Re: talk to debian and sun
John Garas wrote: > I can talk or ytalk to debian machines but I can't talk to any sun > machines. If a sun user tries to talk to me I don't even get a > notification. > > Does anybody knows a remedy for that. You have to install ntalk & ntalkd on the Sun side. AFAIK, Sun's talk uses an obsolete protocol. Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sparc port
stephen farrell wrote: > > What's the status on the sparc port of debian? Is there a > mostly-stable-but-not-yet-released version? I'd hate to have to go > back to redhat for that... > > --sf Not really :-( Only few packages are available, most of them to help in port (developers packages like libc-dev, make, gcc, ...). Especially there is no X support at all. It's far from a release. Notice that you can install it: there is netboot support to bootstrap your system. If you have time to spent on the port you can reach our mailing list: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Colors and Packages overview
Richard Kilgore wrote: > On Apr 30, Jim Smith wrote > >alfred de Groot wrote: > >> > >> Recently I switched from Slackware to Debian. What I miss are the colors > >> wich indicates directorys and other special files. How can I get those > >> colors back? > > > >Try "alias ls=ls -color=auto" in your .bashrc. > > > > You may also need to fiddle with /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm[-color] > to get colors in an xterm. The color assignments are in > XTerm-color, and I've never figured out how this file ever gets > sourced. I always just rename XTerm to XTerm-nocolor, create a > soft link from XTerm to XTerm-color, and change the "#include" > line in XTerm-color to include XTerm-nocolor. Then, I think you > have to invoke the xterm command with the "+cm" options. Just add *customization: -color in your .Xresources (maybe .Xdefaults) or better add it to system wide /etc/X11/Xresources. Then all app-defaults files ending with -color will be used instead of the standard ones. Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New Hard Disk
Syd Alsobrook wrote: > I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I > want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new > drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one > command. is that posible or will i have to move the whole tree by hand? > Syd Try cd /usr ; find lib -print | cpio -pd /mnt or cp -a /usr/lib /mnt/lib or ( cd /usr ; tar czf - lib ) | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvzf - ) Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installation disks wanted for stable release
Hello, is there a chance to find a new installation disks set that is aware of bug #8313 regarding perl / perl-base in the stable release (1.2.9?) before 1.3 release date, or should I hack them for myself? I'll have to install 3 PC next week and need to put a stable release on them. Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
Re: Can't nfs mount Debian box
David M. Cooke wrote: > When you edit your /etc/exports file on a Linux system you need to > tell rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd to re-read it. You do this by sending > them a HUP signal. I use this command: > >killall -HUP rpc.nfsd rpc.mountd > > Rebooting should work too but is much slower. If this doesn't work, > carefully check your /etc/exports file while reading the "exports" man > page to be sure it's correct. You can also try: /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload much more Debian's way ;-) Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
looking for a sparc distribution
Hello, I'm currently looking for a Debian-Sparc distribution but I can't find anything on ftp site. Files under rex/binary-sparc are just symlinks to their counterparts in binary-all :-( Debian-sparc mailing list archive is also a bit out of date (last file from April 96). I would test Linux on a Sparc-ELC preferably using a Debian distribution. Does anyone know how do I proceed ? Where can I find a non official release ? Which mailing lists to subscribe ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailing-list X-Loop field disappeared :-(
Field X-Loop is no longer available for a lot of mails sent by, at least, debian-user and debian-devel mailing-lists. It's very annoying to me since I filter my mailbox against this field using procmail. Which other field could I use by now ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
where is compress ?
Hello all, I'm trying to compile a X-Window program which provides a new set of fonts. To generate its fonts, it uses the following command (approximately ;) ): bdftopcf machin.bdf | compress > machin.pcf.Z But I don't have compress on my Linux box. I tried moving to gzip without success because mkfontdir doesn't handle gzip format :-( Therefore I need compress! Is there any Debian package I can install that includes it ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
Re: how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
> On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a > > new distribution. > > The concept you're looking for is 'Hold'. Just move the highlight to the > packages you don't want upgraded and press 'H' to put them on hold. When > you do want to upgrade them, just 'unhold' them by pressing the 'G' key. > > Here are the relevant lines from the 'Select' help screen of dselect: > > Mark packages for later processing: > +, Insert install or upgrade =, H hold in present state > -, Delete remove :, G unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled > _ remove & purge config > > Christian In fact, it's in help page ;) But I didn't saw it a while ago then used dpkg directly for months. Yes, I should read help pages carefuly before posting so trivial query :-( I'll go through dselect at next upgrade :-) Thanks for your reply. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
Hello, I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a new distribution. Packages I should not upgrade are "base", "netscape" and few others. "base" because I changed some rights on devices (under /dev) and I don't want to reset them (and "base" is not required to upgrade (see package description)). "netscape" because I don't want to upgrade it synchronously with system upgrade (mostly because it's only an installer that require netscape tar to be present in /tmp :( ). Is there a way to tell dselect/dpkg to skip some installed packages during an upgrade without removing them from distribution ? (if provided on a cdrom, it hard to erase them ;) ) (dpkg is called from dselect passing -iGROEB options that recursively parse distribution directories and upgrade *all* packages previously installed). Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
problem using DC fonts in latex
Hello all,
I have upgraded my Debian system using latex_2e-7 and mflib_1.0-8 as
described in an earlier message I read from this mailing list.
However, when I tried to use T1 font encoding, I got a lot of errors
regarding font availability.
Running latex on a document that requires DC fonts (\usepackage[T1]{fontenc})
generates errors when it looks for fonts to be included in the document.
I don't have exact logs to put in my mail (I test new packages at my home, not
at my office, sorry :-( ) but I can try to explain what latex do:
when loading fontenc, latex selects T1 encoding by then load the upright font
at the desired size (10, 11 or 12pt, I tried all of them).
Name of font (for 10pt, for instance) is dcr1000.mf.
However, this font isn't available in my system, then latex run MakeTeXTFM to
build it and store a new description in /var/spool/texmf/fonts/source.
In the followind step, latex (or maybe MakeTeXTFM ?) run MakeTeXMF on that
source to generate a bitmap font. However it doesn't find the font.
Apparently, /var/spool/texmf/fonts/source isn't in the default MFINPUTS path :-(
Therefore I added it and reran latex (by setenv MFINPUTS :).
Latex then generate all the fonts I needed in my document but all are ugly
under xdvi (characters strokes are very, very thin).
Apparently, this new distribution uses DC fonts v1.2 but the old one
(latex_2e-4) uses a previous version.
I heard that I should also upgrade fonts. Should it fix my problem ?
I also heard that mf program should be designed to run with DC-1.2 fonts :-\
BTW, I didn't find a newer package than mfbasfnt_1.0-3 and textfm_1.0-3 that
I already have installed.
Does a new font package will be planned ?
Thank in advance for all replies I could receive.
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Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
