Re: xman

1996-10-01 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Kenneth -- You asked: > How could that be if xman dose not exist in debian ?? It couldn't be. If you execute zgrep xman Contents.gz | grep bin you'd see that xman is part of the xcontrib package. The Contents.gz files are in the top of unstable, stable, non-free, and contrib. But it reall

Re: Suddenly: "Can't locate module net-pf-4"

1996-10-01 Thread Servo
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > This message has suddenly begun to appear whenever I run ifconfig. > This was never noticed before, but apparently this has been logged > into the daemon.log for awhile. > > Oct 1 17:15:55 modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 I had the same problem, also. It

Re: smail

1996-10-01 Thread Servo
ttrimble wrote: > network. Now I want to run my listservers on the Debian box, but > both Majordomo, and Listserv depend on smail for outbound mail, and > smail keeps reporting errors that connection to the BIND server has > failed. This is my setup for smail: > > set for Internet mail > all out

sanyo cdrom (crd-256P)

1996-10-01 Thread Richard Sevenich
A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this writing I have asked him to determine more e.g. - is it IDE - is it ATAPI - what debian version is being used But in the me

Re: scd0 not recog. as block dev. (what is "insmod driver")

1996-10-01 Thread John Hasler
Toshinao Ishii writes: > It looks scsi driver is running without problem. Root partition in > SCSI disk is mounted and accessible without problem. However, if I > try to mount the cdrom > # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block devi

Re: xman

1996-10-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > I cant find any package for xman. Ever tried TkMan? If not, you're in for a treat (IMHO) if you don't mind loading tcl, tk and rman. -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

Re: make-kpgk modules troubles

1996-10-01 Thread Jeff Myers
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to offer the user the option of inserting a floppy and making a boot disk as part of the make-kpkg kernel_image? Or perhaps the ./bootdisk.sh kernel-images NOT to require the .deb format? I must admit I haven't given this a lot of thought. But I too was wean

xman

1996-10-01 Thread Kenneth Johansson
I cant find any package for xman. I scaned the package file and xman was only mentioned once in that file as a conflict with some other package. How could that be if xman dose not exist in debian ?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

make-kpkg

1996-10-01 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
Can anybody tell me where can i find make-kpkg ?? I've looked for it on my entire system and everything i've found is debian.rules in /usr/src/linux. From describtions on mailing-list i gues that it does this same thing as make-kpkg but am i only man in the world, who doesn't have this program?

BusLogic SCSI

1996-10-01 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, Anyone know if the Buslogic FlashPoint (wide scsi) controllers are supported? What is the price compared with Adaptec 2940UW? Thanks! Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NFS user/group aliasing

1996-10-01 Thread Gordon Russell
Does anyone have a NFS filesystem for linux which allows the system manager to specify an alias file, such that UIDs and GIDs are converted from the NFS server numbering scheme to one provided by the client? I import NFS mounts from my local server, but they use GID numbers which conflict with tho

Re: scd0 not recog. as block dev. (what is "insmod driver")

1996-10-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:54 PM 10/1/96 +0900, you wrote: >Dear Debian users, > >I am installing Debian 1.1.4. (So I am new to Debian.) >I have a problem. Mouting cdrom (/dev/scd0) fails in `dselect`. > >In the reboot message after installation of BASE system, system >says > > ... > ncr53c8xx : at PCI bus

Linux SMP

1996-10-01 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys... I'm wondering if attempting to use Linux-SMP is any good. Afterall, for real efficiency, don't the programs/daemons/utilities have to be designed in such a way that they'll make use of SMP capabilities? For example, if I have sendmail, pop3d, httpd daemons running, on a dual process

scd0 not recog. as block dev. (what is "insmod driver")

1996-10-01 Thread Toshinao Ishii
Dear Debian users, I am installing Debian 1.1.4. (So I am new to Debian.) I have a problem. Mouting cdrom (/dev/scd0) fails in `dselect`. In the reboot message after installation of BASE system, system says ... ncr53c8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0 ... s

Re: [IMPORTANT] New package maintainer(s) needed!

1996-10-01 Thread Dominik Kubla
Several people have indicated they might take over the ssh-package, so please stop "flooding my mailbox". If that had happend a week or two earlier when i announced that i had to give up these packages, then i would not have withdrawn that package. Please note that i still need new maintainer(s

Re: nvi error?

1996-10-01 Thread David Puryear
Hi Mike You wrote: > > does 'ls -al /tmp' turn up any vi looking directories that may > have bad permissions on them? No, didn't see one. > Btw, I've found the program 'strace' to be extremely useful in > ttracking down stuff like this. Try > > strace -o output nvi somefile Here is the ou

Re: Where is PGP-i or PGP-us ?

1996-10-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
"Rosenberg Yigal": > It seems that in Debian 1.1.7 pgp-i and pgp-up were in non-free pkgs, > but in the newer dist' of Debian they are missing. > Can some one tell me why they are missing and whre can I find them . Problems with US International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Cryptographic pro

Re: Two system admin suggestions, where to post them?

1996-10-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Amos Shapira: > and suchlike, I'd rather like to have a command to turn features off > and on, like IRIX' chkconfig(8). The idea is that the init scripts > use this command to check simple text files that contain "off" or "on" > for each feature and act accordingly. A simple on/off is inadequate.

Re: ircII.servers file

1996-10-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > I've edited the ircII.servers file, but when I run irc (the version I > took in the Debien distribution), it doesn't change anything in the > servers list. > I've compiled an irc-ii client, and the result is the same. AFAIK ircII is looking for /usr/lib/irc/ircII.servers" if there is no Env

Re: Getting config from kernel

1996-10-01 Thread mattice
> I'm trying to get IP aliasing going on my brand spankin' new Debian 1.1 > box. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have been compiled in, nor > could I find a module for it in /lib/modules/current/ipv4. > I just got this working... Pretty nifty feature if you ask me... > So, a few qu

Suddenly: "Can't locate module net-pf-4" revisited.

1996-10-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This is an update to my earlier post. When I tried to install a newer version of the modules packages, from modules_2.0.0-11.deb, I was asked whether I wanted to install the package maintainer's version of the file /etc/conf.modules, I checked it out. There is a line in these files about net-pf

Re: make-kpkg kernel_image fails

1996-10-01 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi -- You said: >make-kpkg -r kernel-image-2.0.21-Custom.1.i386.deb kernel_image The -r flag takes the revision number as an argument, not the entire package name. Try make-kpkg -r Custom.1 or make-kpkg -r Custom-1 if the '.' is causing problems. BTW, make-kpkg expects that it wi

Re: Dselect problems

1996-10-01 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > > Running dpkg -iGROEB /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386 > > find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/admin/sudo_1.4.4-2.deb: No such > > file or directory > > find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/base/mount_2.5l-1.deb: No such > > file > > or directory > >

Re: Latex Help !

1996-10-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, On 30 Sep 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > Jan Ramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe that there are also tools to go from LaTeX to Rich Text > Format files which Word understands. I'm not sure what the name(s) of > the tool(s) are though. latex2rtf (1)- Converts LaTeX file

RE: Getting config from kernel

1996-10-01 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Joe Emenaker wrote: >Okay, I sent this to the list once already, but I'm not sure it got >through. I was hoping someone else would answer this, because I only have vague details in my head. (If we only used Debian at the office...) Can't help with the IP aliasing, but: >So, I've resigned myself

make-kpkg kernel_image fails

1996-10-01 Thread schulte
Hello, I tried to compile linux-2.0.21 (manually tar'ed to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.21 with a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux). So I invoked kernel-package-2.03 using the command make-kpkg -r kernel-image-2.0.21-Custom.1.i386.deb kernel_image This broke, however, with the following messag

Suddenly: "Can't locate module net-pf-4"

1996-10-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This message has suddenly begun to appear whenever I run ifconfig. This was never noticed before, but apparently this has been logged into the daemon.log for awhile. Oct 1 17:15:55 modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 I haven't a clue as to what net-pf-4 is, or why ifconfig suddenly has d

Re: make-kpgk modules troubles

1996-10-01 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Thomas -- A while ago you asked: > Until recently, I just rolled my own kernel as I was used to do > with Slackware. But since I found out about make-kpkg, I decided > to do things the Debian way and use that instead. After much hassle > wit the broken tar (solved by downgrading), there's still

SMP and /dev/cua_ and nfs module

1996-10-01 Thread Dr. Michael Grimm
Hi, yesterday I joined the SMP-community running 2.0.21 on a TYAN Tomcat II (yes, the working cache modules installed!) with two 133MHz Pentiums, some SCSI devices, and no network, yet. My Linux distribution is the lastest Debian 1.1.9. After compiling 2.0.21 I booted the new kernel with the fol

Re: Latex Help !

1996-10-01 Thread Pawel T. Jochym
Jan Ramon wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Andrew Stephen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have just started playing around with Latex and was wondering if its > > possible to to convert a dvi file into a Word for Windows format. Any help > > / suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > Andr

Where is PGP-i or PGP-us ?

1996-10-01 Thread Rosenberg Yigal
It seems that in Debian 1.1.7 pgp-i and pgp-up were in non-free pkgs, but in the newer dist' of Debian they are missing. Can some one tell me why they are missing and whre can I find them . Thanks. == Rosenberg Yigal. System Administrator. Tel: +(97

Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc

1996-10-01 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I'm trying to help myself. Really. But, the Debian web pages only > list mailing list archives up to June 1996, My scripts that made the archives then were lost in a disk crash; I've recently recreated them, and the FTP archive (/debian/debian-lists) are up to date. As for the webserver, it

Re: Latex Help !

1996-10-01 Thread Jan Camenisch
> Jan Ramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > dvi to word seems difficult. I know a utility latex2wp (or wp2latex ?) > > for converting between wordperfect (5.1 ?) and latex (.tex-files). Perhaps > > you can use this in combination with wordperfect-word conversion ? > > I believe that there

Getting config from kernel

1996-10-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay, I sent this to the list once already, but I'm not sure it got through. I'm trying to get IP aliasing going on my brand spankin' new Debian 1.1 box. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have been compiled in, nor could I find a module for it in /lib/modules/current/ipv4. I tried getting the

smail problem: file table overflow

1996-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
>From /var/log/smail/paniclog: 09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/logfile: File table overflow 09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: File table overflow >From /var/log/messages: Sep 29 05:09:30 kite kernel: Unable to load interpre

smail

1996-10-01 Thread ttrimble
Ok, I need help. I have a Debian box ver 1.1, I'm running smail on it. It does not have a ppp or slip connection to the Internet, therefore it has no real DNS ability, but it does connect via a network card to our mail server that is handling all mail for our network. Now I want to run my li

multiple debian installs

1996-10-01 Thread Frederic Lepied
How can I install multiple hosts with he same configuration ? Can I share /usr between them ? How can I redo the same install done with dselect for another machine ? Fred -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: need developer mailing-list requests again

1996-10-01 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Bruce Perens writes: -> I now have control over the mailing lists. If you are a Debian package -> maintainer and are not _currently_ getting debian-private (there were -> several messages today), please write to me. -> -> I also (hopefully) have fixed it so that it will handle those "unsubscribe"

Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc

1996-10-01 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Jeff Blaine writes: -> I'm running a fresh copy of Debian 1.1.9 -> -> So, a few questions and some comments: -> -> 1. Where is the secret stash of user-packaged packages? I'm looking -> for SSH, NcFTP, and a few other things. I've looked in -> ftp.debian.org:/debian/contrib/binary, b

Re: ipfwadm

1996-10-01 Thread Simon Martin
> From: Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Simon Martin wrote: > >> 2) recompiled the kernel experimental, with the masquerade, firewall, etc >> enabled, ip forwarding, etc disabled, as per the instructions in the >> IP_MASQUERADE mini howto. (I can connect to my ISP without

One more thing...

1996-10-01 Thread Eloy F. Macha
Hello again... i forgot to include this last question on my previous post. I have implemented quotas on one of our servers here, onthe /home filesystem. W/NIS and NFS we have anothe system using /home also. anyhow, when i check quotas on the client (quota -v), the server spawns off 40 rpc.rqu

Re: Available tools for making clickable WWW imagemaps?

1996-10-01 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
> Are there such tools in Debian packages? Not that I know of. > If not, what do you recommend me > (I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize? Here's a short list: Glorglox: http://www.uunet.ca/~tomr/glorglox/ gd:http://www.boutell.com/gd/ (This is a C libra

Questions on packages.(nis,shadow..)..only a couple ;)

1996-10-01 Thread Eloy F. Macha
Hello, A couple questions on NIS and shadow passwd support... has anyone succesfully compiled the yppasswdd w/ shadow support?? I got the experimental shadow package (along with source..) and it works fine, like a charm... On the yppasswdd man page, shadow support is mentioned, but the pac

Any way to extract current kernel config?

1996-10-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm trying to get IP aliasing going on my brand-spankin' new Debian 1.1 box. It doesn't appear to be compiled in, and I couldn't find it in /lib/modules/current/ipv4. So, my last recourse is to compile a new kernel. However, the thing I'm afraid of is not compiling in some feature that is in t

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-10-01 Thread Servo
Lindsay Allen wrote: > > AND THEN... go back to your 386 and run make install, make modules, make > > modules_install > > make modules will take an hour. I am puzzled as to why I should not just > continue with the chroot idea and do the while job that way. > > I learned a lot out of this, so ma