various computers for adoption

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
I have a number of computers for adoption by people who will use them to support Debian, and preferrably people who will keep them online for others to use. Original DEC Alpha Multia. I want money for this one. Round out your architecture collection. No RAM or disk. Insists on true parity RAM.

Re: bugs...

1997-12-02 Thread Mark W. Eichin
nedit installed its files to /usr/X11/bin, which didn't previously exist. I can't remember if there was supposed to be a symlink from Ok, we can at least get that one fixed... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Jim Pick
The logo I chose is http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/profile/si02.html Good choice. You forgot to give some credit to the artist (Simon?) though. Do you think SPI should trademark it? What sort of licensing do you think would be best? What does the original

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Jim Pick wrote: The logo I chose is http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/profile/si02.html Good choice. You forgot to give some credit to the artist (Simon?) though. Do you think SPI should trademark it? What sort of licensing do you

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good choice. You forgot to give some credit to the artist (Simon?) That's why. All I have is Simon?. Do you think SPI should trademark it? Yes, definitely, right away. It turns out that it is absurdly easy to file for a trademark, I did the debian one in

Intent to package: umich-ldap

1997-12-02 Thread Brian Bassett
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone was working on packaging the University of Michigan's LDAP server and client suite. I noticed that hamm does not contain anything LDAP related and thought this might be a good addition. I just would like to pick everyone's brains and make sure of something.

regarding the recent problems with http://www.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread Sue Ann Campbell
As many of you know, there have been some problems with http://www.debian.org Bruce has given permission for www.debian.org to be moved to va.debian.org and I have already moved the main part of the pages. There are a few minor corrections to be made and mirroring of the bug lists and list

Re: regarding the recent problems with http://www.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
Watch out, they haven't done the IP number change yet. Hopefully I can get it done tomorrow. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap

1997-12-02 Thread Adam P. Harris
[Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED]] I was wondering if anyone was working on packaging the University of Michigan's LDAP server and client suite. I noticed that hamm does not contain anything LDAP related and thought this might be a good addition. According to the debian prospective packages

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap

1997-12-02 Thread Brian Bassett
Oops... forgot about that doc. Sorry for any confusion. Brian On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote: [Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED]] I was wondering if anyone was working on packaging the University of Michigan's LDAP server and client suite. I noticed that hamm does not

Re: regarding the recent problems with http://www.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread James A . Treacy
Watch out, they haven't done the IP number change yet. Hopefully I can get it done tomorrow. No problemo. No DNS changes will be made to www.debian.org until everything is stable and va.debian.org's IP i changed. The only rush is to get a fully working www.debian.org - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Packages available for expert maintainers or newbies

1997-12-02 Thread David Welton
pftp FTP client Got it! -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

need help in identifying changed files in pacakges, + general pacakging questions

1997-12-02 Thread Radu Duta
I'm trying to develop a system of identifying all the files belonging to packages that have changed on a system. This is very important if you want to save a current configuration. For example I go in and tweak various files here and there (init scripts) or change config files (sendmail,

Debian Logo - Transparent Version

1997-12-02 Thread Paul J Thompson
I have converted our new logo into a transparent GIF, if anyone is interested. It looks pretty decent and is nice for light colored backgrounds. It can be found at the bottom of my web page: http://thomppj.student.okstate.edu/~thomppj/ - Paul J Thompson

Re: not a first amendment question

1997-12-02 Thread Petri Wessman
On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 16:40:00 -0500, Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Brian Morality is a touchy subject and (in my opinion) the _only_ place to Brian draw this line is all or nothing. Agreed, except that clearly illegal stuff should be banned, of course. I doubt anyone would condone a

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Scott K. Ellis writes: BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over someone's system in all of Debian now. Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota depend. Thus, e2fsprogs

Re: Shared library major version number

1997-12-02 Thread fog
On 2 Dic, Oliver Elphick wrote: How do I get gcc to link in the shared library major version number? I get this: gcc -o psql -L../../interfaces/libpq psql.o stringutils.o -lpq -lcrypt -ldld -lnsl -ldl -lm -lreadline -lhistory -lcurses -export-dynamic -Wl,-rpath

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota depend. Thus, e2fsprogs was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs, and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a hamm upgrade. I thought that, e2fsprogsg

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, David Gaudine wrote: for at least a year. After installing e2fsprogsg, I'm left with the following Available Required packages; the very existence of this section makes me nervous. I should add that I'm assuming that this is a transitional thing (that's why it's called

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread James Troup
Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over someone's system in all of Debian now. Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: Scott K. Ellis writes: BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over someone's system in all of Debian now. Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs,

Weird message ftp'ing master.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
master.debian.org apparently thinks that I'm an anonymous user. What's up with this? blp:/raid/home/blp$ ftp master.debian.org Connected to master.debian.org. 220-This system is for internal use by the Debian developers. It is not 220-open to anonymous FTP. Please use

Re: nedit 5.0 questions

1997-12-02 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/12/02 at 09:13 AM -0600, Mark Edel wrote: I'm using the debian -2.deb package of nedit 5.0. The Page Up and Page Down keys don't work. The statistics line does not appear when it's preferences or default settings are selected. Sometimes I can't save a file (^S) or quit nedit

linux/unix to NT

1997-12-02 Thread Mariusz Pagowski
Hello, I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks on NT machine from unix/linux. But does samba allow me to login/telnet to NT machine from linux/unix and run remotely a program on it? If not is there some software which would allow me to do it? Thanks, Mariusz -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
Mariusz Pagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks on NT machine from unix/linux. But does samba allow me to login/telnet to NT machine from linux/unix and run remotely a program on it? If not is there some software which would allow me to do

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-02 Thread E. MACHA
OpenNT... from the top of my head I don't remember what their www pages are.. but OpenNT allows you to 'telnet' into an NT system and run programs as if on a console window. It is a commercial package. FYI.. clarifying Mariusz statement... samba allows NT/95/MS clients to access your linux

question

1997-12-02 Thread Timo Pettersson
Hi. I wasn't shore were to send this mail so I sended it here. I'm wondering if I can run Linux on my machine. I have a PentiumII 266 with an AGP graphic-card (Asus 3Dexplorer). I couldn't find any of them on your site. Neither any driver for Sound Blaster 64. Please send me an answer. I'm really

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-02 Thread Mark Baker
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mariusz Pagowski) writes: I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks on NT machine from unix/linux. Actually the other way round; samba lets you turn your unix box into a windows network compatible fileserver. There is a

Easier configuration idea....

1997-12-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
One of the faculty I have to support here is using Caldera's OpenLinux. Although Debian is still my favorite, I am pleased with some of the easy configuration features of OpenLinux. For those of you who are unaware, OpenLinux has a directory under /etc called, I believe, sysconfig. In there are

Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-02 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
I just saw this on c.o.l.a. and want to package it: Title: propsel Version:27-Nov-1997 Entered-date: 27-Nov-1997 Description:propsel is for people who work with more than a single X11 display on their desk. It allows one to paste into a xterm

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Marco Budde
Am 01.12.97 schrieb bruce # va.debian.org ... Moin Bruce! BP We've been having a logo contest for a long time. It failed to generate BP a consensus on a logo for the project. It got to the point where people What's wrong with the logo on www.debian.org? BP I chose this logo because it is a

Re: too many directories in /usr/doc?

1997-12-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 01:48:38PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: Thanks for using NetForward! http://www.netforward.com v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v I'm taking over maintaining the linux-gazette packages from Christian Schwarz, and I would prefer to just have

Re: searching Orn E. Hansen

1997-12-02 Thread Juergen Menden
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Richard Braakman wrote: Dialdcost is orphaned, see http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html. As far as I know there are no special procedures for picking up an orphaned package. i knew. but i have to discuss some copyright issues with the former

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Sorry, but why do *you* chose the logo? I thought that Debian is a team and not one person. There should be an election. I disagree. Let's have an election about whether we need an election. Golly, this could be fun ;) -- Mark Shuttleworth Thawte Consulting -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Mailinglists documented

1997-12-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening folks, Much of the the conversation between Debian developers and users is managed through several mailing lists. Debian GNU/Linux is developed through distributed development all around the world. Therefore email is a preferred way to discuss various items. All the

Re: not a first amendment question

1997-12-02 Thread Aaron Howell
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 03:00:22PM +0200, Petri Wessman wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 16:40:00 -0500, Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think the recent comparison to fortune was valid. It asks whether or not to install the offensive portion at install time. Why couldn't the purity package

Re: question

1997-12-02 Thread Mattias Evensson
Ben Pfaff wrote: Timo Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering if I can run Linux on my machine. I have a PentiumII 266 with an AGP graphic-card (Asus 3Dexplorer). AGP cards are not yet supported by XFree86. They should be supported in a few months, though, if the underlying

Re: Mailinglists documented

1997-12-02 Thread Will Lowe
You'll find this file on your favourite Debian mirror in /debian/doc/mailing-lists.txt. This file is a complete rewrite. Hmm. I'm wondering about the last three paragraphs of this file: 1) Have we actually collected any money this way? :) 2) Shouldn't these read, now that SPI is

NEdit in current Debian package

1997-12-02 Thread Mark Edel
I have been getting reports from people who are using a buggy version of NEdit from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/non-free/binary/editors/nedit_5.0-2.deb Either someone built a copy of NEdit with LessTif and contributed it, or you built it yourselves, but it was done with LessTif.

Security audit tool?

1997-12-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
I was just poking around on the Debian web site and noticed that there's a list of some known vulnerabilities in some packages. Has anyone discussed making a tool that could ftp a current copy of this list (in a properly formatted form, of course) and using it along with dpkg to determine if a

Re: Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just saw this on c.o.l.a. and want to package it: Title: propsel Version:27-Nov-1997 Entered-date: 27-Nov-1997 Description:propsel is for people who work with more than a single X11 display on their

Re: Shared library major version number

1997-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Dic, Oliver Elphick wrote: How do I get gcc to link in the shared library major version number? ... You do the right thing. It's libpq.so.1 that is faulty. When you build it you should give the -Wl,-soname,libpq.so.1 flag to gcc. Hope this helps... It

Technical Support Database suggestion...

1997-12-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
I think that it would be useful if we were to design a technical support database (something along the lines of GNATS but more user friendly) that created an online searchable database of issues that had been raised by users and the resolutions that had come out of it. This would not only be more

Debian Commercial Support

1997-12-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Now that I am leaving the project leader position, I have some options open to me that would have been conflicts of interest for before, but are to Debian's benefit. I am assembling a 24/7 commercial support network for Debian. The support database (essentially the replies of the email support

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 08:42:20PM +, Mark Baker wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mariusz Pagowski) writes: I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks on NT machine from unix/linux. Actually the other way round; samba lets you turn your