Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:12:11AM +0200, Bostjan JERKO wrote: > > libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400eb000) > > I seem to be missing this library. Can anybody tell me in which package it > is included. The libc5 xpm libraries are in stable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/xp

Re: Hp deskjet

1998-10-08 Thread \&quot;J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:25:53AM +0200, Mans Joling wrote: >How do I install my HP Deskjet500 under linux Using a printer cable :-) Seriously though, install the "magicfilter" package. It is fairly easy to set up, and allows you to print all kinds of files using via the "lpr" command. HTH,

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread \&quot;J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian Armstrong wrote: > Typed:make config which resulted in the following: > > make:***No rule to make target config! Stop. You need to be in the top level directory of the kernel source to run "make config". HTH, Ray -- Ob

Re: glimpse on CD?

1998-10-05 Thread \&quot;J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
[Redirected to -user] On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:36:57AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I just noticed that glimpse is *not* on my _official_ LSL Debian 2.0 disk > set. Strange. There's nothing strange about it. Glimpse does not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines (IIRC, because the lice

Re: debian 2.0 refuses to get installed in a box with a SCSI disk.

1998-10-05 Thread \&quot;J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:38:03PM +0100, J.Miguel Signes wrote: > The system is an Intel Pentium, at 90 MHz, with 24 MB RAM. > There is an Adaptec AIC-7850 Host SCSI Adapter (BIOS v1.11) at Have you tried using the special disk images for that SCSI adapter? http://master.debian.org/~doko/

Re: newbie question: when dpkging libpam0g & libpam0g-util

1998-10-02 Thread \&quot;J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:56:42PM +0800, zuwi wrote: > When I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g, it told me this depends on > libpam0g-util, and libpam0g-util had not been configured, so failed. > > Then I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g-util, it told me this depends on > libpam0g, and (of co

Re: installing debian from more than 1 CD?

1998-09-23 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[Courtesy copy of Usenet posting] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to install some non-free and contrib Debian 2.0 packages. I >have main, non-free and contrib on three different CDs. > >I select a package from contrib that depends on another package on >non-free, dselect

Re: dselect corrupted filesystem

1997-06-12 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >During the installation phase, text flew by on my screen, seldom pausing. >I believe install went well until post-configuration. As text flew by, I >saw some "broken pipe" and either "gzip" or "grep" errors, until dselect >hung on post-configuring xfnt75. > >Aft

Re: perl 4.003-4 chat2.pl

1997-06-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 10, Andrea Arcangeli wrote > How can port my programs that > require "chat2.pl"; > making it to work with perl 4.004? 5.004, you mean? > es. > chat::close($fh); Randal Schwartz (author of chat2.pl) has made some Usenet postings on this: - go to http://www.dejanews.com> - select "power se

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 10, Fredrik Ax wrote > On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Max Stevens wrote: > > :0: > > * ^TOdebian-user ^^^ > > debian-user > > If match "* ^To.*debian-user" you will miss all CC:ed and BCC:ed mail to ^^^ ^TO != ^To. TO also catches Cc and Bcc. See procmailrc(5): | If the regular ex

Re: su: (to nobody) root on none

1997-06-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 10, Eugene Sevinian wrote > This string frequently appears in my auth.log. Does it mean that something > wrong with security? Probably not. It is most likely a result of your system running /etc/cron.daily/find, which updates the database used by "locate"; this update is done as "nobody"

Re: Problems with g++

1997-06-09 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 9, Sebastien Phelep wrote > gcc is 2.7.2.2-4; libg++ is 2.7.2.1-9 / 2.7.2.5-1 > > I guess it's because I've used "unstable" packages, but I'm note sure. > Does anybody knows what's the problem is ? Debian's gcc 2.7.2.2 packages by default use with libc6; for libc6 you need the "libg++272"

Re: unhosing my compiler

1997-06-06 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 5, stephen farrell wrote > Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library > is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.: > /tmp/cca027141.o: In function `main': > /tmp/cca027141.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `_stdprintf' OK. Linker errors. Please pr

Re: DDD problems

1997-06-03 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 2, Matthew Tebbens wrote > Maybe someone can help me with a few problems I'm having with DDD. > At certian times (or mouse clicks) in the program, I get the following: > --- > Error: PANIC: no geometry_manager procedure spe

Re: problem with afterstep

1997-06-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 2, Magic wrote > I have a problem with afterstep. I love this window-maneger but... > I haven't an icon on my Wharf :-( For example... Are your running in 8bpp mode (256 colours) perhaps? >From /usr/doc/afterstep/FAQ.gz: 3.3. Icons disappear from Wharf. What's wrong? You are most li

Re: shadow-login -> shadow: how?

1997-06-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 1, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote >I installed the shadow stuff from experimental a while back, and now I'd >like to move to the newer shadow suite with 1.3. When I `dpkg -i` it >though, `dpkg` tells me that shadow-login is essential, and won't let the >upgrade happen. I had this to, but I don't r

Re: Source code analyzer/debugger for X

1997-05-28 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 28, Alex Yukhimets wrote > By the way, where are ddd-dmotif and ddd-smotif packages? They are no more; they were quite out of date (1.4). I don't have motif, and thus cannot build them. > The package ddd (compiled with lesstif) leaves core dumps all over the > place itself. That should c

Re: problems with depmod

1997-05-27 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 27, Alexander Koch wrote > I got some problems with depmod. Please check that you are using the latest Debian version; older versions somtimes dumped core on 'depmod -a'. > What is the latest version of modutils (?) to upgrade to? modutils_2.1.34-5.deb on the mirror I use. > And, while a

Re: Keeping old user directories

1997-05-27 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 27, Mark Glassberg wrote > I wish to install the latest Debian package while retaining the /root and > /home directories of my old a.out Slackware system. Can I do this and, if > so, what is the best way? Disclaimer: this comes from memory; please check for yourself. The Debian boot/root

Re: failure notice

1997-05-26 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 26, Alexander Koch wrote > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ^ > > Your message was addressed incorrectly. Here is a list of all of the > > valid addresses in the lists.debian.org domain: > > debian-admintool-REQUEST: request ser

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote [problems when cron jobs are never executed on systems that aren't switched on 24hrs/day ?] > Could this be harmful? AFAIK: not really. It does mean that logs keep on growing, but that's easily cured. > I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave th

Re: xdm-screen 16 bit?

1997-05-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 13, Rolf Obrecht wrote > On Tue, 13 May 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: > > what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further screens > > to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right screen depth > > with "xinit -- -bpp 16" but how does this work with xdm)? > > > Chan

Re: Linux Standard File System

1997-05-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 13, Brent Hutto wrote > I've seen references a couple of times to something like a "Linux Standard > File System" (of course, now I can't quite locate the document(s) where I > saw it). Is that a document that exists somewhere like HOWTO or similar? A > pointer would be appreciated. You're

Re: ssltelnet -- how secure?

1997-05-06 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 5, Paul Serice wrote > I've installed ssltelnet, but can't find much documentation. > > Is this thing secure? Do all I do is telnet in and out using the new > programs? How do I know if a secure connection has been established? If > a secure connection is established, does it just protec

Re: Postscript to ?

1997-05-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 2, Ted Harding wrote > The closest you'll find to what you're looking for is in the "pstools" > package, which at best will extract the text characters in the order of > printing, but totally unformatted. It may, however, do a lot worse than > that. Which program are you referring to, Ted?

Re: Postscript to ?

1997-05-02 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 1, Nikolaj Richers wrote > Can anyone think of a utility or word processor that can read Postscript > files and save them in a common WP or even TeX format? I'm afraid such a utility does not (and up to a certain degree, can not) exist. PostScript is a full general programming language, and

Re: how to safely install libc6..

1997-05-01 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 1, Paul van Berlo wrote > geez:) I'm encountering too many problems lately.. anyways.. I just tried > to install libc6 from unstable.. (yes.. I know.. unstable.. but I dont > care:) How can I safely install it? because libc6 conflicts with libc-dev > and libc5-dev provides libc-dev.. but if

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 29, Danny ter Haar wrote > During the upgrade i saw the following message: > > Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background > and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked. > Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ... > > Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg' [...] > The defau

Re: "Press any key to see message: e..."

1997-04-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 18, Shane D. McAndrew wrote > I have a strange problem whilst reading the debian-user mailing lists with > my mail reader Elm 2.4 PL25 and metamail 2.7-15. The "unstable" tree now has "elm-me+", which has better support for MIME and PGP than plain old elm; you might want to use that (or "mu

Re: hypermail and majordomo -> error

1997-04-15 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 15, Remco van de Meent wrote > I'm using Debian 1.2, patched up to level 9, together with qmail-1.00, > majordomo-1.94.1 (patched for use with qmail) and hypermail-1.02-2. Once upon a long ago, the Debian lists' web archive was based on hypermail. Unfortunately, hypermail began to exhibit c

Re: purging latex

1997-04-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 10, digger vermont wrote > I'm upgrading from 1.2 to bo and at tetex-*'s request am trying to run > "dpkg --purge --force-depends latex". This is the response I get: > > (Reading database ... 31313 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing latex ... > Removing latex format(s) u

Re: Where's Mutt?

1997-04-03 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Apr 2, Richard Kilgore wrote > What happenned to mutt? It was in the mail subdirectory for a little bit, > and it still appears in the Packages file, but the latest .deb file (or an > old one for that matter) is nowhere to be found. I withdrew it from the regular distribution and moved it to d

Re: Smail, From header

1997-03-26 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 26, J. LILLIBRIDGE wrote > I'm running Debian Linux at home. When I send e-mail out, I want to have > the From: header say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've figured out how to get > nmsu.edu put in there (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But my login here at > home is just jl. What is the best way to

Re: [Fwd: Re: MIME-capable non-X newsreader?]

1997-03-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 21, Ken Gaugler wrote > This guy must not really want anyone to send him help via email! ["REFUSED" message deleted] I appreciate help via email very much (which is why my Usenet posts don't have mangled From:s). However, I don't want to waste time on junk email (aka UCE, aka bulk mail aka

MIME-capable non-X newsreader?

1997-03-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Can one of our non-X newsreaders deal reasonably with MIME messages? (by "reasonably" I mean along the way mutt works for mail: decode base64/quoted-printable messages and headers, handle text/* itself, and offer to run metamail for non-text parts (e.g. application/postscript); being able to send

Re: dselect selection

1997-03-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I want to install debian on different PC's using same selection of > packages for each PC. Is it possible if I have one PC fully configured > to take its list of installed packages and install these on a > second pc, whithout having to go through the

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-20 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 20, Hamish Moffatt wrote > > It is. Due to unclarity wrt ITAR for packages with hooks for crypto, > > such as mutt, the Debian mutt packages resides on debian-non-US sites > > nowadays. I've reported a bug against ftp.debian.org to get the old > > package removed. > > Which is odd, because

Re: Mutt and Menus

1997-03-19 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 19, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote > after reading about mutt I decided to try again (first time it would give > some sort of error). Anyway, I like it very much but sort of miss the > menus in elm. Is there any way of activating the menu display (as was > possible under elm). I have looked

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-19 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 19, Alexander Koch wrote > So you may see what Mutt is like. But you should be careful. I'd say: > stick with the Debian- MUTT- Package and you're fine. It's not as news as > the real MUTT but it _works_ (believe me, it's a bit tricky to make it It is. Due to unclarity wrt ITAR for package

Re: 1.1 -> 1.2 dselect/dpkg breaks

1997-03-19 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 19, Nathan O. Siemers wrote > There's no big syntax error that I can see (with my uneducated eyes) > in that area of "available", The section before it most likely has an entry with a ':' in the version numbering. This is a use of the new "epoch" feature in dpkg (to deal with packages whose

Re: shared library tutorial?

1997-03-03 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 28, Dale Martin wrote > Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use > shared libraries? Check out "ELF: from the Programmer's Perspective" by H.J. Lu: http://www.debian.org/Documentation/elf/elf.html ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/elf.ps.gz HTH, Ray

Re: PLIP setup?

1997-02-28 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 27, Steve Reid wrote > I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm > having some problems... [...] > It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't > get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP > compiled into the

Re: debian-newbie list

1997-02-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 20, Bruce Perens wrote > I think what we need first is a person to coordinate all of the oldbies > who are answering questions. There has to be a schedule, perhaps a mail > alias that is directed to different people at different times, etc. > > Second, we need a person who edits all of the

Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like "WTF"?

1997-02-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 18, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote > I would like to resolve these many abbreviations today, as > So, is there any appropriate dictionary? Thanks. http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/acronym http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html Of course,

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 18, Hamish Moffatt wrote > > So, what else are the links good for? Most programs do not > > (and should not) depend on kernel version specific api's; and the > > handful that do should ask for and include -I/usr/src/linux anyway. > > Has anyone had any luck compiling (z)ftape 3.02 on

Re: Debian review in Linux Journal

1997-01-22 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 21, Eloy A. Paris wrote > I'd like to know if someone can give me a link to a place where I can read > the Debian review made by the Linux Journal staff in their November 1996 > issue. I don't think you can find it online yet. But, http://www.ssc.com/lj/mags.html gives an email address for

Re: Debian includes dir lacks symlinks to kernel sources

1997-01-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 20, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote > I discovered today, while attempting to compile the modutils for the > Linux 2.1.21 development kernel, that Debian installs a set of kernel > includes into /usr/include/{asm,linux}, rather than the standard > symlinks to the kernel source tree! There are good

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-17 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 17, Jan Camenisch wrote [cron suggestion for machines that don't run all day] > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > were executed for the last time. If these for were not > executed for say two days (weeks, months)

Re: ghostscript

1997-01-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 16, Bob Clark wrote > I think you want the gs package, Yes. The non-free one if possible, because it is better. > actually gv is probably "better". No. ghoscript is a PostScript interpreter, with very limited viewing capabilities; gv and ghostview are PostScript viewers that use ghostscri

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 15, Walter Tautz wrote > other than pine. I would like a simple curses based > reader > that easily allows one to configure the mail to read > automatically into separate folders depending on > the address it came from, I'm not sure if I'm understanding you here: if you want incoming mail

Re: libndbm + libdbm

1997-01-09 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Fundamental writes: > I was wondering where i could get these libraries from? I searched the > ftp.debian.org via the web debian package finder and came up with nothing. Get the libgdbm* packages from the base and devel sections; they provide them. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RU

Re: kernel make deb fails

1997-01-03 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[moved to debian-user@lists.debian.org; you were using debian-changes!] Fundamental writes: > I have installed the kernel source, and when i get to teh stage where i > should make deb ; make clean i get the following error, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/src/linux]: make deb > make: *** No rule to

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various > binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail > to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail > telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, > as it should've been. A few people have

Re: SCCS for Linux

1996-11-23 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is there SCCS for Linux? I have been able to find it. True SCCS is commercial. Try a dejanews (www.dejanews.com) search on "SCCS Linux"; it results in 50+ hits, including a references to the following URL: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/MySC-linux.tar.gz Hope this helps, Ray

Re: PPP

1996-11-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Are there any programs available for linux that allow you to > logon to a normal telnet getty and then start up a PPP connection from > the command line? I have a dialup connection to the whole network, but > the PPP lines for this school are monstrously overcrowded. I'm not aware of such

Re: Hypermail (web-based mail archiver) for debian?

1996-11-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is there a version of Hypermail (the web-based mail archiver) for Debian? No. Having used Hypermail, I recommend mhonarc (hypermail dumped core when used on large archives on FreeBSD), which is packaged: Version: 1.2.3-2 Last modified: Mon Sep 23 09:19:52 1996 Architecture: i386 Maintainer:

VIM: filtering (Was Re: pgp)

1996-11-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
I wrote: > On our Sun systems, we have two versions of vim, > with 4.2, you don't get too see pgp's prompt for the passphrase, and > pgp's stderr output is captured by the pipe too; > with 3.0, you get too see pgp's prompt, and the pipe command doesn't > capture stderr. > > Stuart, I like 3.0

Re: pgp

1996-11-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Lars wrote: > To sign e-mail by hand, you should save the text into a file, > say foo, and then run PGP with the -sta options: [example deleted] You can do this from inside an editor too; for VIM, select the body (shift-V) and do !pgp -fast (pgp as [f]ilter; [a]

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> In libwww-perl there is a command GET that makes the trick. > If you have a squid proxy, you can read it next time directly from > cache. Otherwise, you can put it to a file. Wouldn't it be easier to use 'lynx' (-dump or -source or somesuch) or 'snarf'? > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wr

Re: Annoying package dependence concept

1996-10-26 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[Johannes complained about dselect not allowing you to override dependencies] > But as it is currently, maintaining a Debian system by using > deselect is a real pain ... 'dselect' is aimed at normal users, and what you see as restrictions in at, can also be seen as preventive measures. If you d

Re: New Infomagic Release

1996-10-24 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I have been told that InfoMagic has just released a 6 cd-rom set for > linux which includes the Debian/GNU Linux 1.1.4. Is this a stable > and recent version or is a later version out there? The numbered releases are stable, but not frozen: once fixes are applied, the last number is incremente

Re: gcc linker-error's

1996-10-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[linking C++ code with gcc fails]: >gcc -o test test.cc > > both give the following (linker) errors: > > /tmp/cca001121.o: In function `main': > /tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to `cout' > /tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to > `ostream:operator<<(char co

Re: Where is pgp?

1996-10-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> In an old package list, I have copied in August, the debian > pgp packages (US and international) were in non-free. To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the PGP packages were moved outside of the US. Currently, you can find them at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/d

Re: Glimpse search?

1996-10-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is it common knowledge that the search engine isn't working on > www.debian.org? It should by now be common knowledge that no CGI script whatsoever is working on www.debian.org. Explanation: www.debian.org has moved to another machine. In order to make mirroring it easier, it has been decided t

Re: mounting files as filesystems

1996-10-11 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I > would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as > file. Still with me? :) > > I couldn't find info on this anywhere. It's documented in the kernel's Configure.help: Loop device support CO

Re: "find" and symlinks question

1996-10-11 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[my find/symlink problem: find each file _once_ in the FTP directory structure; to remove duplicates from http://www.debian.org/FTP/] Phil> How about: Phil> find unstable/* contrib non-free -name '*.deb' Phil> It won't find hidden files in unstable/, but it doesn't look like you Phil> want to

"find" and symlinks question

1996-10-11 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Hi, As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it. The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a find unstable contrib non-free -name '*.d

Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc

1996-10-01 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I'm trying to help myself. Really. But, the Debian web pages only > list mailing list archives up to June 1996, My scripts that made the archives then were lost in a disk crash; I've recently recreated them, and the FTP archive (/debian/debian-lists) are up to date. As for the webserver, it

Re: man page for protoize

1996-09-28 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is there anywhere a man page to (un)protoize? I'd liked to know if there > are some options that controll compiler directories, etc. I think these > programs came with gcc, and I'd liked to avoid unpacking all the gcc > sources. (un)protoize is documented in the GCC documentation, which is in th

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-09-24 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I have no idea why the 'non-free' set is not included on the [Infomagic] > CD set, > other than for space reasons, as most of the programs in that set are > included in the other distributions. Probably because we are considerate :-( In Debian, all packages that cannot be freely redistributed

Re: Filename case

1996-09-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a > directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a > quick method or command to do this? Not a single command, but a small combination of utils will do. [Solution for use with a Bourne shell, e.g. bash;

Re: ftp.debian.org

1996-09-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I maintain a mirror of ftp.debian.org for internal use (we've got several > linux machines), however, the last several times I've started to run > mirror its reported: > > compare directories (src 8356, dest 32957) > > I'm not too keen on letting 3/4 of the mirror get toasted, so I've > killed

Re: llseek error & large partitions

1996-09-17 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> >Also, I receive this message when past this point and writing the > >inode tables, "256/350 mkfs.ext2: Can't resolve symbol llseek" > > > >Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? > > The install discs have a slimmed-down version of C library on them to > allow the rest of the install

Re: Debian Logo?

1996-09-12 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one. There was one: a "baby-gnu". It was decided to drop it following the troubles with the FSF (the "lignux" stuff). I still have copies: http://www.debian.org/attic/debian-small.gif http://www.debian.org/attic/debian.gif > "DIE ENTE BLEIBT

Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?

1996-09-11 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> It just occured to me that any evil intentioned or mad maintainer could add > rm -rf / > or anything of this sort in a postinst script. Yes. Or hide stuff in the binaries. You need root permissions to install stuff in /bin etc. > I just would like to know what kind of protection debian co

Re: Compile error

1996-09-05 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s > make[3] as86: command not found. > Any ideas what am doing wrong? Nothing. You just don't have a package installed that is required to build the kernel: bin86 (29 Kb) Section: devel Version: 0.3-1 Last modified: Fri Apr 26 10:47:00 1996 Architecture: i3

Re: Digested version of this list? (Stopped archives)

1996-08-23 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean Orloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:00:07 -0700, Ken Gaugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ken> At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote: > >> Is there a digested version of this mailing list?... > Ken> Check out http://www.debian.org/List

Re: Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOffice under Debian)

1996-08-21 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the > issues with Motif? Please clarify what you mean by "the issues". > Why is Motif hard to come by Because it is commercial software. You have to pay for it. Several vendors sell Motif for Linux. See the "Linux Commercial HOWTO

Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition

1996-08-13 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly > for 2.0.8->2.0.9 and 2.0.9->2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is > the kernel > which the current Debian installation uses. > > >the message "Can't resolve symbol llseek". > > This sounds like a programming error.

Re: new to debian; some questions

1996-08-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is there shadow password support for debian yet? (Or PAM?) Yes. There is an experimental shadow package, and a libpam has recently been uploaded (expect it to be visible in a few days). > Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each > user be in a group containing

Re: Ught Oh =O

1996-08-09 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Heh, I have a problem. > I got a virus on my Windows partition ( And YES I did scan it first with > norton ). > But After I debugged, and fixed as much as I could, everything looked > good... > But now on boot up - LILO dosent show... It just boots into win - blows ( > oops, I meant Wondows ;).

Re: kernel header files

1996-06-12 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel, > it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install > lib5-dev in order to compile programs. Yes. The kernel headers are not enough to compile even a normal "Hello, world!" program. etc are libc headers, and ar

Re: netscape*.deb installation problem

1996-05-24 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> When I dpkg -iGBE netsc*.deb, I get the message that Netscape wants to > see the archive netscape*.tar.gz in /tmp. Nothing further seems to > happen. The obvious thing to try was to cd /tmp, then run dpkg, but > alas, no joy:-( > > What's the story? The story is available via "dpkg --info net

Re: Root login is waiting

1996-05-20 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I have a problem with root login again. All other logins are fine, > but root login is waiting after I typed the password. Even > su isn't working anymore. I updtated some packages, including > a few from Incoming this morning, after reboot, this behaviour > is present. Sound familiar, a solution

Re: Problem with web site

1996-05-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> a couple of weeks ago I reported a problem with the web site: > > >I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/ > >The "Name", "Description", and "Maintainer" fields of some of the packages > >are > >empty, trying to download such a package results in an "Unknown URL" error

Re: beta 1.1 problems with 3c503 and the debian search system.

1996-05-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> The search system has not responded tonight while I was searching > for a solution to this problem. "has not reponded" is a very vague description. Can you give a better one please? > another question(s): what good is an extensive mailing list archive if the > search system does not work? Also

Re: find question (and xargs)

1996-05-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I have come at the following but it doesn't work (and can't figger > out why not from the manpages). > > find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\ > xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} && rm {} > > I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's > not the case. Anyone k

Re: Locale in 1.1?

1996-05-07 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[Please fix your return address: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is incomplete] > I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The > /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it. > > I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should > support) but nvi still does not

Re: Problem with web site

1996-05-06 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/ > > The "Name", "Description", and "Maintainer" fields of some of the packages are > empty, trying to download such a package results in an "Unknown URL" error. > > However this problem is not quiet reproduceable. Last week the p