Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-17 Thread eckes
Hello, > I just changed "su nobody" to "su root". I can run it manually now as > root so I assume cron should run it OK next time around. Dont do this. The entries in the find.codes database are public, therefore there should be no informatiuon stored normal users are unable to see (i.e. filenam

Re: Two X questions

1996-05-17 Thread John Larkin
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > 2. Under X11 as it is configured on my 640 x 480 low end color LCD > (Toshiba T1910), many applications I would like to use, such as > xpaint, tgif, xfig, not to mention ghostview, run at a size that is > large than the screen can show at once. Is there something I can

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > >> I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new >> release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has >> which. It's just a bash shell script tha

Re: XFree and ATI-Mach-64 cards

1996-05-17 Thread John Larkin
Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Hi there, > > can't get XFree running on an ATI-Mach-64 card. I don't know for sure > what kind of Mach64 card it is, but it's got 2MB VRAM. When I start If you can't get the XFree86 mach64 driver working, I'd recommend using the beta driver for the Mach 64. It has

Mixing and matching ELF and a.out

1996-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
I've just installed 0.93R6, and it appears that everything is in a.out format. Is this correct? I've downloaded some packages from non-free, like ncftp, seyon, and xv. These, however, are in ELF format. E.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:561]% file xv xv: ELF 32-bit LSB executabl

Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs

1996-05-17 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Package: lpr Version: 5.9-11 Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 May 1996 14:24: >Rick Macdonald writes ("Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs"): >> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: >> >> > I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a >> > >> >

Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-17 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
This bug was in the passwd file from the base package. It can be fixed by replacing the nobody line in /etc/passwd with this entry: nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null: Hope that helps. Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree and ATI-Mach-64 cards

1996-05-17 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
> What do I have to put in the MemBase line? Someone with an ATI GX Mach64 2MB - ramdac ati68860 Rev B, and clock ati18818-1/ICS2595, reported that he used: 8MB Aperature at 0xa000 I think this is supposed to be listed in the XF86Config file as MemBase 0xa000 This is only an inference,

Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Rick> Is this a problem with the cron job from the findutils package or the > Rick> passwd file from the base package? > > With the passwd file. There is a : missing at the end of the nobody entry. > It should be > nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null: H

Re: unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?

1996-05-17 Thread Olaf Erb
Bruce Perens writes: > > and the system is more sluggish. > > I suggest you build a custom kernel as soon as possible. Please tell us > if that helps. The installation kernel is a bit too generic, I fear. Uhhm, I never touched the debian bootdisks :) It was 1.3.100, now pre2.04 ELF compiled with

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Guy R. Thomas
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have > on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for > changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference. > I did find hints that the default mode could be

Two X questions

1996-05-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
There has been some helpful discussion of the setting up of X11. Perhaps this is a good time to ask some of mine. 1. How can I get the command C-g in emacs to work under X11 the same as it does in a console? Several times my machine or screen seemed to lock up when I used this command three tim

Re: unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?

1996-05-17 Thread Olaf Erb
Billy Chow writes: > Olaf> sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66) > Olaf> with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11 > Olaf> completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed > Olaf> down during emacs-startup, too, but not like now. That's the > Olaf>

Re: random post

1996-05-17 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > > > Is there a reason debian does not ship with /dev/random and /dev/urandom > > mknodded? (mknod /dev/random c 1 8 ; mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 and they work > > fine however) > > No. Report it as a bug against

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Sven Rudolph
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > > > I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new > > release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has > > which. It's just a bash shell script

unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?

1996-05-17 Thread Billy Chow
> "Olaf" == Olaf Erb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Olaf> the system is more Olaf> sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66) Olaf> with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11 Olaf> completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed Olaf> down during ema

BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
/etc/cron.daily/find looks like this: #! /bin/sh # # cron script to update the `find.codes' database. # # Written by Ian A. Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. su nobody -c "cd / && updatedb" 2>/dev/null but the "nobody" entry in /etc/passwd looks like this: nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/dev/null

Re: dselect and dpkg

1996-05-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> On 15 May 1996 12:15:39 +0200, Kai Grossjohann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kai> Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 (I know that it's Kai> unstable and maybe I should start with a stable release first, Kai> but I have already learned a few things and I think I should be Ka

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Eloy F. Macha
check out http://web.nmsu.edu/~emacha/debian.html got the source code for which. Compiles fine under linux, and someone could put it in debian-utils, or whatever... (my $.02 worth, ;) ) -Frank On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > > > I would

XFree and ATI-Mach-64 cards

1996-05-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Hi there, can't get XFree running on an ATI-Mach-64 card. I don't know for sure what kind of Mach64 card it is, but it's got 2MB VRAM. When I start XF86_Mach64, I get junk on the screen: most of the pixels are white, but there are thin vertical stripes (a couple of inches high/long) of black. A

mgetty-0.98-2: Fax page is compressed

1996-05-17 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have just installed mgetty for the first time When I convert received faxes using the package g3topbm. Then when viewing either with xv or postscript, the page appears about half the size in length and the characters are "compressed" to half their sizes Any one know how to fix this problem

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Martin Str|mberg
On the subject on which, why not use: -- which script for bash starts -- /bin/tcsh # or where-ever tcsh is which $* # or what-ever prints all input parameters in tcsh -- which script for bash ends -- As you all surely understand I'm not well versed in the writing of shell scripts, but hopefull

Re: random post

1996-05-17 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > > > > No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated > > > MAKEDEV script from devices.tex. > > > here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script: > > Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at

Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs

1996-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Rick Macdonald writes ("Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs"): > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > > > I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a > > > > if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) < 0) { > > > > I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-17 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the level of > support in the Description, so that people see it in dselect. Easiest and obviously most reasonable suggestion ! 8-) Greetings, Steffen - Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Stephen Early
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45: > >> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6 > >Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X > >server for each VC, which will take a lot of memory. > > Isn

Re: random post

1996-05-17 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > > No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated > > MAKEDEV script from devices.tex. > here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script: Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at devices.tex. There's LOTS and LOTS of stuff that's n

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't > handle shell builtins like one would expect "which" would. For example: > > which test > > returns nothing. While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian > system. ok, the next version of d

Re: Can't find library error

1996-05-17 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > masca[~]$ xtet42 & > [1] 769 > masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' Probably it's an a.out program. Type 'file xtet42' to find out. You could recompile it or install xcompat. Guy

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Stephen Early writes ("Re: X Windows"): > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop > > > > > When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns > > the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even > > when you do it severa

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Neil Turton
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have > on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for > changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference. > I did find hints that the defa

1.1 module set-up progress

1996-05-17 Thread Bruce Perens
I did another pass on the "modconf" program over the past two days, and it should work better now (or perhaps I should say it should work). I will incorporate this into a new root floppy tomorrow - that task may overflow into part of Saturday. Until the release is done, I am reading little list ma

Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)

1996-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome writes ("Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)"): ... [ dselect in Tk/Ctk ] > 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 wi

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Don Gaffney
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have > on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for > changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference. > I did find hints that the de

Re: find question (and xargs)

1996-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Erick Branderhorst writes ("find question (and xargs)"): > this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway > because it is very debian related too: > > I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them > with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remov

Re: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs

1996-05-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a > > if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) < 0) { > > I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it's not > documented. Also it has no effect at all, though it returns 0. It's no

beta 1.1 problems: modules config

1996-05-17 Thread Gary Kline
I had also reported this problem with module configuration a week (?) ago, but have not heard anything about corrections to the installation program. Is this being worked on? > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 16 15:20:55 1996 > Resent-Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:10:25 +0200 > Old-Return-Path: <[

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has > some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much > fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the > trick. I'm still not sure why

Can't find library error

1996-05-17 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I am expiriencing a problem that I don't know how to solve. masca[~]$ xtet42 & [1] 769 masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' The problem is that the library is there: masca[~]$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 10 15:43 /usr/X11R6/lib/li

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have > on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for > changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference. > I did find hints that the de

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new > release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has > which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type > command: > > #!/bin/bash > type -path $* I'm g

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)"): > > Absolutely. If Bruce finds some time the dpkg and dselect ought also be > > modified to show up a small "WARNING" message. > > Those are Ian Jackson's programs. Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the le

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Dennis S. Hennen
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > 1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X. The Left-Ctrl, Left-Alt, and the + or - on the numeric keyboard. > 2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup. In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config look for the scre

Re: beta 1.1 problems with 3c503 and the debian search system.

1996-05-17 Thread Bruce Perens
> In general, I think the beta 1.1 installation lacks severely in this > regard. There is an item on the menu to add the modules. However, it > does not run correctly and gives a ton of error messages saying it > cannot find the /etc/modules file (when it is there!), and will not > allow the inst

linux include files arrangement

1996-05-17 Thread dkklee
Does debian 1.1 observe the arrangement of the Linux kernel with regards to include files etc? ie should there be symlinks /usr/include to include and asm subdirectories in /usr/src/linux? I appear to have a directory /usr/include/linux which is NOT a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. It du

Any accountants and attorneys out there?

1996-05-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Debian will eventually need U.S. 501(c)(3) tax status. If anyone's willing to work on that for us, it would be a great help. Thanks Bruce

Re: disabling daemons from init.d

1996-05-17 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > Why don't you just make > /etc/cron.weekly/wuftpd be empty or not executable, and copy it to the > cron.daily directory ? Don't make it nonexecutable, or run-parts will complain. Making it empty is good though. Guy

Gpm not interacting with emacs, mc

1996-05-17 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi, I'd really like to have mouse functionality with mc, and especially, emacs; I think I have the right stuff installed, but the applications don't hear the mouse at all. I have a mostly 1.1 system, upgraded in place from a 0.93r6. All base packages are newest versions, except for those that go

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X. M-C-- and M-C-+. > 2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup. In my graphics drivers section I have: ACCEL Virtual 1024 768

truly huge memory configurations

1996-05-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Thanks to all who answered my question about 3D cards. Has anyone managed to operate a system with more than 128MB RAM? I'm interested in configurations of 1/4 and 1/2 Gigabyte of physical RAM. Thanks Bruce

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45: >> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6 >Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X >server for each VC, which will take a lot of memory. Isn't there a problem with the lock file? Carlos

can't read root_floppy for Debian 1.1

1996-05-17 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
On one of the computer systems here, I am suddenly unable to use the Debian installation disks. Details: I am using a boot floppy made from a file dated something like May 4. It boots version 1.3.95. The boot seems to go OK; i.e., the kernel loads without any obvious problems. Then I insert the

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-17 Thread Scott Barker
Craig Sanders said: > On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can we make that "dialout", please? Something already present and used > > by (at least) dip and efax. > > I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to allow users > to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them

unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?

1996-05-17 Thread Olaf Erb
Hi, I just upgraded my R93 system to unstable-elf with help of the nice perlscript someone posted here, and mucho struggling with dependencies :-) I didn't like dselect (I apologise for this:), so upgrading by hand was a little slow, but without any big problems. Some packages needed to be removed

Bug#3034: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs

1996-05-17 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Package: lpr Version: 5.9-11 After quite a long dive in the lpr sources I found the reason that we can't remove jobs in a remote queue. First, our /etc/hosts was like this: 1.2.3.4 fully.qualified.domain.name hostname Inverting the columns to be like this 1.2.3.4 hostname fully.qualifie

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-17 Thread Richard Kettlewell
I think `net' would be a good group name for this. Rob Browning writes: >> "C" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >C> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to >C> allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout >C> with minicom or send faxes?

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have > on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for > changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference. > I did find hints that the de

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
> "C" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to C> allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout C> with minicom or send faxes? C> I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't want to add users to a C> dialout

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Stephen Early wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I > > get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server. > > > > A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hidi

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Is the command "which" available in any of the debian releases? > > Here's a simple shell script I've installed in /usr/local/bin to perform > the same task (thanks Jon). I'm afraid I don't know if it will be in > Version

Re: uninstalled packages in 'dpkg -l'

1996-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
>What can I do about this? dpkg --list 'ncurses*' | egrep -v '^un' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDes

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the trick. I'm still not sure why the start/stop script didn't work. Maybe it will