Emacs on console: keys not responding

[Raymond Penners]

Package: emacs
Version: 19.34-2
Package: ncurses
Version: 1.9.9e-1
System: Linux sphinx 2.0.6 #2 Sun Jul 14 18:49:25 PDT 1996 i586
Debian: 1.1

When running on the console, Emacs does not respond to several keys.
For example, the following keys have no effect when the ALT key is
used as the meta modifier:

M-%
M-!
M-<
M->

Here, alt-shift-1 (M-!) does not work, whereas esc-shift-1 (also M-!)
works as expected.

For what it's worth, I formerly used Red Hat Linux on which Emacs ran
just fine on the console.

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Missing terminfo entries?

[Raymond Penners]

Hi,

My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less
standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation
(export TERM=amiga) is not present.

Does this have something to do with the fact that in "/etc/terminfo"
only "ansi" is present? However, in "/usr/lib/terminfo/a" there are
*many* entries, including "amiga".

What do I need to do to fix this? I am running:

ncurses-base1.9.9e-1
ncurses-bin 1.9.9e-1
ncurses-term1.9.9e-1
ncurses3.0  1.9.9e-1
ncurses3.0-dev  1.9.9e-1

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Re: imagemagick depends on libtiff3

[Dale Scheetz]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:

> 
> Err, imagemagick has never been placed in the 'stable' tree. It used to
be (and will be until the next version) in the non-free directory which
has no distinction between stable and unstable.
> Maybe we should address this...
> 
non-free has always been considered stable. That is, it can be used with
either the stable or the unstable tree. Packages in non-free are typicaly
there because of distribution constraints. This typicaly only happens to
seasoned/stable code.

BTW Phil, your mail editor doesn't format very well. You might look at
it's wrap options or look for a different mailer.

Luck,

Dwarf

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Filename case

[John Roesch]

I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a   
directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS).  Is there a   
quick method or command to do this?

Thanks,
John Roesch  

Re: Filename case

[Brian C. White]

> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS).  Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?

There is a command called 'rename' that comes with perl.  You can find
it as:

/usr/doc/examples/perl/rename.gz

This is as found under debian 1.1.  Your milage may vary, so I'll
include the script here.

-
#! /usr/bin/perl
# Usage: rename perlexpr [files]

($op = shift) || die "Usage: rename perlexpr [filenames]\n";
if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {
@ARGV = ;
chop(@ARGV);
}
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}
-

With this, you can do what you want by typing:

rename tr/A-Z/a-z/ *


Perhaps the perl package could install this useful utility directly into
/usr/bin?
 
  Brian
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Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

[David Engel]

Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> David>What don't you like about it?  I haven't really looked into the
> David>problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the 
> advantages/disadvantages of
> David>his proposal.
> 
> John proposed to change the way the auto_path is used. He did not
> define an additional directory that is included in the auto_path and
> independent of the Tcl version. So every extension is automatically
> bound to the Tcl version - something I dislike.

In an ideal world, I can see the advantage of making it independent of
the Tcl version.  However, since each new version of Tcl is usually
incompatible at the binary level (and often even at the source level),
I don't see this as a big problem.  For example, it would be very
unlikely that a libscotty.so built against Tcl7.5 would work with
Tcl7.6.  To make it work with Tcl7.6, you would have to rebuild scotty
anyway.

David
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Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable? Question solved!

[Richard Heestand]

>Hi Richard --
>
>You said:
>> 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?
>
>In looking over some old mail, I found that having TERM set to cons80x25 is
>a consequence of booting an old kernel.  You can check what kernel you're using
>by executing 
>   cat /proc/version
>Apparently, this problem is particularly likely if one is using LILO,
>and hasn't set up LILO's definition of the root directory just right.
>
>Newer kernels won't do this.
>
>HTH,
>Susan Kleinmann
>

Thanks for the hint. I am running both an older and newer version of LINUX.
When I boot using a boot disk rather than LILO the TERM environment variable 
is "linux".  

Re: imagemagick depends on libtiff3

[Raymond Rusk]

Philippe Troin wrote:
> 
> 
> Err, imagemagick has never been placed in the 'stable' tree. It used to be 
> (and will be until the next version) in the non-free directory which has no 
> distinction between stable and unstable.

I experienced the same problem with gs.  As a new user not very familiar
with dselect, I found this quite confusing.

> Maybe we should address this...
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> 


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Re: Does IP aliasing work?

[Winfried Truemper]

John D. Amidon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
: vtcs-cvs# ifconfig eth0:0 136.0.0.1
: SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument

It means you have no "eth0:0". Probably you didn't load the "ip_alias"
module; just issue "insmod ip_alias" and it should work. A good idea
would be to run "kerneld" (he manages things like that for you).

The file /proc/net/alias exists wether you load the module or not.

-Winfried

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Re: Filename case

[James A. Robinson]

> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a   
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS).  Is there a   
> quick method or command to do this?

If you are using bash as a shell, or you switch into bash, you can use
the following:

 for i in *;do mv $i `echo $i|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`;done


Jim

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Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

[Winfried Truemper]

Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to
: install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design.

I did not look into the new 0.4-release, but there was no
upgrade-mechianism in the past.
And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed
up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and
therefore stucked with debian-TeX).

Beside that, teTeX is really nice!

It would be a nice thing to have a "teTeX-dummy" package that
satisfies all dependencies for dpkg if teTeX is installed. 
Re-packaging teTeX would be much work.

-Winfried

Re: Filename case

[J.H.M.Dassen]

> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a   
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS).  Is there a   
> quick method or command to do this?

Not a single command, but a small combination of utils will do.
[Solution for use with a Bourne shell, e.g. bash;
 a (t)csh solution is left as an exercise to the reader]
1. 'cd' to the appropriate directory
2. Do the following:
   for file in * ; do
 mv $file `echo $file | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
   done

Hope this helps,
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Re: Apache virtual domains.

[Michael Alan Dorman]

Fundamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Okay, how do people add virtual domains using apache, i tried the following
> - i added this line to the S20apache runtime file;
> 
> ifconfig eth0:1 servername up
> 
> but this didnt work.

ifconfig eth0:0 111.111.111.111
route add -host 111.111.111.111 dev eth0:0

the :x stuff starts from :0, and you must use the ip addresses when
setting this stuff up.

Mike.

Re: 2 questions.....

[Yves Arrouye]

   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?

Instead of saying something like

gs options -sInputFile=somefile.ps

use

gs options - 

Re: ncurses problems

[Matthew D Moss]

>Has anyone else out there had trouble with ncurses?  I've now run across at
>least four separate failures, all related to using ncurses instead of
>termcap:
> 
>I have heard of a couple of other Debian users having similar ncurses
>problems, but I've never heard of anyone having trouble with ncurses in other
>distributions.

Hi Randy,

I recently tried building 'dominion', a conquer-like wargame, on my machine.
The authors use autoconf and say it runs fine on Linux.

Running autoconf mostly seems to work, although it complains about not
finding 'beep', 'cbreak', and 'crmode', all which (should) belong to curses.
The build proceeds and I can run the program, but I get instances where a
text window will appear for a millisecond then be stuck behind another one
when it should have remained in front  I'm not sure why and haven't
gotten around to examining the problem yet.

Sorry I can't help with yours... and my problem with ncurses/termcap
obviously is a bit different...  Just another nugget for your consideration
when working on your problem.


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So... does this work?  :)

Re: Filename case

[Tom Fawcett]

> "JR" == John Roesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JR> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a   
JR> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS).  Is there a   
JR> quick method or command to do this?

If you installed Perl:

perl -e 'for $file (<*>) { rename($file, lc($file)) or warn "$file: $!" }'

(Mind the single and double quotes.)  Run this in the directory you want
converted.

-Tom

Re: where's man ??

[Ezio Manini]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:

Ciao Fabri'

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

Oh! where the italian one?

> ciao
> Fabrizio Polacco

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Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Lars Wirzenius]

Gerry Jensen:
> While it may be untrue that you *need* twice the physical memory size, I
> believe it's true that twice the physical memory size is about the limit
> of what you can effectively use if you need it.

It depends on what you do.

Operating system theory has a concept called "working set", which
is the group of virtual memory pages that are actually used at the
moment. In addition, there may other pages not in the working set
that are not used. If the size of the working set is much bigger
than physical memory, there will be heavy swapping and the system
will perform poorly. However, it does not matter if there are lots
of pages not in the working set, because they can be swapped out
and won't be swapped in (at least not in the near future).

For many people, the rule of "twice physical size" approximates
the size of the working set fairly well: half of the pages are
used at any one moment. For many others, it does not. It all
depends on what you do.

For example, if you have a getty running for six virtual
consoles, but you never log in more than once, the pages of the
other five gettys do not belong in the working set. They can be
swapped out.  In addition, if you have a sendmail daemon running,
but never send any mail, then it will also be swapped out. If
each getty uses 1 MB of non-shared memory, and sendmail uses 10
MB, you have now used 15 MB of swap. Assume you have 4 MB of
physical memory (and that whatever you do via the one log in uses
only 1 MB of memory). Your system is not swapping madly. It works
splendidly. No problems at all. Even if you have used about four
times as much swap as you have physical memory.

These numbers are completely wrong (getty does not use that much
memory), but they are good enough to show the point. The logic
is sound, I just invented numbers that are easy to follow.

My simple formula

swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size

works much better than the "twice physical memory" one. It does
not mention working sets, mostly because then things get complicated;
but I guess I should explain about it in the SAG, where there is
more space.

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Re: Getting XDM to blank the screen

[Vadik V. Vygonets]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Greg Smith wrote:

> 
> 
> For some reason, XDM never blanks the screen.  I would like to use
> xautolock to either run xlock as a screen saver or maybe even apm -S 
> to suspend the machine.
> 
> How would I do this?  can I put it in one of XDM's configuration scripts?

The config file you need to change is /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 (for the
console).  Just put the line "xautolock  &" into this file.

Vad.

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Re: Need advise on repartitioning

[salwen]

> 1. "tar cvf var.tar /var/*" to have a backup of the current contents of
>/var.
> 2. "tar cvf home.tar /home/*" to have a backup of home.

Just make sure that there are no files or directories in /var or /home
that start with '.'.  I made this mistake when I tried to backup a user
and lost all his configuration files (.emacs .Xdefaults etc...).

Good luck,
Nathan

lyx_0.10.3-1.deb: wrong file permissions

[Randy Gobbel]

The lyx auxiliary directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 all have their permissions
set for owner and group access only in lyx_0.10.3-1.deb.  They need to made
"other" readable for lyx to work properly.

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Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Simon Martin]

Hi all,

I might not be a UNIX (Linux) guru yet (if ever), but I do know a thing or
two about OS handling.

As someone (sorry I dumped the mail so I can't use your name) pointed out
correctly:

   Swap partition=Total memory requirements - Available memory

Now if anyone can tell me the correct value for "Total memory requirements"
I would be very pleased because I also need to know the length of a piece
of string.

For quite a few systems, the "recommended" size of the swap partition (AKA
virtual memory) is 1.5 - 2 times the available memory. This is not because
of some magical relationship between the amount of memory required and the
amount of money spent on memory, but rather due to 2 basic concepts:

1) If you have an active system and you need a large amount of virtual
memory, then the probability that the memory required being swapped out is
fairly high. This means that the time that the system spends swapping can
become more that the time spent on "useful" processing (all depending on
the access speed on the swap device, transfer rates, etc.). When this
becomes acute the system starts "thrashing" at which time, for all intents
and purposes, the system is unavailable and must be rebooted. If the
virtual memory is capped then the system will just say "no way" before a
dangerous swap level is reached. Given the typical physical constraints on
low end devices such as those we find in a UNIX, Windoze, DOS box 2 is
about good enough a ratio to use for the swap partition.

2) Whatever people say Apple, IBM, etc. employ some pretty clever people.
Originally Apple said we only needed about 64 KB memory, IBM said 640 KB
(Why back in the good old days I worked on a DEC System-10 which served
about 80 users with 128KB RAM, but fast swap devices). If these people can
get it wrong, I'm not even going to try. Now given the cost of a hard disk
(1GB=US$500 I suppose, which means about 1.5 cents per 32 KB swap
partition) and the cost of bringing down a server to repartition and
reinstall (say about an hour of a systems administrator, plus an hour for
everyone who cannot access the server...) and I think people will agree
that it may be a good idea to install a swap partition, even though I don't
think I need it, because tomorrow...

Sorry I got so long winded but I think that this is a very important
subject and I have fairly flame-retardant skin.

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Re: Need advise on repartitioning

[Winfried Truemper]

Pedro I. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two
: primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third
: partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in
: /dev/hda in the same partition of / (no separate partition for /var). 

Two cases:
  (1) swap and /home do _not_ take up the whole space on /dev/hdb, so
  you effectivly have only to _add_ the partition
  (2) swap and /home take up the whole space and you must shrink one
  of both to get enough free space for /var

The first case is simple: go into single-user mode and "umount /home"
and "swapoff /dev/hdb1". Now you can _add_ the new partition on
/dev/hdb with "cfdisk" or similar and after that check that the new
partition is recognized by the kernel with "dmesg". If it is, you
don't have to reboot and you can re-mount /home and re-activate the
swap.
Then run an "mke2fs /dev/hdb3"make the filesystem
"mkdir /var2-new" create the mount-point
"mount /dev/hdb3 /var-new"do the mount
"cd /var-new" change to the new partition
"cp -a /var/* ."  copy everything there
"mv var var-old"  rename the old one
"mv var-new var"  rename the new one

In the second case you must make a backup of /home before doing
anything else. Changing the size of a partition without destroying it
is currently not supported by Linux. If you have done this, follow the
steps about and destroy the /home-partion before re-creating it and
adding the /var-partition. The rest is similar, you just have to
perform everything twice (once for /home, once for /var) and write the
backup back.
If everything works, change /etc/fstab appropreciatly.

-Winfried

Re: where's man ??

[Fabrizio Polacco]

Ezio Manini wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> > German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian
> > (manpages-it). (just to be precisian :-)
> 
> Oh! where the italian one?
> 

I wasn't so precisian, uh? :-)

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/development/binary-i386/doc/manpages-it_0.0a-1.deb
and mirrors

manpages-it_0.0a-2.deb is coming this week (minor changes).

Another upstream version has come, but has only 2 pages more 
than this, and I'll wait more pages or other changes.

If you need these 2 pages (less, lesskey) I can make it.

ciao
Fabrizio
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Re: Filename case

[Ezio Manini]

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, John Roesch wrote:

> 
> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a   
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS).  Is there a   
> quick method or command to do this?

Have you the "python" package installed?
Cd's where the files are and execute this script:

cut here
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import string
for fname in os.listdir(os.curdir):
newfname = string.lower(fname)
os.rename(fname, newfname)
cut here

> Thanks,
> John Roesch  

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Re: where is compress ?

[Michael Keith]

please unscribe me as soon as possible

--
> From: Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is compress ?
> Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 11:20 PM
> 
>  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 ?
> 
> Because BSD compress might conflict with Unisys licensing of LZW, it is
> not included in the Debian distribution. There is a compress-package
> available, though, that, after you have got sources for compress (for
> example the compress.tar.12 file that can be found on some GNU archives),
> will help you build a Debian compress package, as in:
> 
>   % cd /usr/src/compress/compress-4.0
>   % make-cpkg
>   [...]
>   % dpkg -i ../bsd-compress_4.0-1_i386.deb
> 
> Yves.

Re: where's man ??

[Vadik V. Vygonets]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:

> Boris Beletsky wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> > dwarf>If you only installed the base system then the only editor
> > dwarf>availabe is AE (Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is
> > dwarf>small enough to fit on the base disks.
> 
> > I am sorry, but isn't vi designed for that purpose?
> 
> Maybe it was, but vi, as all good, small programs, suffers from
> "creeping featurism", and the result:
> 
> [snip]

But ae is somewhat broken -- it puts DOS-style CR/LF as EOL :(  I had
problems with /etc/modules until I installed vi and realized the problem.

Vad.

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Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?

[Yves Arrouye]

I did put

eval `tset -sQ -e 0x7f`

in my /etc/profile (/etc/csh.login) file and never had any problem.

Yves.

Re: apache-1.1.1

[Yves Arrouye]

   i tried using apache_1.1.1-2 and 3 from the Incoming directory and we
   started having problems viewing gzipped postscript files with both
   netscape and mosaic. i don't know if this is a bug in the apache
   server itself or just in the debian distribution. also
   /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_proxy.so doesn't want to load in
   apache-1.1.1-3. unfortunately i don't really have a lot of time to
   look into this (trying to graduate, i guess), so i just went back to
   1.0.5. if anybody would care to investigate this further i would
   appreciate it. thanks.

Are you sure the mod_proxy does not want to load, or is it simply unusable
because of bad permissions under /var/spool/apache (which will be fixed
once I change the scripts to make the server run under www-data.www-data).
Actually apache runs nobody, group -1, so the directory should have 777
(or 1777) permissions...

Do you have a TypesConfig line in your configuration file? If so, it
should certainly be removed or made to point to /etc/mime.types. Please
tell me.

Yves.

System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Problem:  The system hangs when the SCSI bus is reset.

Config:   Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller
  Two different motherboards
  Three different versions of Linux

More specifically, I cannot perform a soft reboot from Linux.  If, for
example, I run 'shutdown -r now' the system will shut down normally,
but will hang during the boot phase just after it recognizes the SCSI
controller.

I can reboot DOS to DOS, but if I am running DOS and reboot to Linux
the system hangs in the same place.

Shutting off power and then rebooting clears the problem.

Any clues or comments?

Chris -)-

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Re: /dev/ttyS1 root only.....

[Gerry Jensen]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Ed Down wrote:

> I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the Serial-HOWTO,
> I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that /dev/ttyS1, which
> is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only allow root access. Anyone
> recommend a fix? Also any tips on mgetty setup would be appreciated.

You need to have read/write permission to the device. I did a "chgrp
dialout /dev/ttyS1" (you must do this as root of course). Then "chmod 660
/dev/ttyS1" (don't remember if this was necessary or if the permissions
were already that way). Then add your username to the dialout group in
/etc/group. I think you may need to log back in after you make these
changes. You should then have access to that port. 

Gerry

Re: Does IP aliasing work?

[rbr]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John D. Amidon) writes:
>
>My hardware is a Gateway 2000, 3c509 ethernet card, and Debian kernel is
>2.0.6 built to include `ip_aliasing'.  I see `/proc/net/alias*' files so I
>take it the kernel was built correctly.
[...SNIP...]
>The NET-2-HOWTO makes it sound sooo easy as does the mini-howto at
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias.
>
>What are we doing wrong?

Just to follow up - we did get IP aliasing to work.  It turned out we
did not have the kernel built correctly after all.  I guess 'make menuconfig'
was just too easy for me!

I'm glad it works - it would have seemed silly to have to install two Ethernet
adapters, both connected to the same cable.

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Re: Swap partition and fdisk

[Gerry Jensen]

> > 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.)

While it may be untrue that you *need* twice the physical memory size, I
believe it's true that twice the physical memory size is about the limit
of what you can effectively use if you need it. That is, if you have 4 MB
of RAM, a 128 MB swap is pretty much a waste. If you ever do anything in
that scenario that needed much more than about 12 MB total memory, your
system would become so slow as to be unusable. 

Similarly, if you had 32 MB RAM, 64 MB swap may be usable if you ever
needed it. For a single user system, this would probably never be the
case. But for a system with many users, it is quite possible. Therefore,
if disk space is plentiful on your system, I always would allocate around
1.5 to 2 times the amount of physical RAM for a swap just in case you need
it some day.

Gerry

New packages uploaded to master.

[Dominik Kubla]

Hi folks,

a whole bunch of my packages got updated to the new packaging standard
and is in the incoming area of master:

cflow   2.0-5
csh 5.26-5
lsof3.65-3
ptx 0.4-2
sysnews 0.8-2
vgrind  5.7-5
vlock   1.0-2

I didn't bother to post all the changes files because there were no
real bug fixes with this release.

The current status of all my packages may be retrieved via

finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]

That's all for now,
  Dominik Kubla

Re: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run

[Raymond Rusk]

Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\] wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run dosemu, version 0.60.3-1.  However, whenever I go to

I haven't been able to get dosemu to run with Debian 1.1.4 (kernel 2.0.6)
either.  Both systems I installed it on (completely different hardware)
die after the following output:

Linux DOS emulator 0.60.3 $Date: 1995/05/06 16:25:30 $
Last configured at Wed Nov  1 22:45:35 1995
on diannau, Linux 1.2.13 #5 Wed Oct 11 09:57:23 MST 1995
Bugs, Patches & New Code to linux-msdos@vger.rutgers.edu

DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed

ERROR: can't get floppy parameter of /dev/fd0 (Interrupted system call)
error exit: (5,0x0005) in_sigsegv: 0 ignore_segv: 0
Not a good day to die!


After looking at the DOSEMU home page, I decided that it is probably a
kernel problem.  They recommend dosemu-0.64.0.tgz for 2.0.x kernels.
I got that and the compile fails with the interesting message:
---
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/Makefile', needed by `include/kversion
.h'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr3/src/dosemu-0.64.0/src'
make: *** [default] Error 2
---

However, the latest development version for 2.0.x kernels
(dosemu-0.63.1.80) compiles cleanly.  I haven't been able to get it to
run yet because when I attempt to load the module "emumodule.o", I get
an error message to the effect that the package was compiled for the
2.0.0 kernel while I am running the 2.0.6 kernel.  Probably something
to do with the Debian kernel header files.  I just got it to compile
this morning and hope to sort out the "emumodule.o" problem this
evening when I get home from work.

BTW, the DOSEMU development work is located at:
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/auto/rddc
and the DOSEMU homepage is at:
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/~macleajb/dosemu.html


Raymond

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Re: less displays help when invoked on an empty file

[Shaya Potter]

I'm not sure you can call it a bug, (maybe it's a feature ;) ) because it 
is a well-known behavior of less (and some other pagers from what I have 
heard) that they don't work well with files of length 0.  This is mostly 
seen that you can't less any of the files on the proc filesystem because 
they don't really exist, but you can more them, because more dosen't show 
the previously mentioned behavior.

Hope this helps,

Shaya
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote:

> 
> 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: 4 man page languages now

[Fabrizio Polacco]

Christian Hudon wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there are French manpages coming up somewhere
> in the pipeline?
> 

I have no news of French manpages on the table of translations that I
have on 
http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/en/docs.en.html

this is probably my fault, because I don't speak French and so I'm not
able to browse French sites.

If you (or anyone else) have any news, please let me know.

ciao
Fabrizio
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error opening terminal con80x25 during install

[Wybo Dekker]

Hi,

After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as
root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect.
However, when dselect started, it gave the message:

error opening terminal con80x25

and quit, leaving me with an almost empty system. 
The TERM variable was indeed con80x25. Changing it to "console" did'nt help.
Does anybody know what I did wrong?

Thanks for helping!

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sound blaster or GUS

[David_Oswald]

 Hello all...
 
The FHF has struck again...
 
 Someone has dropped off a sound blaster card on my desk, and I'm about 
 to install it in my debian box. It is an original Creative labs Sound 
 blaster. oh yeah - speakers and a microphone also.
 
 --
 
 The problem is: (my ignorance)
 
I have never used any type of sound card in any type of machine 
 and/or operating system. (winblowz, slackware, debian...)
 
 
So...  I could use some guidance as to how to configure and test 
 it. In addition I would like to know what my software options are when 
 it comes to using it with the debian OS. Pardon my ignorance I just 
 have no clue what this thing-a-ma-bob is good for. Maybe an X11 gui 
 cdrom player ??? i dunno...
 
 
 Oh yeah - actually the Free Hardware Fairy gave me two sound cards. 
 The other one is a Gravis Ultra Sound - it's neat, the circuit board 
 is red!
 
 
 Based on the color (or technology) of the card, should I consider 
 using the Gravis U.S. instead of the Sound bastard???
 
 
 Thanx in advance ...
 Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
 
 
 

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

[Christian Schwarz]

Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Third scenario:
[snip]
> This time the differences between the currently installed and
> the new app-defaults file are huge. The output of `diff' is not
> easy to understand, and the admin makes a mistake and assumes
> that nothing important has changed, just the arrangement of the
> file. She does not add the new resource. Application crashes.
> Not so good.
Well, a smart admin (that's infact what I would do then ;-) would make a
diff between his changed version and the config file of the old package.
He would then discover that you changed the color (or whatever it was),
remove his config file, install the new version of the package and have a 
look at it, how he could change the color in the changed environment.

So I think (as stated in another mail here) we have to choose if
a) app-defaults is part of the _code_ or
b) app-defaults is a configuration file of the program
Debian has chosen a) and there are goods arguments for a) since one
actually can *change* the code via action lists, for example (the
reaction on an event). I didn't know that first and therefore I
suggested (see another mail in this thread) that we add a comment to 
the (very small) paragraph in /usr/doc/readme.debian.

I was used to change the app-defaults file but I think I will live as
good as before if I make my changes in /etc/X11/Xresources since I
know there are good reasons for it.


Cheers,

Chris
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ghostscript cuts of my characters

[Christian Schwarz]

Hi!

I've got problems with TeX->DVI-Postscript. Small characters are cut off
at the right hand side if I use gs-4.01. This doesn't occur with the old
gs-2.62.

It would be nice if someone else could try this out and report if this is
a specific problem of my configuration or a general one (in which case I
should probably report this as a bug).

I'm using the following packages:

ii  texbin  3.1415-5   TeX - The typesetting system
ii  amsfonts2.2-3  Additional Fonts from the AMS for
ii  dvipsk  5.58f-5TeX DVI-driver for Postscript
ii  gs  2.62-2 Postscript interpreter with X11 and
or
ii  gs  4.01-4 Postscript interpreter with X11 and

Here is a simple test: Just run this through TeX (plain tex, no latex)

\font\demo=eufm8 scaled 707
\demo)
\bye

This should typeset a closing parenthesis `)' in the euler font.
Then convert the DVI file into a postscript with dvips:
dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
My dvips/config.ps says:
[snip]
% Default resolution.
D 300

% Metafont mode.  (This is completely different from the -M command-line
% option, which controls whether MakeTeXPK is invoked.)
M CanonCX
[snip]

Now if I print it with gs (or preview it with ghostview) I get the whole
parenthesis when using the old gs and just a part of it with the new gs.

Any hints?


Thanks in advance,

Chris

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FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

[Sven Rudolph]

  Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
  Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.23 1996/09/20 15:15:46 sr1 Exp sr1 $

  1.  General Questions

  1.1.  Before reading this document

  You should have 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

  Please inform me via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package
  o  when you believe that the following list is incomplete
  o  when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here.


  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  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

  Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
  o  seyon

  Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
  o  sokoban

  Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
  o  wu-ftpd

  Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
  o  lynx
  o  xtet42
  o  xtron
  o  ircii
  o  ytalk
  o  tcsh
  o  tf
  o  xinvaders
  o  mandelspawn
  o  mirrormagic
  o  p2c
  o  rxvt

  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 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
  o  povray

  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 

Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) said:

David>  What don't you like about it?  I haven't really looked into the
David>  problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the advantages/disadvantages of
David>  his proposal.

John proposed to change the way the auto_path is used. He did not
define an additional directory that is included in the auto_path and
independent of the Tcl version. So every extension is automatically
bound to the Tcl version - something I dislike.

David>  I would be prepared to change it.  If I rebuilt scotty to use Tcl7.6
David>  instead of Tcl7.5, I would be changing it anyways.  As things stand
David>  now, I don't think either solution (modifying files in an installed
David>  TCL package or requiring users to set TCLLIBPATH) is acceptible for
David>  Debian.

Yes, the current situation is nasty. Choose a solution you like for
Debian since we can't predict how Tcl7.6 will solve this problem.

Juergen
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Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

[David Engel]

Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) said:
> David>Aside to Juergen.  What do you think of Dr. Ousterhout's 
> proposed
> David>improvement to package loading?  I will probably add it, or 
> something
> David>similar, to the Debian version of Tcl 7.5 before packaging 
> Scotty
> David>2.1.2.
> 
> Well, you know that I am not 100 % happy with John's solution. Anyway,
> scotty will use whatever mechanism will appear in Tcl 7.6 to pickup
> packages automatically. (I still hope that John modifies its scheme a
> bit.)

What don't you like about it?  I haven't really looked into the
problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the advantages/disadvantages of
his proposal.

> I don't think that the patches proposed on the comp.lang.tcl list
> create nasty side effects - you need a complicated setup with some
> naming conflicts to make this happen. So it should be save to include
> one or both of these patches in the Debian version if you are prepared
> to change this scheme again when Tcl7.6 comes out.

I would be prepared to change it.  If I rebuilt scotty to use Tcl7.6
instead of Tcl7.5, I would be changing it anyways.  As things stand
now, I don't think either solution (modifying files in an installed
TCL package or requiring users to set TCLLIBPATH) is acceptible for
Debian.

David
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Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

[branderh]

> I installed Debian for the first time two weeks ago and didn't even bother
> to install the Debian LaTeX system because i already knew teTeX from
> another platform and installed this instantly in the /usr/local/*
> hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to
> install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design.
> I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case

You seem to have experience with it, please try to package it.

Erick

single Debian on HD for two boxes?

[Lazaro . Salem]

Hi, 
I didn't succeed yet to share my portable 1GB SCSI-HD with Debian 1.1
(w/updates up to 1.1.8) to run Linux on two different boxes:
 
Box 1) Non-internet connected (although planning and intranet).
   clone PC w/ i486/DX33 + 16MB RAM + 540MB  SCSI HD (SCSI ID-1)
   + NE2000 NIC clone 
   
Box 2) Internet connected box at work.
   Compaq i586/90Mhz  + 16MB RAM + PCI-IDE 633MB HD
   PCI-Ethernet AM79C970KC on board.

I have problems in my connection to the local network when at work.
The same applies to mail (can send but not receive mail).
Cannot ftp either except to localhost.
I can ping localhost but I can't see any other host in the net. 
I am sure is a config problem as I managed to see the network in a previous 
install on the same machine. I read the documentation but I am still 
stumped.

What output would you like to see to be able to help me?
or Where should i start looking to solve the problem? 
Is there any post-installation "netconfig" script? by now 
I modified the config files manually (/etc/init.d/network I guess
and /etc/resolv.config i my memory serves me).

Has anybody tried this "sharing the whole file-system in a HD" approach?
I am sure there can be additional details to take into account 
if one goes for two different root systems (one on his own partition).

Some reflections:
- At home I have an ISA AHA 1542CF SCSI adapter while at work 
I have a ISA AHA 1542CP SCSI adapter (plug & play aware) so
the fs can live on /dev/sda without any problem. 
- I also managed to make Linux to recognize the PCI ethernet chip 
onboard AM79C970KC. The NE2000 at home is also recognized without 
problem. I don't think the different cards can make a problem
as far as the kernel recognizes both.

Thank you for your help,

Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: samba problems

[Don Gaffney]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Behan Webster wrote:

> Martin Budsj| wrote:
> >
> > >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]
> > >
> > 
> > Looks like you are running both 1.9.15p4 AND 1.9.16alpha10. How many
> > nmbd processes is there? Only one i hope...
> 
> One of four machines in "workgroup" was sunning Samba 1.9.15p4 while the
> rest were running Samba 1.9.16alpha10.  I recently upgraded that last
> machine to run Samba 1.9.16alpha10 as well, but it didn't help.  Smbd
> processes are still chewing up tons of CPU on each samba host.
> 
> There is only one nmbd process running on each host.
> 
> Behan
> 

I believe two or three loop bugs were found in the earlier releases
of SAMBA. The current release is 1.9.16p2, you should probably install
that release. I have been running it for a few weeks (on IRIX 5.3) and
it seems quite stable (although there are a few browsing problems).

You can fetch samba from the upstream site: ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/
tridge/samba.
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Re: ?-html

[Vatiainen Heikki]

>From archie.sunet.se:

Host sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk(155.198.1.40)
Last updated 10:36 30 Aug 1996

Location: /computing/information-systems/WWW
  DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes  11:35  6 Jun 1996  man2html


Host ftp.fi.upm.es(138.100.8.6)
Last updated 22:01 31 Aug 1996

Location: /pub/infosys/www
  DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes  04:43  3 Jun 1996  man2html


Host ftp.gwdg.de(134.76.12.1)
Last updated 14:37  2 Sep 1996

Location: /linux/install/suse/4.2/cd1/suse/contents
  FILE-rw-r--r-- 517 bytes  07:49 20 May 1996  man2html


Host ftp.rediris.es(130.206.1.2)
Last updated 15:39  1 Sep 1996

Location: /mirror/infosystems/WWW
  DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes  22:00 31 Aug 1995  man2html


Host unix.hensa.ac.uk(129.12.200.129)
Last updated 08:07  2 Sep 1996

Location: /mirrors/yggdrasil.fall95/src/typesetting
  DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x4096 bytes  23:00  4 Aug 1995  man2html

Location: /mirrors/yggdrasil.fall95/disk1/usr/bin
  FILE-rwxr-xr-x   14462 bytes  23:00 25 Jul 1995  man2html


Host ftp.sics.se(193.10.66.43)
Last updated 09:16 31 Aug 1996

Location: /www
  DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x   83456 bytes  22:00 17 Feb 1995  man2html

Location: /www/man2html
  FILE-rwx--x--x   32768 bytes  22:00  9 Jan 1995  man2html
 

> 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

// Heikki

Re: /dev/ttyS1 root only.....

[Dirk . Eddelbuettel]

  Ed>  I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the
  Ed> Serial-HOWTO, I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that
  Ed> /dev/ttyS1, which is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only
  Ed> allow root access. 

Add yourself to the "dialout" group in /etc/group.

--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

arrrgh

[Peter]

Duh...

I really hate to ask this, but can someone PLEASE tell me how to unsubscribe
from this list?

Thanks!

ps.  ok, I'll go back to trying to find my car now...

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

[Christian Schwarz]

Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even easier - I just downloaded the new 3.1.2F server, named it
> XF86_Mach64 (I think it already was..) and overwrote the old 3.1.2
> debian server. Hey presto, no changes required.
But there is a better method: Place the new server in /usr/local/bin and
change the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver to refer to the new binary.

> I'm new to debian/linux, but I think I'm right in saying that this file
> will now just be overwritten if I install a new debian Mach64 server.
That's true unless you place it in /usr/local/bin.


Cheers

Chris

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Re: Sox problems

[Christian Schwarz]

Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (2) I am having trouble with the WAV files from CNN interactive.
> Sox just produces noise... [The AIFF files has problem (3).]

I'm working on the wavplay package--that's actually a small program that
lets you play (and record) WAV files. I only have one problem: The current
version I know of is 0.21 (Nov 1993) and that's pretty old. I don't know
if we want to have such an old program in Debian, which surely isn't
improved any more.

But if you want to Beta-Test my package, just drop me a note.


Cheers

Chris

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Re: ftp.debian.org

[J.H.M.Dassen]

> I maintain a mirror of ftp.debian.org for internal use (we've got several
> linux machines), however, the last several times I've started to run
> mirror its reported:
> 
> compare directories (src 8356, dest 32957)
> 
> I'm not too keen on letting 3/4 of the mirror get toasted, so I've
> killed the mirror before it could start its delete phase.  After
> investigating a little, it seems that most of the missing files where
> in the WebPages hierarchy that is empty now.  Is this the new policy or an
> accident or...? 

This is the new policy. Most FTP mirrors don't have any need for the webpages.

> I guess I don't mind the loss of the bug tracking system,
> etc.. but the list archives were nice to have.

You should still have the list archives in /debian/debian-lists
(in mbox format instead of HTML).

Hope this helps,
Ray
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Re: cfs Debian package available!

[Dominik Kubla]

Sven Rudolph wrote:
> We could use the uni-mainz server. Dominik, what do you think about
> this ?

Fortunately i do no longer work for the Computing Center of U-Mainz and
unfortunately the new FTP-Server i am in charge of is behind the firewall
of the Medical Center and it will take some time until the system which
will be the public server can be funded...

> Otherwise I could place it on inf.tu-dresden, of course ...

That would be the easiest way.  Could you take the packages from Mainz
as well, so that the new admin of ftp.uni-mainz.de could drop the local
packages and mirror the international packages from tu-dresden (which is
still the fallback host for the debian mirror of U-Mainz)

Ciao,
  Dominik

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