Re: Bash 1.14.6.....

1996-10-25 Thread Bruce Perens
Our bash-1.14.6-5 package contained the security bug fix. That's the current version. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Bruce Perens
What I wonder is, is there any reason to buy a PCI card (speedwise) if I go for the NE2000 compatible one? As for PCI versions - they're worth it, they speed up transfers accross the network dramatically (that is, if you have both cards being PCI). From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] It

Re: Which Netscape? 3B4?

1996-10-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
Robert Nicholson writes: Hi, I noticed that the .deb in rex is for 3B4 Is that what people are running today? Will that deb (which requires you to download netscape) work with other releases? -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen

xdvi/xdvik

1996-10-25 Thread BG Lim
Hi, Does anyone know how the path to the fonts works? I read the man page from front to back and set the XDVIFONTS variable correctly, i think, but it still refuses to find the fonts. Is kpathsea built in? (ie do i have to install kpathsea.deb asa well) cos it seems to call kpathsea to make

Re: Callback Internet Link

1996-10-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
Luis, Here's an idea: Create a script that waits 5 or 10 seconds, then runs /etc/init.d/ppp start, or whatever you use. Then add a new user and specify that script for its shell. Make sure the script is setuid root. You might want to make the script logout, too, after it runs pppd. Hopefully,

Re: New HP DeskJet 870Cxi

1996-10-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
Marek, In my version of GhostScript, the Debian postscript interpreter, there is a device called deskjet. I would assume that this device would cover all deskjets, unless HP has made major changes in the 870. However, I have no personal experience with any deskjets (I use a Laserjet III), so it

Re: package versining problem

1996-10-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
Zachary DeAquila writes: can dpkg be modified to ignore non-numeric, non-punctuation in the version numbers/? lyx, for instance, was originally lyx_pre-10.3_1.deb or somesuch but is now lyx_10.6_2.deb or something like that. but p10, so going to the new version is 'downgrading'. bleh.

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Karl Ferguson wrote: ] As for PCI versions - they're worth it, they ] speed up transfers accross the network dramatically (that is, if you have ] both cards being PCI). Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] It seems to me that the ETHERNET-HOWTO goes out of it's way to prove ] that ] 16bit

Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))

1996-10-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
Pete Harlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an : outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY : running, if I dial out with something like Minicom. : : This is because they're not putting their

Re: Linuxconf or something like?

1996-10-25 Thread David Puryear
Brian C. White wrote: I was wondering if I could use Linuxconf on a Debian system? If not, please explain. I think as new user, it would be nice to have admin. tool to control most of system config. in one setting.:-) cfengine is nice if managing a network. I was look for more then

How compile a new module with just the base package??

1996-10-25 Thread Brian Freeze
Hi all. One note to say thanks to all the people who e-mailed with my initial install problem. I have another question about my ethernet card support. I have an etherlink iii XL card which is not supported by the loadable modules. I found a patch to replace the driver file 3c59x.c which when

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 04:30 PM 10/24/96 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: It seems to me that the ETHERNET-HOWTO goes out of it's way to prove that 16bit ISA ethernet cards can handle 10Mb ethernet just fine, and that PCI doesn't buy you anything. Are you saying different? I sure am. I have known a couple of friends

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 03:52 PM 10/24/96 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: An NE2000 is a programmed-IO card, isn't it? While you are transferring data to and from one, your system isn't processing. I wouldn't know about the specifics of it I'm afriad. I know that there area heaps of NE2000 clones out there that claim to

Cannot find map file?

1996-10-25 Thread James Martino
Hello all, I am a little bit worried about this message about not finding the map file upon bootup. Everything seems *completely* normal except for this little message. I looked in the kernel sources (2.0.22) to try and find the reason for it, but had no luck. This appears after

DIALD

1996-10-25 Thread Daniel Stringfield
After much persuasion of many poeple after saying that I was using DCON, I went and installed diald. Guess what.. it doesn't seem to run. it seems like the /etc/init.d/diald won't actually run... it ACTS like it, but if you pass it ./diald laksjfladskf it just sits back down to the next

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 12:33 AM 25/10/96 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I sure am. I have known a couple of friends that have 16bit cards and when they upgraded them both to a PCI (I can't remember what it was now) they went from 250kb/sec on their lan to around 600kb/sec. I think that's a substantial increase IMO.

Newbie Debian Questions

1996-10-25 Thread Bill Vinson
First of all - Please don't respond to the list unless you think my questions are of general importance...I'd hate to waste the bandwidth. I am new to Linux (I used to have Slackware and it caused me no end of troubles, but that was probably my lack of understanding and the fact that I have no

X11R6.1 -- when?

1996-10-25 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, The current status of X on Debian is (as I understand it) - the version is XFree3.1.2 - XFree3.1.2G is the latest beta version, but can't be included in Debian since the beta isn't distributed with source. The official X11R6.1 distribution includes XFree3.1.2C ddxen -- this may not be

Final Update to GCC Error

1996-10-25 Thread Christian Watts
Hey all, This is in regards to the discussion concerning 'fatal signal 11' under GCC 2.7.2 on my machine. Resetting the CPU type from 120Mhz to 100Mhz resolved the problem. I'm not exactly sure why, but it worked. Thanks to all who responded for their suggestions.

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
I sure am. I have known a couple of friends that have 16bit cards and when they upgraded them both to a PCI (I can't remember what it was now) they went from 250kb/sec on their lan to around 600kb/sec. I think that's a substantial increase IMO. Let me just say that I've clocked cheap ISA

Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))

1996-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: Kermit, Minicom, pppd, any modem software you write, mgetty, etc., must agree on all of the above, and then it works like a dream. I use DCON.. its DCON that can't OPEN the port... pppd works fine, and mgetty work fine.. but its DCON that

RE: Problems with most in xterm

1996-10-25 Thread Casper BodenCummins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found the problem, it was the environment Variable TERMCAP it was set to: TERMCAP=co#80:li#24: as soon as I remove this TERMCAP variable all is ok. But who is responsible in setting TERMCAP? It seems that xterm (and xterm_color) are doing that. It doesn't matter

debian installation in a bigger network

1996-10-25 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are there any solutions for that. We want to keep the computers also all together at the

LaTeX fonts

1996-10-25 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi Folks, Please does anyone have (or know of where I can find) as script/Macro I can run which would check for the fonts installed on my system and write out a tex file repeating some phrase in the different avaliable fonts. This is so I can actuall see what the different fonts look

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Christian Watts
Karl Ferguson wrote: At 03:52 PM 10/24/96 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: An NE2000 is a programmed-IO card, isn't it? While you are transferring data to and from one, your system isn't processing. I have an Artisoft Noderunner S/I (NE2000 clone, the one that comes with lantastic), and I've been

Modules problems

1996-10-25 Thread James W. Lynch
I don't know why I keep trying to use modules, they never work right for me I trashed my 1.2.13 system on my home box and installed 2.0.2?. Dselect didn't work, so I did a manual job with dpkg. I installed the kernel source and compiled it fine. Did the make modules and make module_install

Re: xdvi/xdvik

1996-10-25 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, BG Lim wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how the path to the fonts works? Look at /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf There are the default paths Is kpathsea built in? yes Installing kpathsea.deb is not necessary except when you want documentation or need an external interface to the

X stoped working

1996-10-25 Thread Heinz Schürch
Hi, I have a problem with X, which I tried to solve on private e-mail exchange. However, I could not solve the problem so I'm looking for a broader audience; I will also check the relevant x-news group. I had X up and running on Debian Linux 1.1.4. The configuration I had was: - ASUS

does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0

1996-10-25 Thread Lawrence Chim
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again. Is it a bug? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect with a CD-ROM

1996-10-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Shane McLochlainn wrote: When attempting to install from the CD-ROM it says Insert the CD-ROM and enter block device name []: AFAIK it's /dev/cdrom ( a bog-standard ide/adapti that worked under

What does Debian mean?

1996-10-25 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I know this is not terribly important but I was wondering where the name debian came from. Maybe those that have been in the project long could share that with those of us that joined when debian had been underway for a long time already. Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-25 Thread david scott gibson
Hi. When I try to install the Debian ghostscript package, dselect notes that it depends on another package which is not available. What do I need to do to either get this other package (I don't recall it's name at the moment) or get an older version of gs which does not have this dependency?

Digest version?

1996-10-25 Thread Stough, Stephen B RV
I have been off this list for a while because of the volume of messages. I was told that a digest version of the list was being set up. Has this happened? If so, how do I register for the digest? Bruce Stough -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Callback Internet Link

1996-10-25 Thread Chris R. Martin
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Stephen Pitts wrote: Luis, Here's an idea: Create a script that waits 5 or 10 seconds, then runs /etc/init.d/ppp start, or whatever you use. Then add a new user and specify that script for its shell. Make sure the script is setuid root. You might want to [snip] I was

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Vladislav Papayan
Martin Stromberg wrote: Hello to all! I'm intending to put in two ethernet cards in two computers, so that I can nfs mount /home and /usr in one (where disk space is limited) from the other (where there's plenty of disk space). I don't have a great deal to choose from from my hardware

Trouble with JED+X

1996-10-25 Thread Marcelo Magallon
Hi, I just installed the newest jed package, and it won't start under X... it says terminal not powerful enough for Slang. Is there a way to make jed and/or slsc under X? -Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Bruce Perens
At 03:52 PM 10/24/96 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: An NE2000 is a programmed-IO card, isn't it? While you are transferring data to and from one, your system isn't processing. From: Christian Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an Artisoft Noderunner S/I (NE2000 clone, the one that comes with lantastic),

Re: Modules problems

1996-10-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, James W. Lynch wrote: I don't know why I keep trying to use modules, they never work right for me I trashed my 1.2.13 system on my home box and installed 2.0.2?. Dselect didn't work, so I did a manual job with dpkg. I installed the kernel source and compiled it