Expiring mail "articles" in a region in Gnus?
Hello, I'd like to know how it is possible to expire mail "articles" in the current region in Gnus. I'm not knowledgeable about Gnus so I can't write it mself, but if someone has an idea or can help me, this would be great... Also, someone sent me a nice intro to using Gnus to read mail. I lost it :-( If you read this message, please, send it again. Thanks in advance, Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone interested in pretty xaw3d scrollbars?
Joey, It would be nice to have an xaw3d-scrollbars.deb package. Especially if you also make packages for xterm-3dscrollbars and xterm-color-3dscrollbars to go with it. Yves. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with diald?
Hello, I'm trying to use diald, but have problems. If I use '/etc/init.d/ppp start' as my connect script (and have no ip-up because ppp will call its own) I see in my log things like diald: connect to x diald: starting pppd but nothing happens really; in addition, why does diald says it starts pppd when the manual page says this is the task of the connect script? So I'd like to get help on setting up diald so that I can reuse most of my existing pppd setting (chat script and ip-up/ip-down scripts). I'd like to know, too, how I can arrange things so that when I mail to someone outside my domain diald does not try to dial. Thanks in advance, Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zsh_3.0 (in rex) is not stripped!
On Sep 27, 8:21pm, joost witteveen wrote: } > hmm after installing zsh 3.0 from the rex tree, I found that the zsh bin } > is not stripped (ie it takes 1.6 Mb...) } > } > just thought I would let you zsh users know.. } } You might also let the maintainer know it -- this counts as a bug. Well, I did notice that too and did report it as a bug. So it may not be necessary to report it twice... (But nothing has changed as far as I know.) Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: features of 1.1.1 Apache package (Was: Re: server sides in apache.)
>>will there be an "/info" and "/status", besides logging of HTTP_REFERER and >>HTTP_USER_AGENT, in the new distribution (with apache-1.1.1) ?? > >does the standard apache have referer/agent stats? >i ask because mine doesnt seem to be generating any? > Yes. Yes. Yes. I spent some time modifying the Apache package so that the binary is able to dynamically load modules at startup and the configuration script lets one choose modules. The net result is that: 1. The Apache package has *all* modules, and one will choose which one to dynamically load at startup. 2. One can esaily add a module to Apache without having to recompile it (the necessary .h files are in the package). My php module package is an example of how to do that (expect it on your archives next week). Yves. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gs_4.01-4.deb and deskjet 510
I just installed the new gs package gs_4.01-4.deb. installing was no problem, but when I tried to use it with the magicfilter, I get garbage out of my HP Deskjet 510. THis filter uses -sDEVICE=deskjet. However, when I replace it with the `djet500' device (hmm.. in my old gs, version 2.6..., this was still `dj500'), I get output. Is the deskjetdevice broken in the 4.01 version, or did I do something wrong? If you debians can shed some light in this darkness, I would be pleased. I think the deskjet device is broken. There was a discussion of this (and a patch to apply to gs) in comp.lang.postscript last weeks. Yves. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache ELF 1.1.1
hi, i grabbed the binary of APache 1.1.1 (ELF) from apache.org and when i tried to run it i got the message "cant find libgdbm.so" so i grabbed the libgdbm (dev) package from debain.org but this didnt have this file either. What am i mising here? It shouldn't look for libgdbm.so but for libgdbm.so.* instead. BTW, you should get the Debian Apache 1.1.1 package from unstable. The latest package is 1.1.1-4. Yves.
Available tools for making clickable WWW imagemaps?
Are there such tools in Debian packages? If not, what do you recommend me (I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize? Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Re: 2 questions.....
Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a way or option to use that will finish printing and eject the paper automatically? Instead of saying something like gs options -sInputFile=somefile.ps use gs options -
Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?
I did put eval `tset -sQ -e 0x7f` in my /etc/profile (/etc/csh.login) file and never had any problem. Yves.
Re: apache-1.1.1
i tried using apache_1.1.1-2 and 3 from the Incoming directory and we started having problems viewing gzipped postscript files with both netscape and mosaic. i don't know if this is a bug in the apache server itself or just in the debian distribution. also /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_proxy.so doesn't want to load in apache-1.1.1-3. unfortunately i don't really have a lot of time to look into this (trying to graduate, i guess), so i just went back to 1.0.5. if anybody would care to investigate this further i would appreciate it. thanks. Are you sure the mod_proxy does not want to load, or is it simply unusable because of bad permissions under /var/spool/apache (which will be fixed once I change the scripts to make the server run under www-data.www-data). Actually apache runs nobody, group -1, so the directory should have 777 (or 1777) permissions... Do you have a TypesConfig line in your configuration file? If so, it should certainly be removed or made to point to /etc/mime.types. Please tell me. Yves.
Re: where is compress ?
I'm trying to compile a X-Window program which provides a new set of fonts. To generate its fonts, it uses the following command (approximately ;) ): bdftopcf machin.bdf | compress > machin.pcf.Z But I don't have compress on my Linux box. I tried moving to gzip without success because mkfontdir doesn't handle gzip format :-( Therefore I need compress! Is there any Debian package I can install that includes it ? Because BSD compress might conflict with Unisys licensing of LZW, it is not included in the Debian distribution. There is a compress-package available, though, that, after you have got sources for compress (for example the compress.tar.12 file that can be found on some GNU archives), will help you build a Debian compress package, as in: % cd /usr/src/compress/compress-4.0 % make-cpkg [...] % dpkg -i ../bsd-compress_4.0-1_i386.deb Yves.
Q. about dosemu package
Hello, I'd like to know the following about dosemu: 1. Is something doing a dosemu 0.60.4 package? There is a 0.60.4 version on the Linux archives, dated 1995, but we only have the 0.60.3 on Debian. Is the package not maintained anymore? And is dosemu development stopped? 2. I only have Windows 95 on my machine. Is it possible to boot its DOS from Dosemu? Or should I make a hard-disk file with a 6.x DOS? In this case, is it okay to read/write my FAT filesystem through emufs? 3. Does any of you have succeeded in using Windows 3.1 under dosemu? If so, I'd like to be helped (in private mail, please). Thanks in advance, Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Re: Debian 1.1 (Kernel v2.0) Questions
I was curious if it's possible to yank the Linux Kernel v2.0.20 off sunsite.unc.edu and install it on a Debian v1.1 (Kernel v2.0) machine. I require this because I use the eepro ethernet driver and the v0.08 that is included with Debian 1.1 is broke. The new v0.09 eepro driver is supposed to fix the problems we're having Any information would be appreciated! No problem. Get kernel-package to help building the kernel if you don't have it. And look in the Documentation directory of 2.0.20 to see if you have the correct versions of systems tools for 2.0.20. Yves.
Re: imagemagick depends on libtiff3
I get the following messages: imagemagick depends on libtiff3 libtiff3 does not appear to be available. Q1: Can somebody tell me where I can find libtiff3 ? Q2: Is it a .deb installation file ? A1: in the graphics section of the archive (the unstable, certainly). Also get zlib1 and libjpeg6a because libtiff3 depends on them (and they all replace libgr, so you may have to update packaging depending on libgr: try to remove it to get a list of such packages). A2: yes. libtiff3 and libtiff3-dev for developers. Yves.
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
On Sep 16, 8:48pm, Christian Schwarz wrote:
} Subject: 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?
}
} 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.
That wouldn't resolve Michael's problem: assume I change my
app-defaults file for SomeApp, just to adjust colors to my tastes.
Then comes a new release of SomeApp, with new features controlled by X
resources that are in the app-defaults file. What will dpkg do, then?
Propose me to keep my modified file (1), or replace it (2).
If (1) changes are that I loose the ability to use the new feature
because the app-defaults file lacks some defaults (in most cases the
app will even not run).
If (2) I get the new feature but lose my colors changes.
It is extremely hard to update a changed file automatically (don't
talk about patch, please, this works only if the organization of the
file didn't change), so the best way is effectively to make resources
mofifications *outside* of the app-defaults file to keep them local
and still be able to upgrade nicely.
Yves.
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Is xcolorsel in a Debian package?
Just curious. I need it, found an xcolors package that I cannot use (the first reason being that I can't handle a window of 932x2246 on my 1152x900 display!), but no xcolorsel package. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
New Apache module mod_info.so available on master
Thanks to Joey Hess, a bug in the info module has been spotted (the module makes a SIGSEGV). The bug has been corrected and another bug in this module, regarding the dumping of the currentr configuration, has been fixed too. The module will be part of the next Apache release. In the meantime, it is available from master.debian.org in ~arrouye/apache/modules/mod_info.so and can be installed (mode 755) in place of /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_info.so. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Apache 1.1.1 release
Hello, Please note that the 1.1.1 apache package, which will be on Debian archives as soon as transferred from chiark, still installs in /var/web and don't take www-data into account. The next release will use www-data correctly, run the server under www-data.www-data identity if wanted, but I didn't have the time to do that properly and there was much demand on a 1.1.1 release. The 1.1.1 package does offer dynamic linking of modules, and a PHP module will be available shortly. Please not that CGI scripts that used to be in the Apache package were moved to the new cgi-scripts package that you may want to get along with the Apache one. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Re: apache package
On Sep 11, 6:39pm, Bernard Leach wrote: } Subject: apache package } It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the } apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked } it up and if there is a 1.1 version. The 1.1.1 version will be in unstable this week. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
clnttcp_create: RPC: Program not registered
What's this message? Do you have an idea? It happens with 2.0.12 when I connect using UUCP, and I have the following messages logged too: uucico fdn daemon (1996-08-12 19:05:15.82 569) ERROR: Line disconnected uucico fdn - (1996-08-12 19:05:15.89 569) ERROR: write: I/O error uucico fdn - (1996-08-12 19:05:16.05 569) ERROR: write: I/O error uucico fdn - (1996-08-12 19:05:16.05 569) Call complete (63 seconds 22960 bytes 364 bps) uucico fdn - (1996-08-12 19:05:16.05 569) ERROR: Can't disable hardware flow control: I/O error uucico fdn - (1996-08-12 19:05:18.09 569) ERROR: write: I/O error Yves.
Help setting up NIS on a machine
Hello,
I tried to use the nis 1.20 package but have a problem: I setup a server
on my machine, but when I run ypbind it makes endless connections:
marin54# !y
ypserv -d
[Welcome to the NYS YP Server, version 0.18 (with securenets)]
Find securenet: 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.0
Find securenet: 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
ypserv.conf: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:*:0:0:2
ypproc_domain_nonack("puceron") [From: 127.0.0.1:1595]
connect from 127.0.0.1
-> OK.
ypproc_domain_nonack("puceron") [From: 127.0.0.1:1597]
connect from 127.0.0.1
-> OK.
ypproc_domain_nonack("puceron") [From: 127.0.0.1:1599]
connect from 127.0.0.1
-> OK.
ypproc_domain_nonack("puceron") [From: 127.0.0.1:1601]
connect from 127.0.0.1
-> OK.
ypproc_domain_nonack("puceron") [From: 127.0.0.1:1603]
connect from 127.0.0.1
-> OK.
[etc].
This brings my machine to its knees unless I kill ypbind. I don't know
what is wrong and have setup NIS as said in the NIS HOWTO. The only
difference I find is:
marin# rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
program 14 version 1 ready and waiting
program 14 version 2 ready and waiting
where in the HOWTO only the second line is here.
Do you have any idea of what can be wrong?
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chat bugs
> - If I put "quiet" flags (\q) on both my username and password strings, it > only recognizes the first one, i.e., it puts my password into the log file! I have only one \q for my passwd, and it's in the log file too :-(. Yves.
The "*" character (was: Latex )
Mark Phillips writes: > >It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages > >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands: > > > > dpkg -l *tex* > > I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under > bash. Is there a difference between how the * character is treated > under the two shells? It differs from shell to shell and even within a given shell: marin215# tcsh # echo *tex* echo: No match. # set nonomatch # echo *tex* *tex* # In csh, having nonomatch set asks the shell not to say it can't do a wildcard expansion but rather to pass the argument (as if it was quoted, then) to the command. The surest way to get consistent results is to quote ;-) Yves.
.xinitrc
Rick Hawkins writes: > > one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the > .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious? > When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have one that looks like: #! /bin/sh sh $HOME/.xinitrc (the 'sh' should not been necessary, but does no harm...). Yves.
Re: printing in debian/unix is hard...
Carlos Carvalho writes: > > I have however a more fundamental objection to the unix print model. > It's not good for modern printers that have many configuration > options, like color/mono, paper/transparency, high/low resolution, > econo mode, etc. The number of alternatives is so big that you need a > graphic or menu interface to configure it for each print job. > Separating the options in different queues is not feasible because you > need to have tens of them. And the configuration interface must be > available from the print menu of every application and from the > command line. It surely can be done, but I've never heard of it. If you use a PS printer (or gs) consider trying the psptools package when it will be available, and use a PPD file which describes your printer's capacities. Yves.
modprobe messages about module net-pf: what are they?
Hello, Since 1.99, I get messages like: Jun 4 00:03:50 marin modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 Jun 4 00:03:52 marin modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5 in my daemon.log. Do you know what they mean? Thanks, Yves.
Re: Self-Built Kernel Packages
> > You could also grab the raw source and use kernel-package > > package to generate your new image package. This is the recommended > > method for generating custom kernel images. > > Could you point me to exactly where this is recommended? > > In any case, though, I have no desire to follow this path. I like > building my kernel directly from the main sources. I don't want to > have to wait for a package to get built or apply patches to the > debian sources. The point is that the kernel-package package provides a debian.rules file (along with some other), that, installed in your kernel source directory, will build a package containing *your own customized* linux kernel. This package is named kernel-image, and installing it will install this image on your system. YA.
Help with auto-pgp (emacs)
Hello, With a default installation (1.1 from scratch), I can't use auto-pgp as documented. When I do C-x y s to sign, I get the following error: /usr/bin/pgp-auto: connect to pass-socket for passphrase: No such file or directory Any idea? Thanks in advance, Yves.
Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?
Stephen Early writes: > > Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there > > may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate > > to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use. > > If this is possible I'll make a package for it. > > If we do have a compress package, it must go in non-free. I'll made a compress package (with compress/uncompress) and a btoa one (with btoa and friends like tarmail et al.) this week. Yves.
Where are the new packages put?
I'd like to know if new packages (like dpkg 2.0, xtel, etc) go: I can't easily find them on the ftp.ibp.fr mirror, for example. Is there a list of newly released packages with their location in the Debian archives>? Thanks, YA.
regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?
Hello, Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use. If this is possible I'll make a package for it. If this is really impossible, would it be at least possible for the gzip package *not* to provide a compress link (uncompress is okay because gzip correctly uncompresses compress'ed files)? It is really confusing to be able to run the compress command deep in an app. building hierarchy and to see some time after that (in my case) the fonts file that have been compressed by this compressed cannot be understood by X (starting with mkfontdir). If compress were not supplied, then one would notice that immediately, and get one (for example GNU compress.tar.12 on GNU archives or the one that is available on CTAN which in addition offer btoa, atob, tarmail and untarmail) at his/her own risk. Yves. P.S.: to whom it may concern: there are problems on the list: - The following addresses have delivery notifications - debian-user@lists.debian.org (unrecoverable error) - Transcript of session follows - 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] unknown mailer error 1 - Original message follows -
Re: Bug with su and /usr/bin/zsh. Any idea?
Rob Leslie writes: > I can't reproduce this; however, you might make sure you don't have `su' > aliased to something under zsh. Check with `which'. It isn't aliased. Nut I found the problem, which has nothing to do with su. I had an export UID in my environment, and thus the spawned zsh changed its identity to mine after having being lauched root :-( Yves.
Re: /etc/psdevtab?
Scott Barker writes: > eckes said: > > its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is > > needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given > > inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run "ps" (from the > > procps package in the base) the first time. This speeds up ps a big time > > and > > reduces the amount of 'stats' in the /dev/ directory on the following > > invokations of ps. > > I guess it doesn't work, then. I've got a 12288 byte file full of zeros. I don't even have it :-( Why? Was it removed from the latest base package installation proc.? YA.
making sendmail not use DNS (Was: Re: diald)
> Richard Kettlewell said: > > Also, do someone know how to ask sendmail really not to make DNS queries? > > This is somewhat that starts up diald when one does not want, and it is > > really annoying. > > In your m4 file, use the following options: > > FEATURE(nodns) > FEATURE(nocanonify) I have them already for a long time. Sendmail still does DNS queries, for example to try to contact my smarthost. I could try to put just this one in /etc/hosts but I'm not sure it will suffice (I'll tell if it does). Yves.
safe_finger does not obey window size; why?
The output of safe_finger is truncated even if my terminal has, say 180 columns. Is this the intended behaviour? There is no man page for safe_finger, so I'd like to know if this should be reported as a bug or if it is correct. And of course, what does safe_finger do to get the `safe' name? Thanks, Yves.
Bug with su and /usr/bin/zsh. Any idea?
Hello, With the zsh package version 2.6-beta13-2, there is something really strange happening when root uses zsh: if I do a % su I get a new shell that is *not* a root one, where when I do % su - I effectively get a root shell. This is especially strange as the su command works perfectly with bash, csh and ksh. I removed all /etc/z* login/env files without affecting the bug. Any idea about what's happening? Maybe should I file a bug report too... Yves.
__NR_sysinfo while building dpkg-1.1.5 (on 1.1 beta)
While compiling dpkg, the configure scripts says: checking for sysinfo... no checking __NR_sysinfo... yes; tsk tsk - get your libc fixed. So what I am supposed to do? I thought I had the most recent possible installation ;-) Thanks for any advice, Yves.
cfengine-1.2.26-2.deb bad /etc/cfengine.conf
The default /etc/cfengine.conf does not work out of the box because the actionsequence is empty (parse error line 23). Also, wouldn't it be nice to have the postinst script get the timezone from the installed system? YA.
/etc/papersize?
Could someone email a sample /etc/papersize file on this list? Yves.
Bug in date (1.1)
I can't find the name of the package maintainer, so here's the problem: when the timezone is incorrectly set (the default in my 1.1 brand new installation), saying % date +%Z does something bad: instead of returning an empty timezone (as if I say "date '+%H %Z'" which works perfectly), the disk starts spinning and date does not return until it is killed. Yves.
Re: Locale in 1.1?
J. H. M. Dassen writes:
> [Please fix your return address: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is incomplete]
I know. Sorry, my dns domain name was not set. Should be okay now.
> > I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The
> > /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it.
> >
> > I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should
> > support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it
> > display them on a Slackware with ISO-8859-1). How can I correct that?
>
> AFAIK the locale support doesn't set your display font.
> Perhaps you need to do a setfont with one of the iso* fonts in
> /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts ?
The fact that nvi (does not) displays diacritic characters has nothing
to do with the fonts, just to what isprint() returns. I had it work
under Linux using a Slackware 3.0 distribution.
Doing a little test:
#include
#include
#include
main() {
int c;
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
if (c == '\n') continue;
printf("0x%02d: %d\n", c, isprint(c));
}
}
typing diacritic characters tells they are not printable with LANG set
to ISO-8859-1 :-( Is it a bug in the libc5 used with 1.1? A bug with
me? In any case, it's annoying...
Yves.
1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.
The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a fresh installation. I'm sure some xmodmap commands (though I'm not sure which ones, if you can help) would do the trick, but I wonder what neither of them is usable by default? YA.
Pb. with 1.1's telinit (sysvinit 2.60)
When issuing a telinit command to change runlevel (from 2 to 4, for example), nothing happens :-(, processes are not being sent any signal and new processes don't start. Why? I heard about a 2.70 sysvinit package on this list. Is it debianized somewhere? Yves.
xconsole for 1.1?
Is there a debian package with xconsole somewhere? Yves.
1.1 fresh installation report
Hello, I just installed Debian 1.1: it installed fine, nice job! There are some minor problems, though. Here is an incomplete (sorry...) list of some problems I had while installing: - When making a boot floppy, I inserted an unformated one, and it failed; I used the shell in the second console to format it and reselected the menu item, and the floppy was formatted again. I don't know if it does that in any case, or just if the operation failed previously, but in both cases it is unclear and the process would profit from some explanations. (I'm not sure the first-time user will know how to format the disk from a shell, and the dialog just asks for a blank floppy, not a formatted one). - A message saying that uname cannot be found appears while installing (I don't remember where, sorry). - Dselect lists package multiple times: in their regular sections, and at the end on the listing (without sections). (I did not use a PackagesMaster file, can it be the reason)? - Xconsole is still not anywhere. - Sendmail will not install properly without an existing sendmail.cf; this is annoying since it blocks the proper installation of vm, inn, gnats, and maybe others. - While installing ppp, I get the message `shift count must be <= $#'. - Having chosen my X server and answered all X config. questions, I still have XF86_NONE (or NOTHING?) in the Xserver file. - Having installed xdm, the xdm/Xservers file is not updated with an entry for my local server, though the comments in this file indicate it should be done by the installation program. - /etc/initrunlvl is never created. How can I correct that? In addition, is it correct to use it to check the run level we are in in the /etc/rc.*d/* scripts? (I'd like to have xdm start only in runlevel 4, for example). This aside, it works really well! Thanks. Yves.
Re: configure sendmail in Debian (sendmail.cf included)
Please find enclosed my sendmail.cf file. You will have to change mailhost to the name of your ISP's mail relay host (one that will act as a smart host), or have an alias for it. Using this config file, your mail will go through by SMTP, not by UUCP: just add a `sendmail -q' to your ip-up script (or whatever is called when your ISP connection gets up) and the mail will go out as you want. Yves. (I can email you the .mc file if you want, too). # # Copyright (c) 1983, 1995 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright #notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright #notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the #documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software #must display the following acknowledgement: # This product includes software developed by the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors #may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software #without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. # ## ## # # SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILE # # built by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue Mar 5 23:02:23 MET 1996 # in /usr/local/src/network/sendmail/sendmail-8.7.3/cf/cf # using ../ as configuration include directory # ## ## # @(#)cfhead.m48.3 (Berkeley) 9/15/95 # # @(#)cf.m48.24 (Berkeley) 8/16/95 # # @(#)linux.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 8/21/93 # # @(#)generic.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/21/95 # # @(#)redirect.m4 8.4 (Berkeley) 6/25/95 # # @(#)use_cw_file.m4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/7/93 # # @(#)nodns.m4 8.1 (Berkeley) 8/6/93 # # @(#)nocanonify.m48.1 (Berkeley) 6/7/93 # # @(#)proto.m4 8.100 (Berkeley) 12/3/95 # # level 6 config file format V6/Berkeley ## # local info # ## Cwlocalhost # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw-o /etc/sendmail.cw # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain #Dj$w.Foo.COM CP. # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSesmtp:mailhost # place to which unknown users should be forwarded #Kuser user -m -a<> #DLname_of_luser_relay # operators that cannot be in local usernames (i.e., network indicators) CO @ % ! # a class with just dot (for identifying canonical names) C.. # Mailer table (overriding domains) #Kmailertable dbm /etc/mailertable # Domain table (adding domains) #Kdomaintable dbm /etc/domaintable # who I send unqualified names to (null means deliver locally) DR # who gets all local email traffic ($R has precedence for unqualified names) DH # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we masquerade # class M: domains that should be converted to $M #CL root CE root # dequoting map Kdequote dequote # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DM # my name for error messages DnMAILER-DAEMON CPREDIRECT CPFAX # Configuration version number DZ8.7.3 ### # Options # ### # strip message body to 7 bits on input? O SevenBitInput=False # 8-bit data handling O EightBitMode=pass8 # wait for alias file rebuild (default units: minutes) O AliasWait=10 # location of alias file O AliasFile=/etc/aliases # minimum number of free blocks on fil
Locale in 1.1?
Hello, I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it. I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it display them on a Slackware with ISO-8859-1). How can I correct that? Thanks for any help, Yves.
