Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > > abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > > filerunner depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > > xfig depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > > cthugha depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > > > The maintainers of these packages move

Help with Laserjets

Hi, I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I know it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special. I just cannot find any info on how to do that. Any ideas? Thanks for any help. Brian Schramm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: Diald Problems....

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:46:18 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Although things work, I do have some strange messages appearing in > /var/log/messages. Although things seem to be working okay, I think > they're probably something that should be looked into. Can you "shed any > ligh

Re: how to find out who has fingered me?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Templin) wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has > > fingered a user. I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but > > I don't know how to do it. Anyone knows how? > > In

Re: Multi session cdrom

* ESGER * wrote: > > I've got the following problem: I wrote the debian installation files > (stable etc.) to a CDR. I wrote them to a second session (my cdr is a HP > 4020i, I wrote the cd under W95). The second session (and the first) is > readable under dos/W95 but not under linux. > > My

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Jim Blaney wrote: > Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 > Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages > that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying > to do the impossible . I have used the 6x86 wi

Re: More diald problems.

From: Orn E. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: More diald problems. Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 5:11 AM > I saw your message on the debian mailing list, where you described your prob

Re: Diald Problems....

IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!! Sorry Got carried away Thanks for all of your help, Philippe. At first, the login failed, but once I increased the timeout for the login sequence from 5 seconds to 15, everything

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

According to Jim Blaney: > > Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 > Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages > that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying > to do the impossible . According the the latest(?) Linux H

Re: emergency action

Fundamental wrote: > > im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i > somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from > rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my > changes? > > For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my

Re: More diald problems.

Hi, I saw your message on the debian mailing list, where you described your problem with getting up diald. Now, what is happening is your 'ppp-up' script. Diald is informing you in the log, that it doesn't get a return code from this script. It never returns to diald, so diald thinks tha

No Subject

Dear All, I'm having trouble installing olvwm, I have installed libc5-dev ( 5.14-17), but needs libc5 ( 5.14-17), but I can only find libc5( 5.14-13). I have installed the x server for svga, I have a Matrox millennium graphics card, has any one had experience using with the Matrox Millennium c

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux

I'm running a Cyrix 586/120 with essentially no problems. Minor problem: Colorado FC-20 interface for tape backup requires that I turn off "turbo" system clock and backup slow (~7-8MB/min). Otherwise, system works fine. JohnT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Sony cdu31a problem

I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After typing in "cdu31a=0x340" at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one, but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers. Any suggestion

The Java Package

I've installed the following packages: jdk-apidocs 1.0.2-1Java 1.0.2 API. jdk-common 1.0.2-3JDK (Java Development Kit) jdk-static 1.0.2-3JDK (Java Development Kit) - Static part I keep getting an error like: java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i486/bin/java an

Re: Arghh.. Problems with install.

"Troy M. Lubbers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alright, I'm attempting to install Debian. (That's good right?) Well, > I've encountered my first problem. When I boot with the Rescue disk, I > get all the error messages probes etc, that it's supposed to do. Then it > comes to what I'm sure it's

Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

At 08:25 AM 1/13/97 -0600, Ben Gertzfield wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Linux Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So.. US-side of EFnet? Or European side? > >*poke* Do I look Finnish to you? ;) Amurrican-side. > And I. Do I look Amurrican to you? got it? :) -- // Remco van de

Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Linux Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So.. US-side of EFnet? Or European side? *poke* Do I look Finnish to you? ;) Amurrican-side. - -- Brought to you by the letters J and N and the number 18. "Mmm.. incapacitating.." -- Homer Simpson Ben Gertzfield

Re: how to find out who has fingered me?

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has > fingered a user. I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but > I don't know how to do it. Anyone knows how? Install cfinger (a debian package), a configurable finger ser

Re: How to set up man?

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > > I dowloaded bsdmantl.deb, groff.deb, libgpp27.deb, and man.deb from > Debian-1.2-fixed/msdos-i386/ directories. And I used deselect to > install these files to my pc's hard drive. The installation was > successful. But when I try to run man, I g

Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote: > Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable > release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the following > conflicts: > > dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) > filerunner depends on libc

Multi session cdrom

I've got the following problem: I wrote the debian installation files (stable etc.) to a CDR. I wrote them to a second session (my cdr is a HP 4020i, I wrote the cd under W95). The second session (and the first) is readable under dos/W95 but not under linux. My cdrom on the linux machine work

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Thank you for the suggestion. this is what I got so far. I repartitioned >the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc >friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with >two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64

Colors in an Xterm

Hi, I have just installed a new debian box and I am missing the diferent colors that ls uses to distinguish the files. This works ok in a virtual console but not in an xterm. Before there used to be a color-xterm package that was needed but it has disappeared. From the manual page for xterm, it wou

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

I'm using Cyrix 586/120 with no problems. Linux sees it as a 486 but it runs great. -- Dick Arnold On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Jim Blaney wrote: > Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 > Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages > that imply there

Re: automatic mounting of CDs

Hi Kai, you can use 'amd' for your purpose. It is a little complicated to set up but once configured it does it's job very well. However, make sure you grab the package 'amd_upl102-6.deb' from 'unstable/binary-i386/net/' because it fixes some heavy bugs and has some additional information especia

IP Masquerading

I'm using IP Masquerading on a Debian 1.2 box at work. It works very well except for one thing : authentification on our NT domain. The configuration of our network is the following : - The PCs on our LAN (behind the Debian box) are masqueraded. - Our Window$ NT server is not masqueraded (it has a

automatic mounting of CDs

Hi there, Sun Solaris has vold which watches the CD-ROM drive and mounts the CD when you insert one. Is there a similar program for Debian? tia, kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying to do the impossible . thanks, Jim Blaney. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

amd makes link to ISP come at at boot time

I recently switched to diald which is a great thing and worked rather out of the box. However, I encounter the following problem with amd: When the machines boots everything is fine up to the point, where amd gets started. Here the bootprocess is delayed. Diald establishes the connection to the IS

Re: gcc can't find headers

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: > You need to install the packages "libg++27_2.7.2.1-3.deb" and > "libg++27-dev_2.7.2.1-2.deb". The headers that you have are > for the cross-compiler win32 version of gcc. That did it. Thanks! Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

RE: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

Hamish Moffat wrote: >>>Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either? >>>Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal. >> >> Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction >> program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used

Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

At 08:41 PM 1/11/97 -0600, Ben Gertzfield wrote: >Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On which network? Efnet? > >Whoops, yes. EFnet. :) I'm only on EFnet and YiffNet anyway :) > >Ben So.. US-side of EFnet? Or European side? // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: htt

Re: More diald problems.

This IMHO is not correct. From the diald-man-page: PPPD OPTIONS When diald is being used in PPP mode extra options can be passed on to pppd by specifying them after a "--" on the command line. This should not normally be necessary as default options can be placed

Re: ATI Mach64 Cards notice

This was a really nice letter. I'm glad ATI is assisting the LINUX community by helping out the developers of X drivers. It only reconfirms my decision to buy an ATI video card. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

Hi! On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jim Blaney wrote: > Are there any IRC channels specifically for discussing setup > issues related to (Debian) Linux? On which Net? There is EFNet (american part), IRCnet (european part), LinuXNet, HappyNet, CityNet,... I am on the IRCnet, normally on #Linuxger (german l

changing/correcting dependencies

Hello, somehow there's a problem with X11R6 dependencies in Debian 1.2. Trying to install gimp-smotif dselect says, that X11R6 is needed but doesn't seem to be available. Of course I installed it and it even works :) This should be a problem in xbase, I think. I tried to correct it by insert

Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the following conflicts: dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) filerunner depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1) xfig depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

.mirror file request

> "Ryan" == Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ryan> i was wondering if someone could send me their mirror Ryan> configuration file that they use to mirro the debian Ryan> distribution tree so that i can work off of it. Could I also have a copy? TIA Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL

How to set up man?

I dowloaded bsdmantl.deb, groff.deb, libgpp27.deb, and man.deb from Debian-1.2-fixed/msdos-i386/ directories. And I used deselect to install these files to my pc's hard drive. The installation was successful. But when I try to run man, I got the following error. --

how to find out who has fingered me?

Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has fingered a user. I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but I don't know how to do it. Anyone knows how? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: shadow-suite?

On 12 Jan 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > Darren Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried getting there with dselect and the ftp option. I could not enter > > the dir. When it asks for the distriubtion I tried experimental, project > > , contrib, unstable. > > Unfortunately you can't use dpkg

Re: Debian dselect question

>No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices. Sounds logical, but dselect still didn't work. The screen output is something like this: |- | Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [] __/dev/sonycd__ | ISO966

net-pf

With the recent upgrade to kernel 2.0.27 and diald 0.14-8 I'm getting the following messages in /var/log/daemon.log: Jan 11 15:56:34 gbr modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 Jan 11 15:56:38 gbr modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5 I learned how to shut them up by adding

Re: Problems with rex+bo mixed bag ...

> I'm getting these type of messages every now and again. Any > ideas??? > > richr:4:$ xfd > xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' > xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' > > Its happened with more than just xfd, but I don't remember what > else at the moment. What other info would be helpfu

Re: using .rhosts?

Is you user-id (number in /etc/passwd) the same on both machines? --Bob Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: > > Hi there, > > there's one problem that arose on my two debian machines at home, that I > noticed a couple of days ago, but I can't find a solution yet... > > I am mainly working on the '

Problems with rex+bo mixed bag ...

I'm getting these type of messages every now and again. Any ideas??? richr:4:$ xfd xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' Its happened with more than just xfd, but I don't remember what else at the moment. What other info would be helpful here? Thanks in

Re: emergency action

On 12 Jan 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > > This will put it into single user runlevel. > > No, emergency is not the same as single. > > emergency does the bare minimum - mounts root ro and launches a > shell. single will still run the scripts in /etc/rc.boot, mount all > your partitions, start update,

Re: .mirror file request

Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i was wondering if someone could send me their mirror configuration file > that they use to mirro the debian distribution tree so that i can work off > of it. The mirror package comes with such an example already. Have a look at /etc/mirror/packages

ATI Mach64 Cards notice

>From: ATI Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Linux XFree86 Configuring >Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:13:52 -0500 > >Dear Mr. Hoffman, > > ATI Customer Support has received numerous requests asking for assistance with ATI products in use

Re: improvements

Ralph Winslow writes: > > When Kendrick Myatt, et. al. wrote, I replied: > > Somebody wrote: > > >> communications non-networking communications > > >> documentation all documentation > > >> development as is currently > > >> games all games > > >> graphicsanything which c

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

> "Pete" == Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pete> On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: >> No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long >> documents prior to installation. The configure scripts which runs >> directly after the installation should make reading docs >

Re: installing pico

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, esoR ocsirF wrote: > Hello, > Has anyone got an idea where I can find info on installing pico? > If this message is not appropriate, please let me know. I am ... > (look sideways, and whisper)... a newbie. Hello. Me again. I'm the pine/pico maintainer. Its in the non-free s

installing pico

Hello, Has anyone got an idea where I can find info on installing pico? If this message is not appropriate, please let me know. I am ... (look sideways, and whisper)... a newbie. /

Re: Debian Package

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, esoR ocsirF wrote: > > /\ > | Frisco Rose, | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Package

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > > umm, is any one allowed to make a debian package? if so, is there a HOWTO > on it? > Hi, try downloading the manual at the following URL ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/programmer.ps.gz Good luck,

Re: Debian dselect question

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: >... objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. > There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. > I was just wondering if you had "mount"ed your CD-rom before you ran dselect? __

Re: Debian dselect question

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file. > I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386, > and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dsele

Debian Package

umm, is any one allowed to make a debian package? if so, is there a HOWTO on it? thanks SaHua michl Experts are people who don't know all the answers but are sure that if they're given enough money, they can find the answers. -Rex F

Debian dselect question

Hi. In October I got Debian on the CD-ROM from Dale Scheetz, but had some problems getting it to work with my CD-ROM. I got sidetracked and have only recently gotten back to trying to finish installing Debian. I now have the base system installed but have a problem installing any packages. When I

Re: Majordomo

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, System Account wrote: listinfo ># added for majordomo (Dec 12 96) (stupid fuckin thing) listinfo >aliasinclude: listinfo >driver=aliasinclude, nobody; listinfo >copysecure, copyowners listinfo > Yes, thanks it did:) I noticed you werent to impressed by t

Re: Majordomo

hi there i made these changes in the /etc/smail/directors file. i commented out the lists and replaced it as below (the lists are for smails use). Then add in the aliasinclude for majordomo. --- CUT FROM /etc/smail/directors --- #lists: #driver=forwardfile, sender_okay

Re: emergency action

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote: servo >> For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it servo >> gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell servo >> and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box? servo > servo

Majordomo

Started playing with the majordomo package recently, in the middle of the dpkg -i it gives an error that i have smail installed but dont have aliasinclude running. Ive checked the man pages for smail and did a search of the packages at ftp.debian.org and can find no reference to this function.

Re: More diald problems.

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 16:09:00 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So what happens is that pppd is started while diald thinks you're > connecting... It cannot install the defaultroute too... > > Wow! That explains things! > > Thanks *so* much for your help! And an answer in only

Re: syslog errors

In your email to me, Walter L. Preuninger II, you wrote: > > Last night while trying to figure out why cron was not starting up, there > were no S89cron files in /etc/rc[2-5].d, something happened to my syslog. > Now all I get is > Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/km

Re: More diald problems.

> From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: More diald problems. > Date: Sunday, January 12, 1997 3:49 PM > > Here it is !!! > Diald starts pppd itself, you don't have to start it in your dial script. The dial s

Re: emergency action

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i > somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from > rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my > changes? > > For instance, on a solaris mach

Re: 16 bpp and 1280 x 1024

Michael Gajhede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 70.000 MHz) > (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz > (--) S3: Clock for mode "1280x1024" is too high for the configured hardware. > Limit is 80.000 MHz > (--) S3: Removing mode "1280x

Re: routing

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:32:21 EST Daniel Stringfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello all. > I have TWO Debian boxes sitting side by side (plus more, but they aren't > hooked up as of yet) > > My problem is: > > When DIALD is running, nothing works over ethernet. If I run TCPDUMP, I > can se

Re: More diald problems.

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:29:48 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As requested, I've included my configuration files throughout the message > below. I hope this helps in figuring out what my problem is. (I've > stripped out my username & passwords from the files) I think I can u