Hi,
I have put together a handful of PCs and installed the latest rex on them. nis
is working ok, but I can't make netgroups work.
The clients (and servers) can retrieve the netgroup map:
% ypmatch tudog netgroup
(turing,-,) (ritchie,-,) (knuth,-,)
The hosts are also in the hosts file. All host
Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file
dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I
can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the
format of this file??
thank for everything
Kevin Poorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] OR m
For the benefit of the archive lists and in case anyone else was
wondering, here's the answer to my problem.
The default fvwm behavior is not to use m4, but the Debian/Linux fvwm
package has been compiled to use m4. Since m4 quotes using ` and ', the
result is that the backquotes in the .fvwmrc f
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun
> > system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't
> > expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which
> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Pete Harlan wrote:
>
> > In bash it's ^R for reverse, and ^S for forward search, just like in
> > emacs. Perhaps if you select vi rules for bash it will use whatever
> > horror vi uses for searching.
> >
> ^S only freezes my xterm and i have to press ^Q to make it work agai
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It is in a pkg called make not bin not binutils.
Sorry.
On 03-Apr-97 Rick wrote:
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>I believe it's in the binutils pkg. Strange that you don't have it. Did
>you do "find / -iname make"? Probably a stupid question.
>
>On 03-
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I believe it's in the binutils pkg. Strange that you don't have it. Did
you do "find / -iname make"? Probably a stupid question.
On 03-Apr-97 Daniel Karlsson wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I want to make a file in order to install a program. But I can't find
"make"
>anywhe
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Daniel Karlsson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to make a file in order to install a program. But I can't find "make"
> anywhere on my disk. I've tried looking for it in dselect too, without
> success.
>
> Where can I find it? I have gcc
It's in section devel. It's called make. M
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First I must say thank you to the original sender that informed me of this
word wrap problem. I was brain damaged when I checked it myself. I
didn't read the msgs I sent to myself and see that the sentances were
hacked and slashed. I took it for normal line wr
Hello!
I want to make a file in order to install a program. But I can't find "make"
anywhere on my disk. I've tried looking for it in dselect too, without
success.
Where can I find it? I have gcc.
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which
> deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know?
> Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages
> in alphabetical-recursive orde
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That was not really wrongly installed.
You have the menu pkg installed. When you install pkgs it updates all of your m
enus to show the new pkg. It builds a new syste.*rc file REPLACING the one alre
ady there. Backup that file before it gets lost and read the
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Did you use ps or "ps -aux"?
cron doesn't show up in a regular ps. It shows when I do a "ps -aux"
On 03-Apr-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently discovered that cron is not running on my system. The
>cron package I have is version 3.0pl1-36. In th
This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which
deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know?
Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages
in alphabetical-recursive order (which is why I run into catch-22 problems
suc
On Apr 2, Bruce Perens wrote
> Someone suggested that if we cloned Qt, we should do it using the Lesstif
> widget set rather than the one that Qt is presently using, and this might
> be an improvement on the present Qt.
You might also want to take a look at development versions of the gimp,
the fr
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It doesn't seem to be on the debian.org site.
http://afterstep.edoc.com is the home page. You can get the current version the
re.
SIDE NOTE:
I recv'd a msg that said my email is "broken" i.e. lines broken and doub
le spaced etc...
If anybody
Lars Hallberg Micro++ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
|
|What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to write
|code that runns on diferent widget sets? If it makes it posably to chose
Great idea. But I think I've allready seen something
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> > The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and
> > allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way
> > to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage,
> > so I have to type
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The release after that will be Debian-2.0 . The major difference in 2.0
> will be that it is based on GNU LIBC, known in Linux circles as "libc 6".
Two questions:
1. What's good about GNU libc?
2. Whose libc is libc5?
Vadik.
--
Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL P
Okay, people I'm up to this challenge.
--
> basic funktions (inputfield, menus etc) could also be available on
> textterminals (thru curses, termcap, slang ...). That makes it a perfect
> choice fore system tools...
>
> Anyone intrested? We culd start out whit
> The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and
> allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way
> to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage,
> so I have to type the same things for each install.
just off the to
Hi Pedro,
On Apr 1, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote
>
> but I have always the same message, and if I ignore the message and
> save the file it appears in the correct directory (~/cddb) but the
> next time it is not accessed.
I ignored the message, too. I didn't bother with changing the
resources
Hi listers,
I would love to hear from someone who is using the Epson Stylus 600 or 800
with their Debian box. I don't have a printer yet...and this particular
model seems to fit what I'm looking for at a reasonable cost. I know I
could always use win95 but that wouldn't be any fun now would it?
Debian Users,
I recently tracked down what I believe to be a problematic email
address which was on several of the debian mailing lists. I think that
the address would send mail back to anyone/thing which sent it mail,
causing a mailing loop. Worse yet, when I unsubscribed the address,
Hi,
I woul like backup our linux box. Our Exabyte is on a other machine, a Sun
on Solaris. I have the permission to access the Exabyte on the Sun. But, I
have some problem to backup our hardrive on the Exabyte with the tar
command of Linux. Anyone can help me?
Thanks in advance,
Dany Dionne
Physi
Hi,
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Surely, this is a off-topic message, but I need some help
> to generate random number in a Fortran program. Is there some
> library function available for this? or should I do it by hand?
> I'm trying to us
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to write
code that runns on diferent widget sets? If it makes it posably to chose
real interface "runtime" it be real cool. One app, run it in KDE, xform,
MooTiff, Athena widget set, Tcl/tk,
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
> H,
> I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to
> other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware.
Yes, that's what I was referring to when I talked about using rdist (which
is how we keep our sunos
Hello you can get a package called afterstep_0.98a16-2.deb in the
ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/X11 directory. I hope this will help, if
does not I am sorry.
Paul
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Magic wrote:
> me have only one - maybe dumb ;) - question... Where is
> AfterStep-1.0pre6 ???
> Thx!
>
You might try this on BRU's site:
http://www.estinc.com/strategies.html
> 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
Bruce,
> I would like to see a proposal for reduced-privilege installation using
> dpkg/dselect. Feel free to write one and make a test implementation.
This is a wonderful idea. The convenience and dependency
management of dpkg with the reliability, security, tolerance, and flexibility
Hi,
Surely, this is a off-topic message, but I need some help
to generate random number in a Fortran program. Is there some
library function available for this? or should I do it by hand?
I'm trying to use g77 compiler, and I have also f2c as well
as fort77. My system is Debian-1
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun
> system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't
> expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which work on fvwm
> for SunOS/Solaris cause a seg fault o
Rick writes:
> I haven't run across this original msg yet, since I am re-configuring my
> system
> and am just now getting to read some email, but I would like to say something
> ab
> out all the ppl that post to this list and do nothing but bitch about the
> curren
> t state of Debian/Linux.
H,
I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to
other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware.
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>
> Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate
> the package system and it works
Hi,
I recently discovered that cron is not running on my system. The
cron package I have is version 3.0pl1-36. In the man page it
says:
cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering
multi-user runlevels.
However, when I try to find the cron process with ps, I get not
me have only one - maybe dumb ;) - question... Where is
AfterStep-1.0pre6 ???
Thx!
Magic
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Artur Zaworski, Computer Center, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic phone(office): 47.27.88
Thanks to everyone who responded. The key bit of info was discovering
about the ~/.xsession-errors file. Once I had that it was really easy.
The problem was that the /etc/X11/afterstep/system.steprc was wrongly
installed as /etc/X11/afterstep/system.steprc-menu. Since I didn't have a
~/.steprc
Richard Sharman
===
>I'm not familiar with Xplaycd but a couple of things struck me
>as possible problems.
>
>1. Did you "xrdb" your .Xresources file after the change?
Yes I did.
>
>2. Are you sure that xplaycd understands the "~" notation?
No I am not shure about it.
> Try putt
Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun
system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't
expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which work on fvwm
for SunOS/Solaris cause a seg fault on Debian fvwm. Maybe the true
culprit lies wit
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Kristian Nylund wrote:
> 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?
This
> Kai Grossjohann writes:
Kai> The function history-search-backward which I bound to M-p does exactly
Kai> this. (Similar for M-n, history-search-forward.)
I must have been out of my mind :-(
Sorry, of course the Bash 1.X history-search-{for,back}ward don't do
this right.
kai
--
A lar
> Gertjan Klein writes:
Gertjan> [...] The principle is this: if you have an empty
Gertjan> commandline and you type the up arrow, you get the previous
Gertjan> command. If you've already typed something, you get
Gertjan> whatever previous command starts with that. This combines
Ge
On Apr 2, Richard Kilgore wrote
> What happenned to mutt? It was in the mail subdirectory for a little bit,
> and it still appears in the Packages file, but the latest .deb file (or an
> old one for that matter) is nowhere to be found.
I withdrew it from the regular distribution and moved it to d
Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
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>
> On Mar 28, Kai Grossjohann wrote
> : > Eloy A Paris writes:
> :
> : Eloy> I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path
> : Eloy> name) per line. M
Hi,
> I wonder why fvwm2 starts a xterm when starting. I didn't found any
> call of xterm while browsing through the startup files in /etc/X11/fvwm2.
>
Have a look at /etc/X11/Xsession
Cheers, Thomas
--
Th. Gebhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
---
Hi,
I wonder why fvwm2 starts a xterm when starting. I didn't found any
call of xterm while browsing through the startup files in /etc/X11/fvwm2.
What should I do if I want to avoid this or what should I do to if I
prefer rxvt with a geometry different from the standard size?
Thanks for advise
It took me quite a while to get the power-saving blanking to work
under X. Here's what I did (for a Number Nine (S3-based) card).
I don't know if it is necessary, but it seemed to me that I had
to make 2 changes; one in the "Device" section and one in the
"Screen" section. I put both changes a
I'm not familiar with Xplaycd but a couple of things struck me
as possible problems.
1. Did you "xrdb" your .Xresources file after the change?
2. Are you sure that xplaycd understands the "~" notation?
Try putting the full path name in and see if that makes a
difference. I mean, something
>
> if (!$nowrite && !link("$infodir/dir","$infodir/dir.lock")) {
> die "$name: failed to lock dir for editing! $!\n".
> ($! =~ m/exists/i ? "try deleting $infodir/dir.lock ?\n" : '');
> }
>
[snip]
>
> Others on the list may have a better understanding of perl to see what
> exca
Hi,
Remove the --zImage command and everything would work fine,
make-kpkg will create the debian package for you. (it uses bzImage
by default, which I gess stands for Big zImage ;-).
The advantage over using make zlilo is a: dpkg and friends are
aware which kernel you have ins
Hi,
For completeness, I will mention Emacs + gnus + Tm or Emacs +
Vm.
manoj
--
"Bidet? Try washing your whole body." anon
Manoj Srivastava mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mobile, Alabama USAhttp://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
Hi,
If you use mailagent, then change the line in ~/.mailagent
from:
# Biffing support
biff : OFF # Whether biff is wanted
to
# Biffing support
biff : ON # Whether biff is wanted
Then you get biff like messages, but you can configure
On Apr 2, Nathan O. Siemers wrote
>Hello all:
>
>I'm having trouble telling linux to allow rsh's to work as root from
>remote machines. Root's .rhosts, /etc/hosts.equiv, and
>/etc/hosts.allow don't seem to affect the "permission denied"
>result. Solution?
Change the command in.rshd in your /etc/in
Hello all:
I'm having trouble telling linux to allow rsh's to work as root from
remote machines. Root's .rhosts, /etc/hosts.equiv, and
/etc/hosts.allow don't seem to affect the "permission denied"
result. Solution?
Thanks,
--
Nathan Siemers - Department of Bioinformatics
Bristol-Myers Squibb Ph
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > The proble left is: The .deb uploaded can be generated by a source not
> > included in the source package. It would be great if gcc placed some kind
> > of signature in binaries...
> But how do you guarantee that someone doesn't pervert gcc?
Hum.. you'
I recently sent a message regarding a problem that I am having
with my mouse on XFree86. The mouse is a PS2 style of Mouse Systems
mouse. According to the documentation that I have found the only
setting in the XF86Config file that will work in the PS2 setting.
When I run XF86Setup the
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Someone suggested that if we cloned Qt, we should do it using the Lesstif
> widget set rather than the one that Qt is presently using, and this might
> be an improvement on the present Qt.
I've tested parts of KDE and it looks a lot better than any Motif
Biff may be obsolete, but if you use X try xbuffy. It's VERY nice. I
use procmail to automatically sort mail to a set of folders (currently
36), and xbuffy monitors them all continuously, showing in inverted
video those who have new msgs. and the number of them. If you click on
the box of the folde
Someone suggested that if we cloned Qt, we should do it using the Lesstif
widget set rather than the one that Qt is presently using, and this might
be an improvement on the present Qt.
I have one person who has expressed interest in working on this so far.
This is far from critical mass. But then,
From: Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The next release is really called bo? Are we sure we want to do that?
> No offense to whoever this title may be honoring, but it just doesn't have
> the ring that Debian does.
Tee hee. I can see we're confusing the poor users. We'd better stop it.
The next rele
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens 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.
I think this is a good idea, but I don't see it gaining a whole lot of
momentum anytime
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yes, they are. Testing, and revising developers diffs. If you could check
> package MD5 (someday we'll be able to do this =3D) ), you'll only need to
> see the diff.gz to check for security problems (Asuming we can trust the
> mainst
> 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-u
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