Re: afterstep 1.0pre5

On 24 Mar, Christian Hudon wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Paul Chau wrote: Could anyone tell me if the afterstep 1.0pre5 been debianised yet or not? Don't think so. The Debian package is still at 1.0pre4. If you want, email the maintainer (Neil A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and tell him that

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Re: problem with one of the install images?

Ron Nelson writes: I have pulled this image down from both ftp.debian.org and ftp.cdrom.com, and used different floppy disks as well. How many different floppies did you try? The other day I had to make a new rescue disk. I went through *eight* floppies before I found one that worked. --

Re: Bug#8119: e2fsck should be linked with -static

Put root.bin from the rescue disk under /boot. Add a rescue option to the lilo.conf that boots your regular kernel with INITFS=/boot/root.bin . You can now type rescue at the LILO prompt and boot into the rescue disk without a floppy. Total cost in disk space: 700K. This is less Hey, that's a

How do I find package?

Hi all, Can anyone tell me how I can locate which debian package has a required dependancy?? Ie. Perl5 requires 'Libdl1' but nothing seems to own it? thanks, Rowan . . . . Rowan Deppeler System admin Cybernex Networking http://www.cybernex.net.au vk3vw/vk3rcr . . . .

Re: How do I find package?

Hi all, Can anyone tell me how I can locate which debian package has a required dependancy?? I use an editor to search the packages file found in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/. Ie. Perl5 requires 'Libdl1' but nothing seems to own it? On an i-86 platform it is provided by ldso, which is in

Re: How do I find package?

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Rowan Deppeler wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can locate which debian package has a required dependancy?? Ie. Perl5 requires 'Libdl1' but nothing seems to own it? You may visit http://www.feedback.com.ar/debian/ and find out -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | From Buenos

Re: lprm won't let user remove his own print jobs

Mike Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to have the permissions messed up for lpd, because user's can't remove their own jobs. /var/spool/lpd and subdirs are set to drwxrwxr-x root.lp. I tried drwxrwxrwx, drwxrwsr-x and drwxrwsrwx but none of these helped. There are security

Re: ipfwadm rules question...

Thoughts? I presume this would be much easier if I used a static IP, but the boxes I use don't authenticate with TACACS+ or radius, so I can't just make an entry.. I'd be able to do some cut/awk type stuff to extract the IP and add the stuff to the bottom of /usr/bin/pon, but I just need what

Network Configuration

Hello, last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and finally my card is detected. The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp, telnet, etc... When I try some of

recent purchase of used IBM ps1/ps2

I am looking for jummpers,pinouts, any available help to get these units going maybe with IBM's dos package. I am doing this as both a challenge and to resell to a needy home, of course, only after I am sure that it's working correctly. Have it to the F key screen. Any suggestions or

Newbie question

I am new with Linux and I don't know very well what to do in this situation: - A few months ago I buy a CD with Debian 1.1 distribution included. After that, I download Debian 1.2 from www.debian.org. I week ago I installed Debian 1.2 but I didn't run dSelect program, in that

Re: Newbie question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could any Linux expert advise me how to know what I have in this moment?. Is the process I did OK?. I'm not really a Linux expert however, to determine what kernel version you are running type in uname -a at the prompt. Thanks in advance. J.R.Martinez

glibc in 1.3?

Hi, I'm wondering if glibc 2.0 (i.e. libc.so.6) will be in debian 1.3. This release of libc is already out, but I not see it in debian. Thanks fo every answer, and ciao! Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Error while installing unstable/binary/base/at_3.0.deb

While doing dpkg -i at_3.0.deb I got the following errormessage. The at_2.9b??.deb in stable works. (Reading database ... 21163 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace at 3.0 (using at_3.0.deb) ... Unpacking replacement at ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.postrm: spool}:

Can't find unstable/binary/base/modutils_*.deb

There is no modutils_??.deb in /bo/binary-i386/base but modules_2.1.23-1.deb depends on it. Is my ftp server wrong or isn't this file existing? Andreas

wish4.2 - the disappearing file

I recently installed the tk42 and tcl76 packages then went to recompile my kernel. On using make xconfig I discovered that tk didn't seem to be working. Trying to check further on this has produced some mystifying behaviour. $ ls -l /usr/bin/wish4.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5780

Re: wish4.2 - the disappearing file

I'm not sure if this has been reported as a bug yet. wish4.2 has been linked against /lib/ld-linux.so.2 which hasn't been released yet as a debian package. You can see this by using strings on the wish4.2 executable. A quick solution, that so far is working for me, is to create a symbolic link

Re: wish4.2 - the disappearing file

On Mar 25, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote I'm not sure if this has been reported as a bug yet. Yes, it has, and it's already been fixed. wish4.2 has been linked against /lib/ld-linux.so.2 which hasn't been released yet as a debian package. You can see this by using strings on the wish4.2

Re: glibc in 1.3?

On Mar 26, Francesco Tapparo wrote I'm wondering if glibc 2.0 (i.e. libc.so.6) will be in debian 1.3. This release of libc is already out, but I not see it in debian. It's in the experimental section. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Diald setup problem - Please help

Hi all: I have the following problem which makes diald difficult to use. I have a straight forward installation of debian with options (diald,ppp) file adjusted to reflect my setup. Whenever I fire a network needy application (like telnet, ftp) diald immediately wakes up and sets up the

X and Keyboards

After upgrading to 1.2.7, X does only know a US keyboard. Where in the many configuration files can I tell X, that I have a German one -- and where can I read about it? Thanks in advance! Hubert Palme

DHCP

I've set up the dhcpd debian package (0.5.13-4) with only Win95 machines using it at present. For some reason this is causing a problem with the local DNS mapping. One day everything works like it should, the next day the DHCP clients won't see local machines except by IP address. There is no

Re: X and Keyboards

Hubert Palme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading to 1.2.7, X does only know a US keyboard. Where in the many configuration files can I tell X, that I have a German one -- and where can I read about it? Add line: XkbDisable to section Keyboard in file /etc/X11/XF86Config.

Re: Network Configuration

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Jordi Inglada wrote: The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp, telnet, etc... When I try some of these, I wait and wait,... If I use nfs as the access method to the distribution, I got the message server my nfs server seems to be down or

Re: Network Configuration

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hello, last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and finally my card is detected. The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I

Linking problems boundary===_Exmh_13452812500 boundary===_Exmh_13601327980

This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_13601327980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have the following errors when trying to compile and link a class that derives from QListBox: g++ -g -o try try.cc try1.cc -I/usr/include/X11/qt -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt -lg++ /tmp/cca197912.o:

Zyxel

Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work *with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now that

XTerm with Colors ???

Hi Debians, how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the Debian 1.2.4 release? Thanks for coming help! Greetings Chris !!

Re: Zyxel

Hi Jason, I ran my Linux box for about two years now with an old Zyxel 1496E as an answering machine under different versions of vgetty. I can tell you, it works like a charm! No problems, no surprises! regards, Stoyan Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a

which package in bo provides /etc/shells?

I recently trashed my /etc/shells (I think it was my fault, not the fault of dpkg). According to bo's Contents file: etc/shells passwd However, I passwd-961025-1 does not include a /etc/shells file. -- #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: XTerm with Colors ???

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:00 +0100 Christian Groeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the Debian 1.2.4 release? Add: *customization: -color to the system-wide /etc/X11/Xresources, or to your .Xresources Phil.

Re: Diald setup problem - Please help

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:04:38 CST Ramasubramanian Ramesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have the following problem which makes diald difficult to use. I have a straight forward installation of debian with options (diald,ppp) file adjusted to reflect my setup. Whenever I fire a network needy

md autostart?

Hi there, I just put the md package to use, and I have some semi-important questions... 1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel has md compiled in (not a module). 2) Can I also

Re: md autostart?

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Pete Templin wrote: I just put the md package to use, and I have some semi-important questions... 1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel has md compiled

sendmail on two hosts for one domain

hi! i'm trying to setup two linux boxes to receive mail for one domain. where can i find documentation for this? any help is greatly appreciated. thanks! mike __ Michael J. Maravillo Philippines Online

Re: sendmail on two hosts for one domain

Perhaps more specific information is needed. If you have machines a.foo.com and b.foo.com, the nameserver for foo.com would normally sort it out for you. Chances are that doesn't answer your question and you are trying to do more than that. Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation

Re: Diald setup problem - Please help

On Mar 03, 1997 at 10:04:38AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: command: telnet actions: (1) telnet fires up resolves host addresses and tries to connect (2) diald wakesup and makes connection (3) connection is setup but telnet still hanging Yes, the diald