Re: update-menus broken with libc6 upgrade

1997-07-02 Thread joost witteveen
re chance of seeing where it goes wrong. Thanks (your menu-package maintainer). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Compiling a new kernel

1997-07-01 Thread joost witteveen
ou guessed it, "5". Because gnu libc is a major step forward, the soname had to be changed (increased). This leaves us with a gnu libc that has a soname 6, and thus we (and the rest of the linux world) call it libc6. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://ww

Re: mount, noatime option

1997-06-30 Thread joost witteveen
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > kernel 2.0.30 supports the 'noatime' option for a filesystem, right? > > > > If compiled with that option, yes. Did you answer "yes" to > > that question? (I don'

Re: telnet: connection refused

1997-06-30 Thread joost witteveen
23/tcp rulcmc:~$ ps -ax|grep [i]netd 105 ? S 0:04 /usr/sbin/inetd -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fvwm95 taskbar

1997-06-30 Thread joost witteveen
> Another of life's little mysteries. Now here you are absolutely right. Other people have reported that simply rebuilding -10.2 fixed the missing modules, so that's what I plan to do when I release 10.3, but why-oh-why they are missing in 10.2 is completely beyond me. -- joost w

Re: LD_PRELOAD=lib using ldopen: can't resolve symbol '_dl_open'

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
libc5/libc6 libraries I'm forcing bash to use now: ./libfoo.so.0.0 was libc6, whereas bash is (still) libc5 on my system. I'll _have_ to get that new bash, but alas, master is still down (and I don't have those new libreadline's yet). Sorry for this on debian-user, but I di

Re: help with dselect again plz

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
eighter goes wrong, I'm sure we'll be able to help you better when you give us the error messages produced then. But probably all's well then. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: How compile telnet like Debian telnet?

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
et And, there you've got your self-compiled telnet binary. (for dpkg-source, you'll need dpkg-dev installed). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
er doesn't exit properly (maybe it's trying to mount nfs volumes in the background?), or it's killed for some other reason. What does: $ ps -ax|grep [m]ount output on your system (is mount still running)? And during boot, when the "mount -avt" comes, what does mount

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
member seeing floods of messages like this on debian-user. Do you remember anything interesting about your install? Anything that could have triggered this? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
s for the debian-devel type people only, who are following unstable. If you just have stable (or "bo"), don't bother going there! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: from 1.3 to hamm

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
ng other libc6 libraries/packages will probably not break anything eigher (it didn't on my system, anyway), except installing the libc6 compiled screen: that messed up my utmp/wtmp files. Maybe it's best to backup those if you really need them. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What programs make disks spin up?

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
/lib/ld.so needs to be updated, no matter wheter it was in cache or not (and ld.so probably is cached). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

LD_PRELOAD=lib using ldopen: can't resolve symbol '_dl_open'

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
sh: can't resolve symbol '_dl_catch_error' $ ls -d . ./ Thanks. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mount, noatime option

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
x27;s access time is not updated after reads). > mount_2.6d-1.deb doesn't seem to recognize this option (moount -o > noatime), or what is the right option. Does appear to be the correct option (man mount). > Does anyone have this working? Sorry, no. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
other people filed bugs), and yes, I think you should about point 3 (well but first check that you've got the most recent version of the packages installed, and you _could_ also check the old bugreports, but the latter is optional). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -s

Re: Where is libc6 ????????

1997-06-25 Thread joost witteveen
ck. The new "menu" > > package r > > equires it and I cannot find it anywhere. Note that you'll also need libg++272, even though menu doesn't actually "depends: " on it. That's a bug in libg++272, that nobody before noticed. -- joost witteveen, [EMA

Re: menu package

1997-06-25 Thread joost witteveen
you do: tar -czf - /etc/menu /usr/lib/menu|uuencode menu.tgz|mail -s "menufiles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm rather convinced it's something to do with one of the menufiles you have, and the above way is about the only to find out what. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/u

Re: SVGA server for X86 3.3 (when?)

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> > Anyone know when an SVGA server for XFree 3.3 will > be released? I hoping it will provide better support > for Trident's laptop chipsets. couple of weeks ago, I think. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
libc6 compiled library pacakges (with new names) will not be installed in "unstable", and can thus only be found in master's incoming. So, if yoy want to be a "Real Man/Woman", don't track "unstable", that's for whimps: track master's"incommi

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
ebian policy says that libfoog should conflict with libfoo-dev, and my libg++272 clearly doesn't conflict with libg++27-dev. So, should fix that. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: glibc

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
: Do you have libg++272(-dev) installed? When compiling for glibc, all the > : other librarys you link must also be compiled for it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg --status libg++272 > Package: libg++272 > Status: install ok installed > Priority: standard > Section: devel &g

Re: RPM to deb package conversion

1997-06-20 Thread joost witteveen
S alien [--to-deb] [--patch=file] [options] file alien --to-rpm [options] file -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-19 Thread joost witteveen
> 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. &

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-18 Thread joost witteveen
e 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. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: [coteau@westriv.com: Network Problem]

1997-06-18 Thread joost witteveen
27;t output deamon info. You've probably BSD/SysV syntax, whereas Debian ps uses SysV/BSD syntax. Try "ps -ax" -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: making debian packages

1997-06-18 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that > > > other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contri

Re: fvwm95-2 won't work

1997-06-18 Thread joost witteveen
yies that example system.fvwm2rc95 file, just before the 'update-menus' call). But there is (for the users) an other solution: just install the menu package, and you'll get a system.fvwm2rc95 file that has most of the applications that are installed on your system in it's menu.

Re: making debian packages

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
bian-policy/archive/debian-policy-2.1.3.3/ch-developer.html#s6.1 -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: I need help

1997-06-15 Thread joost witteveen
ot;external cache" on my Cyrix 200+ system). - increase wait states - possibly slow down the system clock (shouldn't be neccecary though, might just help). Once you've got something that works, you can try to step-by-step increase the speed again, and find what was wrong. -- joost w

Re: Bash 2.00 error in xterm

1997-06-15 Thread joost witteveen
PS1="\u\'@'\h\n\w" or you want PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (I guess the latter). What you've got now is simply a unfished string. > Question 2: Why doesn't the error occur in the default xterm. After all > that isn't a login shell...is it? Log

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
, but > to grab a second one successfully, I must first kill off the xv session > and start a new one, which will also grab only the first attempt. Oh, > well, at least it works well enough to get the screens I needed. I just want to advertise xwd again, it's so much easier

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
ot; button just above "Quit" (Quit's in on the bottum, to the right), then you'll get another window, and click "grab" again: Now you can just click on any window you want to be grabbed. Note that you can also do this with: xwd | xwud (xwd gives a file to stdout;

Re: netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
So, could you upgrade your dpkg to the one in bo, 1.4.0.8? That will _probably_ fix it. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
way. The other test for my theory is: download the checker source (from bo), and compile it yourself. Then install the pacakge you just created. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

auth.log: su(to root) fails 1000 times /min?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
te sure nobody else who just cracked my "joost" passwd would start attempting to su to root with thousands different passwds: once somebody 's got "joost", they've got root without cracking the root passwd). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/p

Re: Xfree 3.3

1997-06-12 Thread joost witteveen
both applies to xbase_3.3 and xbase_3.2? (You mention the web page, this actually comes from the ftp server, but that should be the same anyway). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: SGVAlib/SVGAdummy

1997-06-12 Thread joost witteveen
e SVGAlib dependant programs run without SVGAlib if the dummy is > installed? Yes. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Please Help! Downgrading?

1997-06-11 Thread joost witteveen
d why! But, to help your friend, you might do something like dpkg -i --selected-only --recursive $frozen-mirror with $frozen-mirror the place where you mirror (or mounted) a image of frozen. (I never tested this, only learned it from dpkg -h). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bi

Re: Problems with g++

1997-06-10 Thread joost witteveen
d > cpp) on "Hold" in dselect. May work, but the g++ stuff works fine here (and I've got positive reports from others too). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
o be able to read it -- Yes, I've had German at school, and maybe enghough to be able to read the documentation in emergencies, but not while I still have Emacs/TeX. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with xfig

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
elp. No, I don't have any idea. But I would like to reproduce your problems here (could you sent me the .jpg too, with an .fig that loads it and generates errors? Just one uuencoded .tar.gz file would be great). Thanks, Your surprised debain xfig maintainer. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Install Stopped

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
be relevant. If it really is a hardware/kernel problem, then the version of debian etc souldn't matter too much (except that different debian versions have different kernels). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
now in the source, but haven't tested it yet (and, just now I checked again to see whether I fixed it and I saw I did mess it up slightly, but now it should be OK, I think). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: libc5 version 5.4.23-6

1997-06-06 Thread joost witteveen
bc6 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dbg 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (debugging/profi ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (development fil ii libc6-doc 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (documentat

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread joost witteveen
at isn't "debian-officially" installed, with > ?package(local.mystuff): > Any "package" that starts with "local." is considered installed. > (due to a bug in menu-1.3 this didn't work then). > > If your using old format menuentryfiles sh

Re: neXtaw

1997-06-05 Thread joost witteveen
ually configure each program to use a certain library > without using LD_PRELOAD. Link them with the -rpath option, specifying the library you want it to use. > This is for configureing menus in Afterstep. (This part I don't understand). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/pe

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread joost witteveen
Do not send email advertisements to this address. So, how about me selling the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to some mass-mailer crook? Isn't that statement a bit contradictory? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNS

Re: What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread joost witteveen
mply doesn't work, I guess the powers that be decided (wisely) to remove it from bo. In short, there hasn't been a working xoj package for the last 6 or so months (except maybe if you had _very_ old libc5 stuff), and the xoj-..-2 one is the first working one. -- joost witteveen, [E

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-06-01 Thread joost witteveen
ike ? > > > From reading the descriptions, GV looks better. > > > > Far better. > > > > ...RickM... -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: gzip always gives me error

1997-05-30 Thread joost witteveen
inary-all/graphics$ md5sum povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb 7643ca13c6e3f0e527fc9ab2015661f3 povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb > -lars > -- > My sig file is only one line long! But how long are your .debs? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

Re: where is xload

1997-05-29 Thread joost witteveen
> My 'deluser' is lost also. Any hints on that? Use userdel from the passwd package. I believe userdel is better than the deluser that used to come with the adduser package, so deluser was removed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.a

Re: where is xload

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
t; > Where is it gone? $ dpkg -S xload [..] xproc: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload [..] It was moved away from xcontrib to xproc. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Had to reset, now in deep kimshee....]

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
floppy, and try to mount your root filesystem on /mnt, cd to it and examine what may have gone wrong, possibly correcting it. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Had to reset, now in deep kimshee....]

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
the module loads are tried? See above -- should not be needed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
s see who's logged on here. (Yeah, I know you're not intereseted in this tragic story about computer abuse by systemadmins, but I'm still traumatised, and just needed to vent this). BTW, the systemadmin that went out of his mind back then has left, so maybe I can try starting rwho on

Re: root user and nfs mounts

1997-05-27 Thread joost witteveen
;) | dd of=/dev/tape > Is it safe? As long as the AIX people do their job properly, you cannot do anything unsafe. And you cannot do what you want, I think. > And finally, is there > a better way to do it? Cheers, Colin. Depends on tob. (see above). [1] had they not done that,

Re: GCC Libraries

1997-05-27 Thread joost witteveen
> In my /usr/lib/gcc-lib directory, the only directory entry is for > "i486-linux". My machine is a 386. Do I have to get the GCC sources and > recompile, or will these libs work on my machine? They'll work just fine. You may want to upgrade your machine though! --

Re: core when running C++ programs..

1997-05-27 Thread joost witteveen
an.org. I have tried re-downloading libg++27-dev > and libg++27 and reinstalling it but this didn't fix anything. > -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Weierd afterstep-1.0-3 problem

1997-05-23 Thread joost witteveen
hat file is missing here? > > The package seems to require ld-linux.so.2 (try "strings > afterstep"). I already reported that one to the maintainer. And (as you probably know) that means you need to install libc6 to get it working (and, ldso-1.9*). (The package needs to depen

Re: debian libc5-dev installation version problem - my crude? fix.

1997-05-22 Thread joost witteveen
the very least, good enough? I think you'd better check the mirror -- it doesn't seem to be up-to-date. My mirror has libc5 version 5.4.23-3 (that's the bo mirror) [deleting other questions, most of which are answered above] -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: libc6-dev

1997-05-21 Thread joost witteveen
tall the libc6 compiled other lib*-dev packages. The problem is that currently there aren't many other libc6 dev compiled lib packages. > If I select libc6-dev > in dselect, I get 10 or so conflicts of packages that it wants to > remove before it will allow me to put libc6 on.

Re: Network mounting problems

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
the netstd package) may improve matters. Currently installed on my system (without problems): $ /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd -v Universal NFS Server 2.2beta25 $ dpkg -l netstd ii netstd 2.13-1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: libc6 question

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
rade ldso, it'll itself from the system, and your system will be unusable. But as long as you don't do that, I don't think you'll find problemes. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: JPEG utilities

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
but I > don't yet and was hoping to avoid writing any C. (cat filename.jpg|djpeg -v -targa>/dev/null) 2>&1|sed -n -e 's/Start Of Frame.*://p' works for me, though probably there are more straigt forward ways! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: seyon

1997-05-18 Thread joost witteveen
ian package (if you installed the debian package) is newer, and contains (many) bugs. My version is seyon_2.14c-4, but there may well be much more recent versions out (I don't upgrade non-free packages very often/at all). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: Problem when compiling X-Programs

1997-05-17 Thread joost witteveen
ules build". This _should_ do everything correctly, and if not, file a bug report against the Xboard pacakge. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
messages above would appear!). > -- the only test I can think of is to poll > with non-blocking open() and see if it makes any difference. So this is not needed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
it is F_UNLCK). If the lock is held by someone else, this call returns -1 and sets errno to EACCES or EAGAIN. So, probably I should also test for EACCES. (why doesn't dpkg does this?) Anybody know more about this? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: one thing latex is better than tetex

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
ning it on). Of cource I could not test it. Still, I think it's a bug in the tetex packages, if true. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: log of talk session?

1997-04-28 Thread joost witteveen
en I do : $ TERM=vt100 DISPLAY= ytalk joost Cannot open X display: No such file or directory Why doesn't it just enable the -x option (yeah, when all else fails, read the docs, and -x _is_ in ytalk(1), so it's not that bad). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

log of talk session?

1997-04-28 Thread joost witteveen
). Thanks! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?

1997-04-21 Thread joost witteveen
bly hardware, but it struck > me as something that could possibly be due to a change in libc or > the like... maybe? ideas? help! > > --Zachary > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: fvwm2 menus burned

1997-04-19 Thread joost witteveen
wm2/system.fvwm2rc -remove the "DestroyMeny\\n" in /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2. Menu-1.0 (to be released shortly) will add "this is a auto-generated file, don't edit" at the top of /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: X related questions

1997-04-16 Thread joost witteveen
l is in /sbin/runlevel). Then, if runlevel says "N 4", you're in level 4, and type cd /etc/rc4.d mv S99xdm K99xdm and you're set. So, what's your second problem? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: next release of debian...

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
what should be in the release after 1.3, and people discussing this may say "the next release should have glibc in it", forgetting that, officially, 1.3 hasn't been released yet. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
then echo You are about to run $command, but you'll need $id privileges for that. echo Enter $id password: . (su to $id, and so on). This way, you don't need to run the window manager as root to be able to run the lilo config programme. I'll supply the /usr/sbin/needpriv script with the menu package. Anyone any comments? Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
> to Apps/...). As a long time sysadm that's where I hope to find system > administration stuff. We all like to see the _files_ appear in /etc. But Joey is talking about the location in the menu's (pdmenus, fvwm*, afterstep, whatever). And then, I'll agree with Joey that Apps/System/Admin is a very good place. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
e time, people start to expect menuentries for stuff, and people automatically start fileing bugreports against packages that don't supply menuentries. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: Replacing svgalib1 with svgalib-dummy1

1997-04-12 Thread joost witteveen
svgalib1 to run gs, even under X11), and I think svgalib-dummy1 is missing the Replaces: svgalib1 line (this appears making and upgrade from gs to gs-aladding easier). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-12 Thread joost witteveen
t list, but that's for you to decide (and if the answer is yes, please add install-info too). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: md5 checksums on binaries

1997-04-10 Thread joost witteveen
nd you can just calculate the individual md5 sums. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
d to that that yesterday was April 1, and I'm sure you'll agree that the world is going to end April 30 (and that Bo, teleported to the comet, will rule Hale-Bopp). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
really wrong with /usr/info at that point. Probably not to do with dpkg. You might want to try to reinstall the package that provides /usr/sbin/install-info, dpkg (don't remove that!). Others on the list may have a better understanding of prel to see what excactly is going wrong. joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread joost witteveen
ly what the others suggested. But still, sumetimes I'm unable to kill -KILL those processes, or whatever. But thenagain, your -uvm options are quite nice, and seem to find more process than I'm used to. Thanks -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-30 Thread joost witteveen
now safely switch off the computer (execute "halt"). (assuming all other partions are unmonuted properly). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Netscape problem with gs-aladdin

1997-03-27 Thread joost witteveen
turn that into hp500c language for your hp550c? If that is so, (or otherwise), maybe the postscript file itself (you can probably get that by asking netscape to print to a file) gives a clue as to who is wrong (netscape or gs). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well

Re: how to boot single-user

1997-03-27 Thread joost witteveen
gt; > LILO: Linux S > > And that'll boot single user mode (it'll also ask for the root password). Yes, although I usually find that "linux emergency" is really what I want (Single-user still loads quite a few scripts). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Ghostscript with debian debian 1.2

1997-03-26 Thread joost witteveen
fonts from the same debian release). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: compile problem

1997-03-19 Thread joost witteveen
inking, not for compile time linking. > and I have ran ldconfig -v. Run time too. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Problems compiling gnuplot---Followup

1997-03-19 Thread joost witteveen
itch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure > doesn't see -lvga. But the debian gnuplot does have the vga stuff compiled in, and is capable of displaying on vga (tried it, few seconds ago). Only thing is, it's not installed setuid root, so you may have to be root to run it (or install a s

Re: new packages

1997-02-22 Thread joost witteveen
ary-i386/base/ldso_1.8.10-1_i386.deb debian/rex-fixed/binary-i386/base/libc5.4.20-1_i386.deb (I'm not sure about the excact locations; if you want "new" stuff, just always go to "unstable"). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn'

Re: Any help appreciated

1997-02-22 Thread joost witteveen
e, so that you can build it your self. I don't think I have the time to build a full resque disk though (I'm going off to a conference on wednesday, and still need to prepare quite a lot of stuff). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't fre

Re: Debian install tkdesk etc...

1997-02-19 Thread joost witteveen
to ftp.debian.org (or on one to it's mirrors) > I still have the problem. You mean, dpkg/dselect complaining that libc5 is not installed? That was expected. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988) -- TO

Re: Wrong permissions of /etc/rmtab?

1997-02-18 Thread joost witteveen
be something that was left on your system from a really old installation? If so, I guess the base system should check for it and offer to remove the world-writablility. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988) -- T

Re: What package is nfsd in?

1997-02-18 Thread joost witteveen
's in netstd (at least, that's still what the package is called in unstable, so I assume it hasn't changed in rex eighter). If you want your nfsd to run, you'll have to activate it in /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs (it's commented out by default). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

1997-02-18 Thread joost witteveen
macs and type C-h i), and go to the jargon menu (type m jargon ENTER). Somewhere you'll find: WTF the universal interrogative particle; WTF knows what it means? -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: compiling gs-aladdin_4.03-7 (fwd)

1997-01-21 Thread joost witteveen
ers, not by root). I changed those (and the ""-><> one) in my sources, will probably be uploading new version soon. Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread joost witteveen
S that diesn't mean that linux isn't great :-) It means that Linux has another extra feature (VC's) that most (all?) other usixes don't have, but whether that means Linux is much better than FreeBSD/SCO/NT, I really don't know (I don't use the other systems) -- joost wit

Re: slang and xterm

1997-01-19 Thread joost witteveen
, but I meant new versoin of slang. Anyway, I didn't want to bother checking. > Joost, are you running slang0.99.34? Yes. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &q

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