Re: STB Powegraph graphics card problem (was:HELP: Probs configuring X)

[Marc Weeber]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jean Orloff wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Me too, same problem with the same card (on a Gateway2000). Not the same
> > monitor though. And no, playing with the XF86Config parameters for hsync
> > doesn't help much. The best I could do was with this:
> > 
> > Vendor: Gateway2000, Model: Vivitron 1572
> > Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1
> > hsync range 0:  31.50 -  64.00
> > vsync range 0:  50.00 - 120.00
> > "944x750"  73.00944  944 1064 1184750  753  768  785
> > 
> > I still get a 2mm brighter line on the left, so that's where I put Goodstuff
> > buttons and Icons, and put Emacs safely on the right.
> > 
> > Not the solution, just a way to survive (the alternative was to switch back 
> > to
> > Windblows, can you imagine?)
> > 
> 
> I've S3 Trio64V+ with Samsung SyncMaster 15GLi, and my friend has this 
> same card with NEC XV15+ - always this same - left side of screen is 
> brighter (maybe 2-4mm). What's strange it goes this way only in X, in 
> OS/2 works brilliant, in Shitdows is acceptable. So it's problem with S3 
> server in X - maybe the new 3.1.2G beta version of X can help - i'll try 
> it tomorrow.
It will, trust me :-)

regards,

Marc
> 
> 
> Leszek Gerwatowski
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 

1.1 upgrade hassles

[Fundamental]

hey everyone, ive just installed debian 1.1, everything went fine until i
rebooted and i get the following errors...

SIOCSFADDR: bad value 
SIOCSNETMASk: bad value
SIOCSIFBRDADDRS: Network unreachable
SIOCSADDRT: Network unreachable

Ive tried the following as broadcast address to no avail...

224.255.255.255
224.0.0.0 (this one works on our solaris machines).
203.17.176.225

Is this what that error means? a faulty broadcast address?

Pachi,

- mIcHaEl


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who,
at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died."  
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Stevenson.

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, A R Abid wrote:

[SNIP]
> My question is if it is a POSSIBILITY or a CERTAINTY to lose your
> existing DOS partition if you don't mess up w/ it and only make Linux
> partitions on the empty diskspace. Thanks.

It is a possibility.  I've done it a dozen times without losing the
primary DOS partition.

Syrus.


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Re: Suck and innxmit

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tapio Vaattanen  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I've tried get news to my machine with suck and that is
>working all right. I get them the way I want to get them
>to a batchfile. I'm using 
>suck news.server.com -dm /var/lib/suck -m batchfile
>
>That creates a batchfile which innxmit should feed to the
>news spool. Here's where the problems start. When a
>give command innxmit localhost batchfile all I get is
>this...
>
>...
>Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied

Add the hostname of your system and "localhost" to /etc/news/hosts.nntp
and issue a "ctlinnd reload hosts.nntp just_because" command

Mike.
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strange problems with $MANPATH and xdm

[Antoine Reid]

hi everybody.

I'm currently experiencing some strange environment problems and don't
really know where to look/add things.. Let's first describe what I do:

I use tkman to have a nice X frontend to man...  the only problem is: if I
use it directly from my menu in fvwm2, it only knows about /usr/man and
/usr/local/man .. it doesn't know about dirs like /usr/local/Motif-2.0/man 
and /usr/X11R6/man.

This _only_ occurs when using it with XDM .. If I do use startx, it works
great because these dir are in the export MANPATH in /etc/profile..  also,
if I use xdm, an xterm and call tkman from within the xterm, it works well
(environment is passed to it ...)

So my Question is now: How can I make xdm pass the environment to the
window manager and all progs started? is there an equivalent of
/etc/profile for the window manager?

any suggestions welcome..
thanx for reading
Antoine Reid

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PS missing TT field

[Jeff Myers]

I've just recently changed over from Slack.  As I'm beginning to
feel everything out it really looks very encouraging!

I have noticed one thing that perhaps someone else has run across.

the "ps" command yields a display without the TT field displayed.

PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
 75  1  R0:00 ps

I read the man page and all info I could find on procps but didn't
discover anything that clued me in. Anyone know the obvious?

Thanks for your help...Jeff

Unidentified subject!

[Jeff Myers]

Re: ifconfig refuses to configure loopback address

[Mike]

Can you help me make sense of these smail messages that appear in my
/var/spool/smail/msglog/ files (there are now around 20 such files all
claiming the same thing)?

A portion of one such message file:
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148)
transport smtp: connect: Connection timed out
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host
retry file locked
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148)
transport smtp: connect: Connection timed out
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host
retry file locked

My vanilla smail config file, included below, indicates that there
is no retry file and checkker fails to report any errors. From the 
message log, it appears that receiving mail from remote hosts is no
problem, local receipt and delivery works fine, delivery to hosts
within our domain is fine, but mail delivery to some hosts outside
of our domain causes problems.

The number of runq processes and zombied runq processes increases
daily and I'd like to get this problem fixed soon.

Thanks in advance for any pointers, Mike.

[include smail config file]
# This is the main Smail configuration file.
# It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail
# package
# distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system
# administrator.
# This file originally generated by smailconfig at Sun Sep  1 01:40:14
# HST 1996
# See smail(5) for details of the things that can be configured here.
# NB max_message_size is currently ignored (Smail 3.1.28)

visible_name=[deleted]
-domains
hostnames=[deleted]

max_load_ave=5
smtp_accept_max=20
smtp_accept_queue=10
rfc1413_query_timeout=15

require_configs
-second_config_file
-qualify_file
-retry_file
copying_file=/usr/doc/copyright/smail
max_message_size=10M

received_field="Received: \
${if def:sender_host\
   {from $sender_host ${if def:sender_host_addr
([$sender_host_addr]) }}\
   {${if def:sender_host_addr:from [$sender_host_addr] }}}\
by $primary_name\n\t\
${if def:sender_proto: with $sender_proto }\
${if def:ident_sender:(ident $ident_sender using $ident_method) }\
id $message_id\n\t\
(Debian $version_string); $spool_date"

Debian Linux Installation problem

[A R Abid]

I have run into a strange problem while trying to install Debian Linux
1.1. I downloaded the boot, root and base image files (3.5"), rawrote
the image files to floppies and booted off the boot floppy. At the boot
prompt, I ed w/ the boot floppy still inside the floppy drive. I
inserted the root floppy disk after being prompted to do so. After
, my box just hung up. Here is what I can copy from the screen:

Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: 430FX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57  [for some reason, VX is not]
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007 [being correctly identified]
ide0 timing: (0xa207) sample_CLKs=3, recovery_CLKs=2
master: fastDMA=off PreFetch=on IORDY=on fastPIO=on
slave:  fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f
ide1 timing: (0x8000) sample_CLKs=5, recovery_CLKs=4
master: fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
slave:  fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/ 128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63, DMA
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Started kswapd v1.4.2.2
FDC 0 is an 8272A
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: detected total
lance.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...
Partition chec: 
hda: hda1
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into ramdisk and press Enter
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
stack segment: 
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: []
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax:  ebx: 005f ecx: 00ef ecx: f000ef6f
esi: 0009 edi: 00fe8020 ebp: f000ef6f esp: 00258738
ds: .
Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=00258000)
Stack: ..
   ..
   ..
Call Trace: [<0016aa05>]  
Code: 0f b6 5d 00 fb 10 0f 87 6a ff ff ff 0f b6 4d 01 d3 6c 24

[the machine just hung up at this point]

Configuration: AMD K5-90 on Triton VX board, Western Digital AC21200
1282MB IDE (one 200MB DOS partition), S3 Trio64 based video card, 16MB
RAM

I would really appreciate if someone could kindly help me out of this. Thanks.

A. R. ABID
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

2 questions.....

[Andy Tarkinson]

Hi all, 

I am a new Debian user and I think it is great, although it will take a
little (not much) to get used to it after using Slackware for over a year. I
have 2 questions one more specific to Debian than the other.

First is a problem with dircolors.  I had it working fine (I think) with
"stable" then I upgraded to "unstable" where the color-ls package becomes
obsolete.  In profile I have a few aliases setting up ls, dir, etc using
color.  Also I have "eval 'dircolors -b'".  I have the file /etc/DIR_COLORS
with the colors from Slackware, and also the same as ~/.dircolors.  Now I
get a few colors like directories and permissions but no colors specific to
extentions like .tgz, .jpg, .tar etc...  I've tried everything and can't get
it to work properly.

Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on
my deskjet.  Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it.  The only
problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to
type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper.  Is there a way or
option to use that will finish printing and eject the paper automatically?

Thanks for any help

Andy

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Re: Suck and innxmit

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Tapio Vaattanen, you wrote:
> > Have you added localhost to your hosts.nntp file?
> > See if that helps.
> 
> Thanks for participating. I really didn't have localhost
> in my hosts.nntp file. I added it there but result is still the
> same as earlier. I still have no idea what's the problem.
> 
> Though suck news.server.com | lpost is working fine. I still
> would like to use Debians get-news.inn script so any suggestion
> are welcome.

After changing the file did you run 'ctlinnd reload hosts.nntp'?

Tim

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List Probagation Time ???

[Jeff Myers]

Is it me or does it take sometime for messags to probagate to the
subscribers.  I have submitted Two messages and received neither.
What am I doing wrong? Is this characteristic of this list? Can I do 
something to help?

Thanks...Jeff

How can I set the TERM environment variable?

[Richard Heestand]

After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox.  But, I see that
after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I 
best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users?  Where is 
it set anyway?

Re: less displays help when invoked on an empty file

[Joey Hess]

> The subject says everything: When I less an empty file (length 0), it
> comes up with the help screen. I'm using less_321-1 and call less without
> any command line options or any env variables.
> 
> Does someone has a hint how to avoid this? Is this a less or a Debian bug
> or did I make a mistake?

I reported it as a bug (#4178), but never got a reply from the maintainer.
I've only seen less behave in this way on debian systems, and it is
infuriating the first 10 or 20 times it happens, until you get used to it.

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Re: csh logout - shutdown

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Joe Manarolla wrote:

> I prefer to use the csh shell to interface with Debian. However, I cannot
> call shutdown from the csh command line. I believe that I could accomplish
> this by making a call to the proper script or editing one of the scripts in
> init.d. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Does your path include the /sbin directory?  shutdown is a command: 
/sbin/shutdown*,
so you can execute it from any shell.

Syrus.


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Re: Debian 1.1 (Kernel v2.0) Questions

[Yves Arrouye]

   I was curious if it's possible to yank the Linux Kernel v2.0.20 off 
   sunsite.unc.edu and install it on a Debian v1.1 (Kernel v2.0) machine.  I 
   require this because I use the eepro ethernet driver and the v0.08 that 
   is included with Debian 1.1 is broke.  The new v0.09 eepro driver is 
   supposed to fix the problems we're having  Any information would be 
   appreciated!

No problem. Get kernel-package to help building the kernel if you don't
have it. And look in the Documentation directory of 2.0.20 to see if
you have the correct versions of systems tools for 2.0.20.

Yves.

Re: imagemagick depends on libtiff3

[Yves Arrouye]

I get the following messages:
   imagemagick depends on libtiff3
   libtiff3 does not appear to be available.


Q1: Can somebody tell me where I can find libtiff3 ?

Q2: Is it a .deb installation file ?

A1: in the graphics section of the archive (the unstable, certainly).
Also get zlib1 and libjpeg6a because libtiff3 depends on them (and they
all replace libgr, so you may have to update packaging depending on
libgr: try to remove it to get a list of such packages).

A2: yes. libtiff3 and libtiff3-dev for developers.

Yves.

libforms

[Marcus Hightower]

Anybody have any idea where I can find the libforms library.

Thanks

PS missing TT field

[Jeff Myers]

I've just recently changed over from Slack.  As I'm beginning to
feel everything out it really looks very encouraging!

I have noticed one thing that perhaps someone else has run across.

the "ps" command yield a display without the TT field displayed.

PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
 75  1  R0:00 ps

I read the man page and all info I could find on procps but didn't
discover anything that clued me in. Anyone know the obvious?

Thanks for your help...Jeff

Re: Debian 1.1 (Kernel v2.0) Questions

[Dirk . Eddelbuettel]

  James>  I was curious if it's possible to yank the Linux Kernel v2.0.20 off
  James> sunsite.unc.edu and install it on a Debian v1.1 (Kernel v2.0)
  James> machine.

Yes, that should work. Just untar it somewhere, have /usr/src/linux point to
that directory, install the Debian's kernel-package, read it's doc and say
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig
make-kpkg --revision local.1 kernel_image
and you should see shiny new kernel-image_2.0.20-2.0.20-local.1.deb in ..

Or you can patch up from kernel-source-2.0.6 (I'm currently at patch-2.0.17).

--
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samba problems

[Behan Webster]

We've been using samba on our LAN to connect our Windows boxes to
our debian hosts for quite some time now.  Unfortunately, ever since
we've upgraded to the latest version of samba (1.9.16alpha10-1)
we've been experienced problems where smbd processes startup and
use up significant amounts of CPU (keeping the load average above 10!)
At any particular time we have between 4 and 8 smbd processes
running, not apparently doing anything (just using up tons of CPU).

About 90% of my /var/log/smb* log files are the line:

Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0


It seems that smbd prints this as it starts up.  I just don't
understand why it's being started, as the logs don't point to anything
being done once the smbd interface is up!

My /var/log/nmb* log files are a mixture of the following lines:

more than one master browser!
connect error: Connection refused
Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.16alpha10]
Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p4]


The first two lines about seem to be errors, but I haven't been able
to find any documentation of what they mean.

btw, I have run through the samba diagnostics file in /usr/doc/samba
and everything checks out.

This problem has me stumped.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Behan Webster

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Re: Suck and innxmit

[Thomas R Behrndt]

The problem lies with inn, not suck. I can't remember the fix - I think it's
somewhere in the inn FAQ. Check that you have added your local hostname to
/etc/news/hosts.nntp (a guess at the fix).

Use get-news for collecting your news. It will work fine once you get over
this problem.

> give command innxmit localhost batchfile all I get is
> this...
> Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied
> Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/154-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied
> Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/155-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied
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Re: ?-html

[Shaya Potter]

r-man should be able to the trick.

Hope this helps,

Shaya
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
>   Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html
> output for my manual pages? or better still act as the front end of man? I 
> have
> heard that there is some utility for doing this, though I have not come 
> across 
> it yet
> Thanks 
> Jonathan
> 
> "...when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy?"
> 
> 

imagemagick depends on libtiff3

[Randy Gobbel]

> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:19:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>  Hello all ...
>  I'm trying to install imagemagick ...
>  -AND- 
>  I get the following messages:
> imagemagick depends on libtiff3
> libtiff3 does not appear to be available.
>  Q1: Can somebody tell me where I can find libtiff3 ?
 
You can get libtiff3 by installing from the "unstable" distribution (rex).

This brings up something that been annoying me: I've run into this and similar
problems two or three times now, where a package is placed onto the "stable"
area before the packages it depends on.  This is a problem for obvious
reasons--the package isn't really available as a "stable" package until all
the other packages it requires are also considered stable.  There's no point
in putting stuff you can't actually install into the directory.  I'd like to
request that in the future, packages not be placed on "stable" until all the
pieces are ready to go out the door.  Surely this can't be that difficult to
manage.

-Randy
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Re: no liloconfig?

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hi,

> However, I noticed that liloconfig is not included in the lilo package. At
> least, I couldn't find it. I managed to copy it off a Slackware CD I had
> lying around, but I was wondering why it wasn't included -- it's not that
> big, and is very useful!

There is no liloconfig included in the upstream lilo package. I'm currently
writing something like that but it will take some time. The base system
needs to be fixed (storing MBR before mbr is installed and stuff like this),
therefoer I dont think using Slacks's liloconfig is ok for beeing included
without changes. Can you please send me the source of the tool privately?

Thanks
Bernd
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Re: (Solved): Re: recompiling kernel and ppp

[Thomas R Behrndt]

Kevin,

A similar problem occurs if mgetty is running on ttyS1 and I try to dial out
for ppp using cua1 - the messages is "Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel
support". Changing the ppp dial out to ttyS1 works fine. 
 
This looks like the reporting problem is either with the kernel or with pppd.
Is your setup with xringd similar -ie a combination of ttyS1 and cua1?

Sorry I didn't get a chance to send this to you earlier.

Thomas

> I'm replying to my own message since I got several responses and my problem
> is now solved.  Unfortunately, the problem (& solution) turned out to be
> completely different.
> 
> When I first came up with 2.0.0, I tested the modem with minicom before
> attempting PPP.  No problem.  After compiling the new kernel, I didn't test
> minicom.  I compiled the kernel a dozen times, sometimes using modules,
> sometimes not, etc.  I kept getting "kernel doesn't support ppp".  Well,
> while using 2.0.20, I decided to back up a step or 3 and try minicom.
> "Device /dev/cua1 is busy".  Ah ha!  After some playing and investigating,
> it turns out that xringd (which I need for something else but I'm currently
> not using) is grabbing the modem and not sharing nicely.  If I stop xringd,
> PPP works great first time, every time, my chat scripts, etc, everything
> was OK.  I use xringd and "kernel doesn't support ppp" (probably not the
> most intuitive error message ;-).  Once things calm down a bit I'll e-mail
> the author of xringd and see if this is a known problem.  It might just be
> kernel specific, or I need to recompile it and didn't know.  I don't need
> it for a while so I'm not sweating it yet.
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Re: What where huh?

[salwen]

Susan> I'd agree that a search engine front end to the FAQ would be helpful.

Also, the debian-user archives would be a whole lot more useful if we had
both more up-to-date archives and a search engine.

Nathan

Re: imagemagick depends on libtiff3

[Philippe Troin]

> Q1: Can somebody tell me where I can find libtiff3 ?
> Q2: Is it a .deb installation file ?

Yes and yes.
The deb for libtiff3 is on:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/rex/binary/graphics/libtiff3_3.4beta035-1.deb

I could have supported libgr, but it's obsolete and moved to libtiff. libjpeg
and libpng/libz  directly.

Hope that helps.

Phil.

4 man page languages now

[Bruce Perens]

Susan:
> the manpages (in English, German (man-NNN-de), and Spanish (man-NNN-es)).

I think some Italian language man pages have also recently been uploaded.
I communicated with the maintainer last week. They are probably in
"unstable" or the Incoming directory.

Thanks

Bruce

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Lars Wirzenius]

A R Abid:
> I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. 

The terse form of the formula is:

swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size

(Forget everything about "twice physical size". That is an evil
prank that people play on the uneducated rich who have bouth
512 MB of RAM.)

First you need to estimate your total memory need. This depends
very heavily on what you do and what programs you run at the
same time. I need about 30-40 MB to run a mailer, Mosaic,
xpat2, up to a dozen or so xterms and editors, a HTTP server,
a news server, a mail server, compilers, makes, the X server,
window manager, a clock, xload, desktop pager, window list,
and a few other niceties.

For a somewhat more detailed explanation, read the memory
management chapter in the System Administrators' Guide. The
current version is 0.3, but 0.4 is imminent (I need to see
how it looks on paper, but if there aren't any big problems 
with the that, I will release it in a couple of days).

> Also, would
> Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one
> Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using
> Linux fdisk. Thanks.

If you have unpartitioned disk space at the end of the disk, there
should be no problem. If not, you need to backup and reinstall everything.

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Re: Suck and innxmit

[Christian Linhart]

Tapio Vaattanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[description of setup (inn & suck) deleted]
: ...
: Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied
: Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/154-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied
: Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/155-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied
: ...
[...]
: By the way, Debian 1.1 included a script called get-news.inn.
: Haven't get any more success by using it. Things stop working
: at exactly the same place.

Probably you have to add localhost to /etc/news/hosts.nntp

And I suggest using the get-news script, it does everything for you.
It has a little bug which causes outgoing positings to be dropped.
Here's the patch: [I should file a bug report on this]
--
--- get-news.orig   Fri Sep 13 20:41:28 1996
+++ get-newsTue Sep 17 14:30:56 1996
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 OUTGOING=${SPOOLDIR}/.outgoing/${SITE} # location of the list of articles to 
upload
 OUTGOINGNEW=${OUTGOING}.new# temporarily used during upload of 
articles
 
-SCRIPT=${BINDIR}/put-news  # my filter for rpost
+SCRIPT=/usr/sbin/put-news  # my filter for rpost
 OUTFILE=${TMPDIR}/suck.tmp.$$  # used by rpost as article after it is 
filtered
 
 RPOST=${BINDIR}/rpost  # my rpost
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For outgoing postings to work as desired, edit your /etc/news/newsfeeds.
It should contain an entry similar to:

news.yourprovider.domain\
:*,!junk,!control/!local\
:Tf,Wnm:news.yourprovider.domain

(Change news.yourprovider.domain to the name of newsserver of your provider)

Hope this helps,
--Chris
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Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Christian Linhart]

A R Abid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
: still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
If you want to run X and some apps I highly recommend
that you use some swap space (at least 32MB). How much you really need
depends on how you use the system.
(If you run xemacs+latex+ghostview+netscape+20xterms like I frequently
do, then you'll probably need more than 32MB swap and you'd want to
upgrade your RAM to 32MB in order to reduce paging activities)

: Also, would
: Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one
: Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using
: Linux fdisk. 
Nope, if you don't mess with the DOS partitions they should remain
intact. At least it always worked for me. But making a backup
isn't a bad idea anyway...

BTW, if you want to shrink a DOS partition, you should take a look
at fips. 

--Chris
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Re: where's man ??

[Fabrizio Polacco]

Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> 
> The man package is in section "doc". 
> You'll also need to install the manpages (in English,
> German (man-NNN-de), and Spanish (man-NNN-es)).

German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian (manpages-it).
(just to be precisian :-)

ciao
Fabrizio Polacco
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apmd interation with powersave option in XFree

[Giuseppe Vacanti]

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Xfree 320x200 :-(

[Marcus Hightower]

All I can get in X windows is 320x200. I have went through the setup ie:
xf86config .

I am using a Everex p75
with the d-stn LCD and a Cirrus Logic board CL-GD7543 LCD
with an Internal clock of Cirrus 5430

SuperProbe did not give any info

I did find out that the Dotclock is 28.14

I'm using the 'svga' server

Any new patches I can compile to make this thing run.

Re: where's man ??

[Boris Beletsky]

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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

dwarf>On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
dwarf>
dwarf>> 
dwarf>> I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I 
notice,
dwarf>> there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a
dwarf>> "required" thing... 
dwarf>
dwarf>If you only installed the base system then the only editor availabe is AE
dwarf>(Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is small enough to fit on the
dwarf>base disks.
I am sorry, but isn't vi designed for that purpose?
I mean why should ppl learn other editors commands when there is a good old
vi :-) ? , at least that what i felt when i installed debian on my system.

borik

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DNS, Sendmail, or Smail

[ttrimble]

I know I'm very new to Linux, and there is quite a bit I haven't 
caught on to yet.  But, I have a problem that just isn't getting any 
better.  I have Debian 1.1 loaded, running kernel 2.0.6.  The machine 
I'm working in is not directly connected to the Internet, but does 
have a tcp/ip connection to a mail server that is connected.  I loaded 
Smail, and configured it with no DNS server, and all mail goes to the 
smarthost.  The objective is to run Majordomo on the Debian box and 
have all mail sent to the mail server for delivery, but Smail on the 
Debian box reports an error that domain name lookup failed, so my questions 
are.
1. Does Smail require a direct Internet connection to work ?

2. Can Majordomo run on a machine that is not directly connected to 
the Internet ?

3. Is there a way to set-up named to work as a local DNS only ?

Thank You all for your understanding and help;
Tim Trimble

Re: (Solved): Re: recompiling kernel and ppp

[Boris Beletsky]

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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Kevin Conover wrote:


kcppp>When I first came up with 2.0.0, I tested the modem with minicom before
kcppp>attempting PPP.  No problem.  After compiling the new kernel, I didn't 
test
kcppp>minicom.  I compiled the kernel a dozen times, sometimes using modules,
kcppp>sometimes not, etc.  I kept getting "kernel doesn't support ppp".  Well,
kcppp>while using 2.0.20, I decided to back up a step or 3 and try minicom.
kcppp>"Device /dev/cua1 is busy".  Ah ha!  After some playing and investigating,
kcppp>it turns out that xringd (which I need for something else but I'm 
currently
kcppp>not using) is grabbing the modem and not sharing nicely.  If I stop 
xringd,
kcppp>PPP works great first time, every time, my chat scripts, etc, everything
kcppp>was OK.  I use xringd and "kernel doesn't support ppp" (probably not the
kcppp>most intuitive error message ;-).  Once things calm down a bit I'll e-mail
kcppp>the author of xringd and see if this is a known problem.  It might just be
kcppp>kernel specific, or I need to recompile it and didn't know.  I don't need
kcppp>it for a while so I'm not sweating it yet.

well... about xringd. I think u can't monitor the modem or any other device
without locking it. So the best solution is just add "killall xringd" or
somthing to u're ppp script and start it over in up-down.
I am sure u don't need xringd when u are in connect.
i could be wrong.
borik

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Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Boris Beletsky]

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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, A R Abid wrote:

aa2g+>I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
aa2g+>still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. 
YES! u always need a swap - no metter how much ram u have.
I would say, create a 32swap part. - that would be the best.

aa2g+>Also, would
aa2g+>Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one
aa2g+>Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using
aa2g+>Linux fdisk. Thanks.
no
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Re: Passive ftp with dselect?

[Andy Guy]

Mikko Suonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  System is running fine, thank you! A question: Can I do ftp in passive
> mode with dselect ? It does not seem to rely on .netrc, so I can't give
> passive command there. I also tried dftp, but it seemed too complicated
> (did not read .dftprc etc).
> 
>  (I would like to update my machines both at home and work to newest
> Debian. Behind a firewall this is always a bit strange. The only thing
> that seems to work is to use ftp in passive mode.)

Sorry, I havn't been able to get passive mode to work using the perl
Net::FTP module.  It is on my todo list.

Andy.

where is kernel-package ?

[Chris R. Martin]

I would like to compile my own kernel, but I can't find kernel-package
anywhere on ftp.debian.org... I found kernel-headers, and kernel-source,
but I already have a tar.gz of the source. 

Do I even need the kernel-package? What benifits will it give me?

Thanks, Chris.

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Re: Suck and innxmit

[Dave Holland]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>news spool. Here's where the problems start. When a
>give command innxmit localhost batchfile all I get is
>this...
>Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied

I think this means you haven't set up /etc/news/nnrp.access. Mine looks
like:

*:: -no- : -no- :!*
localhost:PR:::*
zenda.demon.co.uk:PR:::*

(ignoring the comments)

Hope this helps.

Dave

Custom ispell dictionary

[Martin Alonso Soto Jacome]

Hi all!

I have a custom ispell dictionary that I compiled directly from its sources.  
I'd like to use it with Debian but don't know where and how to install it so 
that Debian's ispell finds it and, even better, uses it as the default.  Could 
anybody explain me what to do or point me to the apropriate documentation?

Thanks a lot,

M. S.

Martin A. Soto J.   Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suck and innxmit

[Tapio Vaattanen]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Klaus Weide wrote:

> > news spool. Here's where the problems start. When a
> > give command innxmit localhost batchfile all I get is
> > this...
> > 
> > ...
> > Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission
> > denied Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/154-155" -- 480 Transfer
> > permission denied Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/155-155" -- 480 Transfer
> > permission denied ...
> 
> Have you added localhost to your hosts.nntp file?
> See if that helps.

Oops! Forget my earlier posting if it's arrived. That's exactly
what was the problem. I just didn't remember to shutdown innd
and restart it again after the changes to the hosts.nntp file.

Thank you very much for solving this. 

cheers,

Tapio

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[A R Abid]

Thank you all for replying. I was not very clear about my second
question. Currently, I have a DOS partition that takes up 25% of the
total disk space and the rest is empty. My concern was if I would lose
any data on the DOS partition if I create two Linux partitions using
Linux fdisk on the empty disk space. The installation notes say that it
is POSSIBLE to wipe out any existing data while trying to create Linux
partitions: "Here's your first chance to wipe out all of the data on
your disks, and your last chance to save your old system."

My question is if it is a POSSIBILITY or a CERTAINTY to lose your
existing DOS partition if you don't mess up w/ it and only make Linux
partitions on the empty diskspace. Thanks.

A. R. ABID
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Excerpts from mail: 18-Sep-96 RE: Swap partition and fdisk by Rik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 'it's the only way to be sure.'
>  
> Regarding fdisk, so long as you don't actually DO anything to your DOS =
> partitions, (ie: just make some new partitions on another drive, or on =
> the free space of your boot drive), you shouldn't have any problems.  I =
> dual boot Win95 and Linux all the time with never a problem.
>  

RE: X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2

[Rik Ling]

--
From:   Volker M. Goebbels[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Wednesday, September 18, 1996 11:25 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2

Hi!

I wonder if someone has experiences configuring a Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X
with 2 MB RAM under X11.
The only mode working yet is 640x480, for all other modes I get a blank 
dark screen. BTW I'm using a Philips 21BA 21" autoscan monitor.
I used the detailed timing data given in the Elsa WINman Utility under 
Windoze 3.1, but no result.
Is it possible that the monitor isn't capable of catching the syncs?


I have neither an Elsa card or a Phillips monitor, but I remember when trying 
to get my Daytek 17" to work with my ATI Mach64 under Windows 3.11, I had the 
exact same problem: worked fine at 640x480 but the higher resolutions just came 
up with a blank screen.  No clicking, no buzzing, no smoke, just.nothing.  
With the help of the tech folks at Daytek I tracked it down to the sync 
polarity of the monitor when running at higher modes.  Apparently the Daytek 
monitor reverses the polarity when in those modes.  I went into the ATI card 
setup utility and changed the polarity there and, voila!, it worked just fine.  
This was over 18 months ago, and I haven't had a problem since.  

Could your monitor have the same problem?  If forced to, I could probably find 
the monitor manual and give a more detailed explanation.

Just my $0.02.  Hope it helps.

Rik Ling
Network Administrator
Peterborough Internet Pipeline
http://www.pipcom.com/~rling (under construction, as always)

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Susan G. Kleinmann]

Hi --
You asked:
> I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. 
If you will be using memory-hungry applications (like X or httpd), then
you'll definitely need some swap space.  A few tens of MBytes would be
a safe bet.

> Also, would
> Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one
> Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using
> Linux fdisk. Thanks.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  If your disk already has 1 partition
on it that uses the entire disk, then the only way to wedge a Linux 
partition onto it is to use a utility like FIPS (in the tools directory
at any Debian mirror) to make your DOS parition smaller.  Then you can 
repartition whatever is left over into 3 primary partitions (or more
if you want to use extended and logical partitons).  One of those partitions
could be your swap space.

Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann

RE: Swap partition and fdisk

[Rik Ling]

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Sent:   Wednesday, September 18, 1996 3:45 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Swap partition and fdisk

I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. Also, would
Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one
Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using
Linux fdisk. Thanks.

A. R. ABID
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Well...in my opinion 16 Meg is not enough to justify nuking your swap, but then 
I tend to run some fairly memory intensive stuff (X with xv, povray, and NExS). 
 I've just upgraded to 64 Meg from 32, and I'm tempted to try running with no 
swap now, but I don't think I'd feel fully comfortable unless I had 128 Meg or 
more.  Then again, maybe I'm just a whiner.  :-)  Back when I had 16 Meg, 'top' 
would show me using anywhere from 4 to 20 Meg of swap while running X and all 
the goodies.  With 16 Meg you don't actually NEED a swap partition, but given 
my druthers I would say, give yourself about 32 Meg of swap, check out your 
usage with 'top' on a regular basis, and if you find you're not using it, back 
up your drive ,re-partition without a swap file, and then restore.  Of course, 
that is a lot of work, but as Hicks said in Aliens 'it's the only way to be 
sure.'

Regarding fdisk, so long as you don't actually DO anything to your DOS 
partitions, (ie: just make some new partitions on another drive, or on the free 
space of your boot drive), you shouldn't have any problems.  I dual boot Win95 
and Linux all the time with never a problem.

This is just my $0.02  Hope it helps.

Rik Ling
Network Administrator
Peterborough Internet Pipeline.
http://www.pipcom.com/~rling (under construction, as always)

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

[Christian Schwarz]

Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I feel like a broken record, here, but would people involved in this
> discussion please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README?  Otherwise
> you're wasting both your own and others' time.
>
> For instance, it mentions the solution to the above mentioned issue:
>
>  Please note that this distribution expects you to leave app-defaults
>  files unchanged. If you want to customise X applications globally, put
>  your customisations in /etc/X11/Xresources.
Well I had a look at the file (and surely Lars too) but the point is that
I'm not satisfied with the argument, that the readme says that's the way
to do it.

My suggestion of tagging the files as conffiles was thought as a solution
to your problem, if the files change. Of course, this will need the
app-defaults directory be moved over to /etc/X11, but that's what we
were talking about.

So I think the point is the following: Do we consider the app-defaults
files as part of the program (code), or as configuration files. In the
former case, they should stay in /usr, in the latter they should be moved
to /etc/X11 and be tagged as conffiles.

Sorry, if I didn't express my standpoint clearly.


Cheers,

Chris

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Re: Passive ftp with dselect?

[Brian C. White]

>  System is running fine, thank you! A question: Can I do ftp in passive
> mode with dselect ? It does not seem to rely on .netrc, so I can't give
> passive command there. I also tried dftp, but it seemed too complicated
> (did not read .dftprc etc).

Well, I beg to differ with "complicated".  If you have straight FTP access,
you should just be able to type:

dftp getnew

Not too much there.

It does read ".dftprc" (because I use it) and also "/etc/dftp.conf".

>  (I would like to update my machines both at home and work to newest
> Debian. Behind a firewall this is always a bit strange. The only thing
> that seems to work is to use ftp in passive mode.)

I used to use dftp through an Eagle secure gateway.  Though I have not
used this capability for quite some time, now, it should still be
functional.  Whether this will work with your firewall or not is a
different question.  Dftp does rely on ".netrc" (one it builds, not
your own) to get through a firewall, so if you can set up your personal
.netrc to get through the firewall, then 'dftp' can also work through
the firewall, though it may need some modification to do so.
 
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Re: ?-html

[Brian C. White]

> >   Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html
> > output for my manual pages?
> 
> There's rman, in non-free.
> 
> > or better still act as the front end of man?
> 
> I'm working on a WWW front end to all on-line documentation on a
> Debian system, but it's not finished yet. I'll need a couple of
> weekends or so to finish a usable version.

Well, if it's in on www.debian.org anywhere (outside of the list archive),
you should be able to find it via

http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple
 
  Brian
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zsh_3.0 (in rex) is not stripped!

[Antoine Reid]

hmm after installing zsh 3.0 from the rex tree, I found that the zsh bin
is not stripped (ie it takes 1.6 Mb...)

just thought I would let you zsh users know..

thanx for reading
Antoine Reid

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Re: STB Powegraph graphics card problem (was:HELP: Probs configuring X)

[bigl]

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jean Orloff wrote:

> 
> Me too, same problem with the same card (on a Gateway2000). Not the same
> monitor though. And no, playing with the XF86Config parameters for hsync
> doesn't help much. The best I could do was with this:
> 
> Vendor: Gateway2000, Model: Vivitron 1572
> Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1
> hsync range 0:  31.50 -  64.00
> vsync range 0:  50.00 - 120.00
> "944x750"  73.00944  944 1064 1184750  753  768  785
> 
> I still get a 2mm brighter line on the left, so that's where I put Goodstuff
> buttons and Icons, and put Emacs safely on the right.
> 
> Not the solution, just a way to survive (the alternative was to switch back to
> Windblows, can you imagine?)
> 

I've S3 Trio64V+ with Samsung SyncMaster 15GLi, and my friend has this 
same card with NEC XV15+ - always this same - left side of screen is 
brighter (maybe 2-4mm). What's strange it goes this way only in X, in 
OS/2 works brilliant, in Shitdows is acceptable. So it's problem with S3 
server in X - maybe the new 3.1.2G beta version of X can help - i'll try 
it tomorrow.


Leszek Gerwatowski
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where is compress ?

[Eric Delaunay]

Hello all,

  I'm trying to compile a X-Window program which provides a new set of fonts.
To generate its fonts, it uses the following command (approximately ;) ):

bdftopcf machin.bdf | compress > machin.pcf.Z

But I don't have compress on my Linux box.
I tried moving to gzip without success because mkfontdir doesn't handle gzip
format :-( Therefore I need compress!
Is there any Debian package I can install that includes it ?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Suck and innxmit

[Tapio Vaattanen]

 On Wed, 19 Sep 1996, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> > I've tried get news to my machine with suck and that is
> > working all right. I get them the way I want to get them
> > to a batchfile. I'm using 
> > suck news.server.com -dm /var/lib/suck -m batchfile
> > 
> > That creates a batchfile which innxmit should feed to the
> > news spool. Here's where the problems start. When a
> > give command innxmit localhost batchfile all I get is
> > Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission
> > denied Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/154-155" -- 480 Transfer
> > permission denied Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/155-155" -- 480 Transfer
> > permission denied ...
> 
> Have you added localhost to your hosts.nntp file?
> See if that helps.

Thanks for participating. I really didn't have localhost
in my hosts.nntp file. I added it there but result is still the
same as earlier. I still have no idea what's the problem.

Though suck news.server.com | lpost is working fine. I still
would like to use Debians get-news.inn script so any suggestion
are welcome.

regards,

Tapio


 

Re: where's man ??

[Bruce Perens]

There are packages for 11 different editors in our FTP archive (or on
your CD if you have one). Please forgive me for not including "vi" and
"emacs" on the three base floppies - there simply was not space, and
our assumption is that a user's first act once they install the system
is generally to find the package for their preferred editor and install
it. Likewise, there is a "man" package on the FTP archive as well.
The base system is supposed to be just enough to support installing
the packages you choose.

Thanks

Bruce Perens

less displays help when invoked on an empty file

[Christian Schwarz]

Hi!

The subject says everything: When I less an empty file (length 0), it
comes up with the help screen. I'm using less_321-1 and call less without
any command line options or any env variables.

Does someone has a hint how to avoid this? Is this a less or a Debian bug
or did I make a mistake?


Cheers,

Chris

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Re: Debian (not Linux) ne

[Paul Christenson]

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> My /home and /usr/local are two of the places which have exceeded the
> limits of a single tape.  Guess I have to come up with another way
> then.

I know that 'tar' can backup across multiple tapes, and I'm sure that
most all of the programs out there can do it as well.

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Re: dvips top margin

[Billy Chow]

> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Billy> (other than the inflexible configuration, some features like
Billy> previewing documents with ps fonts with xdvi are broken in
Billy> Debian).

Dirk> Not so. I am both LaTeX'ing and xdvi'ing with psfonts on Debian
Dirk> boxes with no problems.

Dirk> You just have to add gsftopk, and modify MakeTeXPK (I send a
Dirk> patch in a mail archived with bug#3414) and psfonts.map
Dirk> slightly. I have been planing to package this, but find no time
Dirk> to do it. If anybody wants to do this, I'd be more than happy to
Dirk> help.

I considered it broken because the stable distribution does not
contain all that is needed for that purpose (debian doesn't even have
a gsftopk package).  teTeX works ``out-of-the-box''.  I, for one,
would prefer a large but nicely put-together and hassle-free
distribution than the current debian LaTeX system.  I am not saying
the current system is bad.  There are just a few rough corners.

I would consider packaging teTeX myself if I am not moving out of the
country in less than a month. 

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