printing in debian/unix is hard...

1996-06-06 Thread Matt Birkholz
From: Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] The System V scheme is much more flexible, yet it seems that nobody who works with Linux or BSD is even aware that it exists. Is there any kind of implementation

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
net - no modules are detected; however modprobe from the shell seems to detect the network modules. Are you using the boot1200.bin or boot1440.bin or something else as the boot disk? Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Schoenly writes (gzip and dpkg problem): ... $ dpkg --install package_x.deb ... gzip:stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

Re: new boot floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Brian C. White
Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been merged into dselect? That would be good. No. 'dpkg-ftp' is a method for dselect to read from an FTP site in much the same way that it would read from an NFS mount or CD-ROM. This seems only fair since 'dftp' has added the

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread llucius
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: This is a bug in one of: The getty you're using. (Some versions of getty_ps are known to have this problem.) You hit on the head for me anyway. I thought I was using agetty, but I was using an older version of getty_ps (2.0.7g) and after

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Pino Smith
Bruce writes: Are you using the boot1200.bin or boot1440.bin or something else as the boot disk? boot1440.bin. Pino

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schoenly writes (gzip and dpkg problem): ... $ dpkg --install package_x.deb ... gzip:stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install)

libc.so.5 the stuff from non-free requires

1996-06-06 Thread Juhani Luhtanen
Newbie alert on!!! Hi the problem is this: I need to install a linux-box that will run WWW-server and a couple of mailing-lists. Just something very straight-forward. I installed the stable 0.93 and got the cern-server up and running. Now majordomo requires libc.5 and the distribution

Re: libc.so.5 the stuff from non-free requires

1996-06-06 Thread branderh
Newbie alert on!!! Does anyone know of majordomo.deb package that would run with the 0.93 distribution and the libc that the distribution carries. Do not use 0.93, install 1.1 aka unstable from now on, it is far more stable than 0.93. Unix: 30 definitions of regular expressions living under

program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the *.tar?

Re: program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread branderh
Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the *.tar? dpkg --contents file.deb Unix: 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof D.E. Knuth Erick Branderhorst

Re: program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the *.tar? Try: dpkg --contents package-xxx.deb Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1

Amd (or other problems)

1996-06-06 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Ok, I've got an interesting problem with my debian 1.1 machine. Pertinent packages -- Customized kernel, 1.99.11 amd upl102-3 (using NIS maps) netbase 2.03-1 netstd 2.04-1 nis 1.10-2 In general, the system works well. However, at various, semi random times, the system will

dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb ?

1996-06-06 Thread Zachary DeAquila
In someone's 0.93-to-1.1 upgrade docco, they mention dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb... I can't seem to find this, but it's said to be necessary to upgrade... I've currently got a .93 aout system with dpkg-1.0.17... but now I'd like to upgrade, so... help! thanks! --Zachary

Howto upgrade 0.93 -- 1.1

1996-06-06 Thread Juhani Luhtanen
Is there anywhere a simple step-by-step guide on how to go and upgrade one's debian? Juhani .signature ? did you really expect a .signature? Sheesh.

Re: dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb ?

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote: In someone's 0.93-to-1.1 upgrade docco, they mention dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb... I can't seem to find this, but it's said to be necessary to upgrade... I've currently got a .93 aout system with dpkg-1.0.17... but now I'd like to upgrade, so... help!

sysklogd upgrade

1996-06-06 Thread Richard Lovison
I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system. I proceeded to purge syslogd but was informed I couldn't because it was a

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Alexander Goldstein
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For reasons too complicated to explain here this means that dpkg can't do proper error trapping (it always gets an error indication, and can't tell whether it's really an error). This is a

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Attila Megyeri
On Wed, 05 Jun 1996 21:58:07 +0200, Pino Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fetched the new disks (June 2nd version) and they do not seem to work as they should. Here is my report. + module configuration (most remarks are trivial ...): fs - binfmt_java and ufs lack an explanation ipv4 -

getty-1.0-4

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
This is a very confusing package. The man page for getty says that the command is agetty, but there is no agetty installed (only getty). If you try the example: /sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS1 vt100 the command is not found (it's not there!). If I try getty with these parameters it just hangs. As

Re: installing with the new floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Attila Megyeri) I have the same problems. Choosing the net menu point for a moment I see 'Segmentation fault' and I'm not able to choose any net module. For 'lp' module everything work OK. OK. That's two people with the same problem. This does not happen on my test