JDK not working
Hello: I have just installed version 1.0.2-3 of jdk-common and jdk-static from non-free. However, when I try to run the java executables, all I get is, naoma: ~$ java java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java naoma: ~$ jdb java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java naoma: ~$ javac java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java Any clues on what the problem may be? Thanks a lot, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to type accents with pine in a msg?
Hi Carlos: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How is it possible to type accents in a mail msg. composed with pine? I saw no mention of 8bit composing in the man page, docs and config files. Is far as I know, there's no way to type accents with pine's built in editor. I guess you have to use an external editor like emacs, for example. It does a prety good job with accents, but may be quite slow to start up. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dot-matrix printers
Hi Alexander: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I really think that could be a happy-administrators-guide.ps, with things like: Well, you have Linux in your computer. You want to make Linux usable. Then, do these simple steps... So, again, how can I make my printer work? It's connected. It's online. It's working in Windows. It's working in DOS. I've the packages installed. So? :-) There's no happy-administrators-guide for Linux, but, at least your problem, can be solved by reading the Printing-HOWTO. In Debian, it can be found as /usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz (you have to first install the package doc-linux to get it in place, if you haven't done that already). The HOWTO contains everything you need to setup Linux printing, and will allow you to understand every detail. Certainly, that won't eliminate complexity, but at least you'll be able to deal with it nicely. Enjoy, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archive Maintenance In Progress?
Hi: There's a file named 'Archive Maintenance In Progress' in at least three Debian mirrors, namely ftp.debian.org, debian.crosslink.net and debian.med.miami.edu. In debian.crosslink.net it's been there since at least a last week, so I'm wondering if something is going wrong with the mirrors. Also, I've noticed the mirrors are keeping many versions of some packages at the same time. That seems to confuse dselect when installing from my local mirror, making it upgrade a package to downgrade it later. Is that situation normal? M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: PGP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The Reason for this is that RSA in america requires all to use RSAREF library for non-commercial use. There is a european rewrite of this RSA lib. Because it is a rewrite there are no copyright problems with the lib. Because it is not in america u r free to use RSA, cause the RSA patent is only (if at all) valid in the states. Actually, it is not an European rewrite. What PGP-i uses is the original encryption library from PGP's author Phil Zimmerman, which cannot be used in the States because of the RSA patent. RSA wants to keep the algorithm under complete control, so they won't allow any implementation other than their own to be distributed, not even the free one from Zimmerman. Because of that, Zimmerman's library, which is said to be better than RSA's (and compatible at the interface level) can only be enjoyed outside the United States. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows Login Screen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option. Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem for me. Maybe I didn't follow the instructions correctly. The script file I put in xrdb is: #! /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -nocpp I still do not get the proper login screen. Maybe a bug report is in order? Using the -nocpp option simply won't work with xdm, just because the xdm configuration file /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources makes use of preprocessor macros like CLIENTHOST, to achive the fancy Debian Linux (thehost) title, and other similar features. If you disable the preprocessor with -nocpp the macros won't be susbstituted, thus making that X Window System (yes, I've seen it as well) to appear instead. I found another solution, however. The (apparently broken) xrdb, can be forced to work by invoking it as xrdb -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional' I don't know why, but I have noticed that it is enough to invoke it *once* whith this options to commit it to work *for the whole X session*. That makes me think the problem has more to do with the Xserver than with xrdb itself. By the way, it would be good to know what Xserver is being used by those experiencing the problem. In my case, I've observed the problem with XF86_SVGA, but the ATI Mach64 server doesn't seem to have it. So, what I did was moving my xrdb to xrdb.bin just like Carlo did, an replacing it by the following script: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional' $* (notice the $* at the end of the second line). Altough this is not a perfect replacement for xrdb (it doesn't work with the -cpp option) it seems to solve the problem for me. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' or whatever irq and base address I happened to try at the moment. How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble. All I need to do is to include a line with 3c509 in /etc/modules, and a line with options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TeX DC fonts not working
Hi all: I installed package mfdcfnt_1.0-1 from non-free, which contains TeX DC fonts (international version of standard TeX fonts). However, when I try to process a document using those fonts I get the following output: This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (programa.tex LaTeX2e 1996/06/01 Babel v3.5f and hyphenation patterns for english, spanish, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 1996/05/26 v1.3r Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/babel/babel.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/babel/spanish.ldf (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTeX spanish.cfg )) (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/T1enc.def)kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM dcr1000.tfm Running MakeTeXPK dcr1000.tfm mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input dcr1000 \/dev/null This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1) (/var/spool/texmf/fonts/source/dcr1000.mf (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxbase.mf) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dcr.mf (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxroman.mf OK ok (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxaccess.mf OK ok) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxpseudo.mf OK ok) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxruwest.mf OK ok The letter A with gravis ! Value is too large (7004.8092). for(beak) (SUFFIX0):=(SUFFIX0)#*hppp; ENDFOR font_setup-..._jut,stem_corr,vair_corr,apex_corr) ;define_blacker_pixels(not... for(1) ...lear_mode_guards;mode_setup;font_setup ;pseudo_setup;if.is_small_... l.87 repeat_once ; ! Value is too large (8643.55792). for(bar_height) (SUFFIX0):=(SUFFIX0)#*hppp; ENDFOR font_setup-..._jut,stem_corr,vair_corr,apex_corr) ;define_blacker_pixels(not... for(1) ...lear_mode_guards;mode_setup;font_setup ;pseudo_setup;if.is_small_... l.87 repeat_once ; ! Arithmetic overflow. From this point on, the last 19 lines (from The letter A with gravis) continue appearing over and over, until I interrupt the process manually. Then LaTeX complains about dcr1000.tfm not being available, and fails. Any ideas of what may be happening? M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TeX DC fonts not working
Hi all: I installed package mfdcfnt_1.0-1 from non-free, which contains TeX DC fonts (international version of standard TeX fonts). However, when I try to process a document using those fonts I get the following output: This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (programa.tex LaTeX2e 1996/06/01 Babel v3.5f and hyphenation patterns for english, spanish, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 1996/05/26 v1.3r Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/babel/babel.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/babel/spanish.ldf (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTeX spanish.cfg )) (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/T1enc.def)kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM dcr1000.tfm Running MakeTeXPK dcr1000.tfm mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input dcr1000 \/dev/null This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1) (/var/spool/texmf/fonts/source/dcr1000.mf (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxbase.mf) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dcr.mf (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxroman.mf OK ok (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxaccess.mf OK ok) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxpseudo.mf OK ok) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/mf/dxruwest.mf OK ok The letter A with gravis ! Value is too large (7004.8092). for(beak) (SUFFIX0):=(SUFFIX0)#*hppp; ENDFOR font_setup-..._jut,stem_corr,vair_corr,apex_corr) ;define_blacker_pixels(not... for(1) ...lear_mode_guards;mode_setup;font_setup ;pseudo_setup;if.is_small_... l.87 repeat_once ; ! Value is too large (8643.55792). for(bar_height) (SUFFIX0):=(SUFFIX0)#*hppp; ENDFOR font_setup-..._jut,stem_corr,vair_corr,apex_corr) ;define_blacker_pixels(not... for(1) ...lear_mode_guards;mode_setup;font_setup ;pseudo_setup;if.is_small_... l.87 repeat_once ; ! Arithmetic overflow. From this point on, the last 19 lines (from The letter A with gravis) continue appearing over and over, until I interrupt the process manually. Then LaTeX complains about dcr1000.tfm not being available, and fails. Any ideas of what may be happening? M. S. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is libdl1 ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am getting several packages in the frozen and contrib trees saying that they pre-depend on a 'libdl1' package which I cannot seem to find anywhere. Can anyone help? It seems that the last ld.so provides libdl1: Package: ldso Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: ld.so Version: 1.8.5-1 Replaces: libc Provides: libdl1 Conffiles: /etc/ld.so.conf bcdcb23c5d5fb460cee2ce315ef7bd32 Description: The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities. The dynamic linker provides the user-level support for loading and linking DLL and ELF shared libraries. It is required by any program that uses shared libraries, which is just about all of them. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About XFree86 3.2 ...
Hi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Carnage == Carnage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carnage Hello, When you installed XFree 3.2, did you experience Carnage any problems with the xrdb utility not working? When I Carnage first tried it, xrdb would exit with a can't run Carnage '/usr/lib/cpp -Dblablabla' with a whole bunch of '-D' Carnage switches following the 'cpp' part. I have noticed the same problem here. Q. Does it work with option -cpp /usr/bin/cpp, i.e. going straight to the binary and not through a symlink? At least in here, it does. Moreover, it works with option -cpp /lib/cpp, going through the symlink. Additionally, after you have made it work using -cpp /lib/cpp, it continues working correctly without any -cpp options. Quite annoying, really... Q. What are the permisions on cpp? lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 27 16:02 /lib/cpp - ../usr/bin/cpp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77076 Oct 25 11:02 /usr/bin/cpp Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd problem with XFree 3.2
Hi: I recently installed the XFree 3.2 packages from unstable in my machine. Although most things seem to work fine, I'm experimenting a very odd problem with the xrdb command. If I run xrdb -merge .Xresources I get the message: xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=naoma -DSERVERHOST=naoma -DSRVR_naoma -DDISPLAY_NUM=0 -DCLIENTHOST=naoma -DCLNT_naoma -DVERSION=11 -DREVISION=0 -DVENDOR=The XFree86 Project, Inc -DVNDR_The_XFree86_Project__In c -DRELEASE=3200 -DNUM_SCREENS=1 -DEXT_XFree86_DGA -DEXT_XFree86_Misc -DEXT_XFree86_VidModeExtension -DEXT_DOUBLE_BUFFER -DEXT_RECORD -DEXT_XC_MISC -DEXT_XKEYBOARD -DEXT_SYNC -DEXT_MIT_SCREEN_SAVER -DEXT_MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD -DEXT_BIG_REQUESTS -DEXT_XTEST -DEXT_XInputExtension -DEXT_MIT_SHM -DEXT_SHAPE -DSCREEN_NUM=0 -DWIDTH=1024 -DHEIGHT=768 -DX_RESOLUTION=2951 -DY_RESOLUTION=2954 -DPLANES=8 -DBITS_PER_RGB=6 -DCLASS=PseudoColor -DCLASS_PseudoColor=34 -DCOLOR -DCLASS_PseudoColor_8=34 -DCLASS_DirectColor_8=35 -DCLASS_GrayScale_8=36 -DCLASS_StaticColor_8=37 -DCLASS_TrueColor_8=38 -DCLASS_StaticGray_8=39' This seems like xrdb is not being able to find the C preprocessor as /lib/cpp, even despite the fact that /lib/cpp is a valid link to /usr/bin/cpp. However, if I try xrdb -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional'-merge .Xresources this works just fine (???). But, after this, there is something really strange. If, after issuing the last command, I issue a new xrdb -merge .Xresources it works fine (!!!). Summarizing, xrdb fails when I use it for the first time, but after specifying the C preprocessor's path once, it starts working correctly. Any ideas of what may be happening? M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with latest samba
Hello all: I'm having trouble with the latest samba from unstable (samba_1.9.16p9.deb). Since I installed it, I've been seeing messsages like these at the console: Nov 14 10:54:55 naoma nmbd[300]: connect from calera.uniandes.edu.co Nov 14 10:54:55 naoma inetd[212]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 Nov 14 10:54:56 naoma inetd[212]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping), service terminated The first two messages usually repeat many times (about 20) and then the whole thing ends up with the last 'server failing' message. The problem happens very often with connections comming from differet machines in my subnetwork. Any ideas of what may be happening? M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian+emacs problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I got a problem with emacs 19.31-2 installed with Debian 1.1.4. When I edit long lines reactions become unpredictable: sometimes it works well, other times it truncates the line or melts it with the surrounding lines. I've tried to install emacs binaries 19.29, .30 and .32 but the problem remains. Have you ever heard about this? Do you know if it is due to other components, such as ncurses? ... Do you know a solution ? What kind of terminal are you using (X11, console, serial, etc)? I have noticed similar problems when running emacs under (actual) vt220 and vt420 terminals. I finally traced down the thing to a problem with the terminals' tab hardware setup (tabs should be set to 8 character columns), Hope this helps, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange problems with $MANPATH and xdm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So my Question is now: How can I make xdm pass the environment to the window manager and all progs started? is there an equivalent of /etc/ profile for the window manager? Sure. Your .xsession file is run whenever you start (actually during all the execution of) your session. You must be careful when modifying it, because it may prevent you from using Xdm at all (!!). Alternatively, you can create a file /etc/environment and put variable definitions on it. As far as I know, it is not documented, but the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc script uses it, so it should work. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Custom ispell dictionary
Hi all! I have a custom ispell dictionary that I compiled directly from its sources. I'd like to use it with Debian but don't know where and how to install it so that Debian's ispell finds it and, even better, uses it as the default. Could anybody explain me what to do or point me to the apropriate documentation? Thanks a lot, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is wish ?
David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wish is the base-level Tk interpreter. Install either the tk40 or tk41 packages. if you install both, the wish from tk41 will be used by default. By the way, this days I tried to compile some Tcl extension package (namely ctk) and its configure script wasn't able to find the Tcl library. Investigating the problem, I found out that Debian doesn't install a libtcl.a or libtcl.so but libtcl7.4.a and and libtcl7.4.so. I know that is done to allow for the simultaneous installation of Tcl 7.4 and 7.5 (and possibly other future versions). However, I just wonder if it should exist a link to one of those libraries from /etc/alternatives (and, of course, one from /usr/lib/libtcl.so to it) so that configuration scripts can find the real library easily. I can see that the packages are doing that already for wish and tclsh, but not for the library. Am I missing something? M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some initial problems
Jens Peter Lindemann said: bored of the rubbish that slackware blows on my disk, I looked for an alternative - and found debian. ... - The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to con80x25 on my system which caused dselect to print an error-message and exit - no possibility to install additional packages... (Error-Message something like Error opening terminal: con80x25.) The second problem is still there - I can't get an editor, dselect or similar unless I setexport TERM=linux manually. And - worse - I can't find where TERM is set to the confusing value. Bruce Perens answered: This is a symptom of an antique kernel. Are you running Debian 0.93? Debian 1.1.4 is on our FTP site ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable . Did you change the kernel in some other way? I upgraded my Slackware at home to Debian 1.1, and experienced a similar problem. Indeed, what was causing the TERM variable to be incorrectly set was the fact that I was still booting my old 1.2.13 kernel from Slackware instead of the new 2.0.0 from Debian. That happened because I kept many of my old Slackware files in the system, and even after the installation of Debian, lilo continued booting the old kernel (I actually rerun lilo, but because of a mistake from my part it didn't reinstall the boot sector). I'm not sore this is Jens' case, but if so, the solution is just to configure lilo apropriately so that it boots the new kernel. Hope this helps, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-window keys
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Max Hyre wrote: Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''? After ctl-alt-bs, X does indeed appear to die---everything goes black, I see the virtual terminal from which I started xdm momentarily, then I'm back in X again. Well, that's exactly what xdm is intended for. xdm tries to keep an xserver running permanently, so that you can always login to the system using a nice graphical login prompt dialog box. In general, the purpose of xdm is to keep the machine running X all the time, and that's what it is doing now in your machine. If you want to run X only from time to time, just say startx from your usual text shell. That way, you'll get a normal X session, that you'll be able to finish with ctrl+alt+backspace, or better, stopping your window manager (or whatever other program you have at the end of your .xinitrc file). Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More groff weirdness
On 12 Jun 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now poke yer nose into groff.list and just see if you can find a directory called /usr/doc/groff. Nope, hain't there. Again, I'm using 0.93R6. If this has been fixed since, I'd love to hear about it. I'm poor and would have to suck the new distribution through a 14.4 line, so please cry for me. :) I have all the docs, but I'm using the new Debian 1.1 package. Time for the kleenex... Well, I'm using an unmodified 0.93R6, and have a nice /usr/doc/groff directory with several documents: total 106 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1182 Jul 2 1995 BUG-REPORT.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root54908 Jul 2 1995 ChangeLog.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 803 Jul 2 1995 Makefile.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8714 Jul 2 1995 NEWS.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7039 Jul 2 1995 PROBLEMS.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Jul 2 1995 PROJECTS.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 28 21:49 README.DEBIAN - ../copyright/groff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883 Jul 2 1995 README.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 Jul 2 1995 TODO.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root14160 Jul 2 1995 meintro.me.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root12902 Jul 2 1995 meref.me.gz The installed groff package status is: Package: groff Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: text Maintainer: Alvar Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.09 Revision: 4 I'm not sure, but it is possible that the particular package file you installed is corrupted. When I first installed my Debian system, I used the Yggdrasil Internet Archives distrib, which, by the way, was corrupted. In particular, the groff package was broken, and, despite it installed aparently well, it didn't work correctly (unfortunately, I never checked to see if the documentation had been installed). I fixed the problem by simply downloading a fresh package file from the archive, and installing it using the --force-install option to dpkg, so that it replaced the broken package completely. Things are now ok. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: About the interface, it'd be nice to have something mc-ish. (mc = Midnight Commander; get it and take a look if you don't have it, there's a Debian package for it). It's got pull-down menus and dialog boxes... it's very nice, supports gpm mice and is something DOS people will recognize instantly. And since mc is GPL'ed, we could borrow their low-level interface code. Would save quite a bit of coding work and would make for a nice interface, IMHO at least. Just another suggestion: why not using Ctk? Ctk is a text oriented version of the well known X Window Tk toolkit. As Tk, Ctk offers a collection of widgets, that can be combined (via the tcl language) to create user interfaces with drop-down menus, buttons, check boxes, etc. The difference is that interfaces made with Ctk can be displayed on text only terminals (like the Linux text console). Additionally, Ctk is designed to be compatible (as much as possible) with Tk. Although not every Tk script can run under Ctk (especially those using the Tk canvas widget won't work) many of them actually do. That makes easy to create programs that run both on X and text terminals without change. IMHO, dselect is a specially well suited application to run both under Tk and Ctk, because it doesn't need to display complicated graphics. With a good design, it would be possible to have a dselect offering a nice Motif-like GUI interface under X (Tk) and a decent character oriented interface under the Linux text console (Ctk). By now, Ctk doesn't offer mouse (gpm) support or ANSI color support, but I think those features wouldn't be so hard to add if necessary (by the way, Ctk comes under the same Berkeley license used by Tk). I think this would be a very interesting (and useful) project, that could be worked in a distributed group fashion, just like the whole Debian. Of course, I'm willing to do some volunteer work, so, if somebody else is interested please drop me a line. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Professor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing to Windoze Printer on Local MS Network?
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Hi. I've got a new 1.1 machine which is on a local network which includes a Win '95 printserver with no IP address. Does anyone know how to set up printing to such a machine? Will samba allow printing to a machine with no IP address? I guess not, but I'm not sure. I'm now printing with Samba to a Windows NT server which, in fact, does have an IP address. That works really fine. However, I made some experiments this days with a little local network of PCs, and only those Windows machines with TCP/IP running and with a DNS (or /etc/hosts) entry, were reachable from Linux. By the way, Win95 includes TCP/IP, so it may be just a matter of configuring it, provided of course that you are authorized to do so... Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
