Douglas Bates writes:
> On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed
> this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then.
> Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms.
> franz# /sbin/dump 0f /dev/null /spare1
> DUMP: Date of this level 0
On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed
this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then.
Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms.
franz# /sbin/dump 0f /dev/null /spare1
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 1 17:13:35 1997
DU
Can anyone think of a utility or word processor that can read
Postscript files and save them in a common WP or even TeX
format?
The reason being, I need to move a few years' worth of word
processing files off my A3000-040 and the only useful/portable
format I can come up with is to print everythi
Hello all. I'm an instructor for a certificate course in C and UNIX.
Currently we are using SCO, but for the C++ course, I would like to
use linux -- mainly because I can use the GNU debugger to better
display the internal workings of the C++ language (SCO's C++ compiler is
C-front, so their debu
I finally found our AST's bios utility disk and it seems all cache memory
is disabled. I sort of suspected this since we were running 1.2.5 on it
for the past two years without problems.
Re the hostname well that has been set. Also we re-installed emacs.
As for the other two machines they're DE
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Lack of a host name will cause several useful parts of the system to
> segfault. This is why there is a default value provided during
> installation (among other reasons).
> Segfaults are by no means only obtained by faulty hardware. Faulty
> software can
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
> >
> > > Sad to say, I'm not replying to my own question about Air Combat
> > > Maneuvers under Debian 1.2.4...
> >
> > Not yet...
> >
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> This is just something for the think tank. I thing Dale is more than
> likely correct, but a few months ago I was getting segmentation faults
> whenever I would try to run man (maybe some others I don't remember right
> now). The problem was that for so
It sounds to me like you're using a window manager that has a sound module
but sound isn't in your kernel. Go through the *rc file for the window
manager and comment out the sound module portion. Then try again to see
if that is the only problem.
Look for something like this.
# Start the Audio
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
> i want to set up elm, but nowhere i can find the configuraton file
> elm.rc. I am using a Debian 1.2.6 and elm is at Version 2.4. I have
> searched after it, but i can't find it...Has the name been changed?
According to the output of dpkg --listfiles elm
On Thu, 01 May 1997 11:58:53 PDT Michael J Devine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have
> access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given
> these helpful hints:
[snip]
> I did all this, and when I executed the nf
I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have
access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given
these helpful hints:
> Add this line to your server's export:
> /home *. (rw)
> Then reboot, or do /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start
>
> Add th
I am running Debian release 1.2 on my 586/133mhz...and trying to get
XFree86 up and going... when I start up I get a message "fatal server
error: could not create audio connection block info" and the machine
seems to hang for quite awhile. Obviously there's something I haven't
done here, but I'm
At 06:23 PM 5/1/97 +0100, David Wright wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
>> If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser directly, you'll see it's a Perl script.
>> A quickly hack too, judging both on the comments and on the functionality.
>>
>> I just went thru the exercise of setting up a
I don't use elm but most, if not all, *rc files on my system are .*rc.
Maybe if you look for .elmrc? I'm talking about in your home directory
ofcourse.
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i want to set up elm, but nowhere i can find the configuraton file
> elm.rc. I am using
This is just something for the think tank. I thing Dale is more than
likely correct, but a few months ago I was getting segmentation faults
whenever I would try to run man (maybe some others I don't remember right
now). The problem was that for some reason when I installed linuxconf, I
believe,
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
> If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser directly, you'll see it's a Perl script.
> A quickly hack too, judging both on the comments and on the functionality.
>
> I just went thru the exercise of setting up a Debian based server for a
> community network, and
On Thu, 1 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've just switch from Slackware to Debian 1.2 on a AST Premmia
> SE/66 and we are getting a fatal error (11) segmentation fault when
> we run emacs. This is our third system the put Debian on and the first
> time this has happen. Any suggest
Hello,
i want to set up elm, but nowhere i can find the configuraton file
elm.rc. I am using a Debian 1.2.6 and elm is at Version 2.4. I have
searched after it, but i can't find it...Has the name been changed?
Ciao..bjoern
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I decided to finally make use of the debian menu system by converting my
old .fvwm2rc into the various hook files that live in .fvwm2/ but I seem
to be missing something - I added the line
+ "I" Module FvwmButtons
to .fvwm2/init-restart.hook and then sta
I have had to rerun ldconfig at times for no apparent reason in order to
get my system behaving normally too. It seems like it sometimes "looses
its mind" and re-running ldconfig gets things going again. It does not
happen often, maybe once in a month.
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Hi,
We've just switch from Slackware to Debian 1.2 on a AST Premmia
SE/66 and we are getting a fatal error (11) segmentation fault when
we run emacs. This is our third system the put Debian on and the first
time this has happen. Any suggestions on where we've could of gone wrong
would be apprecia
At 05:06 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>I did a check of what's out there in dselect. It's the 1.0-5 passwd pkg.
>>Where ARE you getting this pkg, Mike?
>
>$ ll bo/binary/base/passwd_961025-2.deb
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 archive archive217082 Apr 19 10:10
bo/binary/base/passwd_96102
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 09:28 AM 5/1/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>>On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
>>
>>:At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>:
>>:>Oh but they are:
>>:>
>>[ see thread ]
>>:
>>:>ii pa
At 09:28 AM 5/1/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
>
>:At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>:
>:>Oh but they are:
>:>
>[ see thread ]
>:
>:>ii passwd 961025-2 Change and administer password and
>:group dat
>:>Mike.
>
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
:At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
:
:>Oh but they are:
:>
[ see thread ]
:
:>ii passwd 961025-2 Change and administer password and
:group dat
:>Mike.
:
[more stuff deleted]
:===
:ii passwd 1.0-5
A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a strange problem. When I am using xterm, my "backspace" key acts
> like Ctrl-H which is fine. However, if I use rxvt, my "backspace" key
> gives me rubbish. I do not understand. I thought if one key works in
> xterm, it should has the same behaviour
Hi!
A mirror of Larry and Joe's Package Finder is now available in Sweden at
URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp/cgi-bin/finder.cgi
It actually works a little slower than the original site, probably
because the disks here are NFS mounted while they're local at
earthlight, but it might be an
I've used the Linksys EC2T successfully.
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On Thu, 1 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for recommendations for a
> PCMCIA ethernet card with both thinnet and
> 10bt and a modest price tag.
> This only need work with linux.
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In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote:
>
> At 11:38 AM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Is is just me, or is it really the case that
> >>no Unix has decent tools for administering user accou
At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>Oh but they are:
>
>$ dpkg -S useradd
>passwd: /usr/sbin/useradd
>passwd: /usr/man/man8/useradd.8.gz
>
>$ dpkg -l passwd
>Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
>| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>|/ Err
On May 1, Paul van Berlo wrote
> geez:) I'm encountering too many problems lately.. anyways.. I just tried
> to install libc6 from unstable.. (yes.. I know.. unstable.. but I dont
> care:) How can I safely install it? because libc6 conflicts with libc-dev
> and libc5-dev provides libc-dev.. but if
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 11:38 AM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Is is just me, or is it really the case that
>>>no Unix has decent tools for admini
At 11:38 AM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Is is just me, or is it really the case that
>>no Unix has decent tools for administering user accounts :-), I've pretty
>>much had to do this on every Unix system
At 10:40 PM 4/30/97 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Christopher W Hafey wrote:
>
>>
>> Many of us end up editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group, with nothing
>> more elaborate than vi. There could be a lint tool (like weblint,
>> etc.) just for the purpose of checking the integr
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem with some machines here. Both are pentiums
> running debian which have the same versions of all software on them. The
> kernel version is 2.0.30. Within the last couple hours, something's
> happened to cause them to have troub
Heya..
geez:) I'm encountering too many problems lately.. anyways.. I just tried
to install libc6 from unstable.. (yes.. I know.. unstable.. but I dont
care:) How can I safely install it? because libc6 conflicts with libc-dev
and libc5-dev provides libc-dev.. but if I try to remove libc5-dev I'll
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is is just me, or is it really the case that
>no Unix has decent tools for administering user accounts :-), I've pretty
>much had to do this on every Unix system I've touched over the years ...
>but now I'm straying :-)
>
> sorry, this is a second request...
>
> Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen
> to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of
> error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to
> address the problems without h
Yea. I found it a few hours ago. I never checked my root crontab since I
never added anything to it, but smail did when it was installed and never
removed it when it was removed.
Another guy told me to check daemon and uucp crontabs. While I was
looking I checked my root crontab and there it w
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> I updated to frozen bo and now I get email from cron saying
>
> /bin/sh: runq: command not found
>
> Anybody have this problem?
>
> When I did the upgrade I swithced from smail to sendmail.
runq is a part of smail, not sendmail.
with sendmail, just run '
Kevin Traas writes:
> 1. The accounts on vnet will have to exist on hicks before hicks will
> accept e-mail for those users, right?
Not necesserily. You may install them as follows in /etc/aliases
joey: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wuschel:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
On Thu, 01 May 1997 01:32:53 CDT Jesse Goldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ov) wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of ldd before. Unfortunately,
> when I tried "ldd linuxxdoom", it resulted in:
>
> ldd: Cannot execute linuxxdoom (Binary format error)
Recompile the kernel with support for
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of ldd before. Unfortunately,
when I tried "ldd linuxxdoom", it resulted in:
ldd: Cannot execute linuxxdoom (Binary format error)
or some such. I tried running ldconfig as well and that didn't seem to
help. Maybe libc4 isn't work right...
J. Goldma
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
> [executable]: Exec format error. Binary file not executable.
Just a wild guess. Try ldd on the file and ckeck that all the sharded
libraries are OK.
For example: :-)
timshel:/etc# ldd /usr/local/games/doom/linuxsdoom
libvga.so.1 (DLL Jump 1.1
On 29 Apr 1997, Philip Rangel wrote:
> I could not reproduce this bug.
>
> try to reconfig your divps, running texconfig. I had to make a symlink
> ln -s /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config /etc/texmf/dvips
Just like to add that teTeX and dvips are working great. GV shows the
page numbers perfectly. :
Hiya,
I'm having a strange problem with some machines here. Both are pentiums
running debian which have the same versions of all software on them. The
kernel version is 2.0.30. Within the last couple hours, something's
happened to cause them to have trouble executing binaries. One was an
executabl
On Thu, 1 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am looking for recommendations for a
> PCMCIA ethernet card with both thinnet and
> 10bt and a modest price tag.
> This only need work with linux.
I have been using an NDC Instant link which cost about $100 at Elek-Tek.
A word of caution on
I updated to frozen bo and now I get email from cron saying
/bin/sh: runq: command not found
Anybody have this problem?
When I did the upgrade I swithced from smail to sendmail.
Cron experiences this error every 20 min's. 0,20,40 min's in the hour.
I checked crontab, daily, wee
I am looking for recommendations for a
PCMCIA ethernet card with both thinnet and
10bt and a modest price tag.
This only need work with linux.
rob
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a strange problem. When I am using xterm, my "backspace" key acts
> like Ctrl-H which is fine. However, if I use rxvt, my "backspace" key
> gives me rubbish. I do not understand. I thought if one key works in
> xterm, it should has t
At 05:38 PM 30/04/97 -0700, Paul Hancock wrote:
[...]
>If I have a user logged in on several virtual terminals, each login shows
>when I do a 'who', as I would expect. When I log the user out of one
>virtual terminal, however, it removes the utmp entry for that terminal and
>another which that use
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Christopher W Hafey wrote:
>
> Many of us end up editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group, with nothing
> more elaborate than vi. There could be a lint tool (like weblint,
> etc.) just for the purpose of checking the integrity of these files.
> Perhaps one exists, and it's even
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
[ question: Is there an opposite to adduser? ]
> If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser directly, you'll see it's a
> Perl script. A quickly hack too, judging both on the comments
> and on the funct
I just installed Debian 1.3 on a new machine that I am setting up, and I
found that the utmp entries don't seem to be acting correctly.
If I have a user logged in on several virtual terminals, each login shows
when I do a 'who', as I would expect. When I log the user out of one
virtual terminal,
Hello all,
I have a strange problem. When I am using xterm, my "backspace" key acts
like Ctrl-H which is fine. However, if I use rxvt, my "backspace" key
gives me rubbish. I do not understand. I thought if one key works in
xterm, it should has the same behaviour in rxvt.
Can someone tell me how to
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> 1. The accounts on vnet will have to exist on hicks before hicks will
> accept e-mail for those users, right?
Yes. You have to set up the accounts first.
> 2. What problems might I have with incoming mail? i.e. If a message was
> addressed to [EMAIL
Just answering N. 1 (I hope this URLs still exist, it is a long I don't
visit them). If it is an AWE 32 (I don't have it, so didn't test that
driver):
http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/
There is probably no need to go to the following:
http://xfactor.wpi.edu/private/witek/aw
$ bug kernel-source-2.0.30 (never sent)
Package: kernel-source-2.0.30
Version: 2.0.30-1
Versions of the packages kernel-source-2.0.30 depends on:
binutilsVersion: 2.7-3
gas Not installed or no info
Hmm.. wonder if I need 'gas'. . .
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