Re: Dump hangs on my system

1997-04-02 Thread Marcia Takagui
> > > > > > > My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first > > "dump": > [...] > > DUMP: estimated 14710 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s). > [...] > > Pete > > dump is asking for another tape! [...] Sorry for the wrong answer: I read it the other way around, and you cer

Re: RPM

1997-04-02 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I feel that Debian must bear the cost of certification > > of maintainers and original authors. Unless I can tell someone I know > > where a program came from, no other securi

Re: Dump hangs on my system

1997-04-02 Thread Marcia Takagui
> > > My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first > "dump": [...] > DUMP: estimated 14710 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s). [...] > Pete dump is asking for another tape! You will have to inform, in the command line, the size of your "tape". See the man pages. Probably du

Re: biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, > Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know > there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat > got messages from (something to do with procmail? ). FYI, using > latest unstable sendmail as MTA. I love biff. I do not like to press in bash

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, McFly... Debian-rex (current), Debian-bo (next), Debian-whatever... On 02-Apr-97 Britton wrote: > >The next release is really called bo? Are we sure we want to do that? N >offense to whoever this title may be honoring, but it just doesn't have >the ri

Re: biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Bruce, Thanks for the information. I don't suppose you'd know of anything which would perform biff's function without my reinventing a wheel? I know it's just a question of pressing 'enter' in my open bash terminal to see if i have new mail, but it'd be nice to be able to leave a terminal open and

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
Hello...McFly! The current version is rex the next is bo. Debian-buzz, Debian-rex, Debian-bo, Debian-thor, Debian-whatever. Winbleeps 95-chicago etc... On 02-Apr-97 Britton wrote: > >The next release is really called bo? Are we sure we want to do that? N >offense to whoever this title may be

Re: RPM

1997-04-02 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Unfortunately, I feel that Debian must bear the cost of certification > of maintainers and original authors. Unless I can tell someone I know > where a program came from, no other security procedures can be trusted > to have any effectiveness whatsoever.

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread m*
> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > Well the next release is called "hamm". The one before it was called "buzz". > > Given the mystical significance of "bo", this means one of the following: > > > > 1. Bruce Perens is the antichrist and Debian really means "Devil". i knew the

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Well the next release is called "hamm". The one before it was called "buzz". > Given the mystical significance of "bo", this means one of the following: > > 1. Bruce Perens is the antichrist and Debian really means "Devil". > 2. The code names

Fwd: silly computer engineer story (fwd)

1997-04-02 Thread Chad Zimmerman
People here need to lighen up ;) Ok, take a look at this msg I was sent.. It's good for a laugh. Chad Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:09:13 -0700 (MST) From: "by way of Jon E. Juarez <[EMAIL P

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Britton
The next release is really called bo? Are we sure we want to do that? N offense to whoever this title may be honoring, but it just doesn't have the ring that Debian does. __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken eg

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Bruce Perens, you wrote: > > Well the next release is called "hamm". The one before it was called "buzz". > Given the mystical significance of "bo", this means one of the following: > > 1. Bruce Perens is the antichrist and Debian really means "Devil". > 2. The co

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Well the next release is called "hamm". The one before it was called "buzz". Given the mystical significance of "bo", this means one of the following: 1. Bruce Perens is the antichrist and Debian really means "Devil". 2. The code names are all characters in "Toy Story". 3.

Re: biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
The lady who wrote biff now works here at Pixar. Biff was named after her dog (long dead). Biff set an otherwise-unused execute permission bit on your terminal device (/dev/tty??) which told comsat that you wanted to be informed about new mail. Comsat did all of the work. I think that comsat just

Re: BO

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Dale Scheetz wrote: >On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Leon Castellanos wrote: > > > >> If you find this e-mail offensive please ignore it and > /dev/null or if >> that doesn't satisfy you please email bomb me or something :) >> >Well, something anyway ;-) > >

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Paul Rightley
This may have already been addressed, but back in the late 70's and into the 80's (I believe) the leader of the group did call himself 'Bo' and his sidekick, Ms. Nettles or whatever, was called 'Peep.' That was back when they spent some time here in the great state of New Mexico. Paul On 02-Apr-

biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat got messages from (something to do with procmail? ). FYI, using latest unstable sendmail as MTA. Many thanks for any assistance. TL

RE: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Steve Hsieh wrote: > >Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate >the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. >But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with >each o

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Klaus Hergerschiemer
No, Mr. Rightley is right. At one time the cult guy called himself bo and his partner peep, amoung other things. I saw it on the CNN website! joe Joseph Palicke http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > Date: Wed, 2 Apr

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

1997-04-02 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Would anyone be interested in working on a GPL-ed clone of Qt? This would >make KDE entirely free. I'd like to hear sentiment on this before I take >any more steps. Bruce, are you sure you aren't asking about Yet Another Widget Set Project(tm)? Dimitri

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I solemly hope that, with the release of bo, the entire Debian developers > team does not use the same cosmic 'hlt' instruction! Ugh. Let's not talk about those folks. I think Linux programmers have more sense. One of the features of the Internet is that

Re: BO

1997-04-02 Thread Paul McDermott
You are partly right. There could be bugs in the base installation problem. I had a similar problem trying to install the stable 2.0.27 kernal. I was getting command errors related to my hard drive. Linux could not get past the partition check. I thought it was the hardware that I was using

Re: BO

1997-04-02 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: [ snip ] Note also, that you are overlooking >the possibility of upgrading a 1.2 system to bo. This is also a method >that needs testing, and it doesn't depend on the installation disk >directory. Speaking of which, I've upgraded quite a few packag

Re: ppp loopback

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
It means the remote system echoed serial characters that PPP sent. This happens when the remote pppd hasn't started and you are sending packets at the login prompt or the shell prompt. Run through the chat script by hand and see if it really gets you logged in. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: BO

1997-04-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Leon Castellanos wrote: > Ok I downloaded BO to see if I could contribute to the debian effort by > testing the packages and reporting bugs, but to my surprise it is so BETA > that I cannot even install it. I understand that debian is a volunteer > effort and that what ppl do

Re: ppp loopback

1997-04-02 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Hi all, > ... >> Apr 1 21:05:52 zanzy pppd[351]: Serial line is looped back. ... >What does this mean?(*) What can I do to prevent it? Usually happens when a) you forgot to send "ppp" command to your ISP (ie. common login sequence is to to send username,

Re: BO

1997-04-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Leon Castellanos wrote: > If you find this e-mail offensive please ignore it and > /dev/null or if > that doesn't satisfy you please email bomb me or something :) > Well, something anyway ;-) With your long winded discussion there was, just barely, enough information to d

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > Now, the leader of this group was/is (depending upon your beliefs) a man who > at > one time called himself 'Bo'. Uh He called himself "Do". Not "Bo". Run, do not walk to the closet, put on your Nike's, get your shroud, and visit http://www.highe

Re: Xdm Problem

1997-04-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, I had this happen to me. The problem is that you have something incorrect in your XF86Config file. You should look in the xdm-errors file mine is in /var/log/xdm-errors. This file will tell you what the error is and tell you what line of the XF86Config file it is in. I hope this helps. Pa

BO

1997-04-02 Thread Leon Castellanos
Ok I downloaded BO to see if I could contribute to the debian effort by testing the packages and reporting bugs, but to my surprise it is so BETA that I cannot even install it. I understand that debian is a volunteer effort and that what ppl do for debian is out of their own free will. Concerning

setting up master-slave network

1997-04-02 Thread Michael J Devine
I am a beginning user of Debian, and am having troubles with the start-stop daemon. I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages on both (yep, small net) machines, and followed the nis.debian.howto in setting up the master and slave. The master seems to be doing well, but the slave cannot se

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
> I know that there is great debate over the future of the various Linux > distributions. Now I am seriously concerned for the future of Debian. > > As we all know (or at least those of us up-to-date with the current news of > the > US), a group of computer-literate people just killed themselves

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-02 Thread Leland Olds
> From: Leland Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You don't have to buy Qt in order to run free Qt based software for > > Windows, NT, etc. Anyone can distribute Qt based software for any > > platform that Qt supports. But someone would have to purchase a copy > > of Qt in order to port or develop for W

Re: Xdm Problem

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Dennis Young wrote: >Am in the process of getting a new box up & running. Am wondering if >there is a "simple" (relatively so) x manager that I can use. I plan to >be at the clinic 3rd sat this month with the new unit and -hopefully- >some stuf

Re: shadow question

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal >>> login is about to occur, the server flashes, and then the >>> console login reloads? >

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Leland Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You don't have to buy Qt in order to run free Qt based software for > Windows, NT, etc. Anyone can distribute Qt based software for any > platform that Qt supports. But someone would have to purchase a copy > of Qt in order to port or develop for Windows, NT

Re: Netscape popup windows zero size problem

1997-04-02 Thread Brian C. White
> I looked on my CD for a netscape...deb file, but didn't find one, so > just downloaded a copy of netscape from netscape and loaded it. You can find the netscape installer packages in the contrib section. Brian ( [EMAIL P

Unidentified subject!

1997-04-02 Thread debian-user-request

keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-02 Thread Steve Hsieh
Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with each other, it starts to get time consuming using dselect. How have others tack

Re: PGP compile error...Linux

1997-04-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi. This is a known problem in the PGP 2.6.2 distribution. In order to compile it for Linux/ELF, you will need to make a change to the sources. The quick change is to add "ASMDEF=-DSYSV" to the Linux make rule in the makefile. However this will not allow it to compile under Linux/a.out anymore.

The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread Paul Rightley
I know that there is great debate over the future of the various Linux distributions. Now I am seriously concerned for the future of Debian. As we all know (or at least those of us up-to-date with the current news of the US), a group of computer-literate people just killed themselves so that they

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-02 Thread Leland Olds
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Are there any plans to package KDE (www.kde.org) or any of it's > > components? > > KDE will be packaged, and you will be able to use it, but Debian is > most interested in 100% free desktop environments, so we have to be a > bit careful with KDE. KDE itself is f

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > KDE itself is free, but the Qt toolkit upon which > KDE is free _only_when_used_with_X_. > You'll still be able to get > KDE from the non-free directory and run it. From: Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bruce, shouldn't it be the contrib direc

A Qt alternative for KDE?

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Would anyone be interested in working on a GPL-ed clone of Qt? This would make KDE entirely free. I'd like to hear sentiment on this before I take any more steps. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread d1temp
On 2 Apr, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Stan Brown wrote: >> Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? > Dispite all the very interesting suggestions so far, I think that what you > are looking for is the mpack package in the mail section. This package

Re: Xdm Problem

1997-04-02 Thread Dennis Young
Am in the process of getting a new box up & running. Am wondering if there is a "simple" (relatively so) x manager that I can use. I plan to be at the clinic 3rd sat this month with the new unit and -hopefully- some stuff to load onto it. Thanks in advance, Dennis On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jim Sm

Re: RPM

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
> IMHO, Red Hat, Slackware, Irix, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX are NOT AS > LIKELY to INSTALL a booby-trapped package. Let's look at your assumptions. > Since extraction, compilation, and testing are nominally done by an > unprivelaged user (e.g. tool.bin) That's a pretty big assumption. > a booby-trap

wg15-locale

1997-04-02 Thread Kristian Nylund
Hello I've insalled the wg15-locale package, but I don't know how to use it.. :) The README says something about recompiling libc? I'd like to use the settings found in /usr/share/locale/sv_FI. Anyone know how? Thanks, Kristian

ppp loopback

1997-04-02 Thread mfrattola
Hi all, last time I fired up ppp it connected to my ISP, but immediatly hung up. In /var/log/daemon.log I find: > Apr 1 21:05:30 zanzy pppd[351]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 > Apr 1 21:05:50 zanzy pppd[351]: Serial connection established. > Apr 1 21:05:51 zanzy pppd[351]: Using interface

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-02 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > KDE itself is free, but the Qt toolkit upon which > KDE is free _only_when_used_with_X_. ... > You'll still be able to get > KDE from the non-free directory and run it. Bruce, shouldn't it be the contrib directory instead of the non-free directory? I

Re: Dump hangs on my system

1997-04-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Pete Templin wrote: > > My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first > "dump": > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Apr 2 00:11:29 1997 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/rft0 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular

Re: Hayes ESP serial port

1997-04-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mike Bernson wrote: > > Are there any drivers to use the Hayes ESP serial card in it full > fifo (1k) mode. I would also like to use speed greater then 115200. > > Any help where to look would be of great help. In the Serial-HOWTO, under '2. Supported Serial Hardware', section '2.4. Intellige

Re: RPM

1997-04-02 Thread meierrj
Bruce, > Note that Red Hat, Caldera, etc. are just as liable to pick up and compile > a package whose author built in a booby-trap. IMHO, Red Hat, Slackware, Irix, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX are NOT AS LIKELY to INSTALL a booby-trapped package. Since extraction, compilation, and testing are n

Re: BUG in dinstall script in BO IMPORTANT!

1997-04-02 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Leon Castellanos wrote: > There is a problem with the unstable installation script! a variable has > not been correctly defined for the installation medium and thus I cannot > install from floppy disks! I think that there are some other problems > besides that but I hadn't down

Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa

1997-04-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ralph Winslow wrote: > > Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > > > > I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or > > ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. > > > Check out the dd command. > Be *very* careful with the dd command, it "pads" out rec

Re: pap and diald

1997-04-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Richard Morin wrote: > > Hi folks, > I was wondering if anyone who uses diald could help me with pap > authentication. I've just changed ISP's and of course they are an Nt > shop who are changing over to solaris... > > I was able to figure out my connection problems with minicom at my > old ISP

Re: shadow question

1997-04-02 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal >> login is about to occur, the server flashes, and then the >> console login reloads? >> >> i've seen that and yes its a permission issue. Adam> Yep that'

Re: BUG in dinstall script in BO IMPORTANT!

1997-04-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Please send full details to Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . He is maintaining the script. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

BUG in dinstall script in BO IMPORTANT!

1997-04-02 Thread Leon Castellanos
There is a problem with the unstable installation script! a variable has not been correctly defined for the installation medium and thus I cannot install from floppy disks! I think that there are some other problems besides that but I hadn't downloaded the base1_2.tgz so I could not complete the in

Re: ncpfs module and kernel recompile

1997-04-02 Thread Barrington King
This is a bit of a cop-out, but it works cleanly almost every time: If bringing your system down is not a problem, it would probably be easier (read: less time consuming) to reboot off the emergency disk (Debian 1.2) or the Boot disk (Debian 1.1) and go through the setup again. Instead of reparti

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? > Dispite all the very interesting suggestions so far, I think that what you are looking for is the mpack package in the mail section. This package provides mpack and munpack and they

Re: Backup procedure

1997-04-02 Thread Norris Preyer
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to know about rotation methods (I've heard about > Granfather-Father-Son, 10 tape, Hanoi Towers but the information is not > clear), when to take tapes off-site, Debian backup utilities, etc. > The man page for dump gives details of how to do

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread James W. Lynch
- Received message begins Here - > > Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? > > Thanks. > > -- > Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- You c

RE: ncpfs module and kernel recompile

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Peter Iannarelli wrote: >Hi George: > >I do my kernel builds a little differently however they always seem to work. > >I'll assume that you ran the patch-kernel and got the updated modutils. I don't >know if the modutils are an absolute requiremen

RE: ncpfs module and kernel recompile

1997-04-02 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi George: I do my kernel builds a little differently however they always seem to work. I'll assume that you ran the patch-kernel and got the updated modutils. I don't know if the modutils are an absolute requirement however the doc does say these utils are for 2.1.18 and above. After I run my

TkInfo versus Emacs/Info [was Re: Problems working with bash.]

1997-04-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
I thought it worthwhile to send this again with a Subject that might attract the attention of more people. > > > >> Open up your info reader; > > > Gertjan> Don't get me started on info! > > > Why not? Elucidate. > > I think info sucks. It is obsoleted by html. Clear enough? > > Same

RE: slight preoblem with man

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 G. Kapetanios wrote: >Hi, > >Lately I had a slight problem with man. I have man-db v 2.3.10-33 and >manpages 1.15-2 installed from unstable. Whenever I install a new package >and run man, man says that it updates its database. Lately >It produce

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-04-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > >> Open up your info reader; > > > Gertjan> Don't get me started on info! > > > Why not? Elucidate. > > I think info sucks. It is obsoleted by html. Clear enough? > > Same story here. The gnu info browser is too obscure, if you're > not

Backup procedure

1997-04-02 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, backups!!! Backups have always been a mistery to me, a pain I should say. However, I realize the importance of backups. I am looking for a backup procedure to implement here at my company. We have a couple of Novell servers, several Linux boxes (two of them are production servers very importa

slight preoblem with man

1997-04-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Lately I had a slight problem with man. I have man-db v 2.3.10-33 and manpages 1.15-2 installed from unstable. Whenever I install a new package and run man, man says that it updates its database. Lately It produces warnings concerning dangling symlink. The problem seems to concern mainly t

RE: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Dave Ross
man munpack (part of MIME). Regards, Dave Ross, Senior Technical Specialist -Original Message- From: Alfons Juan i Ciscar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 3:46 PM To: Stan Brown Cc: Debian User List Subject:Re: Decodeing base64 stuff uudecod

ncpfs module and kernel recompile

1997-04-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Following my previous email and the reply on the list I tried to recompile the kernel. The problems I had are as follws I can create the .config file using make config. No problem. Then I run the make-kpkg command from the kernel-package I am in /usr/src/linux which is a symlink for /usr/sr

Dump hangs on my system

1997-04-02 Thread Pete Templin
My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first "dump": DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Apr 2 00:11:29 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/rft0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [d

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Alfons Juan i Ciscar
uudecode should work Alfons Juan On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? > > Thanks. > > -- > Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atl

GlimpseHTTP anyone?

1997-04-02 Thread Ken Gaugler
Is anyone using GlimpseHTTP as a search engine on their Debian system? I am having difficulty getting it configured to work on my 1.2 system. The folks at Glimpse (http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ghttp/ ) have not been real helpful. If someone has gotten this working, please email me so we can com

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 2, Stan Brown wrote : Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? Pipe through MetaMail ... Use mutt as your mailreader ... Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 fi

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Stan Brown wrote: > Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? Pine does it automatically. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM0JPSCqK7IlOjMLFAQEz2gQAqZ/FNeinMWEqd0/87IW5EwJueZu1NAiM 2PzfhUfNnzQa

RE: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Stan Brown wrote: > Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? > > Thanks. > >-- >Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] >404-996-6955 >Factory Automation Systems >Atlanta Ga. >-- >

RE: ldconfig 1.2.8 troubles

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Brian Skreeg wrote: > > I`ve recently attained the iconnect 1.2.8 cd and was upgrading in >small steps my aging 1.1 (with bits of 1.2 and uinstable) system. >I upgraded ldso and now ldconfig gives errors like below. > >ldconfig: warning: can't

Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread Stan Brown
Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that c

modules to modutils

1997-04-02 Thread Paul Serice
I'm trying to upgrade from base/modules to base/modutiles. I've made it to the point where "dpkg -l" gives me the following: ic modules 2.1.23-1 Dummy package for upgrade to modutils ii modutils2.1.23-2 Linux module utilities. Am I done? Thanks Paul Serice

ldconfig 1.2.8 troubles

1997-04-02 Thread Brian Skreeg
I`ve recently attained the iconnect 1.2.8 cd and was upgrading in small steps my aging 1.1 (with bits of 1.2 and uinstable) system. I upgraded ldso and now ldconfig gives errors like below. ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so.0 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfi

Unidentified subject!

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey All: I have a Jaton video-57p with a Trident TGUI9680XGI chipset. Three problems. In order to run bpp 16 I have to set it to fast_dram (40 ns) when it has med_dra m (70 ns). When I use the correct setting the SVGA server tells me that the car d only supp

RE: DosEmu corrupting console?

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Remco van de Meent wrote: >Hey > >I'm using a V7 Spea videocard, with a S3 Trio32 chipset. > >When I want to run dosemu with 'graphics' in de optionline of the >videodefinition, my consolescreen gets corrupted when returning to Linux. >But it goes o

Shadow

1997-04-02 Thread Lutz Mueller
Hi where can I find the patch for debian to use shadow password? Lutz Mueller -- , _ _ _RGA-NET (XLink-POP Remscheid) /|/ / | _| Lutz Mueller (administrativer Ansprechpartner) | \_|(_|, eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; \_| Tel.: +49 2191 909 418

RE: ncpfs module

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 G. Kapetanios wrote: > >Hi, > >I have just installed kernel 2.0.29 from the package kernel-image. >All went apparently fine but the problem is that I cannot find the module >ncpfs neede to mount netware volumes. As my office is based on netware it >

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Tue, Apr 01, 1997 at 10:24:30PM +0200, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> > > "Gertjan" == Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Gertjan> "Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
> Setting up gimp-smotif (0.54.1-5) ... > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing gimp-smotif (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ax25-util:

DosEmu corrupting console?

1997-04-02 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey I'm using a V7 Spea videocard, with a S3 Trio32 chipset. When I want to run dosemu with 'graphics' in de optionline of the videodefinition, my consolescreen gets corrupted when returning to Linux. But it goes only wrong when using 132 chars/line. When I'm using 80x50 for example, everything g

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 01, 1997 at 10:24:30PM +0200, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > > "Gertjan" == Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gertjan> "Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Open up your info reader; > > Gertjan> Don't

ncpfs module

1997-04-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just installed kernel 2.0.29 from the package kernel-image. All went apparently fine but the problem is that I cannot find the module ncpfs neede to mount netware volumes. As my office is based on netware it is very important for me to have this facility inorder to print and transfer f

Re: PGP compile error...Linux

1997-04-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > I D/L'd PGP 2.6 a few nights ago [ ... ] If I remember well, PGP 2.6 was not ELF-ready yet. Please, use PGP 2.6.3. Follow the README.PGP symlink on the Debian archives. Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Cha

Re: help with named

1997-04-02 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: > I know I've seen this somewhere, but now I can't find it. Here's the problem: > named is outputting what looks like logfile info to the console on one of my > Linux boxen. And I can't remember how to get rid of the stuff. > > Anybody know how to fix it

RE: Unknown host

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Andreas Tille wrote: >Hi, > >i installed smail from the unstable tree. I havn't any idea how to >configre smail. When I installed Slackware half a year ago I configured >nothing and it worked. Now I answered the some questions while >installing smai

Unknown host (more)

1997-04-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi once more, I tested the other direction to send mail from an other host to my machine and this was the result: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:17:05 +0200 (CEST) From: MAILER-DAEMON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mail failed, returning to se

Unknown host

1997-04-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, i installed smail from the unstable tree. I havn't any idea how to configre smail. When I installed Slackware half a year ago I configured nothing and it worked. Now I answered the some questions while installing smail, but any mail to any host (except on my own machine) is returned to sender.

help with named

1997-04-02 Thread Tim O'Brien
I know I've seen this somewhere, but now I can't find it. Here's the problem: named is outputting what looks like logfile info to the console on one of my Linux boxen. And I can't remember how to get rid of the stuff. Anybody know how to fix it off hand? If it's any help, it started doing this a

Re: dbview

1997-04-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Lacharme Jean-Paul wrote: > has anybody used dbview ? There is no manual entry, no info entry and the > dpkg --status output give no real information to use the command. I tried it out without any real success. It truncates every field of .dbf files I have tried to view.

Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa

1997-04-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or > ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. Try recode. Look at the recode-info-pages. Johann Joh

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