Re: My BitFontEdit as a Debian Package

1998-06-26 Thread Raul Miller
David Lawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm the author of the BitFontEdit "package" which I wrote 10 years ago. > Only the original version with no name (directory is TermFonts) is still > on the net in a few obscure locations. I want to get the improved > version back on the net (my free webs

Possible bug in Apache 1.3.0...

1998-06-26 Thread Vincent Renardias
[Also sent to debian-devel, since I'm interested to hear about other people having noticed this problem] I run a medium sized webserver (~80.000 hits/day) with apache/1.3.0, however it occasionnaly stops answering http queries and forks > 120 http daemons, while I've set the max. forking limit to

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 26 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bdale> If you're working in a multi-machine networked environment, > Bdale> and are accessing another system using NFS (particularly with > Bdale> an automounted host map), an absolute

Oops

1998-06-26 Thread Michael Meskes
Sorry for the last one. Should have gone to request. But I'm in a hurry. My boss decided to strip my remote login rights without telling me. Boy, am I glad I leave this company! Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Eu

Re: Intent to package xruskb and netenv

1998-06-26 Thread Michael Meskes
Brian Mays writes: > Package: netenv > Version: 0.81-1 > Description: Configure your system for different network environments. > > Netenv creates a file containing variable assignments which reflect > the current environment. It is especially useful for laptop computers, > since it can

tcpd with xinetd

1998-06-26 Thread fantomas
Hello, a few years ago i patches tcpd to cooperate with xinetd; the patch is on ftp://ftp.tuke.sk/pub/unix/security/tcpd_xinetd.patch The problem is xinetd doesn't allow to define argv[0] thus tcpd would call itself; this patch increases argv if argv[0] eauqls to "tcpd", "in.tcpd" or "in.frontd"

Intend to package Snd and CLM

1998-06-26 Thread Guenter Geiger
Hi ! I'm planning to package Snd (a powerful Sound Editor) and the Common Lisp Music system for slink. Any suggestions, comments ?? Guenter (Please CC public replies to me .. I'm not on the list) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are >correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is "evil". but in some situations they are necessary : when useing nfsroot with special setup. for improved speed i want a codafs as the basic layer, so /usr -> /coda/

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bdale> If you're working in a multi-machine networked environment, Bdale> and are accessing another system using NFS (particularly with Bdale> an automounted host map), an absolute link can easily violate Bdale> "the principle of least

Away from my computer for a while

1998-06-26 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I will be out of town for a quite long period (until August 14). Feel free to do NMUs of any of my packages, if it is needed. -- Rafael Laboissiere Institut de la Communication Parlee | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UPRESS A CNRS 5009 / INPG | Voice: +33 4.76.57.48.49 46, av. Felix Viallet

Re: New web pages are finally up!

1998-06-26 Thread James A . Treacy
Bdale wrote: > The link on the developer's corner page that I think should go to the list > of developers instead brings up the xearth image. The "visit the sponsor" > image on the home page just brings the image up in an image browser, it does > not actually take me anywhere. > Good catch. This

Re: netselect - choosing the best FTP server automatically

1998-06-26 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:18:24PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: [netselect http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/netselect-0.1.tar.gz] > This is pretty good, but it seems to loose much meaning for me with > several equal servers, > > ftp1.us.debian.

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: :> 21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs : The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are : correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is "evil". I'm not sure I completely understand what the lin

Re: netselect - choosing the best FTP server automatically

1998-06-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: > A while ago on debian-devel I proposed an algorithm that would allow APT to > choose the best possible server for each user from a large list > automatically. It could also be used for other tasks, eg. choosing a good > SQUID neighbour or IRC server.

Re: New web pages are finally up!

1998-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : The latest version of the Debian web pages are complete. I like them. Good work! A few nits. The link on the developer's corner page that I think should go to the list of developers instead brings up the xearth image. The "visit the sponsor" image o

Re: My BitFontEdit as a Debian Package

1998-06-26 Thread Philip Hands
> Since I wrote the code and some documentation on how > to use it, it shouldn't be too hard to package it for Debian (or will it > be?). Should easy. The main bit of debianising a package, is encapsulated in a makefile (debian/rules), which normally invokes the make clean, make all, and make

My BitFontEdit as a Debian Package

1998-06-26 Thread David Lawyer
I'm the author of the BitFontEdit "package" which I wrote 10 years ago. Only the original version with no name (directory is TermFonts) is still on the net in a few obscure locations. I want to get the improved version back on the net (my free website closed) and thought that one way to do th

Re: Bug #23877: Include autoup.sh and apt in hamm/hamm

1998-06-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On 25 Jun 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >> Subject: please include apt and autoup in > >> hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Package: > >> ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup Version: N/A > > Well, let's just do it! I see no problem with making such a directory > for final hamm.

Re: in.tftpd: Missing a critical feature

1998-06-26 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 06:38:56PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Package: netstd > Version: 3.07-1 The bug number for this report hasn't shown up in the web pages yet, so I'm removing bugs.debian.org from the cc: list in this response. You might want to forward it into the bug report. > Sun's tf

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 03:11:31AM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > Unfortunately, I can't do it right now. I'm at home now with 56Kbps, but I'll > reinstall xbase tomorrow. Nonetheless, I've installed just a version from > ftp.de.debian.org. The Packages file looks OK. Could you tell the cor

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 07:45:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Please be sure you're not using the test build of 3.3.2.2-1. It had a bug > in it which GUARANTEES that error if startx or xinit is used. > > The correct size and md5sum of the xbase 3.3.2.2-1 .deb are: > > 2167928 > cea2e2b7

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 02:18:34AM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > I've just upgraded to the latest X from hamm (3.3.2.2-1, before I had > 3.3.2.1-1) and now I can't execute startx anymore. An the end of usual > messages it produces: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 08:33:29PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > It worked for me but. Check you /etc/X11/Xservers file and make > sure that it has an Xserver listed such as "/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA". > I had to do this when I first installed hamm because the configuration > left it out. No problem

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Shaleh
It worked for me but. Check you /etc/X11/Xservers file and make sure that it has an Xserver listed such as "/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA". I had to do this when I first installed hamm because the configuration left it out. Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > > Hi! > > I've just upgraded to the lat

X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
Hi! I've just upgraded to the latest X from hamm (3.3.2.2-1, before I had 3.3.2.1-1) and now I can't execute startx anymore. An the end of usual messages it produces: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect