On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 07:56:51 +0200 (MDT) Philipp JW Grau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>
>> hello
>>
>> Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded
>the
>> red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if
>any on
Is there any special configuration I must do for Debian to detect
my CD-Rom?
It's just a Mitsumi CD-ROM, and I tried inputting the io and irq manually
and still no go..
Can anyone point me in the direction to get this working? I can pretty much
use everything else, cept my cd-rom and floppy driv
> I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two
> questions on dwww:
>
>* Does it support compressed files, especially man pages?
>
> It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration
> option to set?
Viewing compressed manpages with dwww works for me. W
Alexander Koch writes:
> Hi guys...
>
> What is the difference between bo/binary-all and bo/binary-i386 ??
Everything behind the 'binary' means a different architecture.
i386 is for intel based machines 'alpha' for alpha based ones.
'all' is a placeholder for binaries that are equal on all archit
Andre Koopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size.
>
> ed is very small :-)
hades|00:08:36 ~ [501] $ls -l $(type -path ed) $(type -path ae)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root23945 Jun 28 1996 /bin/ae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root6796
Has XFree made any progress in supporting the accelerated features
of the 65550 C&T& on the Tecra yet?
>> instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told "can't find file 'Imakefile.tmpl'".
>
>moxfm requires Motif to compile.
The binaries I was using are statically linked with Motif.. That should be
sufficient, right? Since I'm just trying to install precompiled stuff rather
than compile it myself..
Tha
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>You did right in getting the BINARY version instead of the version you have
>to compile as Lawrence mistakenly assumed.
>
>You have to get the version that has been staticly linked with motif. That
I got the version that's statically linked with Motif. It _s
With the base install you get the basic editor ae sorta like the pico
editor
Chad D. Zimmerman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
>
> > Greg Vence wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need t
> > I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
> > anymore? :-)
>
> Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size.
>
ed is very small :-)
> Dwarf
Andre
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Greg Vence wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to edit my ppp scripts.
> >
> > What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
> > for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
> >
> > Thanx -- Greg.
>
> I am surprised nobody ment
Anyone using CFS ?
The program 'cmkdir' in the package I installed seems to actually be
'cpasswd'.
If you are using this program please e-mail me, I need help ! :)
Thanks,
Matthew
Hi there,
does anyone out there have any experience running the Sun jws on a
Debian GNU/Linux system. On my system the jws freezes completely when I
try to use the jws source editor. Does anyone know of a fix? Or - if you
got the jws running, can you tell me, which jdk you're using?
Benedik
> that is, are there any packages that will enable one to use a scanner
> that is able to read in characters, or in other words, uses OCR
> (optical character recognition) technology?
It depends on the scanner you have. I've a HPScanJet4c connected to
a SCSI card and i'm using hpscanpbm, which i
> Are md5 checksums available for individiual binaries within
> each package?
Yes they are. Just get the .deb package, extract the binary file you
want the md5 for, and run md5 on it.
If the md5 for the whole package matches, that means none of the
files in the package is corrupted, and you can
> I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
> anymore? :-)
Don't be silly. It didn't need to be mentioned; he never would have asked the
question
unless he'd somehow broken vi :)
rick
>I believe that the answer to your question is that most systems are
> 802.2. I have a client who is running Novell v3.11, which is an
> "intermediate" version, and they need 802.3. But because i think that the
> 802.3 is "odd", that implies that 802.2 is "normal".
Netware 3.11 defaults to an
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I just got the qt pkg from debian. The KDE pkg from kde.org. Once it was
unarchived I just modified the configure script to add
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/qt for the QT include path, and /usr/X11R6/lib for the
QT library path. Then just followed the instructions.
Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just noticed this problem. The ownership of /var/spool/lpd has
> changed to root.root, wheras it should be root.lp. I changed the
> permission manually and it then worked. Hmm. I don't know what caused
> this to happen.
Wow, you win the prize. I had the
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Why are you using dip? I've never used it. I always use pppd with a
chatscript. Is there an advantage to using dip that I'm unaware of?
10-Apr-97 Alec Clews wrote:
>Many thanks to the folks who pointed out that the ppp device is called
>ppp{0,1,2,..} . It was
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /tmp okay? Has been known to lose normal-user write permissions,
> although not for quite a long time for me. Should be
> drwxrwxrwxt.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it either.
--
Rob
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You did right in getting the BINARY version instead of the version you have
to compile as Lawrence mistakenly assumed.
You have to get the version that has been staticly linked with motif. That
means the motif it needs are part of it. If you have motif you wou
Ken Gaugler writes:
> > What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
> > for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
ae is on board.
> I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
> anymore? :-)
We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won.
Greg Vence wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to edit my ppp scripts.
>
> What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
> for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
>
> Thanx -- Greg.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
--
Ken Gaugl
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kay Nettle) wrote:
> We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines
>and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over
>the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible.
We have been running about a
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Below is the page netcom recommends for Linux setup. I've tried this
> off the base installation and don't even get the phone dialing.
>
> I've got an Intel internal 14.4 modem
>
> http://www1.netcom.com/bin/webtech/Other_Dialers_and_Operatin
First off, I apologize to all who sent private replies and I had used them in
a public message. Thanks to Santiago, I now understand the difference between
the variations in mail headers. Gracia Senor!
--
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Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Hello,
Below is the page netcom recommends for Linux setup. I've tried this
off the base installation and don't even get the phone dialing.
I've got an Intel internal 14.4 modem
http://www1.netcom.com/bin/webtech/Other_Dialers_and_Operating_Systems/Operating_Systems/linux.cfg.html
Thanx -- Gre
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Also, what is the input device
> > for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
> Well, if I understand the question your command line should look like:
>
> cp /dev/console
> cp /dev/tty1
This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes:
[snip: 3c59x.c rejects patch]
> Maybe there is already a patch applied in kernel-source-2.0.27 of Debian 1.2?
>
> As a solution you may want to use a file from a clean 2.0.30.
Would someone /please/ be kind enough to put the clean 3c59x.c on the
I would like to know if there is any twain driver available, so maybe I
can use my handy scanner in my Linux. Does anybody know anything about
this?
Thanks,
Felix Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dave Cinege wrote:
> I just tried to patch up to 2.0.30 and I got an error along the lines of
>
> hunk 1 of 1 failed. Rejected 3c59x.c...
>
> I restored 'pure' kernel 2.0.27 source off of the Debian 1.2.6 CD I have and
> tried itup to 2.0.29 no complaints, but it gets to 2.0.30 and I get
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>
>Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail
>with the following message:
>
>Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock
>'/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA225raven' open failed - Permission denied
>
>The only way I've found to
On 09-Apr-97 Dave Cinege wrote:
>I just tried to patch up to 2.0.30 and I got an error along the lines of
>
>hunk 1 of 1 failed. Rejected 3c59x.c...
>
>I restored 'pure' kernel 2.0.27 source off of the Debian 1.2.6 CD I have and
>tried itup to 2.0.29 no complaints, but it gets to 2.0.30 an
On Apr 9, Paul Wade wrote
: On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
:
: >
: > Or wait for a new release of the bind package ;-)
: I can't seem to find a '}' anywhere near line 120.
1 #!/bin/sh -e
2 #
3 # Debian package postinst
4 # Version 1.2
5 #
6 # R
Hello
I have been trying to install Debian 1.2 (2.0.27) for some days now
without any success. Yesterday I downloaded pre 1.3 (?) (2.0.29) from
ftp.debian.org/debian/frozen to try, without more succss.
So now I am trying the user list to see if I can get some help. The
problem is the detection
Are md5 checksums available for individiual binaries within
each package?
This, would IMO provide a means for authenticating a systems
binaries on an already installed system, _before_ locking it up
with something like tripwire.. (if you havent just done a clean
reinstall)
ie, I dont want to ru
On Wed, Apr 09, 1997 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Check the permissions on /dev/null -- here something has changed them
> > to crw--- twice already and I haven't found the offender yet.
> Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked and that's no
On Apr 10, digger vermont wrote
> I'm upgrading from 1.2 to bo and at tetex-*'s request am trying to run
> "dpkg --purge --force-depends latex". This is the response I get:
>
> (Reading database ... 31313 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing latex ...
> Removing latex format(s) u
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> Well, if I understand the question your command line should look like:
>
> cp /dev/console
[snip]
> If you know which Virtual Console you are on, they are accessed through
> the ttyN devices, so from console 1 the line would look like:
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: I was at the Debian homepages today, and saw mention of upcoming support
: for the Alpha archetecture... Is this still a reality, or has it been
: canned? Thanks.
Active work continues. The bits in the unstable tree right now are *very*
unstable. The
Many thanks to the folks who pointed out that the ppp device is called
ppp{0,1,2,..} . It was useful to know
I also didn't spot that there is now a PPP Howto
However my real problem turned out to be that my dip script was setting
the data rate too high! }:-(
Anyway earth.demon.co.uk is now runni
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> hello
>
> Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the
> red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one
> has kde working I would appreciate info on how you got it working...
Yes i got it running, w
Edgar,
The "Freedom Desktop" sounds nice, but your license would put the
program in the "non-free" area of the Debian FTP archive, where it
would not generally be put on Debian CDs that are for sale. For obvious
reasons, we are most interested in free software. Please work out a
more acceptable li
hello,
I'm upgrading from 1.2 to bo and at tetex-*'s request am trying to run
"dpkg
--purge --force-depends latex". This is the response I get:
(Reading database ... 31313 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing latex ...
Removing latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8)
/v
Tim O'Brien wrote:
>
> I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary
> form. I uudecoded, unzipped, and un-tarred it, and rtfm'd. Following the
> instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told "can't find file 'Imakefile.tmpl'".
moxfm requires Motif to compile.
^^
--
Lawrenc
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to edit my ppp scripts.
>
> What editors come on the base install?
The editor you are expected to use is ae, but sed is also in base if you
really want to abuse yourself.
Ae is configured as a modeless editor with a visible help screen,
Ahem... could all further users please not "reply-to-all" in further
replies to Karl's message? He put all the staff members at Internet
Arena in the CC field ( although only a few are members of PLUG ) and
we've been recieving replies we don't always need. I think only three
of us are subscribed
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Just type edit.
On 10-Apr-97 Greg Vence wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need to edit my ppp scripts.
>
>What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
>for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
>
>Thanx -- Greg.
>
Have a good one.
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I'm writing this from KDE which I d/l'd earlier tonight. In my opinion KDE
is just another variation of Win95. It may be nice in the end for the
inexperienced, ofcourse what window manager isn't simple enough once
configured properly? I'll be sticking with Aft
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RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this a beta testers report??? If so is this the place to send these
reports to Debian? I'm a bit confused here since most people subscribed to
this list have been using bo, or parts of it for some time now.
I've been on this list sinc
Chris Brown wrote:
>
> I will be connecting several different types of systems to an
> ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On
> the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the
> Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either Ethernet_802.2 or
> Eth
Eugene Sevinian wrote:
>
> Sometimes I see these messages on my screen:
>
> Apr 8 11:44:41 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21
> nxpg=0x3c.
> Apr 8 12:49:06 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21
> nxpg=0x32.
> Apr 8 14:17:38 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packe
why so careless to post your username and password in a mailing
list?
mmj
On 8 Apr 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
>
>I placed the following in /etc/mirror/packages/bufo.usc.edu and called
>it with mirror. It did a wonderful job of pulling things from the
>remote site t
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
>Adam, trust me, I went through this three months ago, I got involved
>in some significant discussion on rtr's forum, and the best possible
>solution, the one that rtr itself recommends, is the one I described
>above. Put the special libraries in a special place, and let apache
>know about it usin
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To install the KDE I only had to edit the configure file and add
/usr/X11R6/lib for QT lib dir and /usr/X11R6/include/X11/qt for the qt
include dir.
Have a good one.
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Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 9 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> If someone build a debian package with Freedom Desktop, in my understanding,
> it should go to non-free. What a mess!
>
I tried it out some time ago and i have to state that it's not worth
the downloading effort. KDE is the way to go although QT is r
I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two
questions on dwww:
* Does it support compressed files, especially man pages?
It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration
option to set?
* Is there any support for cgi programs?
Again, doesn't appe
When we switched over to daylight savings time, my linux box set its clock
forward an hour, like it should. However, I rebooted it last night to
upgrade the kernel, and it came up an hour behind. I guess the time wasn't
written back to the bios. I'm in US/Easter timezone, and I have my bios
clock s
Looking at http://www.fsw.com/fdlite/copyright.html one can see things like:
"The commercial use of this Software shall be governed by a separate License
agreement. Any individual or institution wishing to make commercial use of the
Software must sign a license agreement with Freedom Software."
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> On Apr 9, John Foster wrote
> :
> : It unpacks OK, but then during the config it crashes with an unknown
> : syntax error near line 120 'done'. This is just after an esac, and
>
> : Any help at all would be nice, as I can't see anything wrong
On Apr 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
> of the list. A subjec
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