Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well. --Mike
Re: !HELP! How to avoid the mail-lock (fetchpop / popclient)
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Marc Weeber wrote: Here, at my work I have to retrieve my mail from a novell server. I can do this by `fetchpop' or `popclient'. This is all right, but when I'm usingthe mailagent Pine as an ordinary user, I only can read the inbox file, but I cannot alter it: pine can't get the mailbox lock from the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem. Your inbox must have the following permissions/owner/group: -rw-rw 1 vadikmail 105980 Sep 12 22:16 /usr/spool/mail/vadik Check that. If someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very pleased. Hope it helps. thanks in advance, My pleasure. Marc Vadik. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arbornet.org/~vadik/ Vygonets (_.lf For PGP public key, email me with sibject get pgp Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
Re: Mailagent package broken?
Mannually adding more rights seems to solve that, but the log file keeps complaining: mailagent[6]: starting SAVE /var/spool/mail/ben mailagent[6]: WARNING could not lock /var/spool/mail/ben mailagent[6]: WARNING was unable to get any lock on /var/spool /mail/ben mailagent[6]: ERROR could not save mail in /var/spool/mail/ben Are you running mailagent as a user? Because if you are it's probably a problem with the permissions on /var/spool/mail. Normal users shouldn't be able to create files in this directory (arguable security risk). Unfortunately to do mail file locking one must make a .lock file in the same directory as the mail file you are locking. This means having write access to /var/spool/mail. Currently in debian (if memory serves) only root and mail have write permission to this directory. If this is the problem, one fix (albeit one that causes an arguable security risk) is to do a: chmod o+w /var/spool/mail Hope this helps! Behan -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547
Installing on a portable
Can someone help me to install Debian on a portable (PCMCIA, no CDROM)? Is there a how to install with PCMCIA mini-FAQ that I missed? I've got as far as working out that the default kernel is compiled with PCMCIA support, that there exists a pcmcia-cs*.deb package, but the boot time network configure fails as there is no PCMCIA module loaded, nor does it seem to come with base. I could install base, copy over the pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to install it - only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and dselect want to install the lot. Any pointers, I can't be alone with this problem? [ for background, I run six Linux boxes, two of the desktop boxes now run Debian, the other will soon, and the other three machines are portables so I need to know how to do this right.] Tony Robinson
Re: Creating deb packages
Algirdas Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction
Algirdas on creating deb packages?
Vadik Please post it to the list,
New version of dpkg ( 1.4.0) or dpkg-dev (= 1.4.0) come with two html'ed
manuals in /usr/doc/dpkg/{programmer,policy}.html/ that pretty much cover it
all.
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: |Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O? No. It seems to work without a problem at all times. There are no messages from the floppy drive even when the installation fails - the base diskettes allways finish being read and fail only when they are gzip'ed. Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira| Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England. ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous
Re: static vs. dynamic - gimp
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. I would like to install gimp. Pardon my ignorance ... I see that there are two versions. gimp-dmotif (dynamic) vs. gimp-smotif (static) The Static version contains all the motif calls in it, The Dynamic version needs motif shared libraries. I am using a standard debian install with X, tcp/ip ... I would like to know : q1 - how do I know if I can use the static version? Yes. q2 - given a choice between both, what version would be better or faster Are there any pros and/or cons to choosing one or the other when both are valid options for a given machine (i.e.. speed vs. size ... )? The dynamic version would be better if you are willing to pay $50-100 for motif Thanx in advance ... Keep up the good work - it is greatly appreciated.
unsubscribing these lists
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FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.22 1996/09/12 22:26:04 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. What is Debian GNU/Linux Please read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/debian-faq.html ). 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Packages needing a new maintainer If you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package, send me an e-mail. If you believe that the following list is incomplete, i.e., that there are other packages in the Debian distribution that need a new maintainer, send me an e-mail. If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, send me an e-mail. Andrew D. Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acs DJ Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o biff o cdtool o unclutter o workbone o xwpe Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adjtimex o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o lyx o metamail o modules o xautolock Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lclint o mailx Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acm o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now) o pmake Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pari Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o wu-ftpd 3. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html) o and probably : xli, Tix, povray [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o FreeLIP - large integer package o GroupKit - development library for building realtime groupware apps o LEE - Latent Energy Environments artificial life simulator o rsaref - installer scripts for the RSAREF crypto library o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o premail - e-mail privacy package Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmotd Mike Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mule Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbill o LPRng behan (b.) webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) o qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: o tkHTML Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mew, giftool [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into VM, GNUS, and RMAIL) Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpsehttpd Warwick Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) ( http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o CLISP David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program. o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync. o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my uucp package. o latex2html Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o faces - visual list monitor Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o spice (circuit simulation package) o gforth Billy Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbomb Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gpc (GNU Pascal) Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Caml (A small, portable implementation of the ML language.) o Objective Caml: Caml dialect extended with a complete class-based object system o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ppd-gs (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers) o btoa Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o awk2c Jon Rabone [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o SISCAD Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems) o calc (emacs calculator package) o hyperbole (emacs hypertext/info management
Re: bleh...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: I'm running the unstable tree. If someone else can try '/sbin/clock -r' and let me know if it seg faults, I'd appreciate it. It does it on 2 systems here... :( Yep... it segfaults for me too. An `strace' looked like it was cribbing on a strange ioctl call, or something like that. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all else fails, read the instructions. -- Cahn's Axiom Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L Ash
Feature request: allow optional downgrade in dselect
It's happened a couple of times now that I've tried newer versions of packages in hopes that they would fix some problem (I'm still experiencing frequent system hangs :-( ), only to find that for some reason I needed to go back to the earlier version. It would really be nice to be able to use dselect to do this, and seems like it should be easy to implement as a new keystroke command. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: NO SPAM. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
Re: Installation problem with AIC7770 SCSI Controller
There was a major patch to the aic7xxx driver that was originally applied to kernel 2.0.7. The patch became part of the regular kernel 2.0.13. I was having similar problems upgrading to the 2.0.0 kernel until I sent mail to the aic7xxx maintainer and got pointed to the patch. He (Dan Eischen) said that the patch had fixed many bugs. In order to do a complete install, you'll need a kernel that includes this patch on your installation boot disk. If you (or a kind acquaintance) builds such a kernel, they need to have it support ramdisk, and to use the rdev.sh script on it (also on the boot disk). The installation boot disk is in DOS format, so you can copy to/from it with mcopy. Also, the debian installation procedure will complain that the modules directory is empty (on the boot disk), but this isn't serious (if you aren't using modules). Here's where I got the patch and 2.0.7 sources. You might also just get a regular kernel later than 2.0.13 and skip the patches: ftp.teleport.com:/pub/users/deang/Linux/aic7xxx/Experiment/ Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck, and write if you need clarification. Danny Heap, UCSF, California St., Room 102, SF CA, 94122 [EMAIL PROTECTED], voice: (415) 476-8910, fax: (415) 476-1508
Re: !HELP! How to avoid the mail-lock (fetchpop / popclient)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Marc Weeber wrote: M.WeeberHello fellow debians, M.Weeber M.WeeberLast week, I moved over from slackware 3.0 to debian 1.1. What a M.Weeberrelief, really, except for one thing: my connection with the world. M.WeeberEverything installed just fine, However, my mail really bothers me. M.Weeber M.WeeberHere, at my work I have to retrieve my mail from a novell server. I M.Weebercan do this by `fetchpop' or `popclient'. This is all right, but when M.WeeberI'm usingthe mailagent Pine as an ordinary user, I only can read the M.Weeberinbox file, but I cannot alter it: pine can't get the mailbox lock M.Weeberfrom the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem. M.Weeber M.WeeberLast night, I managed to work my way around the problem with M.Weeberchmod-ding some directories and files. But at the xx-th startup, M.WeeberEverything was ruined again. For deleting my mail, I have to use W95 M.Weeberagain (arghhh...) M.Weeber M.WeeberIf someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very M.Weeberpleased. sounds like u need to recompile pine , precompiled pine sometimes have this problem. hope it helps borik ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMjijawz8DjY6pgpxAQE0+gP/QiN7JKGrGTLk0JFEdwCfE/GuQBF6+Oo6 ldGNIo+au4PIPwcz/HuYQ4jGdzLLWEo9SXU2SQgzBaN9B9cuHnpKEkVjU6hEa4mO wdCk3rILq8piRm7ajaceC5nXbLPMwYi5fV+Qu6VPXHwtJjNoKd+4rXD8dgB3nyjS YoRuLWAipg0= =Z2Tj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
texbin postinst in unstable fails
I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve all necessary packages, from stable unstable. Firstly, I noticed that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or another is missing. This has already happened twice before, on two other machines. Second, and for the first time, texbin postinst fails, complaining of missing man.fmt. I had to manually comment out the postinst script. Finally, elm, in this new installation, has no ispell option in mailing menu, whereas on my other machines it does. Help would be appreciated. *** Debian Linux, the choice of a GNU generation ! *** **
Re: Creating deb packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Algirdas Kunigelis wrote: algikun algikunCould someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating algikundeb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out algikunhow to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), algikunbut how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? algikunThanks. if smbd have a better man/doc/howto then the one in /usr/doc , plz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thks alot borik ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMjimmQz8DjY6pgpxAQECZAP/Zolx0RFqYNC86l2kycaB2Yali30thMVc itGFqXNKiNUF2pNUXZ9WGZ0Cw99zJR9wjTkGN3dJ/kU4SZ8qTsMi3qY/gWQrK+Ws wZHant1FHboi9seGJa01ZcreviHM72QweV/cvGLx7Icj6yk+5bmjY+8x18D/aWIn 35OXLVpKkMM= =BDRk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Creating deb packages
Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? Thanks. You also might be able to find this information using the new index of the Debian web site. Go to http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/advanced and try the following query: build* debian package* I'm sure other queries will find similar information. (The stars (*), by the way, are globbing characters and will match any suffix of those words.) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: Creating deb packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: bcwhite Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating bcwhite deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out bcwhite how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), bcwhite but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? bcwhite Thanks. bcwhite bcwhiteThe best way I found was to grab an existing package (hello is a good one) bcwhiteand learn how it does it. i tryed to trace it via ps but with not much luck the only thing i got from it is a general idea (gzip :) Regards borik ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMjinwQz8DjY6pgpxAQGH4QP9GfUUO0rKkBmO6nJCEQkplUb9x+aaY15s vrdeO1vqvY38l6OO2cfRWR/KCI5Y6zDOJckmzJAPV1UpgHAA3z4l7CN9R63AsPPY z2pqLxkmNn9wYQSCqdKGPttmCvxj1sIkxXkVdD0GiROM9LOcwBghcvrQQtr1/aq2 ESo40xvYcvs= =CXol -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Mike Coleman wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well. It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends? That would be extremely bad. Guy
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well. It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends? That would be extremely bad. It is not the responsibility of either dpkg-ftp or dftp to handle pre-depends in this case. Since all of the relavent packages were passed to dpkg at the same time, it is it's responsibility to ensure that package unpacking and configuring happens in the correct order. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Searching for something? Look to us! http://www.verisim.com/ferret/
Re: Creating deb packages
bcwhite Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating bcwhite deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out bcwhite how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), bcwhite but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? bcwhite Thanks. bcwhite bcwhiteThe best way I found was to grab an existing package (hello is a good one) bcwhiteand learn how it does it. i tryed to trace it via ps but with not much luck the only thing i got from it is a general idea (gzip :) You don't want to trace it. If you read the debian.rules (or debian/rules) file, you'll see how a package is built. Basically, you create a directory (debian-tmp) and create a directory structure just like that of the debian system and place your files in there. One call to dpkg will then create a package for you from that directory structure. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: Creating deb packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: bcwhiteYou don't want to trace it. If you read the debian.rules (or debian/rules) bcwhitefile, you'll see how a package is built. Basically, you create a directory bcwhite(debian-tmp) and create a directory structure just like that of the debian bcwhitesystem and place your files in there. One call to dpkg will then create bcwhitea package for you from that directory structure. one call to dpkg ? i am sorry , but i don't understand what u mean prob the answer to my q is RTFM so plz flame me about it :-) borik ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMji8Rgz8DjY6pgpxAQFUrQP/QhW7hi8pzuMEvA0ArhIMeDyayxMHYoEo vj6+igV9F20beymRSjkqIIXzINHRyYf9ZN2LBk+WzqcLqV9X3oB3Ki2u1lvmwk0m f/dSnum/Oe6XSHaz+tklFg1MgAyOFuHX0CJmZE+e83/YQ51S3N1SEFABJ0982UNO IBh+/fqUKdM= =ISP5 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: unsubscribing these lists
Michael How does one unsubscribe these lists? $ echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: Creating deb packages
bcwhiteYou don't want to trace it. If you read the debian.rules (or debian/rules) bcwhitefile, you'll see how a package is built. Basically, you create a directory bcwhite(debian-tmp) and create a directory structure just like that of the debian bcwhitesystem and place your files in there. One call to dpkg will then create bcwhitea package for you from that directory structure. one call to dpkg ? i am sorry , but i don't understand what u mean prob the answer to my q is RTFM so plz flame me about it :-) I think it's pretty obvious if you read the debian/rules file. Here is an example: binary: build -rm -rf debian-tmp mkdir -p debian-tmp debian-tmp/DEBIAN debian-tmp/usr/doc/$(package)/Examples dpkg-gencontrol -is -ip debian-tmp/DEBIAN/control make install PREFIX=debian-tmp/usr cp debian/README debian-tmp/usr/doc/$(package)/Copyright cat COPYING debian-tmp/usr/doc/$(package)/Copyright cp examples/* debian-tmp/usr/doc/$(package)/Examples find debian-tmp \( -name #* -o -name *~ \) -print | xargs rm -f chown -R root.root debian-tmp chmod -R go=rX debian-tmp dpkg --build debian-tmp dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb Note how it creates a directory structure and then call dpkg --build to make a debian package out of that directory structure. The call to dpkg-name then gives it the proper name. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: texbin postinst in unstable fails
Miro Torrielli writes: Miro I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve Miro all necessary packages, from stable unstable. Firstly, I noticed Miro that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the Miro unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or another Miro is missing. This has already happened twice before, on two other Miro machines. Il m'est impossible de voir ce que a echoue. Plus de detail? Miro Second, and for the first time, texbin postinst fails, complaining of Miro missing man.fmt. I had to manually comment out the postinst script. C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de buzz-fixed et ca ira. Miro Finally, elm, in this new installation, has no ispell option in Miro mailing menu, whereas on my other machines it does. Aucune idee, je n'utilise pas elm (mais emacs avec vm). Amities, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: A couple of package spec glitches
Ed Donovan writes: I don't have the file around anymore, but in the last debian-changes announcement for xemacs, the maintainter noted that he had a problem with the installation of info files that both emacs and xemacs provide. He couldn't get xemacs to not overwrite the emacs-provided ones, and so had to list the packages as conflicting for now, though he was very unhappy about that. I haven't downloaded the xemacs package, so I don't know if this is mentioned anywhere within. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've installed the /source xemacs-19.14 recently under debian with only one snag on network database support. The only common area shared between FSF emacs and xemacs (under default config) lies in user specific lisp directories. The problem is that FSF has changed (from time to time) it's byte-compiled format, and that there are other uniquenesses in each elisp/emacs. Xemacs does come with a very nice sample.emacs, which gives good hints on how to split these shared resources within the same structure. For FSF emacs 19.28-34. As someone who as been dragging people into Emacs since the dark ages I highly recommend Xemacs for the unwashed. -- === Bret Badgett | System Administrator | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Correa Enterprises, Inc. | Theater Air Command and | Phone: (505) 846-6346 Control Simulation Facility | Fax: (505) 256-0170 Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque NM | ===
Re: Debian 1.2 release date?
I think we've slipped a month, maybe a bit more. Sorry. Blame me - I have been busy moving into a new home (we get posession on Monday), etc. Thanks Bruce
Re: Creating deb packages
The documentation on how to make a Debian package is in the package ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.3.14.deb . (The package version number will soon change, and the package may split into base/dpkg* and devel/dpkg-dev* in the near future.) Install that package, and then you will find the directories: /usr/doc/dpkg/programmer.html /usr/doc/dpkg/policy.html These contain HTML documents for the Debian Programmer's Manual, and the Debian Policy Manual. Read them with any web browser. There is also a prototype hello world package that you should use as a skeleton for your own package. You can find that in the three files: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/source/misc/hello_1.3-12.dsc ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/source/misc/hello_1.3.orig.tar.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/source/misc/hello_1.3-12.diff.gz Put those in a directory and run dpkg-source -x hello_1.3-12.dsc. That will extract the tar and create the directories hello_1.3 and hello_1.3.orig, and will use patch to apply the diff to the files in hello_1.3. With those two manuals and the hello package source, you will have everything you need to build a Debian package. I think you'll find it quite easy. If you are not running Debian and just want to look at the manuals, you can get the file ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/dpkg_1.3.14_i386.nondebbin.tar.gz . That is a gzipped tar file containing all of the files of the dpkg package for installation on non-Debian systems. Thanks Bruce
Debian Logos (all kinds)
I don't think we have a package with the Logo programming language. It's a good teaching language, and there are a few free ones around, I think. Such a package would be welcome. Regarding the Debian Logotype: We still can't use the baby GNU - I'd like to reserve that for FSF's own product. I've had one submitted to me so far, a GIF of the words Debian Linux and the Earth from space. Picky me, I wanted it changed to say Debian GNU/Linux and never heard from the artist again. So, GIFs of logotypes for Debian GNU/Linux would be welcome. Don't take time away from your work on Debian packages. Clever animations, Java programs, etc. are welcome as well. You must be willing to sign the copyright, trademark, all rights, over to Software in the Public Interest (Debian's parent organization). The logotype will probably _not_ be GPL-ed - we probably want to put some restrictions on its use. Thanks Bruce
Re: how to exclude a directory from find?
Casper BodenCummins wrote: Lazaro Salem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The -print flag is not really needed as is executed by default. This isn't true of all systems. If you want portability, include the -print. I believe that POSIX.2 mandates -print as the default. Can someone who has the spec confirm this? -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux
Re: Debian Logo?
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote: Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one. If not, we could start a Logo contest, just as the Linux Logo Contest. I'm just an administrator and not an artist, but perhaps we have some on this list! An logo would be nice for disk labels, CD covers, www.debian.org, etc. That's a great idea! With the quality of the Debian product, I'd be including it on my web site as well to let everyone know what OS I'm quite happy to be using Kevin Traas ValleyNet Hardware/Software Committee ChairAbby: (604) 859-9741 Head System Administrator Chwk: (604) 823-4763 Central/Upper Fraser Valley, BC, Canada Miss: (604) 859-9741 Toll Free Pager: (604) 918-2054 Alternate E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bleh...
|[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: | I'm running the unstable tree. If someone else can try '/sbin/clock -r' | and let me know if it seg faults, I'd appreciate it. It does it on | 2 systems here... :( | |Yep... it segfaults for me too. | |An `strace' looked like it was cribbing on a strange ioctl call, or |something like that. This problem goes away when you recompile your kernel *without* extended Real Time Clock support. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
|Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 |From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if |libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will |install. | | I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well. | |It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends? That would |be extremely bad. Hmmm, I installed my entire system with the 5 disks and dpkg-ftp (1.1.4) and had no problems whatsoever. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CDROM
John The next copy of Linux world has a copy of Deb 1.1 on the cover (and Quake ... whatever that is !). You can contect them via http://www.eurodream.com or 0171 7716170 I'm not a subscriber (yet). Hope this helps David P.S Judging by your e-mail address you're situated pretty close to me ! On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:35:16 +0100 (BST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is a UK source of Debian CDROMS ? I would be most grateful for any info. John Olwoch __ David J. Evans AMS, Virology Research Group, The University of Reading Whiteknights, P.O. Box 228, Reading RG6 6AJ Tel : +44 (0)118 9318893 Fax : +44 (0)118 9316537 http://skpc10.reading.ac.uk/
PS/2 Mouse Driver in Debian 1.1 2.0.0
Hi, I just installed Debian 1.1 on a system with a PS/2 Mouse. Unfortunately I'm missing /lib/modules/2.0.0/misc/psaux.o. There is a descriptive file in /usr/lib/module-help/modules/psaux. Additionally I took kernel-image-2.0.0-0.deb and kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb. But there is no psaux.o in this packages - so I can't use my mouse :-( Maybe it has been asked before - but I have been away for months. Any hints ? Gerd
RE: texbin postinst in unstable fails
Dirk.Eddelbuettel writes: - --- Miro Torrielli writes: Miro I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve Miro all necessary packages, from stable unstable. Firstly, I noticed Miro that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the Miro unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or another Miro is missing. This has already happened twice before, on two other Miro machines. Il m'est impossible de voir ce que a echoue. Plus de detail? Miro Second, and for the first time, texbin postinst fails, complaining of Miro missing man.fmt. I had to manually comment out the postinst script. C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de buzz-fixed et ca ira. Miro Finally, elm, in this new installation, has no ispell option in Miro mailing menu, whereas on my other machines it does. Aucune idee, je n'utilise pas elm (mais emacs avec vm). Amities, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd - --- I wonder if you might possibly translate that for the rest of us. Casper Boden-Cummins.
tk-blt package released
Here is the first release of the blt extensions for tk/tcl. I decided to call the package tk-blt, as there is another public domain package called blt which does something completely different! I did not make two packages for this one, as the difference between a user and a developer version would have been less than a KByte of disk space. I have uploaded it to chiark, so with luck it will be with you in a few days. BTW, I have never produced a package with so many files and directories, so don't be too hard on me if you find some mistakes. Enjoy... Gordon. - Package: tk-blt Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Gordon Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: =V-=D Depends: tk41 (= 4.1-1), tcl75 (= 7.5-1) Architecture: =A Description: Useful additions and extensions to Tk BLT is an extension to the Tk tolkit, adding new widgets, geometry managers, and miscellaneous commands. It does not require any patching of the Tcl or Tk source files. . It adds a table manager, an X-Y graph widget, a barchart widget, a vector construct, spline fitting, busy windows, an enhanced exec, drag-n-drop, hypertext, bitmap control, Xlib interface, and some tcl debugging extensions. -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 11886 Sep 13 10:15 tk-blt-2.1-1.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1073174 Sep 13 10:15 tk-blt-2.1-1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1185524 Sep 13 10:14 tk-blt_2.1-1_i386.deb
mail-to-fax gateway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I would like to set up a mail-to-fax gateway of some sort, so users would be able to get a mail addressed to something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' send out to a fax machine at that number. My system is running both the sendmail and mgetty+sendfax packages. I have noticed that in the original mgetty package (0.98) there is a script called: faxgate.pl which, according to the documentation does that sort of thing on a SCO machine. I quick look at this learned that this is not likely to run straight away on a Debian box... Now I was wandering if anyone out here ever attempted to hack that, or found some other means of accomplishing the same functionality? Any pointers much appreciated! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.7.1 Comment: Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMjmlPQSsHV9rOgLdAQFV7gP8D4somdzsAeFjDcjNjhZkkAEZZIqpJeEc 29e7wDwtDTCrlebXO55donmvhqXhJKT/45K86JPqwafvIyEwiMdHgzmXPUKW00Qn zVqS8tqN+X1cddUQCdXqOu2+YaECJX8axuHZQKikupyiH3PJ3xoZulZB/e3EacRv GxzsStETdkA= =b+rT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Fingerprint = 6C 2A A6 83 4A 57 B7 95 B7 79 A6 D7 F7 16 04 5C PGP KeyID = 0x6B3A02DD
Re: Installing on a portable
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] I could install base, copy over the pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to install it - only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and dselect want to install the lot. Any pointers, I can't be alone with this problem? [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] Tony Robinson I don't know anything about PCMCIA, but I know that if you know what you're doing (like checking dependencies and such) using dpkg is ok - dselect is there to help you check dependencies and to display what packages there are. So I'd say go ahead and use dpkg to install the package. Helpful? MartinS
tk-blt
Package: tk-blt Woops, I just found it in unstable as blt. Please ignore my last posting. Gordon
RE: PS/2 Mouse Driver in Debian 1.1 2.0.0
Gerd Bavendiek wrote: I just installed Debian 1.1 on a system with a PS/2 Mouse. Unfortunately I'm missing /lib/modules/2.0.0/misc/psaux.o. There is a descriptive file in /usr/lib/module-help/modules/psaux. Additionally I took kernel-image-2.0.0-0.deb and kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb. But there is no psaux.o in this packages - so I can't use my mouse :-( Maybe it has been asked before - but I have been away for months. Any hints ? I had this problem some time ago, but I thought the kernel image has been updated to include this. Did you use an old package or download a new one? If it's old you'll have to recompile the kernel with explicit support. BTW, if you look in the archives, you should find _tons_ on this topic. :-) Casper Boden-Cummins.
RE: texbin postinst in unstable fails
Casper I wonder if you might possibly translate that for the rest of us. My excuses! That mail was not meant to also go to the list. texbin fails to configure because version mfbasfnt-1.0-5 is missing the file manfnt.mf (a special font for something in Knuth's book). Downgrading to mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from buzz-fixed overcomes the problem. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: Creating deb packages
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
The documentation on how to make a Debian package is in the package
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.3.14.deb .
The documentation is also available in ps and html in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/{policy,programmer}.{html.tar,ps}.gz
Guy
Re: Debian 1.2 release date?
I think we've slipped a month, maybe a bit more. Sorry. Blame me - I have been busy moving into a new home (we get posession on Monday), etc. I see a dangerous precedent here -- putting one's personal life ahead of Debian. And I notice you wrote we. Relationships tend to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids, which are essential to the generation of good code. :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)
Lynx and binary files
Good day folks, I've been runnning into a problem with lynx and download of files. In an ftp-listing I try to download two files (a) x.tar.gz and (b) x.deb Case (a) works without any problem, but the downloaded file (b) isn't usable. I then took look at the ftpserver and found out that (a) was fetched in binary mode, but for (b) an ascii connection was used. Before downloading lynx shows the following (not exactly) (a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar (b) Content-type: text/plain The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files?
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
As Christoph Lameter wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter) Subject: Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection Date: 10 Sep 1996 18:12:22 -0700 Organization: Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA 91182 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org David L. Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I was very unhappy to see this nice explanation ignore the : perils of IP routing between the ISP and internal networks. : Does anyone suppose its original source could be located so : at least a paragraph could be inserted warning of the danger : and recommending the user hook up with his network : administrator to ensure he doesn't inadvertantly create a : backdoor into his organization? I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all routing information sent from the PPP link. I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing protocols as much as the ability of packets to be source-routed through the system. My point was this type of document should include enough information, probably one paragraph including a pointer to detailed info, that alerts the reader to these security issues. It is not the job of the ISPs to educate their customers about risks of being an Internet host, and the network admin on the LAN side of this path may not be aware the node is running a SLIP or PPP link to an ISP.
Re: Lynx and binary files
Hiho, Seems that I have found what I was looking for. Lynx reads /etc/mime.types and the file from 1.1 didn't contain an entry for *.deb files. The mime-support package from the unstable tree does. Sorry for disturbing, Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/ OrgaTech KG [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556
llseek error large partitions
I am encountering an error formatting large partitions (2.8 gb). Equipment is a pentium 100, Adaptec 1542CF, DEC DSP5300. The drive partitions just fine, then when the debian install program tries to read past around 2.1 gb I receive a message badblocks: Cant resolve symbol llseek. 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? Thanks for any help, Mike Bigus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation problems: boot, nfs, X
Hi! I finally moved from RH(2.1) to Debian(1.1.4) and I have to admit that this looks promising! Just learned the first steps using dselect; hopefully I learn to ftp the latest version of Debian with it someday! Jep, I also run into three problems. First, I am only able to boot with a floppy. I installed lilo on the mbr of /dev/hda during the installation but when I reboot the machine says Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay Press spacebar to boot from diskette... ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected. Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information. Insert boot ... It seems to be a hardware problem. Or? 2. In the Debian installation I tried to include the nfs-module into the kernel. It did not succeed, but gave the following (I reproduced this with modprobe) Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.6) don't match your linux-2.0.6 (the whole message is in http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio/nfs_error.txt). I will compile the kernel as soon as I get more familiar with the Debian-style kernel compilation. But it would be nice to get nfs running right now. 3. I am not able to run XFree. I'm using the Mach64-server with a XF86Config that worked with RH 2.1. I just get (startx) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (No such device) TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. The mouse error is due to ps2-style mouse, which is not in the kernel. I haven't tested another xserver yet, so it still possible that mach64 is the problem (with Xfree 3.1.2). Sometimes I got something running, because the screen went blank with flickering, and I had to reboot. (That might be a genuine mach problem.) But usually the above text appeared. I reinstalled the x11 packages, but it did not seem to help. I tried to search these from docs, debian-user archives, newsgroups, ChangeLog of Debian 1.1.8, and Debian FAQ (new one), but I didn't find anything. Could someone help me on this? -- Mikko http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio
Re: tk-blt package released
Gordon Russell writes: I decided to call the package tk-blt, as there is another public domain package called blt which does something completely different! I did not make two packages for this one, as the difference between a user and a developer version would have been less than a KByte of disk space. Even though you've withdrawn your package, there is one thing that needs clarification. The reason for providing separate run-time and development packages is not to save disk space. The reason is so that multiple, possibly incompatible (at the API/ABI level), versions of a package can be installed simultaneously. Take a look at how this is done in the tcl74 and tcl75 packages. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
Re: Debian Logo?
J.H.M.Dassen wrote: 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 Looks neat :-) However, I thought the Gnu/Debian conflict was resolved with the decision to call Debian Debian GNU/Linux, or am I completely misunderstanding the facts? Ciao, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://home.pages.de/~thb/;thb's Homepage/A
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote:
dlc I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP
dlc routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all
dlc routing information sent from the PPP link.
dlc
dlcI guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing
dlcprotocols as much as the ability of packets to be
dlcsource-routed through the system. My point was this type of
Per default source routing under Linux is disabled. I still dont
know what the security issue is you are referring to?
dlcdocument should include enough information, probably one
dlcparagraph including a pointer to detailed info, that alerts
dlcthe reader to these security issues. It is not the job of
dlcthe ISPs to educate their customers about risks of being an
dlcInternet host, and the network admin on the LAN side of this
dlcpath may not be aware the node is running a SLIP or PPP link
dlcto an ISP.
dlc
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Re: Installing on a portable
Tony Robinson writes: Tony Can someone help me to install Debian on a portable (PCMCIA, Tony no CDROM)? Is there a how to install with PCMCIA mini-FAQ Tony that I missed? Tony I've got as far as working out that the default kernel is Tony compiled with PCMCIA support, that there exists a Tony pcmcia-cs*.deb package, but the boot time network configure Tony fails as there is no PCMCIA module loaded, nor does it seem Tony to come with base. I could install base, copy over the Tony pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to Tony install it - only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and Tony dselect want to install the lot. Any pointers, I can't be Tony alone with this problem? When I updated the PCMCIA package to conform to the new source packaging format, I changed (and hopefully improved) its structure. Currently, the following pcmcia packages are available in the unstable tree (i.e., in the unstable/binary-i386/admin/ directory on distribution sites): pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2_i386.deb contains everything but the kernel modules pcmcia-modules-2.0.6_2.8.21-2_i386.deb contains the kernel modules compiled for kernel version 2.0.6 pcmcia-source_2.8.21-2_i386.deb contains the sources so that you can compile your own modules Version 2.8.22-1 of the PCMCIA package is on the way; it is in the Incoming directory and ready to be processed. To get a computer with PCMCIA up and running, first ensure that its kernel is version 2.0.6. If it is not, get the kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb file (available in the unstable/binary-i386/base/ directory) and install it with dpkg: $ dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb Next, get the pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2_i386.deb and pcmcia-modules-2.0.6_2.8.21-2_i386.deb files (available in the unstable/binary-i386/admin/ directory) and install them with dpkg: $ dpkg -i pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2_i386.deb \ pcmcia-modules-2.0.6_2.8.21-2_i386.deb Depending on which PCMCIA cards will be used and what type of PCMCIA controller the computer has, it might be necessary to edit either the /etc/pcmcia.conf file or the files in the /etc/pcmcia/ directory. See the PCMCIA-HOWTO, which can be found in the /usr/doc/HOWTO directory of most Debian systems. Note that the pcmcia-modules-2.0.6 package depends on the pcmcia-cs package, so either pcmcia-cs should be installed first or both packages should be installed at the same time. If you don't use the default Debian kernel (I'm currently running version 2.0.19 of the kernel), you can still use the pcmcia-cs package, but you will need to generate your own pcmcia-modules-kernel version package. Here is the procedure: 1) Get either the pcmcia-source package (from unstable/binary-i386/admin/) or the source for the pcmcia-cs package which consists of three files (which can be found in unstable/source/admin/): pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2.dsc pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2.diff pcmcia-cs_2.8.21.orig.tar.gz Installing the pcmcia-source package (with `dpkg -i pcmcia-source_2.8.21-2_i386.deb'), places the source in the /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/ directory of your system. The three source files can be unpacked using the dpkg-source script available in the latest version of the dpkg-dev package. For example, $ dpkg-source -x pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2.dsc will unpack the source into the pcmcia-cs-2.8.21 subdirectory. See the man page for dpkg-source for more information on how the new source format works. 2) Place the kernel source in the /usr/src/linux directory. The kernel source should be fully configured; for example, do a `make config' and a `make dep'. 3) In the source directory (either /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/ or pcmcia-cs-2.8.21/), type $ debian/rules clean binary-modules If the kernel source is located in a directory other than /usr/src/linux, you can type $ debian/rules KSRC=kernel source directory clean binary-modules where kernel source directory is the location of the kernel's source. This will create the pcmcia-modules-kernel version package's deb file in the parent directory. For example, suppose that version 2.0.7 of the kernel's source is located in the /usr/src/kernel-2.0.7 directory and that I have downloaded pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2_i386.deb and pcmcia-source_2.8.21-2_i386.deb into the current directory. Here is how I would install the PCMCIA utilities for my custom compiled kernel: $ dpkg -i pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2_i386.deb pcmcia-source_2.8.21-2_i386.deb $ cd /usr/src/kernel-2.0.7 $ make config dep [ Answer questions about the kernel's configuration ] $ cd /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs $ debian/rules KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-2.0.7 clean binary-modules $ cd .. $ dpkg -i pcmcia-modules-2.0.7_2.8.21-2_i386.deb If anything is unclear, send me a message. -- Brian Mays
/sbin/clock
Has /sbin/clock stopped working properly? On at least 3 of the machines I manage clock -w is corrupting the cmos clock, and clock -r just hangs. Am I going crazy, or am I ignoring some fundamental change in using /sbin/clock that occurred recently? Behan Webster -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547
Re: texbin postinst in unstable fails
C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de buzz-fixed et ca ira. Amities, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd Merci! Ca marche maintenant. Translation: Thanks, now it works :-) -- Debian Linux, the choice of a GNU generation! --
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
As Christoph Lameter wrote: Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:19:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David L. Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote: dlc I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing dlc protocols as much as the ability of packets to be dlc source-routed through the system. Per default source routing under Linux is disabled. I still dont know what the security issue is you are referring to? Are you certain all distributions, past and present, disable source routing by default? I was under the impression that some of the earlier ones did not.
Re: bleh...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes: This problem goes away when you recompile your kernel *without* extended Real Time Clock support. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Actually I believe that on the Dell portable we have here, it still segfaults, even without RTC support. If we back off to an older version of util-linux, the problem goes away. -- Rob
RE: PS/2 Mouse Driver in Debian 1.1 2.0.0
Martin Stromberg wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] BTW, if you look in the archives, you should find _tons_ on this topic. :-) Casper Boden-Cummins. So where are the recent archives you're talking about, or are you joking (the smiley)? And before you say http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/;, I suggest that you first look there. The last entry in debian-user seems to be dated Jun 24. Right, yes. While the archives go back some way, on checking it seems that the thread I was referring to has yet to be archived. (There is some discussion on the topic in debian-user-9505.) The smiley was referring to the sheer length and breadth of discussion (read: occasional irrelevance) of the thread. This is not a flame, just providing some information, Hm, fine. I have fire-retardant skin anyway. PS If this reaches you then your reply address should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, actually it doesn't matter because SMTP doesn't recognise case as special. The arbitrary capitalisation is merely the irritating preferences of our mail administrator. Hope you resolve the problem. Casper Boden-Cummins.
Re: Lynx and binary files
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Martin Schulze wrote: Good day folks, Ex Equo :-) Before downloading lynx shows the following (not exactly) (a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar (b) Content-type: text/plain The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files? It's normal - look at lynx.cfg file and modify it - it should contain lot of lines with first word SUFFIX (it tels how to transfer different filetypes) an add lines like: SUFFIX:.deb:application/octet-stream SUFFIX:.tgz:application/octet-stream I think that in Debian version of Lynx file lynx.cfg should at least contain first line!!! Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx and binary files
This is being handled by the 'mime.types' file. I don't really know enough about it, but I'll take a shot in hopes that it will help. The remote server has a mime.types file that tells it what Content-type: line to write out. You should be able to fix the problem by getting the site maintainer to add the 'deb' extension to the 'application/octet-stream' line. It might also work to add 'deb' to the 'application/octet-stream' of the mime.types file that Lynx is using at your end. I'm not sure if this will work, but it's worth a try. Good luck! Chris -)- On Sep 13, 1:26pm, Martin Schulze wrote: Subject: Lynx and binary files : Good day folks, : : I've been runnning into a problem with lynx and download of files. : : In an ftp-listing I try to download two files : : (a) x.tar.gz : and : (b) x.deb : : Case (a) works without any problem, but the downloaded file (b) isn't : usable. I then took look at the ftpserver and found out that (a) was : fetched in binary mode, but for (b) an ascii connection was used. : : Before downloading lynx shows the following (not exactly) : : (a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar : : (b) Content-type: text/plain : : The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files? -- End of excerpt from Martin Schulze -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
DOSEMU problems
Hello Debians, I compiled the kernel with the necessary requirements for DOSEMU. I installed the debian package and just entered `dos' at the prompt. Result: dos: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' Well, I do have the library, what went wrong and how can I adjust DOSEMU? thanks in advance, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New kernal
Where should I look for a stable kernal? I have to make a new kernal so that my Xwindows will work. (My mouse pad on the laptop freezes the keyboard). Is there a Debian packaged kernal that will guide me through it or do have kernal*.tar.gz from and make it myself? My gcc is working great and I just installed the make.deb and I have some documents but they do not talk about *.deb files. Any suggestions out there. Thanks
