nfs locking daemon?
Hi! Is there a special "nfs locking daemon" for NFS-clients? I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a "lockd" process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has nfs-mounted home directories), GNOME complains about "a problem with your operating system configuration": "A common cause of this error is that the "nfslock" service has been disabled." Unfortunately, I can't find a "nfslock" package in Debian. Thanks for your help, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://schwarz-online.com -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GNOME 2.2 and NFS locking problem
Hi! After upgrading a diskless client (root fs mounted via NFS) to the GNOME 2.2 backport packages, I get the following error message when logging in into X: "Could not lock the file "/nethome/wile/.gconf-test-locking-file"; this indicates that there may be a problem with your operating system configuration. If you have an NFS-mounted home directory, either the client or the server may be set up incorrectly. See the rpc.statd and rpc.lockd documentation. A common cause of this error is that the "nfslock" service has been disabled.The error was "No locks available" (errno = 37)" Via google, I found hints that switching the NFS server from nfs-user-server to nfs-kernel-server solves the problem, but this didn't fix it (no change). Does anyone have a solution for me? Here is my configuration: Server: Debian 3.0 (woody) Kernel 2.4.23 nfs-kernel-server pkg version 1:1.0-2woody1 /etc/exports: /clientsacme(rw,no_root_squash) "ps axf|grep lock" says: 707 ?SW 0:00 [lockd] Client: Debian 3.0 (woody) Kernel 2.4.16 GNOME 2.2 backport from ftp.acc.umu.se::mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ (also nfs-kernel-server pkg version 1:1.0-2woody1, should not matter) "mount" says: monet:/clients/10.1.1.6 on / type nfs (rw) "ps axf|grep lock" says: 99 ?SW 0:00 [lockd] What I already tried: - switching from nfs-user-server to nfs-kernel-server - specifying "lock" option when mounting the home dir - symlinking .gconf* directories to a ramdrive Any help would be great! Thanks in advance, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my new [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page at http://www.schwarz-online.com ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New web page: Debian Resources
Hi folks! I've recognized my Debian web pages. They can now be easily accessed via http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/ There is a new web page about `Debian Resources on the Internet,' see http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/resources/ which contains links to Debian and related projects. As a starting point, I've included all my Debian links from my bookmark list, so the list is far from being complete. If you have some new links for me, just tell me and I'll add them to the page if I think they are of general interest. The new URLs for the other pages I maintain are Debian Policy home page: http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/policy/ Lintian's home page (that's a Debian package checker): http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/lintian/ Debian Documentation Project (DDP): http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/doc/ Debian Keyboard Configuration Project: http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/kbd/ Debian Release Roadmap: http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/roadmap/ Debian Logo Contest (old): http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/logo/ (Of course, the old URLs are still working. But I guess the new ones are easier to remember :) Any feedback about these web pages is highly appreciated! Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Logo Page updated
Hi folks! I'm really happy that we finally have a logo for Debian GNU/Linux! I've just updated the Debian logo pages at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The pages include all new submittions that I've received since the last logo page, the old logo pages and their feedback pages, a statistic page, and an overview page. The logo development process started in Sep 96. Since then, 66 authors submitted 289 (!) logos, that makes 4.3 logos per author! I received 3496 comments through the feedback pages! Thanks a lot to all the logo authors and to all people that gave us feedback! Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only
On 4 Jul 1997, Linh Dang wrote: > 1.2.8 and 1.3 exhitbit the same behaviour!!! > > My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep > complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only. This is a bug, so please file a bug report against emacs. The policy concerning /usr/local has been changed. The package may create empty directories below /usr/local, but it must not fail if this is impossible (because /usr/local is mounted read-only). This new policy already described in the draft version 2.2.0.0, which will become "official" in the next few days. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/draft/ch3.html#s3.1 Feel free to ask, if you need more info. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA CS Software goes online! Visit our new home page at http://www.schwarz-online.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v12)
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Hi folks!
I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v12) today. You can have a
look at it via
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
The new page contains 11 new and 13 old logos and uses HTML forms to
make it easy for you to tell us your opinion.
We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback
page'' out of it. The current version contains 307 comments. Thanks a lot
to all that told us their opinion!
There is a new "Overview Page" which shows all logos that have been
submitted so far, ordered by popularity! In addition, there is a new
"Profile Page" for each logo that contains several versions of each
logo (small, large, colored, grayscale, b/w).
I reworked all pages today, so I appreciate _any_ comments, suggestions,
or critics about the new pages.
Cheers,
Chris
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ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v11)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v11) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 35 new and 11 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 302 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo until the next Debian release. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones. So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments at the feedback pages and try to improve it. The feedback page for the current logo page (v11) will be released on Sun Apr 20, 1997. The next logo page (v12) will be installed on Sun, Apr 27, 1997, the dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET DST (+0200) this day. Cheers, Chris - -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBM1EB504c72jvRVaFAQF9CwP/epSNc6CyanHfZ2yKDj+8sNKUm5Tw69kZ dmwT7ZpTd+nPR+pBV8UbvrKt5dLxbdLM13uWO3yGzNZKLHaOyiLu0SjXv6L/LSe6 DDr6yuhwRp2l1ip+Wf6B92Ng7LlhbbbWh9Pux+b4G46KmJhUGFC86AweRT1lSNG9 gtDb3GmKpw4= =yAS6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v10)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v10) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 14 new and 9 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 217 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo until the next Debian release. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones. So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments at the feedback pages and try to improve it. The feedback page for the current logo page (v10) will be released on Sun Apr 6, 1997. The next logo page (v11) will be installed on Sun, Apr 13, 1997, the dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET DST (+0200) this day. Cheers, Chris - -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ - -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMz5giU4c72jvRVaFAQHssgP/a2KN6JzxTZT7KjZpLTtR2wIlapEYP723 pLH1FXsMGQg+HSdVQ/TZBmDfvzvxwHDpR/5hHVxKBBhW2yiV4+inxTAAZeoTyVd2 KOeb7Z+qiiwNIqr7nvIiyIz+0nrO1gKD9AXjX/O+kJSZIseITIDyIBNpqzPJgbn7 IM8uypBR1kA= =p7Er -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v9)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v9) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 5 new and 15 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 213 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo until the next Debian release. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones. So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments at the feedback pages and try to improve it. The feedback page for the current logo page (v9) will be released on Sun Mar 23, 1997. The next logo page (v10) will be installed on Sun, Mar 30, 1997, the dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET DST (+0200) this day. Cheers, Chris - -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMyvWuU4c72jvRVaFAQGhowP/Tih/XNmYLFS7QgaaGZZ7k4p+HS37KsAE BiXwh9E1XHoW3MURx2Av9EkfAPOV4kr6QHZo1so0HniZLeaxvA3NT6bHDCdJxIje oCBDdmoG9fUMHqT5TLjSu7bCixXJl8AqhnDetqBuXPDPVpJhSk0/yshJqtUEa0nn yx0zvSov7/8= =x+sJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v8)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v8) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 32 new and 12 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 263 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo until the next Debian release. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones. So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments at the feedback pages and try to improve it. The feedback page for the current logo page (v8) will be released on Sun Mar 9, 1997. The next logo page (v9) will be installed on Sun, Mar 16, 1997, the dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET (+0100) this day. Cheers, Chris - -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ - -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMxmPB04c72jvRVaFAQGg4gP+JX8O6t3wQZR7bQXTPEIY+arF9CNwjE01 FC9v4rdqKLqpFx6irIv4TJRCdZd4an0y2c9TvrtmrR/RjRsU7MhJw+mxNVSX1hTE DaFwVY+W9DrHJuVFAD5o58AHmuwQwW4pQRkcfwHAdx2gsaXt9iy9CUrzvkzTLALg +PJaz7fm1WQ= =gna1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
The Future of Debian's TeX system: tetex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! Some time ago I started a discussion about the future of Debian's TeX packages. The old packages had lots of bugs and some of them were based on old upstream sources. We had two possibilites: continuing with our own tex packages (i.e. fixing the old bugs, upgrading to newer upstream versions, included some newer patches to web2c related stuff) or basing our tex system on another UNIX tex distribution, as NTeX or teTeX for example. The discussion on debian-devel showed me that there were good arguments for both sides. Initially we planned to continue with our own tex packages but then Chow Chi-Ming and Christoph Martin both came up with a debianized tetex packages. There were some problems with the directory structure of tetex, but these were easily fixed (with help of Thomas Esser, the author of tetex). We hope that this was the right decision and will make life easier for Debian's TeX users. The new tetex packages will be included in Debian 1.3. There are now part of the unstable distribution and will replace the old packages in about a week. If you want to help you could download these new packages and test them. Thanks, Chris - -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMxLxR04c72jvRVaFAQFnMQP/RZhxF46dTMFqzSPCZXBGqbtGS2gnKa1q byKq0A0+c2KGws4Giep/QT1EKZyPGzdjZPLrUPFJmPej3+Ofbwp/Eo88V5PLQOM/ /Y1SfHH90YpadmEjzNDdqqvf/68mS+LCi7dbTn6GhLnj6Ty0M2Qca0VQFw6zg71j 0fLibfrcM8w= =I52O -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v5)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v5) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 17 new and 8 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 163 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo until the next Debian release. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones. So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments at the feedback pages and try to improve it. The next logo page (v6) will be installed on Sun, 2 Feb 1997, the dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET (+0100) this day. Cheers, Chris - - -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ - - -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMuI8mk4c72jvRVaFAQHu+QP+K6qV4KqQvBAXtc+8QvqYQjMtIFYB3nY+ uacZvN293fl9g3OfPgUr7Qu2NUv+EWxjT8n3QCYdA8P+GtDpdddBFKrxXYBmvP6q k0KhQ22vtJ3ntI8PoTF87kZRisn+qnXk6TTeLnYCEgiVwgPadTkefvnyxGkaQ/rP RLfUyH3RCFY= =5P8N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v4)
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v4) today. You can have a look > > at it via > > > > http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ > > I filled out an old version of this page a while back, > took quite a while, only to be told that cgi.debian.org was down. > > However, this time after several more minutes writing comments, > etc, I get > > Error 403 > > The Fatman Server understood your request, but is refusing to fulfill it. > Authorization will not help and your request should > not be repeated. This message is commonly used when the Fatman Server does > not wish to reveal exactly why your request > has been refused, or when no other response is applicable. > > > OFF LIMITS > > >From your site you do not have > the right of access to this protected area. > > The reason might be sweet revenge: > Do you refuse finger connections? Are you sitting behind a firewall? > Did you publicly sneer at the Fatman Server? > > [insert offensive picture here] > > Rather offensive I thought. I just checked and yes, although I am > using ip masqueradering, the masq machine is allowing public > finger requests. I'm really sorry about this all. The technical problem was: The cgi script referenced in the html page was still referring to the wrong location (the one which I tested at home). I fixed this and it is (hopefully :-) working now. The other problem: I'm not the fatman administrator and don't have root access. These (really offensive) messages were installed by the admin. I don't like these either and have contacted him today and asked if they could be replaced. Please excuse this incident, I'll see what I can change. Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v4)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v4) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 9 new and 21 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 204 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo until the next Debian release. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones. So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments at the feedback pages and try to improve it. The next logo page (v5) will be installed on Sun, 19 Jan 1997, the dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET (+0100) this day. Cheers, Chris - -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ - -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMtAx/E4c72jvRVaFAQHAAwP/aUNnMFgMBNmJBpeCsBWVNLII4tStKjg8 q724nult21DgFeWFW+qnN6jUnorrpWdBAOuxhgU006Hd/LMB5PRRKiVFD/Di/YjC hTNz3XImyo5MpFvaTvGk8ktBc7MYcIt72/ATdgK1g72faDn4ouM3VIwnYjkFs04S B9VkS5mFLGA= =Jfgb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo
Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v3) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 31 new and 8 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to tell us your opinion. We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback page'' out of it. The current version contains 290 comments. Thanks a lot to all that told us their opinion! Note that we present you the logos in an early state of development. Most of them need further improvement and that's why we ask you about your opinion. Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an official logo for the next Debian release. Some people contacted me about troubles with the CGI script. I hope that these are fixed now and that the new location works more reliable than the old one. If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
I have a HP ScanJet 4C here and use it with Debian/Linux. It works great. You have to include the "generic SCSI interface" to the kernel and install the hpscanpbm package. I prefer xvscan, a patched xv version that allows scanning directly into xv. It's great! Note that you have to pay for this, but it's only US $50. Note also, that you will propably need a little more RAM than what you need if you use Windoze. (It seams as xv consumes much more memory when scanning highres than the Windoze progs do.) Bye, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Re: Missing cygwin.dll for win32 cross compiler
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Evan Thomas wrote: > Christian Schwarz wrote: > > Does someone out there has a cygwin.dll for > > win32gcc_2.7.2.cygnus.960412-1? > > [cut] > The (less than optimal) > solution I use is to download the Cygnus binary distribution and compile > the application on Win95 (yuck!). The binary distribution comes with GNU > make and FLEX (but not bison!) and other tools, so re-compiling is > relatively painless. But that's the advantage of a cross compiler. You can develop software for Win95 under Linux! If I have to compile under Win95, I loose all the advantages of Linux: X, emacs, fvwm, etc. > Does anyone have experience compiling Cygnus' source on Linux? Well, I think the maintainer of the win32 packages should have! I tried to contact him but didn't get a response, yet. I'm thinking about what sense it makes to have these Debian packages with a cross compiler, that's lacking the necessary DLL! Getting the source from cygnus and compiling it under Linux is not a satisfying solution, since that's what these Debian packages are good for. Is there someone out there that _uses_ the crosscompiler from the Debian packages? Perhaps I should report the missing of the DLL as a bug, since it makes those packages useless. Any hints? Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing cygwin.dll for win32 cross compiler
Hi! Does someone out there has a cygwin.dll for win32gcc_2.7.2.cygnus.960412-1? I wrote a simple hello world program in C and tried to compile it (also with -static) but when I run the program under Win95 (yuck!) I get a message that I need cygwin.dll. I did an archie request and found 3 different versions, but none works with the output of win32gcc. I also had a look at the cygnus ftp/www server but I only found beta releases of the newest version (with .tar.gz's being >20 mb!). Thanks in advance, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rescue disk set
I was looking for a rescue disk, too. I posted to debian-devel list a few weeks ago. The answers were that none exists, so far. My problems was that I need a tar (gnu tar would be good) to be able to restore my backups (if I should need that some time). I got the answer that the root disk contains a "star" program that extracts tar archives it gets via stdin. But I also think that a _real_ rescue disk would be fine. I had one some time ago for Slackware. Nice was that it also contained the manual pages for important programs as mke2fs, tar, etc. And some version of vi would be fine to have on the disk, too, since I don't like ae very much. I would like to have it work with the standard Debian boot disks. I don't think this is a problem. If space is enough we could use this as the "only" ramdrive that is loaded after the boot disk. If that's too much for a single disk we could build something that is mountet on the standard root disk tree. The old Slackware rescue disk used a gzipped filesystem (I think via zfs but this should be obsolete now) and had the kernel on the disk too. This was nice since one needed only one disk. Perhaps we could create a fs that's 2880k (those who have only 4mb ram would need two disks, propably). As Brian suggested, it would be nice if this would be done by the root/boot disk maintainer. AFAIK this is Bruce Perens but he wants to pass maintaince to someone else. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANNOUNCE: Web page with suggestions for the Debian logo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I started to work on a Logo for Debian GNU/Linux. The current versions can be inspected on http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ For all who are interested: Please have a look at the logos and tell me what you think about them. They are all considered as _alpha versions_. I just want to know which of them are liked most, so I can spend more time on them. If you think you have another idea for the Debian logo, just send me your drafts and I will include them on this web page. Cheers, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMlAvL04c72jvRVaFAQEVvQP+IKPe/E3kSz6EQGySLv6iQBtpLRjEqf5N Cb2U59bdtAarcWnKKfOf+wz68by35SsLK3xHnZCzcbAch64/kat/n/XZLG3A+M5x uFdFjaoK98HnD9gePXQkqm+R6zNwymoEaDWEmgzP6JMcuAs4msqkbgkl41Sl/jfW 6aMiESmYbT0= =oXU8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I use longtable in LaTeX
There is a LaTeX extension called ``supertabular'' that should do exactly what you want (at least I hope so). Unfortunatly it isn't included in on of the available Debian TeX packages, but just get it from CTAN (TeX servers) and install it somewhere in /usr/local/lib/texmf (you might have to adjust the TEXINPUTS path). If you can't find the supertabular file, just drop me a note and I will send it to you (it's just a single .sty file with 10k). Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
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 -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
ghostscript cuts of my characters
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 -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?
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 -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: Sox problems
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 -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Hi! Ok, you (Michael) made me change my standpoint. It's propably better to consider app-defaults as part of the code and then it's ok if it stays under /usr. BTW, I just did a `grep app-defaults *.conffiles' in /var/lib/dpkg/info and discovered, that there are a few packages specifying the app-defaults file as conffiles (also in my xblast package--I will fix it). I'm not sure if we should report this as bug. You mentioned the file debian.readme and it was pointed out, that the passage about app-defaults is too short. How about an improvement (too avoid threads like this ;-) : Please note that this distribution expects you to leave app-defaults files unchanged. The app-defaults files are considered as part of the code. That's why the directory is located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 instead of /etc/X11. If you want to customise your X applications globally, put your customisations in /etc/X11/Xresources. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: How to create a "Packages" file?
This is a simple script that creates the Packages files: Suppose you want to create the file for distrib buzz and binary-i386: touch /tmp/noverride cd buzz dpkg-scanpackages binary-i386 /tmp/noverride buzz/ > Packages.n mv Packages.n binary-i386/Packages gzip -f -q binary-i386/Packages cd .. I have a script that goes over the whole Debian hierarchie on my private FTP server whenever I make a change. Note that the `touch /tmp/noverride' creates an empty file (if it doesn't already exist) which seams to be necessary, but I don't know why. I also discovered another problem: When there a several versions of a package in the same directory, dpkg processes them in the order they appear in the directory (not sorted, as you see them with the default ls options). So if the newer versions comes first, the older version will be included in the Packages file. And it looks like dselect has the same problem with installed from a CDROM or local dir. These `access methods' seem to process not the list of selected packages (as ftp access method does) but process each file they find in the directory. When there are several versions of a file that's selected, dselect upgrades/downgrades the package as they appear! That's why I always use FTP, even if the FTP server is the local host! Does someone have any hints? Cheers Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I feel like a broken record, here, but would people involved in this > discussion please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README? Otherwise > you're wasting both your own and others' time. > > For instance, it mentions the solution to the above mentioned issue: > > Please note that this distribution expects you to leave app-defaults > files unchanged. If you want to customise X applications globally, put > your customisations in /etc/X11/Xresources. Well I had a look at the file (and surely Lars too) but the point is that I'm not satisfied with the argument, that the readme says that's the way to do it. My suggestion of tagging the files as conffiles was thought as a solution to your problem, if the files change. Of course, this will need the app-defaults directory be moved over to /etc/X11, but that's what we were talking about. So I think the point is the following: Do we consider the app-defaults files as part of the program (code), or as configuration files. In the former case, they should stay in /usr, in the latter they should be moved to /etc/X11 and be tagged as conffiles. Sorry, if I didn't express my standpoint clearly. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
less displays help when invoked on an empty file
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 -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: Mouse
By default, X11 uses /dev/mouse, I think. So perhaps there is just a symlink /dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS0 missing. (Of course, you have to refer to the correct mouse device, /dev/ttyS0 is "COM1", so if you have a bus mouse, you will have to change this to the appropriate device.) So doing something like this (as root) ln -sf /dev/mousexyz /dev/mouse will do the job. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: dvips top margin
Are you using ghostscript? I discovered a similar problem a few days ago: I worked with gs-4.01-2 and all the offsets were correct as specified in TeX, correct in DVI (xdvi) and PS (ghostview) and on the printer. But I had to switch back to gs-2.62-2 because of the problem, that characters get cut off at the right hand side (I posted this to this list a few days ago, but didn't receive any hints.) In gs-2.62 the output is shifted about 7mm. I just read a hint in an ghostscript README, that the were some bugs in older gs versions in handling of offsets. Hope this helps, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Hi! I just browsed the Linux FSSTND (v1.2) but haven't found a comment about the app-defaults directory. Backups would be much easier if _all_ the configurable files are in /etc and /usr can't be mounted readonly if one has to change the app-defaults file. (Shouldn't, as a simple rule, all files that are referred by the debpkg-conffiles be placed in /etc ?) Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you disagree with this, as many seem to, please propose a solution
> whereby package maintainers can easily make sure that app-defaults
> files are updated to reflect any changes introduced in the upstream
> app-defaults file.
Well, couldn't the files in app-defaults be marked as config files
("DEBIAN/conffiles") in the packages? Then dpkg creates checksums of these
files and when a package is updated, it can be replaced (if there were no
changes) or it can ask the user what he wants to do with it (replace,
leave under different name, i.e. add .dpkg-dist extension).
I think all this is done automatically by dpkg now (at least in the
newest revision of dpkg). I've seen this working with a few other
packages, since I upgraded to "unstable" a few days ago.
Cheers,
Chris
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gs cuts off my TeX characters
Hi! I've got a problem with ghostscript and TeX. I convert a TeX file to postscript with dvips and print it with gs. If I use gs-4.01, the characters are "cut off" at the very right side (of each character!). This is not much so you have to look very carefully to see it, but when you use italic, it's quite obvious. Note the this is not a gsfonts problem, since dvips converts the TeX fonts into a Postscript/bitmap font. When I use gs-2.xx, this problem does not occur. I used the same postscript file to test this, so it isn't a TeX or dvips problem. I haven't tried it with gs-3.xx, but I remember that I had the same problem on my old Slackware system, where I switched from gs-2 to gs-3 and the problem appeared, but I never tracked the error down. (This also means, that it isn't a Debian specific problem.) Does someone else have a similar problem or a hint what I can try? I can provide more infos and/or a small demo file so this can be tested on more systems. Thanks in advance, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Debian Logo?
Hi! Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one. If not, we could start a Logo contest, just as the Linux Logo Contest. I'm just an administrator and not an artist, but perhaps we have some on this list! An logo would be nice for disk labels, CD covers, www.debian.org, etc. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: how to sign up to debian-devel?
The same thing here! But today I got an email from Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who told me, that he had problems contacting the mailing list admin via email and he wants to fix this. Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
How to place Debian files on CD-Rom?
Hi! I want to make my own Debian CD-R. Does someone know where to place the files on the CD so that the installation can run completely of the CD? I'm looking for an installation that doesn't require the generation of disks. I want to have it like in old Slackware times ;-) 1. Boot MS-DOG 2. Select Kernel to boot through some DOS menu program that fires up loadlin 3. Kernel should read the ramdisk from the CD. 4. Basic configuration of Debian. 5. Base disks should be read from the CD. 6. ...(same as usual)... If nothing like this exists right now, I will implement this. I think something like that would be also nice for the other guys that create Debian CD's, as Infomagic, etc. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
ANNOUNCEMENT: anacron (was called 'pe' before)
Hi everbody! I've just uploaded anacron_1.0-1 to the master server. Note that I changed to name from `pe' to `anacron' which sounds better (I think ;-). If you downloaded the beta from the URL I posted here, I would suggest that you install anacron, move your old configuration /etc/petab over the new /etc/anacrontab and move all spool files from /var/lib/pe/* to /var/spool/anacron/*. Then you should remove the old version with purge: dpkg --purge pe For those who are intrested, here is an extrait from the readme: This is anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') -- a cron-like program that doesn't go by time. It is useful for jobs, that don't have to run at a certain time, but in a certain period. (That's why anacron was called `pe', periodic execution, before.) By not specifying a certain time when a job has to be executed it is possible to use anacron on systems that don't run continously but are powered on at different times every day. ---- Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
ANNOUNCE: pe package -- try 2
Hi! I'm sorry, but the permission to the files I referred to yesterday were wrong. I had just fixed them and the files should now be available for everyone who is intrested. Thanks for all the mails! For those who didn't get it yesterday: pe (periodic execution) is meant to be a simple replacement for cron(8) on systems, that are just powered on for a few hours a day. On such systems, cron jobs are not very useful since one often can't say, when the system is running. So, for example, the nice jobs in the /etc/cron.daily directory aren't executed. (I didn't had the log rotating running on my client machine for 4 weeks now ;-) Here are the URLs: http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/pe_0.2-1_all.deb http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/pe_0.2-1.tar.gz Cheers Chris PS: I'm not quite sure if the name "pe" is good for what this small utility does. So if someone has a better idea, email me... -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
ALPHA: pe package - periodic execution
Hi! I just rewrote my pe program and made a debian package. Here is what it's for: pe is meant to be a simple replacement for cron(8) on sys tems that don't run 24 hours a day. On such systems, you can't normally specify a certain time when a job is to be executed. If you use pe you don't specify a time to run a command but how often the command should be executed. This period is given in days. Normally, pe is started after bootup. Since you probably don't want all your jobs running at the same time directly after bootup (that's the time when you normally log in and start your programs) you can specify a delay in minutes. pe waits this long before starting your program. pe has its own log files the tell it, when the jobs were executed last time so it always knows, which jobs it has to run. Best way of using pe is to add a cron entry that starts pe right after midnight, so in case your system is running for several days, the jobs still get executed on the right intervall. If this is useful for others too, I want to include it in the Debian distribution. I just tried to upload it to ftp.debian.org, but there is a note, that uploads should go to the /home/Debian/... directory which doesn't exist and I didn't had permissions to enter the /pub/debian/project/Incoming directory. So for now I had just placed it on my web space. Every one can get it via http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/pe_0.2-1_all.deb and the source is http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/pe_0.2-1.tar.gz Just contact me about bugs, spelling or grammar errors, or about any future enhancements. It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they seem pretty old and I didn't find any information. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Re: XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
Hi! > My understanding is that the currently available Debian X11R6 packages > are from XFree86 3.1.2 and to upgrade I will need first to install the > 3.1.2D distribution from ftp.xfree86.org then to install the upgrade > files for 3.1.2E. Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an > unnecessary upgrade. I use an ATI Win Turbo with Mach 64 Chip (I think). Therefore I needed XFree86 3.1.2E (release D is expired). This is what I did and it might also work for you: 1. Install Debian as usual, with all X stuff and the Mach64 Server. 2. Install the XFree86 3.1.2E Mach64 Server Binary (this is only the /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 file!) over the old server. Using the new server with the old libs/binaries works fine. I think it is the best way to first install the old server and then overwrite it, so debian thinks that the depencies are correct. Otherwise it will complain about not having a X server installed. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
Xarchie package somewhere?
Hi! I'm looking for a xarchie package. Does someone have one out there? I might create one, if not. Cheers Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
color_xterm?
Hi! Is there a color_xterm in Debian 1.1 - or something similar? Right now, I'm using the old color_xterm from Slackware. Thanks in advance Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
netpbm package?
Hello everybody! Does someone have a netpbm package for debian? I just found the pbmplus package that looks pretty old. AFAIK, netpbm is the successor of pbmplus. The newest version I could find is sunsite: apps/graphics/convert/netpbm-Mar1994-bin.tar.gz while the pbmplus package is dated 10dec91. If there is no such package, I will probably create one. Thanks in advance, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
