Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Gilbert Ramirez Jr.
As Jim Worthington said: > > Also I get the following message when trying to run crack ver 4.1: > > Crack v4.1f: The Password Cracker, (c) Alec D.E. Muffett, 1992 > > Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with > standard. > > Has anybody successfully been able to run cra

Re: "Netiquette" of requesting package updates

1996-08-24 Thread Brian C. White
> As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the > few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped > back to earlier releases of certain programs. I spend close > to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and > a WWW browser, and in both cases the current De

Re: lyx and fonts

1996-08-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Hakan Ardo writes: > > Sorry, there's only one: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lyx.1.gz. > > Even taht one is missing... Hmm, I have it. :-) Try reinstalling the package. > Well, I am using mfbasfnt 1.0-3. Because 1.0-4 is in the unstable > distrobutinge, > and I thought that with unstable you ment not y

inewsinn?

1996-08-24 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
I seem to be having a problem with inewsinn. I compiled nn locally and set it up to use inews (from the inewsinn package) to post the article. However, when inews goes to send the article, it creates large amounts of traffic over my serial link. I would assume it's trying to get the active or n

Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've implemented --get-selections and --set-selections in dpkg 1.3.9 > which will be released some time this weekend. > > --get-selections produces a list of lines each with a package name and > wanted state. By default it lists all the packages; you can sp

Re: lyx and fonts

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Hakan Ardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, I am using mfbasfnt 1.0-3. Because 1.0-4 is in the unstable > distribution and I thought that with unstable you ment not yet usable. > But I am getting the feeling that the packages in there is perfectly OK > to use. They are there for people to test be

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Jim Worthington
Bruce Perens wrote: > > This must be a bug. > > Bruce Can anybody verify this? Also I get the following message when trying to run crack ver 4.1: Crack v4.1f: The Password Cracker, (c) Alec D.E. Muffett, 1992 Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : : > : > When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : > man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : > Any ideas on how to fix this? : > : Need more informati

"Netiquette" of requesting package updates

1996-08-24 Thread David Sewell
As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped back to earlier releases of certain programs. I spend close to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian versi

Re: gs 3.53 and up

1996-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Ervin D. Walter writes ("gs 3.53 and up"): ... > Now, the wierd parts. First, these errors don't occur every time, and > they don't occur in the same place every time. Second, the exact save > .ps file sent through gs 2.whatever or gs >= 3.53 *compiled with > optimizations turned off* works perfe

Re: LILO trouble (still there...)

1996-08-24 Thread Hakan Ardo
Hi, I finaly found some time to take a second look at my LILO trouble. Thanx for all your suggestions they have taken me one more step along the way. First of all the Geometry settings was the same in the BIOS as linux reported. > I made the same mistake that Joshua and Hakan made. The READMEFI

anyone interested in a lambdamoo .deb?

1996-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
I have a lambdamoo .deb package set up. I don't know if there's any intreset in such a specialized package, however. Please write me if you're interested. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -pl- # ,,ep) ayf >|)nj,, $_=reverse lc$_;s@"@''@g;y/[]{A-Y}<>()a-y1-9,!.?`'/][} #

xconsole error

1996-08-24 Thread Ken Gaugler
I am having difficulty getting the xconsole to work running in fvwm 9or any window manager). I use a .xsession file in my home directory. Here is that file: - begin .xsession file - #!/bin/bash #Add to path PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib/X11:/usr/contrib/mh/bin:/usr/contr

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, > man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. > Any ideas on how to fix this? > Need more information to be of any help. What version of man are you using?

problem with SCSI controller

1996-08-24 Thread Thomas Krichel
Folks, I am setting up a new debian 1.1 box. On booting: > > [...] > Started kswap v 1.4.2.2 > FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 > NCR53c406a: no available ports found > PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 > scsi: 0 hosts >

Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes ("Dpkg feature request"): ... > Thus, I'll ask Ian Jackson. How about three flags to dpkg? > --select package-name [package-name ...] > Selects a list of packages for later installation. > --deselect package-name [package-name ...] > De-se

Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:14:10 PDT Philippe Troin (phil) wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:23:16 EDT renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the > > following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting >

Re: lyx and fonts

1996-08-24 Thread Hakan Ardo
Sorry for the late awsner. > Hakan Ardo writes: > > > > I'm trying to use lyx, and it works fine untill it invokes latex. Then it > > seems to be using some fonts that I have not installed. Where can I find > > thos > e > > fonts (listed below)? Acording to /usr/doc/lyx/debian.README.gz, ther

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
-> The Debian termcap package is only intended for run-time use to allow -> old and non-Debian programs compiled with termcap to work. Any new -> programs should be compiled with ncurses. From: "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is not necessarily always possible. The one case I k

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Same problem here. Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : Any ideas on how to fix this? : : : thanks : hamish :

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-24 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
David Engel writes: -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -> > I recently installed Debian 1.1, including termcap.compat. Since then -> > I've installed a custom version of the kernel (2.0.7) successfully, so -> > I figure that gcc is reasonably well set up. -> > -> > However, I tried to compile kermit 5

"man" crashes

1996-08-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. Any ideas on how to fix this? thanks hamish

Re: /dev/console and headless computers

1996-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
> /etc/init.d/console, /etc/rc.boot/0kbd . Look at /etc/config/console and > /etc/config/kbd . Hmm.. I seem to be lacking an /etc/config/ directory. I'm running debian 1.1.6, what package have I neglected to install? -- #!/usr/bin/perl -lisubstr($_,39+38*sin++$y/9,2)=$s # [EMAIL PROTECTED] for($

Need volunteer to write shell script using dialog

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
I need someone to write a shell script using dialog that guides a user through setting up a PPP or SLIP connection. The tool set used must be limited to the tools in the base floppies. These are the "ash" shell (like Bash, but small), the "dialog" program, the "chat" program for making the connecti

Re: /dev/console and headless computers

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Has anyone had expereince with setting up debian on a headless meachine? > I've run into one strange problem since I pulled the monitor, mouse, and > keyboard off a computer here last night. When it boots up, it symlinks > /dev/console -> /dev/console. I haven'

Re: Shadow & S/key

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
The shadow packages are just recently uploaded into the "unstable" directory of our FTP archives. They are little tested, and I'm not sure that everything has been shadow-ified that must be ("xdm" may be one of the programs yet to be converted). You can try it now if you like to live dangerously. T

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Jim Worthington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I tried copying the /etc/passwd file from a Sun workstation to a Linux : machine in order to create common user accounts. Use NIS. Copying /etc/passwd can cause a lot of problems keeping it up to date. : : Linux, however would not decrypt the Sun pas

/dev/console and headless computers

1996-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Has anyone had expereince with setting up debian on a headless meachine? I've run into one strange problem since I pulled the monitor, mouse, and keyboard off a computer here last night. When it boots up, it symlinks /dev/console -> /dev/console. I haven't been able to track down what script is doi

/etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Jim Worthington
I tried copying the /etc/passwd file from a Sun workstation to a Linux machine in order to create common user accounts. Linux, however would not decrypt the Sun passwords when correctly entered. Thei technique works fine between Solaris and Sun Unix. Does Linux use a different encryption algor