdb irq timeout : status = 0x58 > > hdb ATAPI reset complete' > > [snip] > > > I have a Goldstar 8-speed CD-ROM drive giving me the same messages but i > don't know how to handle/evaluate/change this. An

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: [snip] > Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I > make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be > pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy? I'm pretty sure you can do either and it will work. Eve

Re: kbd reccommends svgatextmode? why?

1996-12-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > Why is svgatextmode important to the kbd package? > > This is especially annoying since kbd is in base, and so dselect is going > to pretty well force the installation of svgatextmode on all debian > systems. Indeed! Especially since (correct me if I'm wro

Re: ncftp. Current boot disks

1996-12-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > I need clarification on two issues: [nsip] > > * I need to file a bug report for ncftp-2.4.2: the get -R command is not > excecuted, I only get the prompt for the next command. > Few days ago I was looking at a debian bug list. Now tha

Re: NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Robert Platt wrote: > Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk > and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount > it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? Work is being done on a NTFS driver for

Re: Some notes on Debian experiences

1996-12-13 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, David Engel wrote: > > I had to relink as described in the > > /usr/src/linux/README. > > For the umpteenth time. You don't need these links to compile the > kernel. I haven't had those links on any of my systems in over a year > and it hasn't stopped me from compiling hund

Re: Grrr! Dangling links in /usr/lib/

1996-12-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, David Lutz wrote: > of Debian Packages. I would like to know how I can fix the problem > however. Dselect swears that the binutils package is up-to-date and > refuses to attempt to reload it. Does anybody have any suggestions? Reinstalling might indeed be a good thing. Get

Re: X11 is too secure, root cannot run xterm

1996-12-27 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > On my new 1.2 system > > root is not allowed to run xterm in a user's session under xdm. > > > > Is there a way to anable root and other user access to my display session > > typing "xhost +" will allow root (and anyone else on the net) > to c

Re: How come there is no `Reply to' field

1996-12-27 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Walter Tautz wrote: > I am curious as to why there is no `Reply to' field from this list? Is > this a deliberate technique to decrease traffic. Just wondering... Because "Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" is evil. :-) Actually, I had a pointer to a site that explained why Reply-t

Re: InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation

1996-12-27 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Did we go through this already? Try putting "ppp" in /etc/modules. It seems > it gets loaded too slowly if kerneld loads it. Hmm. I'm getting my ppp module loaded through kerneld and everything works fine here. Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Debian 1.2 international?

1996-12-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Francesco Tapparo wrote: > Hi all, > I have read in this Mailing List that some packages in Debian 1.2 (e.g. > shellutils and fileutils) are internationalized. > I have installed the package wg15-locale, and I hav set LANG and LC_ALL to > it_IT, but the error messages are in

Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

1997-02-25 Thread Christian Hudon
On 24 Feb 1997, David Sewell wrote: > Just wondering if any Debian users have tried the new Netscape > Communicator beta, released a couple of days ago. > Tried it with MALLOC_CHECK_=0, only got one bus error. The newsreader was working fine for me. Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-01 Thread Christian Hudon
On Wed, 1 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One irritating feature of dselect as it is at the moment is this: > if I start dselect and add only one or two packages, it prints the > entire list of packages on my screen, one by one, along with the > 'skipping deselected package foo', or 'package b

Re: Rawrite on Win 95 & NT

1996-05-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] wrote: > I've been trying to make a boot disk using rawrite on either a Win 95 > or NT machine and can't seem to get it to work. The running of rawrite > works just fine (no errors) but when I try to boot with the disk - > nothing. No complaining a

Re: Keyboard table loading (Re: Installing Debian 1.1)

1996-05-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote: > By the way, is it possible to choose and load the keyboard table at the > start of the installation procedure? It is something annoying having to > correct everything you type... I scrambled my password because of this :( May I add another 'yes'? I'

Re: 1.1 system doesn't unmount a drive during reboot

1996-05-08 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > 1.1 (1.3.68 kernel) is solid as a rock, so I haven't had to > reboot often, but... > > One of my two mounted hard drives doesn't unmount during the > shutdown process, giving a device is busy message. umount doesn't > seem to work eit

Re: Locale in 1.1?

1996-05-10 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: > The fact that nvi (does not) displays diacritic characters has nothing > to do with the fonts, just to what isprint() returns. I had it work > under Linux using a Slackware 3.0 distribution. [snip] > typing diacritic characters tells they are not printable

Re: xconsole for 1.1?

1996-05-10 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Is there a debian package with xconsole somewhere? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] >dpkg -S xconsole xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xconsole.1x Hope that answers your question... That's the unstable xbase. Christian

Re: 1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.

1996-05-10 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] wrote: > If this is indeed just an xmodmap fix... > > XKeyCaps is a wonderfull X app that will generate those ugly xmodmap > commands for you a-la Macintosh. Take a look at: > > http://home.netscape.com/people/jwz/xkeycaps/index.html > > I don't

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