BIND 8.1.x ?

1997-07-19 Thread Zachary DeAquila

any word on when/if we'll have a bind 8.1.x package?  It's 
got some bugfixes and things over 4.9.x that make the
upgrade well worthwhile... I mailed the maintainer of
the bind package a few days ago but have no response yet.

 --Zachary


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Re: .login

1997-07-19 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
  Stupid would have been not asking.

> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Lazar Fleysher wrote:

> > mv .bash_login .bash_profile
 
> THANKS, I can not beleive how stupid I am.
 
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Where is Apache 1.2's proxy module?

1997-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello,

I've just upgraded to Apache 1.2 by installing libc6 from unstable
and apache from project/experimental and so far it seems to run just
fine.

I saw someone write that they have the proxy module running under
same setup (stable, libc6, apache 1.2) but I can't find it anywere.

Could someone please point me to the right place?

Thanks in advance,

--Amos

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Re: ssh

1997-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
|I know this isn't related to debian, but I do run ssh on my Debian machine
|and was hoping some other users out there encountered this...
|
|When I ssh onto machine, it displays the motd twice...  any particular
|reason why?

In the remote machine's /etc/ssh/sshd_config add "PrintMotd no".  Read
"man sshd" for more details.

Cheers,

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Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-19 Thread Riku Saikkonen
(I'm Cc:ing this to debian-devel in an effort to get it fixed. :))

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to debian-user:
>When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys:
>
>F1 gives P
>F2 gives Q 
>F3 gives R
>F4 gives S
>
>F5 - F10 work just fine.

This is an old bug in the terminfo entry for xterm. It and related other
bugs have been reported as bugs #2158, #2291, #3162, and #3973 in the Debian
bug report archive (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>).

The current situation (xbase 3.3-3, ncurses-base 1.9.9e-1) is as follows:
 - in a "cat" in an xterm, F1 to F4 give ^[OP, ^[OQ, ^[OR, and ^[OS,
   respectively
 - "infocmp xterm" says, among other things:
kf1=\E[11~, kf2=\E[12~, kf3=\E[13~, kf4=\E[14~
One of them is clearly wrong. But which one?

A strange thing is that bug report #3162 (against xbase 3.1.2-9) reports the
bug being the other way around -- infocmp xterm shows kf1=\EOP, but cat
gives ^[[11~. It appears that there has been some circular fixing going on.

So, Debian developers: Can we decide which one is "correct", xterm or the
terminfo entry, and adjust the other accordingly?

For Debian users, the easiest thing to do is wait for the bug to get fixed.
:) As a sort of temporary workaround, you can try setting "TERM=vt220"; that
should fix the function keys, but may cause other similar keyboard or
display problems.

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Re: Q: gcc and flex/bison ?

1997-07-19 Thread Dima
>>"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote:
 >
 >Have you linked with -ly.  Is there a liby at all?  The  bison in
 >bo (1.25-4) seems to be missing it altogether.

Dunno, it doesn't get past 'gcc -c' stage.  It looks like gcc
doesn't understand "extern" anymore.  As for liby, I don't
seem to have either.

FWIW, the code linked without it (no libl/libfl, either) -- when it linked.

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Removing broken hylafax-package

1997-07-19 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo,

I installed hylafax_4.0.1-1_i386.deb, but it would not configure as a result of 
some missing scripts.

When I tried to remove it, I could not.  Here is the result of my effort:

 dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --purge hylafax
(Reading database ... 14451 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hylafax ...

FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing!

The file /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is not present.  This
probably means the machine has not been setup using the faxsetup(1M)
command.  Read the documentation on setting up HylaFAX before you
startup a server system.

dpkg: error processing hylafax (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing!

The file /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is not present.  This
probably means the machine has not been setup using the faxsetup(1M)
command.  Read the documentation on setting up HylaFAX before you
startup a server system.

dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hylafax
--

How do I get rid of this?


Johann.


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Re: Year 2000 and samba...

1997-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Baetzler wrote:
> I suppose this would work the same way as setting up any other remote 
> printer: by creating a set of two spools. SDee the details in the 
> LPR-HOWTO.

Where is the lpr howto? I don't see it in the debian howto package.

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Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> joost witteveen wrote:
> > 
> > > What on earth is wrong?  I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set
> > to
> > > the kernel's include directories correctly
> > 
> > Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux
> > directories
> > (don't know about scsi, but probably that one too) are provided by
> > the libc*-dev package, and you shouldn't mess around with them.
> > 
> > See /usr/doc/libc*-dev/FAQ.Debian.gz for more info.
> > 
> > Still, that probably isn't the cause of your error.
> 
> 
> Wait a second, doesn't the readme file that comes w/ the kernel say to
> use those symlinks? 

Have you read the abovementioned FAQ?

> Well, even if it does, can I just remove the
> symlinks and uninstall+reinstall the libc6-dev/libc5-altdev to get back
> the other files?  

Yes, you can.

> are there other packages which have files in those
> directories?

$ dpkg -S /usr/include/asm
libc6-dev: /usr/include/asm

The other directories are left as an exersize for the reader:)

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Re: Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> 
> Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm
> currently?
> It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting
> quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere.
> usrquota
> is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with
> quota before I was forced to do a complete rebuild for embarrassing
> reasons involving the root account (trying to upgrade to
> libreadlineg2,
> didn't RTFM and killed my bash libraries... turned off the machine,
> turned
> it on 3 days later and the drive didn't start. Since then, I've
> switched
> from Quantum to Seagate... ;)
> 
> Has anyone installed quota from the hamm distribution? Any ideas? I'd
> like
> to install quota so my (few) users don't take over my nice brand new
> Seagate. :>
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 

I also had this problem.. I fixed it by downloading RedHat's rpm of
quota and manually copying it over the other files...


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Re: Problem: update-menu not working

1997-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Johnny Stevenson wrote:
> I have no entry's in the menu's of fvwm2.  I have just installed Debian
> 1.3.1 which is supposed to update the fvwm menus with all the packages
> installed on my machine.
> 
> This has not happened.  I searched and read through all the
> documentation I could find and found the command that is supposed to do
> this:
> 
> update-menu
> 
> Hopever, I have executed this command a number of times and still have
> my left mouse button menu as and xterm and the exit menu.
> 
> I checked that the correct format files for the packages are in the
> stated directories, which they were with no luck.  Then through sheer
> desperation, copied all the package files in the default director into
> /etc/menu and still I have had no success.  If anyone knows a cure for
> this before I have to go and completely re-write my .fvwmrc file I would
> be most greatful for the info.

First, I think you do, but can you verify if you have the menu package
installed? (what does "dpkg -s menu" say?)

Next, have to tried restarting fvwm2 after you run update-menus? The new 
menu entries will only take effect after fvwm has re-read its config files.

If that doesn't help, please tell us the versions of the menu package and of
fvwm2 you have installed.

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Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
joost witteveen wrote:
> 
> > What on earth is wrong?  I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set
> to
> > the kernel's include directories correctly
> 
> Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux
> directories
> (don't know about scsi, but probably that one too) are provided by
> the libc*-dev package, and you shouldn't mess around with them.
> 
> See /usr/doc/libc*-dev/FAQ.Debian.gz for more info.
> 
> Still, that probably isn't the cause of your error.


Wait a second, doesn't the readme file that comes w/ the kernel say to
use those symlinks?  Well, even if it does, can I just remove the
symlinks and uninstall+reinstall the libc6-dev/libc5-altdev to get back
the other files?  are there other packages which have files in those
directories?

-Paul


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Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> 
> 
> > You almost certainly can compile them
> 
> OK.  libc6 was one of the suspects when trying to compile lyx.
> ultimately I had to do a clean install (we hadn't found out about the
> hardware problems yet, either).

Note, BTW (just realise this) that if lynx has non-POSIX stuff in it
(forgetting to #include  etc), you'll have to use minor
ajustments (and those are unrelated to xforms not being libx6). 
But after that, it should compile fine.

And, currently all the xlib's are libc5, while many X packages 
have already been recompiled for libc6 -- all of those packages appear
to work fine. So, I don't expect problems for you, but that certainly
isn't a guarantee.

> > You shouldn't use programmes that use xforms anyway, as it's non-free
> >   software. This means a lot less freedom to you (you cannot recompile
> >   xforms for libc6, for example).

[..] 
> Lyx will be moved away from xforms, but it has more pressing matters.

Hey, that's good news -- I didn't know that yet. Last time I checked,
I remember them saying something that they will always continue to
use xforms, but if they intend to move away from xforms now, I might
start getting interested in Lyx.

Thanks,

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problem with subscribing to groups

1997-07-19 Thread Joseph Skinner
Hi

I have been trying to subscribe to the debian-alpha and debian-sparc 
groups but find that I keep getting noting but useless errors back.

I also tried to subscribe using the mailing list form on the debian site
[is it just me or did it used to be easier to find things there in the past]
and it seems to be broken as whatever you do with it you get an error.

Any sugesstions
Joe.

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Re: "1FA:" prompt at boot

1997-07-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 11:31 AM 17/07/97 -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
>Ran the installation program from the official CD but when I try to boot 
>from the hard drive I get a "1FA:" prompt. What does this mean? More 
>importantly where can I find a list of such messages and there meanings?
>Thanks.

The 1FA: at boot is actually a wrong setting configured in the
/etc/lilo.conf - what you're meant to get is a Lilo boot: prompt.  It's not
your fault though - it's the lilo maintainers - at least I think so anyway
(I've already reported this as a bug too).  To fix it up you should should
remove the "1" at the end of the "boot" line (or whatever partition it is).
 To read up on some LILO documentation browse the  /usr/doc/lilo directory.

Regards

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Re: Q: gcc and flex/bison ?

1997-07-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas

Have you linked with -ly.  Is there a liby at all?  The  bison in
bo (1.25-4) seems to be missing it altogether.

As a temporary measure, you can define it:

#define YYSTYPE int

in the declarations section of your .y file but I think this is a bug.

-- Jaldhar

 On Sun, 20 Jul 1997,
Dima wrote:

> -
> Hi,
> 
> anyone used flex & bison lately? 
> 
> While compiling lex.yy.c gcc says "parse error
> before yylval", which is defined in bison-generated
> header as extern YYSTYPE.  Bison part fails with too
> many errors to list, "YYSTYPE undeclared" being one
> of them.
> 
> The code in question used to compile -- half a year 
> or so ago.  Is there a magic word to make gcc work,
> or should I downgrade gcc to 2.7.2.1? 
> (I'm running off hamm, except for libc6-dev and friends;
> dpkg -l gcc gives 2.7.2.2-4).
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Dimitri
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> emaziuk @ curtin dot edu dot au
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Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Rick Hawkins


> You almost certainly can compile them

OK.  libc6 was one of the suspects when trying to compile lyx.
ultimately I had to do a clean install (we hadn't found out about the
hardware problems yet, either).


> You shouldn't use programmes that use xforms anyway, as it's non-free
>   software. This means a lot less freedom to you (you cannot recompile
>   xforms for libc6, for example).

Currently, there's no real substitute for lyx.  Lyx will be moved away
from xforms, but it has more pressing matters.  There's a couple of
different packages under consideration.

rick


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Q: gcc and flex/bison ?

1997-07-19 Thread Dima
-
Hi,

anyone used flex & bison lately? 

While compiling lex.yy.c gcc says "parse error
before yylval", which is defined in bison-generated
header as extern YYSTYPE.  Bison part fails with too
many errors to list, "YYSTYPE undeclared" being one
of them.

The code in question used to compile -- half a year 
or so ago.  Is there a magic word to make gcc work,
or should I downgrade gcc to 2.7.2.1? 
(I'm running off hamm, except for libc6-dev and friends;
dpkg -l gcc gives 2.7.2.2-4).

Thanks
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Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> 
> The burning quesiton on my mind is with regard to mixed applications.
> Lyx, in particular, relies on xpm and xforms, which are compiled with
> libc5.  Can I stil compile lyx with libc6?

You almost certainly can compile them
You probably will not run into problems using the resulting binary,
  but 'people that know' tell me that misterious, hidden problems 
  will/may appear somewhere, due to the mixing.
You shouldn't use programmes that use xforms anyway, as it's non-free
  software. This means a lot less freedom to you (you cannot recompile
  xforms for libc6, for example).




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Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Rick Hawkins

The burning quesiton on my mind is with regard to mixed applications.
Lyx, in particular, relies on xpm and xforms, which are compiled with
libc5.  Can I stil compile lyx with libc6?

rick


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Re: changing dpkg depends/tcl7.6-dev

1997-07-19 Thread Scott K. Ellis
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On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:

> There are many packages which depend on libc5-dev.  In the hamm version
> libc5-dev was changed to libc5-altdev to work around conflicts w/
> libc6...  How can I change some of the packages (such as tcl7.6-dev)
> which depend on libc5-dev to libc5-dev | libc5-altdev?  or are there
> tcl7.6-dev/tk4.2-dev packages for libc6-dev?

Basically, you need to wait for the libc6 versions of those packages and
those development libraries.  Packages linked with libc6 also need all
their support libs linked with libc6, or strange things will happen.  We
(the developers) are working on getting libc6 versions of all the
libraries put out as soon as possible, but that is why we have unstable.

If you really need to develop for stuff not yet available for libc6, I'd
suggest backing out all the libc6-dev packages, and installing the older
libc5 stuff on hold until we finish shaking down libc6 support.

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Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> What on earth is wrong?  I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set to
> the kernel's include directories correctly

Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux directories
(don't know about scsi, but probably that one too) are provided by
the libc*-dev package, and you shouldn't mess around with them.

See /usr/doc/libc*-dev/FAQ.Debian.gz for more info.

Still, that probably isn't the cause of your error.

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Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:

> I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ...
> 
> there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about 
> lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this??
> 
The .sd.sh script which StarOffice installs has:

#!/bin/bash

PATH=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
XPPATH=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/xp3
HELPPATH=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/modules
XENVIRONMENT=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/starview.xres
SVFONTPATH=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/fonts/75dpi:/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/fonts/75dpi/bdf:$sd_fonts/type1
SVHOME=/home/nielsen/StarOffice-3.1
LANG=us
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH XPPATH HELPPATH XENVIRONMENT SVFONTPATH SVHOME LANG

The next to last line should be:

LANG=EN_us

Bob


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Re: LDAP?

1997-07-19 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I'm investigating the package.  If it looks useful, I'll be packaging
it.

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On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Alexander LIST wrote:

> is anyone working on a debianized version of the UMich LDAP package?


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quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
I tried using the quota-1.55-8 package and I get a segmentfault when
the quotacheck is ran.. so I decided to compile it from the source
package (I also tried to use the regular distribution file) and this
is what happened:

# make 
cc -O6 -fexpensive-optimizations -fstrength-reduce-c quotacheck.c -o
quotaco
In file included from
quotacheck.c:27:  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:113: parse error before
`__u32'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:113: warning: no semicolon at end of struct
or union 
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:114: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:115: parse error before
`dqb_curblocks'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:115: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:116: parse error before
`dqb_ihardlimit' 
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:116: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:117: parse error before
`dqb_isoftlimit' 
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:117: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:118: parse error before
`dqb_curinodes'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:118: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:121: parse error before
`}'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:138: parse error before
`__u32'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:138: warning: no semicolon at end of struct
or union 
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:139: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:140: parse error before
`reads'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:140: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:141: parse error before
`writes' 
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:141: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:142: parse error before
`cache_hits' 
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:142: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:143: parse error before
`pages_allocated'
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:143: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:144: parse error before
`allocated_dquots'   
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:144: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:145: parse error before
`free_dquots'
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:145: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:146: parse error before
`syncs'  
/usr/include/linux/quota.h:146: warning: data definition has no type or
storages
quotacheck.c:50: field `dq_dqb' has incomplete
type 
quotacheck.c:56: parse error before
`__u32' 
quotacheck.c:56: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
quotacheck.c:57: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class  
quotacheck.c:59: parse error before
`}' 
quotacheck.c:66: parse error before
`umode_t'   
quotacheck.c:67: parse error before
`__u32' 
quotacheck.c:73: parse error before
`*' 
quotacheck.c:84: parse error before
`files_done'
quotacheck.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class  
quotacheck.c:85: parse error before
`highestid' 
quotacheck.c:85: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class  
quotacheck.c: In function
`main':   
quotacheck.c:255: `MNTOPT_NOQUOTA' undeclared (first use this
function) 
quotacheck.c:255: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once 
quotacheck.c:255: for each function it appears
in.) 
quotacheck.c: At top
level: 
quotacheck.c:472: parse error before
`__u32'
quotacheck.c: In function
`store_dlinks':   
quotacheck.c:477: `i_num' undeclared (first use this
function)  
quotacheck.c:479: `type' undeclared (first use this
function)   
quotacheck.c:479: dereferencing pointer to incomplete
type  
quotacheck.c:480: dereferencing pointer to incomplete
type  
quotacheck.c:483: sizeof applied to an incomplete
type  
quotacheck.c:485: dereferencing pointer to incomplete
type  
quotacheck.c:485: `i_uid' undeclared (first use this
function)  
quotacheck.c:487: dereferencing pointer to incomplete
type  
quotacheck.c:487: `i_gid'

Off Topic: Netscape HTML post to newsgroups broken

1997-07-19 Thread jim
Using 4.01b6, I can send HTML as mail.  I have the default selection set
to send both plain text and HTML without asking me.
That much works.  HOWEVER, if you try to send to a newsgroup, you're
screwed.  A window comes up titled "Netscae: HTML Mail Question".  This
window worked fine in the last release and it asked if you really want
to send HTML to a newsgroup, etc.  However, in this release it hangs
there and netscape has to be exited because it's a modal window.  Has
anyone running Debian linux gotten this to work.

And while I'm at it, I can't drag a link to the composer page either.  I
have to do a lot of manual copying and pasting of text.  Any answers on
that.



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Using "suck" to transfer news....

1997-07-19 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

I am currently setting up suck, and thought that batchmode would suit
perfectly, but that requires something called "innxmit".  Does anyone
know if there's a debian package containing this somewhere?

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LDAP?

1997-07-19 Thread Alexander LIST
Hi,

is anyone working on a debianized version of the UMich LDAP package?

thanx for any hints

alex

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Re: New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty

1997-07-19 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "PIS" == Pedro I Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

PIS> 2. /etc/init.d/xdm is empty so my PC doesn't boot into X
PIS> automatically.  If I execute xdm manually everything is ok.

In the same dir you I found a file called xdm.dpkg-new (or somesuch).
I renamed this to xdm, and I was up and running.

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What soundcard?

1997-07-19 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
Any hot tips regarding what soundcard I ought to get for my
Linux box? Preferably one which is well supported, won't bother
my CPU all that much, and of course sounds good. I am currently
considering the Ensoniq Soundscape Elite or the Soundscape
VIVO 90. The 'supported' part isn't really all that important, as
most cards seem to be supported by the commercial, but fairly
inexpensive, OSS/Linux.

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]| you really are, they'll underestimate you.
 | Then you can obliterate them." -Greg Graffin


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Re: Mail Server

1997-07-19 Thread Syd Alsobrook
>I have managed to send mail from the Win95 box but cannot seem to get the
setup right to allow the Win95 box to use the Linux box as a mail server.
Can someone point me to some documentation on how to do this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ross

You will need to setup a pop3 server on your linux box. The package that I
use is qpopper and it was very easy to set-up.


Syd

http://syd.onsyd.com/

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 if there's no one watching you have it."
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Re: Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

>
>I wrote:
>
>> Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm
>> missing...  I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working.  
>> My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly:
>
>Apparently Linus said that FAT was broken in 2.1.45
>I was told to try 2.1.39, which was pretty stable.

I suggest you 2.1.42 (if you need to use vfat :).

Andrea Arcangeli


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Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Yukhimets writes:
> > I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ...
> > 
> > there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about 
> > lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this??
> 
> Sure. You would have to change the value of LANG variable from "us" to
> "en_US" in .sd.sh or .sd.csh scripts after installation.

Could you send me a paragraph describing the problem and the fix
so I can include it in /usr/doc/staroffice/readme.

Thanks,

Joey
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Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> Mark Lever writes:

Mark> Hi, I use gnus and rmail.  I've been using rmail for so long
Mark> now, and it is limited.  Someone mentioned here that they
Mark> use gnus for their mail and different folders contained
Mark> different types of mail.  Could they elaborate and explain
Mark> to me how to get gnus to look at my mailbox and separate the
Mark> mail into different folders?

Mark> Either to the list or directly...

 This works for me in XEmacs 20.  I get my mail home using
`fetchmail', which is configured with an "mua" line in its control
file that has it run `formail -s procmail'.

 I had to create "~/Mail" and "~/Mail/.incoming" with dired to get it
started.  The "~/.gnus" file is right out of the Info manual, except
for the function I've added.


;; -*- emacs-lisp -*-
(require 'mime-setup)
(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
(setq nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/")
(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/Mail/.incoming/")
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder "")))
(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "")
(add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook 'gnus-group-set-timestamp)
;;(setq gnus-group-line-format
;;   "%M\%S\%p\%P\%5y: %(%-40,40g%) %d\n")
(setq gnus-group-line-format
   "%M\%S\%p\%P\%5y: %(%-40,40g%) %6,6~(cut 2)d\n")


;;; Experimental --- plussed addresses.
(defvar alias-suffix-history nil
  "History variable for `my-address-choice' minibuffer completion.")

(setq alias-suffix-alist
  '(("news") ("mail")
("plug") ("xemacs") ("debdev") ("debuser")
("support")
("other")
))

(make-variable-buffer-local 'mail-default-reply-to)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'user-mail-address)

(defun my-address-choice ()
  "This function chooses which alias-suffix to use"
  (interactive)
  (let* ((alias-suffix (completing-read "Which alias-suffix: "
alias-suffix-alist
nil nil nil
'alias-suffix-history))
 (mailname (exec-to-string "cat /etc/mailname")) ;Debian GNU/Linux
 (mailname (substring mailname 0 (1- (length mailname
 (alias)
 )
(setq alias (concat (user-login-name)
(and alias-suffix (concat "+" alias-suffix))
"@" mailname)
  mail-default-reply-to alias
  user-mail-address alias)
(message "%s" alias)))

(add-hook 'message-header-setup-hook 'my-address-choice)

# Ask XEmacs to pretend this is -*- sh -*-.
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/.incoming
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox
#LOGFILE=$HOME/Mail.from
LOGFILE=/dev/xconsole
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# formail -s procmail

#---
#   From the BitterSweet Technical Support mailing list
:0:
* ^Resent-From:.*support
Support

#--
#  Other users/lists on this system:
:0c
* ^To.*slarti.*inetarena
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

:0c
* ^To.*robinh.*inetarena
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

:0c
* ^To.*jillian.*inetarena
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

:0c
* ^To.*zaphod.*inetarena
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

# And a copy for me, since these are just aliases to
#  my Internet Arena account anyhow, that I use for testing.
:0
* ^To.*((slarti)|(robinh)|(jillian)|(zaphod)).*inetarena
Lusers

#--
# to karlheg+support
:0
* ^To:.*karlheg\+support
Support

#---
#  Qpopper Bulletins
:0
* ^To.*bulletin@(bittersweet|localhost)*
* !^From.*bittersweet-support
{
Bullno= `printf '%04d' $(( $(tail -1 <(ls /var/spool/popbull/) | cut -d_ 
-f1) + 1))`
Bullnm= `formail -x Subject: | tr -s [:blank:] _`

UMASK=022

:0w
* $^X-Passwd.*BlessedProcmail$
| formail  -I X-Passwd: -I Return-Path: -I Received: \
-a 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' \
-a Message-ID: \
> /var/spool/popbull/${Bullno}${Bullnm}
}

#---
#  Spam:
:0:
* ^FROMearthlink
SPAM

#---
#  Family
:0:
* ^From:.*(BUCKINGHAM)|(legend.*nidlink)
Family

#
:0:
* ^From.*CERT
CERT

#
#  Debian GNU/Linux: Software in the Public Interest
:0:
* ^TOdebian-announce
Debian.Announce

:0:
* ^TOdebian-devel-announce
Debian.Devel-Announce

:0:
* ^TOdebian-changes
Debian.Changes

:0:
* ^TOdebian-devel-changes
Debian.Devel-Changes

:0:
* ^TOdebian-bugs
Debian.Bugs

:0:
* ^From.*bugs\.debian\.org
Debian.Bugs

:0:
* ^TOdebian-qa
Debian.QA

:0:
* ^TOdebian-faq
Debian.FAQ

:0:
* ^TOdebian-user
Debian.User

:0:
* ^TOdebian-devel
Debian.Devel

:0:
* ^TOdebian-admintool
Debian.Admintool

:0:
* ^TOdebian-doc
Debian.Doc

:0:
* ^TOdebian-book
Debian.Book

:0:
* ^TOdebian-www
Debian.WWW

:0:
* ^TOdebian-publicity
Debian.Publicity

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Mail Server

1997-07-19 Thread Ross D. Gardler
I have a Win95 machine connected to a Linux box which in turn is connected to 
the Internet.

I have my Linux box retrieving mail from my many mailboxes and bringing them to 
gether into one account. For this I am currently using Sendmail.

I have managed to send mail from the Win95 box but cannot seem to get the setup 
right to allow the Win95 box to use the Linux box as a mail server. Can someone 
point me to some documentation on how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Ross


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Re: Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith

I wrote:

> Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm
> missing...  I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working.  
> My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly:

Apparently Linus said that FAT was broken in 2.1.45
I was told to try 2.1.39, which was pretty stable.
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Installing 2.1.x kernels on Debian (DOS filesystems)

1997-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith

Perhaps someone here works with 2.1.x kernels and can tell me what I'm
missing...  I needed to install 2.1.45 to get some hardware working.  
My newly compiled 2.1.45 can't handle DOS filesystems correctly:

$ ls /dos
ls: /dos/ibmbio.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/ibmdos.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/command.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/exitemu.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/opendos: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/config.sys: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/autoexec.bat: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/security.bin: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/opendos.386: No such file or directory

-- What I did:

o I'm running Debian (stable) 1.3

o I downloaded linux-2.1.45.tar.gz from tsx-11 and checked out 
  /usr/src/linux-2.1.45/Documentation/Changes.  It said I needed the 
  following versions:

- Kernel modules modutils-2.1.34 ; insmod -v
- Gnu C  2.7.2.1 ; gcc --version
- Binutils   2.8.1.0.1   ; ld -v
[I had: GNU ld version cygnus-2.7.1 (with BFD 2.7.0.9)]
- Linux C Library5.4.23  ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
- Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.8.5   ; ldd -v
- Linux C++ Library  2.7.2.1 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libg++.so.*
- Procps 1.01; ps --version
- Procinfo   0.11; procinfo -v
- Mount  2.6g; mount --version
[I had: mount: mount-2.6d]
- Net-tools  1.41; hostname -V
- Loadlin1.6a
- Sh-utils   1.16; expr --v
- Autofs 0.3.3   ; automount --version
- NFS0.4.21  ; showmount --version

o To comply with requirements, I installed the following from unstable:
mount_2.6g-2.deb
binutils_2.8.1-2.deb 
libc6_2.0.4-1.deb
libbfd2.8.1_2.8.1-2.deb 

o Still, the Changes file said I needed binutils 2.8.1.0.1 instead
  of 2.8.1, so I downloaded binutils 2.8.1.0.1 from tsx-11 and installed it.
  $ ld -v
  GNU ld version 2.8.1 (with BFD linux-2.8.1.0.1) 

o I compiled a 2.1.45 kernels, but it doesn't like any DOS filesystems:

$ df
Filesystem 1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda3 699784  445628   218010 67%   /
df: /dos: Function not implemented
/dev/sda51018298  549802   468496 54%   /home
/dev/sda61919114  714241  1204873 37%   /opt

(/dos is mounted on /dev/sda2 with type vfat;
  $ mount
  /dev/sda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
  proc on /proc type proc (rw)
  /dev/sda2 on /dos type vfat (rw,uid=1000,gid=1000)
  /dev/sda5 on /home type ext2 (rw)
  /dev/sda6 on /opt type ext2 (rw)
)

$ ls /dos
ls: /dos/ibmbio.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/ibmdos.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/command.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/exitemu.com: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/opendos: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/config.sys: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/autoexec.bat: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/security.bin: No such file or directory
ls: /dos/opendos.386: No such file or directory

What am I missing?
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Re: Year 2000

1997-07-19 Thread Bob Clark
Ralph Winslow wrote:
> 
> Syd Alsobrook wrote:
> >
> > Just a curious question, does anyone know if linux in general and
> Debian in
> > particular are year 2000 compliant?
> 
> We're OK until 2017 (and since I'll surely have a 64-bit system by
> then,
> 'til hell freezes over) for 32-bit systems.
> >
> > It would be a shame if we came down to the wire and had forgotten
> something
> >
> > Syd
> > 
> > http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp
> >
> > "How do you know you're having fun
> >  if there's no one watching you have it."
> > Douglas Adams
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> >
Actually 32 bits will get us thru to 2037 but that only
means that the number of seconds since midnight Dec 31, 1970
can be accumulated in a 32-bit variable without rollover to
zero.  That does NOT necessarily mean that programs
(including the linux kernel, libc, etc.) that use that
32-bits do so correctly.

The biggest problems seem to me to be with the thousands of
applications that use dates.  Even if the kernel and
libraries work properly, that doesn't mean a given program
uses time properly.

An easy example:  struct tm from time.h has the "year" field
defined as the number of years since 1900 and is Y2K
compliant since for the year 2000 it contains decimal 100. 
There could be an application out there that currently works
but will crash in 2000 because incorrect assumptions were
made about the range of "year" and say an array index is
computed incorrectly.  Clearly, bad things can happen when a
program corrupts its stack or otherwise accesses memory
outside the bounds of the array.

I've read that bad things will happen to Windows95 at the
midnight rollover Dec 31, 1999 but only if it's running! 
Duh, bad things can always happen when Windows95 is
running.  But seriously, I guess if you stop the machine
_before_ midnight and restart _after_ midnight then all's
well.  Who knows what lurking out there in *nix that will go
whacko when the rollover occurs.

With all the attention that this problem is getting in some
circles, it would be a major coup if somehow Debian packages
could individually and collectively be certified Y2K
compliant and a Y2K compliant Debian release prepared.  IMHO
no other linux distribution, "commercial" or otherwise, has
the level of control available with Debian.

Comments?

--Bob


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Re: efax problem

1997-07-19 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Johann Spies wrote:

> > I am using efax with a Zoltrix 14400 modem.  I have no problem with faxes
> > sent from my machine, but the ones I received so far are all vertically
> > compressed.  The width is ok but the height is about half what it should
> > be.
> > 
> > Is there a way to fix this?
> 
> Most likely they're not "vertically compressed". Rather they are 
> simply Standard, rather than Fine, resolution. There's a program
> included with efax to stretch them the way you expect to see them.

The only program I could see that should be able to do it, is efix,
and I could not rectify the problem with that.  My "fax" script is
configured to work with A4-format.  

I just received a fax again and the dimensions of the printout is
140mm x 210mm in stead of 297mm x 210mm.  The "fax view" command shows
that it is not just a printout-problem.  The image is like that.  

If it is a configuration-problem, I would like to know how to fix it.

Johann.





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Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ...
> 
> there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about 
> lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this??

Sure. You would have to change the value of LANG variable from "us" to
"en_US" in .sd.sh or .sd.csh scripts after installation.

Alex Y.

> 
> -Thanks
> 
> -Kevin

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Re: kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
>   I was confused about libs.  Now I think I understand.  For instance, if I 
> use
> gcc, I must use libc5 or libc6 depending upon whether gcc was compiled using
> libc5 or libc6 respectively.  Is this correct?

Well, it's correct in the sence that it is happens to be true for most of
the Debian pre-compiled binaries of gcc. Basically, gcc-2.7.2.2 is by
default setup to create libc6 binaries. But it's easy to change
tehdefaults, and altgcc (Iguess that's a libc6 binary, but, I'm not sure),
creates libc5 binaries.

You do need to have a gcc that has the bugfix for libc6 (gcc-2.7.2.1
is too old for libc6).

> Also does the kernel use libs or not use them or is it completely self
> sufficient?

The kernel is about the only thing on your hardisk that does not use
libs.



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Re: kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Victor Torrico
Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question. The kernel
>  does nothing special for libc6 dependent stuff. As long as you have
>  the shared library installed, the executables that depend on them
>  will work, even with older kernels.
>
> The kernel has nothing to do with the locales problems (in
>  other wordsZ: recompiling will not solve your problems). What version
>  of the locales package do you have?
>
> manoj
>

  I was confused about libs.  Now I think I understand.  For instance, if I use
gcc, I must use libc5 or libc6 depending upon whether gcc was compiled using
libc5 or libc6 respectively.  Is this correct?

Also does the kernel use libs or not use them or is it completely self
sufficient?

There are several bug reports against the locales package which explain why I
cannot set the locale info.

Thanks,

Victor


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Re: Linux Journal "Reader's Choice Awards"

1997-07-19 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:

> > claimed that Apache was used in about 50% of sites and Netscape/MS were
> > barely more than 10 each!
> 
> That jibes with the O'Reilly article; apache 60%, Netscape ~25%??, MS
> ~10%, the rest <7%.

A pity not too many people has discovered Roxen (www.roxen.com).

  // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37]


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RE: Staroffice

1997-07-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Bob Nielsen writes:

> > You can download the RPMs from caldera.  They are on the caldera ftp site 
> > but
> > in a hidden directory so you will have to go to http://www.caldera.com and 
> > fill
> > out a survey for them before they give you the path to download it from.
> > 
> > On 17-Jul-97 Tim O'Brien wrote:
> > >I'd like to download the non-commercial version of Staroffice, but the FTP
> > >site listed on their webpage is down. Does anyone know of a mirror I can
> > >get the latest (linux) version from? Any hints or specific gotchas I should
> > >know about? 
> 
> I just checked and ftp.gwdg.de is back up.  StarOffice is in
> /pub/linux/staroffice.

Anyways a mirror is on namib.north.de /pub/Linux/local/apps/staroffice
and on ftp.infodrom.north.de /pub/Linux/binary/staroffice-3.1

Regards

Joey

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Keyboard wont work under X

1997-07-19 Thread David Nillesen
Hi ,
does anyone have any idea why my keyboard would stop working under X?
i can type my name into xdm just fine but after that it just doesnt work.
Any helpful hints or suggestion would be much appreciated
David Nillesen
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Re: Debian for PPC Macs

1997-07-19 Thread Dan Hugo
Stig Are M. Botterli wrote:
> 
> On 16-Jul-97 Rick Hawkins wrote:
> >> My conclusion is if I buy my new boc next week I should buy a Intel,
> >> if I buy next year PPC or Alpha. Right?
> >
> >this is pretty much what i've come to.  If i could buy an atx ppc
> >motherboard now, I would.  but i can't, so i won't :(  And I'm not
> >willing to own another apple proprietary design which is, for all
> >intents and purposes, not upgradable ($1500 to replace the motherboard
> >so that i can have a ne $500 processor is not "upgradable").
> 
> For those of you interested in CHRP PPC machine, take a look at
> www.pios.de. Seems like a very flexible system, and it will be shipping
> with Linux and BeOS. I know what my next computer will be.


Well, I don't want to toot my company's horn too loudly, esp. about
unannounced products, but we're coming out with some cool CHRP stuff as
well, including processor upgrades, and some other cool stuff.  The
point of this particular post is not to get into that at the moment,
though.

I am planning, some time in the next few days, to run benchmarks of
Apple's MkLinux on single-processor Arthur (w/backside cache) and
inline-cache PowerPC machines.  I hope also to have linux-pmac running
to try the same stuff.

I'll post the results here if anyone is interested.

For the time being, I am planning to use the byte benchmark, and would
appreciate any other suggested benchmarks.

Elsewhere, I have read that the monolithic linux-pmac is several
percentage points faster than MkLinux in a few areas,  but I am hoping
that the more stable one (whichever that ends up being, if any, on the
hardware) will give a useful indication of performace...


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Re: checking that xfs is working

1997-07-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:

> Perhaps using xfs should be made the default then.
> 
> It should be just as simple to have either be used as long as all
> font packages register themselves with both /etc/X11/XF86Config and
> /etc/X11/xfs/config.

Oh!

That reminds me, while the nice GIMP people were trying to help me figure
out why gimp was sigsegv'ing they suggested I run XFS, so I did -- but it
core dumped all the time because it's config file contained font paths
that did not exist. Furthermore I followed their instructions to set it up
while X was running and the machine locked up totally (or at least
appeared to.. no responses to the usual keyboard things). Unfortunately I
lost the commands when the machine died..

So XFS and XFree might need a bit of work to configure properly wrt to
fonts.

Jason


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Re: "ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-19 Thread mark powers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
: > The ALT key in X11 isn't working right.  I have just installed 
: XFree86, the > SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I 
: am not sure what I > did or didn't do, or could have done to make 
: this key work right.  Is it the > Keyboard setup in the installation 
: of the Debian system?  Is it xterm?  Is > it the server?  Is it the 
: way I set things up?  I uncommented a line in > /etc/X11/XF86Config 
: making Left ALT a meta key---i made no difference.

: A friend of mine had a problem with the Alt/Meta key in emacs, and it 
:  turned out that the Meta key was the "windows" key on his Microsoft 
: Natural keyboard.

: Otherwise you may have to try playing with xmodmap, or enabling/
: disabling the xkeyboard stuff in the X configuration. 

Hi foax -

Don't know how much to make of it but I've had the same thing happen (windows 
key becomes Meta, Alt does something else entirely) when enabling the XKBD 
extension to the X server, though using regular Xmodmap without the extension 
I got the Alt key  behaving as meta, as usual, and the Microsoft keys being 
pretty much dead wood as far as I could tell. I'd concur with disabling the 
XKBD extensions if you don't have a meta key other than Alt.

An interesting side note though... Under emacs 19.34 and XKBD, hitting the 
"menu" key on a Microsoft keyboard  (the one between the right Meta and Ctrl 
keys, with the.. well, logically enough, with the picture of the popup menu on 
it) gives M-x. So apparently this is a feature, as it were. :)

 -Cheers, 

 - Mark Powers - "living inside the system is like riding
through the countryside in a bus driven
by a maniac bent on suicide." - Thomas Pynchon
oh yeah. http://www.mint.net/~sudweste, or whatever.




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Re: MS-DOS CR & directory/file timestamping

1997-07-19 Thread Carey Evans
Ingo Fischenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[snip]

> Use the package *recode*, so you can do "recode ibmpc:latin1 html-file.html"

But recode's ibmpc uses the default DOS codepage, while Win95 and NT
use Latin 1 with extra characters, so anything like Ö will get
destroyed.  dos2unix might be better.

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Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Kevin J Poorman
I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ...

there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about 
lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this??

-Thanks

-Kevin


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Re: Routing of bounced mail

1997-07-19 Thread Carey Evans
"Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  What is the standard (if there is a standard) routing that MTAs
> use to route bounced mail?  Do they use the FROM: field or the
> Return-Path: field?

It should be the Return-Path: field (or rather, the MAIL FROM: SMTP
command that was used to generate the Return-Path:) but it isn't
always.  If you've been using any mailing list for a while, you've
probably seen bounced mail go to either the list itself or back to
you, when it should go to the list manager (debian-user-request in
this list's case).  The MTA's doing this are broken, though.

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Re: Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> 
> Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm
> currently?
> It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting
> quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere.
> usrquota
> is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with
> quota before I was forced to do a complete rebuild for embarrassing
> reasons involving the root account (trying to upgrade to
> libreadlineg2,
> didn't RTFM and killed my bash libraries... turned off the machine,
> turned
> it on 3 days later and the drive didn't start. Since then, I've
> switched
> from Quantum to Seagate... ;)
> 
> Has anyone installed quota from the hamm distribution? Any ideas? I'd
> like
> to install quota so my (few) users don't take over my nice brand new
> Seagate. :>

ahh.. I just installed hamm and I have that same problem.  I think I'm
going to have to look for the orignal distribution file (not the deb)
and compile it myself.

-Paul


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changing dpkg depends/tcl7.6-dev

1997-07-19 Thread Paul Miller
There are many packages which depend on libc5-dev.  In the hamm version
libc5-dev was changed to libc5-altdev to work around conflicts w/
libc6...  How can I change some of the packages (such as tcl7.6-dev)
which depend on libc5-dev to libc5-dev | libc5-altdev?  or are there
tcl7.6-dev/tk4.2-dev packages for libc6-dev?

-Paul


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Re: group permission & nethack

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi -

> "Rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Rick> I"m trying to run nethack.  however, i get repsonses to hte
Rick> effect of

Rick> No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!

Rick> checking the permissions,

Rick>  0 -rw-rw-r--   1 root games   0 May 27 02:02 logfile
Rick>  0 -rw-rw-r--   1 root games   0 May 27 02:02 perm
Rick>  0 -rw-rw-r--   1 root games   0 May 27 02:02 record
Rick>  1 drwxrwxr-x   2 root games1024 May 27 02:02 save

The problem is the directory listed there itself.  If "." was listed
above, I think it'd be mode 755, with no permission for the group to
write.

  chmod 775 /var/lib/games/nethack/

should do it (it did for me with version 3.2.2-7).

Rick> And I did add myself to group games (though i'm pretty sure i
Rick> didn't have to do this last time).

Yeah, nethack is setuid games, you don't have to be in the group.

I submitted a bug report on this, since I didn't see a fixed version on
master or anywhere yet, but the developer said,


  >   Nethack should either be up to -8 or -9, depending on whether I've
  > uploaded the one I'm looking at right now. :)
  > 
  >   Anyway, the bug was fixed a while ago.  (in -8, according to the 
changelog)

so it's coming down the pike somewhere.  

Hth,

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Re: TKDesk: insufficient resources for operation (fwd)

1997-07-19 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara

I've rebooted the machine, and all work's again.. :)
Any ideas?
Thank's for all help!

Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
> 
> >   Hi, I'm using tkdesk_1.0b1-1.deb and I'm getting the following
> > errors:
> > [stress]:~$ tkdesk &
> > [1] 745
> > [stress]:~$ X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient
> resources for
> > operation)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  587
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  588
> >
> >   Any ideas?
> 
> I'm in no better a position.
> I get:
> 
> $ tkdesk
> can't read "geom": no such variable
> while executing
> "set tkdesk(geometry,$func) $geom..."
> ("Toplevel" arm line 6)
> [...]
> 

There seems to be a conflict between the .tkdesk files that are create
in your home directory between version 1.01 and 1.04.

So when you update tkdest to version 1.04 it complains about the "geom"
variable.

All I have done to fix this problem is rename my original .tkdesk to
something like Old.tkdesk and then run tkdesk (1.04) again and it works
fine, installing a newer .tkdesk directory in my home directory.

Then all you have to do is add any changes that you made to the files in
the origninal .tkdesk directory and you are back in buisness.

I do like the updated version of tkdesk, looks much sexyer. well the
app bar does anyway..


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Re: checking that xfs is working

1997-07-19 Thread Behan Webster
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
> 
> > in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs.  On most stand-alone
> > machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell.
> 
> The nice people on #gimp told me that xfs makes things more responsive
> because the XServer does not block while it is rendering fonts. Ie xfs
> does that 'in parallel' with the X Server, so only the app that is using
> the font slows down.
> 

Perhaps using xfs should be made the default then.

It should be just as simple to have either be used as long as all
font packages register themselves with both /etc/X11/XF86Config and
/etc/X11/xfs/config.

Behan

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Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm currently?
It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting
quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. usrquota
is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with
quota before I was forced to do a complete rebuild for embarrassing
reasons involving the root account (trying to upgrade to libreadlineg2,
didn't RTFM and killed my bash libraries... turned off the machine, turned
it on 3 days later and the drive didn't start. Since then, I've switched
from Quantum to Seagate... ;)

Has anyone installed quota from the hamm distribution? Any ideas? I'd like
to install quota so my (few) users don't take over my nice brand new
Seagate. :>

Thanks in advance,

TL


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Re: Kernel Compiled (at last)

1997-07-19 Thread David Densmore
>You didn't say so in your post, so I'm going to assume you may not have
done >some of the additional steps to get your modules compiled and installed.

Aha!  "additional steps"  I thought there might be some of those.

You guys on the debian-user list always have the answer.

Thanks Mike

David Densmore
Linux Newbie

>Anyway, after the kernel complile you should do a "make modules" the a 
>"make modules_install".  This should compile all of your modules and put
them in
>/lib/modules/2.0.30 (or whatever kernel version you use).
>
>Then you need to check the /etc/modules file, this is just a list of the
modules
>that will be installed at boot-up.
>-- 
>Mike Chovan
>Network Specialist
>CSGnet
>Sacramento, Calif.
>


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Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
> "Paul" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> How can I install *BOTH* libc5 and libc6??  Can't we all just
Paul> get along?  -Paul

As people have said, you can install them both--the packages named
'libc5' and 'libc6'.  The complications are in the '-dev' packages and
the compilation environment.  libc5-dev and libc6-dev cannot coexist.
The current gcc package conflicts with libc5-dev, so if you want to keep
up with unstable, you'll have to install libc6-dev to compile any C
programs.

If you want to do that, *and* also be able to compile in a libc5
environment, there are a few packages meant to allow that by having an
alternative gcc and C library on the system: libc5-altdev, altgcc, and
libdl1-altdev (the only ones I've seen).  I haven't tried these.

Hope this clarifies things a little, anyway - 

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Removal of 'base' package

1997-07-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All:

I have noticed a lot of traffic recently on how the obsolete package
'base' can be removed.  This is a detailed description of what I did.  If
there are any flaws in this let me know, otherwise, this could be used as
a guide for those who want to remove the "offender".

Cheers,

Carlo


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How to remove the obsolete 'base' package:


The package has been rendered unneeded but not by another package
replacing it, rather by the placing of most of its files in the base
diskettes that the system is installed with from scratch.  This is why no
package goes to the trouble of removing the reference to base.

I have gotten past this by removing the relevant files by hand.  here is
what I have done:

0.  su to root or login as root
1.  go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and check what files are present
relating to 'base' by doing a 'ls base.*'.  You should get 
the following 3 files:
base.conffiles  base.list   base.postinst
2.  look at the contents of 'base.list' which contains the files 
which belong to the base package.  You should get:

/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/copyright
/usr/doc/copyright/base
/usr/doc/copyright/base/debian.README
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL
/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL
/usr/doc/copyright/Artistic
/usr/doc/base
/usr/doc/base/README.DEBIAN
/usr/doc/examples
/usr/src
/usr/bin
/usr/dict
/usr/games
/usr/info
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/locale
/usr/lib/locale/en_GB
/usr/sbin
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/man
/usr/man
/usr/man/man8
/usr/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
/etc
/etc/skel
/root
/dev
 . and here are all of the /dev/* devices
/sbin
/var
/var/tmp
/var/spool
/var/spool/mail
/var/run
/var/run/utmp
/var/lock
/var/log
/var/backups
/var/lib
/var/lib/dpkg
/var/local
/var/local/usr
/tmp
/tmp/base.postinst
/bin
/proc
/floppy
/boot
/lib
/mnt
/home
/cdrom

3.  Of these files, delete, by hand the following, which are not used
by any other package.  In fact, most have been replaced by other
packages without deleting these old ones.  All the others are 
clearly vital directories for the system.  I have noted the 
replacements in the right hand column.

DELETE REPLACEMENT
   /usr/doc/copyright/base  /usr/doc/base-files
   /usr/doc/copyright/base/debian.README/usr/doc/base-files/copyright

   /usr/doc/copyright/GPL   /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.gz
   /usr/doc/copyright/LGPL  /usr/doc/copyright/LGPL.gz
   /usr/doc/copyright/Artistic  /usr/doc/copyright/Artistic.gz

   /usr/doc/base/usr/doc/base-files
   /usr/doc/base/README.DEBIAN  /usr/doc/base-files/copyright

   /usr/lib/locale  /usr/share/locale
   /usr/lib/locale/en_GB/usr/share/locale/en_GB

4.  Now remove the 3 files listed above:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.postinst

5.  Finally, go to the /var/lib/dpkg directory and edit the 'status'
file to remove the following entry:

Package: base
Essential: yes
Status: ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.1.0-14
Replaces: miscutils
Conffiles:
 /dev/MAKEDEV 9c600060928b03633f9682d014956cce
 /etc/adjtime b7920456f21d52fd516f7ff390112d1d
 /etc/group a56a7999fa189038d9744cb2e48d72d8  
 /etc/host.conf a61b9f6548d337c1cc1e5a4de39f7b7f
 /etc/issue 3488b71d436c67a12d80d5dea77bb0f2
 /etc/motd 03465202ebeafb7ea39663f4bf055309
 /etc/passwd 785647694522546dba95365b191cee98
 /root/.bash_profile f885bce730eac7717e6610468b52a500
 /root/.bashrc 118f882acfaf472e6a352b1baaf5db87
Description: Debian Base System M

Re: 16 bit color for X

1997-07-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, jr wrote:

> I install Debian 1.3.1 today (i use Red Hat before) and when I start X
> whitn "startx" all its OK. But when I wnat more color depth, I use 
> 
> "startx -- -bpp 16"
> 
> but then my screen are flicking and the resolution down very much (much
> like EGA card)why? what can i do?
> 
> I have an S3 Trio64 and I don't have this problem in RedHat.
> 

I suspect that XFree thinks that the modes that need to be used for the
resolution you want are not supported by your monitor.  If you attach the
output from the startx command, it could help in diagnosing the problem.

One thing you could try is to check the XF86Config file you have in Redhat
and see where it differs from your current one, this will tell you how to
modify your current version to work with your system.  I suspect that you
might have the wrong frequencies for the monitor in the current file.

Cheers,

Carlo

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question...

1997-07-19 Thread Rafael Castillo Mejia

hello all...

well my question is:

i want to settup my modem, but i can get that linux start my modem.. this
one is on COM3  how do i do for settup my modem


thank 


RAFEL CASTILLO MEJIA


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