Re: HELP! ImageMagick = 3.9.1 for bo needed Was: Problems with ImageMagick in bo (Debian 1.3.r6)

1998-06-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Wojciech Marek Zabolotny wrote: I've checked ImageMagick 3.9.1 in RedHat 5.1, and it works OK. Probably the reason of my problem is a bug in ImageMagick = 3.8.2 The another problem is however, that I can't find any newer version which compiles in bo. The 4.0.4 version,

Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]

1998-06-17 Thread Scott Ellis
Did you install the file-rc package? Is /etc/init.d/* still there? On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: Well the good news is, My Debian system has been up handling daily routines (and running RC5 challenge they whole time G) for the past 93 days. They only thing that shut it down

Re: FTP gone from dselect

1998-06-11 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0 and successfully downloaded several packages using the custom install and FTP method of access. Now, when I reboot the system, it gives me several network errors, and FTP is gone from dselect's Access menu. Any

Re: 3 questions

1998-06-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dennis Dai wrote: 1. What's the difference between hamm (frozen) and slink? Slink will eventually become Debian 2.1. It contains those packages which either aren't ready for prime time yet, or which contain additional features past the freeze date of Debian 2.0. 2. Where

Re: reentrant libs

1998-06-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Michael D. Figley wrote: Does anyone know if/where Debian keeps libraries with reentrant version of standard functions? Example: random_r(). To the best of my knowledge, all major libraries are compiled with -DREENTRANT, which should have them define the reentrant

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's

Re: Strange man behaviour

1998-06-03 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Johann Spies wrote: When I am looking for the manpages of an X11-related topic as a user, I get an error message. The same does not happen when I do it as root. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED](2)$ man xkeycaps No manual entry for xkeycaps [EMAIL PROTECTED](3)$ apropos xterm

Re: init scripts using ipchains..?

1998-06-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Michael [badpixel / bad sector] wrote: hi! does anyone have network init scripts, that uses ipchains for ip spoofing protection etc.? i would also like to see how ip_masq i done using ipchains! :) netbase 3.09-1 (in hamm) includes ipchains, including all documentation

RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: : How about just adding the 'passwd' command to the scirpt? Because I don't know what the user's password is. I have the encrypted password entry from the /etc/master.passwd file from the BSDi box, and

Re: LJ review of RedHat 5.0 mentions Debian.

1998-05-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: The sendmail featured in this release has improved anti-spam protection. No longer is it possible for a random spammer to use your host as an unwitting e-mail relay.'' I wish we had that. My Debian 1.3 box was used a SPAM relay a few

Re: library load problems

1998-05-27 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I just installed Hamm from scratch with kde as the desktop environment. When I start certain applications (e.g. netscape), they fail with messages of this sort: cant load library 'libXt.so.6' where the library is present as well as

Re: Status of an E(nlightenment) .deb?

1998-05-26 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Asher Haig wrote: What's the status on .deb packages to install E? The Enlightenment maintainer is waiting for v14 of E to package it, as v13 is reasonably FSSTND unfriendly. Most of the required libs for v13 are already packaged for hamm, it isn't too hard to compile

Re: Reply-to (was: dselect oddities)

1998-05-18 Thread Scott Ellis
I'm afraid Ill have to drag out this again. Please read: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html On Mon, 18 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, 18 May 1998 09:07:52 -0300 (ADT), Trevor Barrie wrote: No, the reply I thought went to the list didn't because this list does not

Re: netscape problem ...

1998-05-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sun, 17 May 1998, The CampGround wrote: I recently (about an hour ago) downloaded netscape 4.05 from netscape, ran the ns-install script, and it threw the files in /usr/local/netscape.. I run /usr/local/netscape/netscape inside an xterm and i get: netscape: can't load library

Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 15 May 1998 11:04:55 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: But isn't that the point of a packaging system? This way, bug-fixes, security fixes, etc. are integrated into the system simply by running dselect every now and then. deselect *does*

Re: perl package/CPAN integration questionable

1998-05-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: IMNSHO, there is a problem with the integration between our perl package, and the CPAN module. Yes :) Check out bug 15797 for discussion of this issue. If I have correctly analysed the problem, then the 'right' answer involves dpkg and CPAN somehow

Re: compiling kernel

1998-05-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jim Crumley wrote: I wanted to compile the kernel (2.0.9) and while making zImage, the following error occured: as86 not found Could you please explain me where to get this binary? The only thing I have is 'as' but that doesnt work! I asked the same thing a couple of

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? /etc/apt/sources.list (man 5 sources.list) 2. Could I make a symlink from /var/cache/apt/archives to another

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based? Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve reject the connection? apt

Re: recompiling kernel

1998-04-29 Thread Scott Ellis
If that is the case, then I'm not sure this will solve my problem. I think the problem is with the compile itself, and I don't know enough about C and make scripts, etc. to figure it out. Somewhere in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed there is a file that is invoking objdump

Re: How to use dpkg-source

1998-04-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: I need some packages that are in hamm, but i'm using bo. So i tried to use dpkg-source only problem is that it complains : dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./perl_5.004.04.orig.tar.gz' contains object (perl5.004_04/) not in expected directory

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the binary isn't up to date, it defeats the idea of providing it. And seeking out permission to distribute specific binaries is not what Debian is in the business of doing. Please, read

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-23 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: How about a pine-src package with the patch included, which patches the original sources in the postinst script, builds the binary package and then installs it? That's the

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, how can I start xdm automatically after booting? I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change this... Does anyone know which files to alter?

Re: Severe security hole in Bind

1998-04-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed this link with a warning about all Linux distributions. http://www.LinuxMall.com/support/bind-4.9.6.html Currently I'm running Hamm/Frozen, am I vulnerable? I check the config file(s) and did not notice the 'fake-iquery

Re: network startup script

1998-04-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Can anyone suggest why this script doesn't seem to work on 2.1.90? It's my /etc/init.d/network. I added the netmask on the route line for lo because it seemed to help, but I still get some other errors, and ifconfig seems to hang. #!/bin/sh

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Marco Anglesio wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I don't believe that is true I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work Yes, you and me both downloaded the .deb of pine (and pico, and pine-docs, probably). However, it's been removed from

Re: conflict between xlib6 and xlib6g

1998-04-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Pierre Dupuis wrote: I need to install xlib6g library forms in order to make some app run (like squake) But xlib6 which is already installed is in conflict with xlib6g, and xlib6 is need by xbase and some others app like emacs... I would like to know if someone

Re: qt compile problem after upgrade to libc6

1998-04-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Michael [badpixel / bad sector] wrote: hi! i have alot of problems compiling things, after i have upgraded to libc6 (from debian 1.3.1) the programs, that i can't compile now compiled before, without problems. gcc: installation problem, cannot exec c1plus': No

Re: ram question

1998-04-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: My system has 32 megs of ram, however free, and top report only 30'ish, is that the way it should be? [EMAIL PROTECTED] free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 30652 30020632

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Greg, I'd suggest to run `watch -n 10 pstree' in the xterm... I like that solution! I didn't know about the watch command. However, it is possible that the pstree will be longer then the number of lines in an xterm of default size (24

Re: request for Debian 2.0 features

1998-04-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Graham Pople wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, pgarcia wrote: Could someone please summarize the main changes in the upcoming Debian 2.0 release? Does it include the filesystem changes in FHS 2.0? I

Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]

1998-04-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On 1 Apr 1998, William R Ward wrote: Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other day that my package list went to nothing. hamm is

Re: request for Debian 2.0 features

1998-03-31 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, pgarcia wrote: Could someone please summarize the main changes in the upcoming Debian 2.0 release? Does it include the filesystem changes in FHS 2.0? I noticed that on the ftp doc/package-developer/ directory, the old fsstnd-1.2 files are still there. The main feature

Re: install troubles continue

1998-03-25 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: Unless I am misunderstanding something here (easily possible) the only difference between zImage and bzImage kernels is the inclusion of the boot sector code at the beginning of the file. You are misunderstanding. bzImage is the new kernel format

Re: What happened to the packages?

1998-03-25 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi again, What happened to all of the hamm packages? I just upgraded my Package list but now all of my installed packages are considered obsolete and there the remaining available packages are no longer in the list. Does this have something to

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Agbaglo wrote: is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to the host from where I logged in ? Check out ssh, which does all you want and more (but is only available on nonus.debian.org and mirrors due to stupid US crypto laws) -- Scott

Re: [Panic] dpkg-ftp upgrade removed required packages

1998-03-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed' section - timezone 7.55-2 This is replaced by timezones. I'm suprised you still

Re: Oddity in /var/adm/messages

1998-03-14 Thread Scott Ellis
mkdir /var/log/news On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have noticed something strange in my logfiles. Since march 8, my /var/adm/messages show only lines like these: Mar 12 22:14:23 souterrain syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Mar 12 22:14:25 souterrain kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log

Re: kde

1998-03-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I have tried to install kde on a debian system, but get error messages such as the following: dpkg: error processing kdesupport-Beta3-1.i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/opt/kde/lib', which is also in package kdelibs dpkg-deb:

Re: Debian Linux Cross Compiling

1998-03-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Debian Linux and I would like to know the following: Does Debian GNU/Linux have all the abilities of the GNU CC utilities to cross compile to a Hitachi SH-1 microprocessor? If so, do I need to jump

Re: Cross Compilers Once More

1998-03-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Responded: Debian does not come with cross-compiling tools, since it is impossible to anticipate the cross-compiling needs of our users. You will have to build a cross-compiling system yourself, the gcc

Re: Anacron isn't logged

1998-03-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: I update my hamm partition from a local mirror every four or five days. Since my last update (3/5/98) anacron runs normally every day, but there is no entry in /var/log/anacron. I don't know which packages were updated on the last run. Which

Re: Adding users [useradd]

1998-03-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: For some reason, my debian box is not adding users properly. I created a user, and it did not prompt me with any questions (Like Name and password). It added a entry in the passwd file (more or less bare bones entry (no shell, password)) and it did

Re: Debian-|-Zip

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... That's odd, it's worked for me for a while. You're looking for the ppa driver, you probably have

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi NO, DON'T DO THIS. Read

Re: Last login info

1998-03-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: I noticed that redhat 5.0 'remembers' the full host name of my last login, while my debian 1.3.1 system gives me only the first 16 characters of it. As I didn't yet have the courage to install hamm, my question is, will hamm also remember the full

Re: symlink error while unpacking -- why is this happening

1998-02-26 Thread Scott Ellis
You ran into a problem with the mid 2.1.8x kernels, upgrade to 2.1.88 or downgrade to 2.1.7x On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Anibal A Acero wrote: Hi folks! I'm using the hamm distribution and lately I've been getting alot of the following: dpkg --unpack jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (Reading

Re: glibc? [quick question]

1998-02-26 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Bruce Locke wrote: Is glibc just another name for libc6? If not, why isn't debian using it instead when RedHat and some other distributions claim to be converting to it? Yes, libc6 and glibc are the same thing. libc6 refers to the major number 6 of the C library. The

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there was talk of doing an installer package, but nothing ever came of it). gated is available at http://www.gated.org/. [1] The gated

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: Nope. You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all (including in non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the licence (and you can't just have someone else sign the licence and then upload it to non

Re: What happened to the ps POSIX options

1998-02-23 Thread Scott Ellis
On 23 Feb 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: I updated procps (+ other stuff) to the newest version(s) in the Debian mirror I use (sunsite.auc.dk) and found out that the (much more useful) POSIX-style ps options no longer work. Why were they removed? Debian fell back to use the unmodified

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No

Re: problems trying to compile qt example from tutorial

1998-02-13 Thread Scott Ellis
You're missing -lqt so that the library actually gets linked. On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: I installed qt1g-dev (and qt1g) in my system, but when I try to compile the first example from the tutorial, I get the message: g++ hello.C -o hello hello.C:9: qapp.h: No

Re: Compiling w/shadow support

1998-02-11 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Mark A. Bialik wrote: There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this plain Debian 1.3.1? Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :) ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory Try leaving it out, or using

Re: CDE

1998-02-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from RedHat and convert the RPM using the alien package

Re: modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Lily wrote: Hello, i'm Lily(nickname) !!! my problem is that i want to have internet under Linux but i don't have '/dev/cua?' . How can i do to have these ( i have already try with MAKEDEV but nothing) ?? thanks for all... /dev/cua? are obsolete and depriciated. You

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, dpk wrote: I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent version of this and instructions/tips for using it?

Re: libc6 - libc5

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Selim Issever wrote: Dear all, I upgraded to libc6,.. but now I need to compile libc5 o-files and link them together with other libc5 o-files,.. there is no possibility to recompile the old o-files, as I dont have the sources,.. Look at altgcc and the various -altdev

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: Hi, I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was through I rebooted and life was

Re: dpkg error message

1998-02-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jens Christian Lisner wrote: I want to recompile the ftape package for kernel-2.0.32. I've made a dpkg-source -x ftape_3.04d-1.dsc dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./ftape_3.04d.orig.tar.gz' contains object (ftape-3.04d/) not in expected directory (ftape-3.04d.orig)

Re: modconf and whiptail?

1998-02-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to upgrade and it says the new version of modconf depends on whiptail which isn't a package, teh 'i' command shows two different depends though, one says newt0.2 (or similiar number) and the other shows whiptail, is this a bug? if not where

Re: gcc setup problem

1998-01-30 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Shane D. McAndrew wrote: $ gcc hello.c hello.c:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory I have searched my whole hard-disk, and there is no file called iostream.h However, I did find lots of other commonly used header files, such as usr/include/asm/string.h

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Scott Ellis wrote: Maybe someone else has an easier way? Yes, there is now a script a http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the old -dev

Re: looking for dns perl script

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote: Hello, I am looking for perl script to convert bind ver 4 files to bind ver 8 files. The file is named-bootconf.pl. It is not on the linux cd. If anyone can send me this by mail, will be deeply appreciated. Best Regards, Eugene The Debian

Re: 128Mg of RAN, how?

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
In /etc/lilo.conf append=mem=128M On 28 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: I have a system with 128Mg of RAN, but the Linux only sees 64Mg. --from dmesg Memory: 64040k/66556k available (876k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1256k data) --- what it is the problem, and what it is

Re: DNS QUESTION

1998-01-27 Thread Scott Ellis
Run bindconfig On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote: Hello , I have a problem getting dns to start on the linux server. When i try to run named it says '/etc/named.conf' cannot be opened. I could not find such a file anywhere in the system. Any help in this matter will be deeply

Re: upgrading from libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everyone, I have a bo system and want a hamm system. I got the howto to do the upgrade, but i can't find libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 that it says you need. It does not say anywhere where to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. libc6 is now

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Scott Ellis
On 27 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-27 Thread Scott Ellis
Just a me-too here. I get the same results. On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: I also upgraded to the 5.004.04-4 perl and perl-base packages this morning. While adduser still does not segfault for me, perl still segfaults and dumps core when I run either my couple hundred line mail

Re: Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Adam Shand wrote: Speaking of which has anyone else noticed that pine hides some HTML tags automatically? I was most surprised the other day when I replied to s two line message only to discover (as soon as the reply screen came up) that there had actually been about 6

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-22 Thread Scott Ellis
On 21 Jan 1998, Raja R Harinath wrote: Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that the setup program is finding the xlib6g libs there, which causes it a problem since it needs the regular xlib6 libs. Renaming the directory moves the xlib6g stuff completely out of ld.so's

Re: date command strange output

1998-01-22 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, When I type date I get somewhat unusual response: $ date Thu Jan 22 15:31:44 /etc/localtime 1998 What this /etc/localtime addition is all about? Is it normal? Run tzconfig -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: /etc/init.d/modules (which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/modutils) The package to manage kernel modules used to be called modules. It was renamed upstream to modutils and we followed the naming convention. The modules symlink is to make sure that

Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:03:55 -0500 (EST) I believe it is desirable for debian

Re: why do I get bounced mails from this list???

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote: I receive bounces from e-mail this list is trying to deliver. When I send mail to this list and somewhere it can not be delivered -- I get the bounce. Why is this?? Why does the listserv not get the bounces. BTW usually qmail is the other ends mail

Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated. Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I

Re: libc5 and libc6

1998-01-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Tom Ed White wrote: Is it possible to use libc5 and libc6 together? There are a couple of programs in hamm that I would like to try, but I heard somewhere that the two libs can't both be installed. http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procps_1.2.5-1.deb install error

1998-01-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: This procps fails on install: trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with nondirectory Known problem fixed with procps-1.2.5-2 which is stuck in incoming at the moment. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the

Re: more on 'clean hamm install'

1998-01-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: The only other solution I have is clean-install again, and then to go through the dselect stage to install a very minimal number of packages (only those marked 'required'?). Recomendation here, Install the bo base disks Get the upgrade script

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-14 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the setup

Re: Debian Pgp question...

1998-01-13 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, smorrill wrote: I have used Pgp for quite awhile with Win95, and thus have already made my secret key id number, etc. I would like to get pgp set up with Linux as I would like to move to using Debian exclusively. Anybody out there familiar with this issue of how I

Re: About incoming packages

1998-01-13 Thread Scott Ellis
On 13 Jan 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: Ther has been some dicussion about psmisc being stuck in incoming in the master server. Is there way for a non-developer (especially for one who wants to be on the bleeding edge and thinks he know the risks) and to download packages that are in

Re: libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?

1998-01-13 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I read the mini HOWTO and reports in this mailing list about unstable being stable enough. My machine is kind of a production server. The world would not end if it goes down for a day or so. But still it is important to have it up and

Re: Perl 5.004 and Perl-tk

1998-01-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded libc5 to libc6 etc., and have now also upgraded to Perl 5.004. However if I try to dpkg -i Perl-tk_400.202-9.deb it then tells me that perl-tk depends on perl (5.004) and that perl is not installed, although Perl --version shows

Re: Staroffice libc5 5.4.38-0.1

1998-01-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On 12 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi I have a Linux system with libc5 (5.4.20-1) were all the Staroffice programs are working correctly. I have another Linux system with libc5 (5.4.38-0.1) were I can not run the Staroffice setup program, whem I try... StarOffice3.1

Re: Upgrade to libc6...

1998-01-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: Hi! Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package, or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Ok ... but I just have a little

Re: unable to determine run-level

1998-01-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote: When I type reboot or halt, I get unable to determine run-level, and then it pretty much dies. it is a new hamm system. Use shutdown -r now or shutdown -h now instead. (or actually, it should only be a problem when you've upgraded the sysvinit package since

Re: Upgrade to libc6...

1998-01-08 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package, or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... Go read http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/

Re: /sbin/clock status?

1997-12-31 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Does anyone know what happened to the nifty little clock program that used to be in /sbin/clock? I used that to set my CMOS clock time from the OS' time but since I updated to hamm I can't seem to find it. A grep of Contents-i386 doesn't seem to

Re: libc6-2.0.5c - 2.0.6 and a dead system

1997-12-31 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, grin wrote: Hello, Seems nobody met this on the list, perhaps it was my fault. Got libc6-2.0.6 and I tried to upgrade from 2.0.5c. dpkg unpacked it, and while setting up I got a very ugly error from ld.so with FULL CAPS and mumbling some assertion error. From that

Re: route add -net 127.0.0.0

1997-12-31 Thread Scott Ellis
On 31 Dec 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: does anyone know why on the 2.1.x kernels the command route add -net 127.0.0.0 gives the error SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument and no route to the 127.0.0.0 network is added? I remember I saw something regarding this somewhere but can't remember what

Re: libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Running hamm I tried to install the various Linux Gazette packages. However, they depend on libwww-perl. Fine, but after selecting libwww-perl it says it needs libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl and these are nowhere to be found. Anyone know what

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/{lock,methlock}

Re: Help I broke my X instalation.

1997-12-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: I very very carefully followed the instructions in the lic5-lic6-Mini-HOWTO.txt and upgraded to libc6 today Great I thought that the Packagename and the packagenameg files could coexist ... apearntly not ... the xlib6g replaced my xlib6

Re: java and netscape

1997-12-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Danny Heap wrote: I've installed netscape 3.01 using the debian package netscape 3.01-4. There's a note in /usr/doc/netscape about crashes with java that suggests a work-around using an old version of libc (5.0.9). Where would I fetch the old library from? Also,

Re: upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

1997-12-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been looking in the archives but could not see any reference to

Re: ftp site

1997-12-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:08:28AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: : Isn't there supposed to be an unstable directory (symlinked to hamm) : on the ftp site? : : In the dists dir, e.g. :

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