Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-23 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Richard == Richard L Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to use Richard a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang from Richard reporting the error: Terminal not powerful

Re: HTML in email

1997-05-23 Thread Brian White
I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this? Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course it won't tell you that.) Actually, it's communicator 4.0 (beta) that

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: On Wed, 21 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Richard == Richard L Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to Richard use a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang

Re: Problem with telnetd ???

1997-05-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: When trying to telnet into a Debian GNU/Linux system I set up, I get the following: sally# telnet ross Trying x.y.z.193... Connected to ross. Escape character is '^]'. there is a 10-15 second pause here then Connection closed by foreign host.

Re: Problem with telnetd ???

1997-05-23 Thread Matthew Tebbens
My main (debian) system is at an ISP and I dial-in and telnet to my system. Are there any telnet clients for windows that support ssl-telnetd ? Regarding PGP...what is everyone using, the International version or the US version ? Matthew there are two secure(*), encrypted alternatives: 1.

Re: JPEG utilities

1997-05-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 20 May 1997, joost witteveen wrote: (cat filename.jpg|djpeg -v -targa/dev/null) 21|sed -n -e 's/Start Of Frame.*://p' works for me, though probably there are more straigt forward ways! Thanks for this tip! i've modified it slightly and wrapped it in a shell script: --- cut here

Re: Problem with telnetd ???

1997-05-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: My main (debian) system is at an ISP and I dial-in and telnet to my system. Are there any telnet clients for windows that support ssl-telnetd ? I believe that there is a windows version of ssl-telnet. I don't know where you can get it from - you

Re: Debian Security packages?

1997-05-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Be happy to make them... what all is involved? Do I have to have permission of the author or anything weird like that? Please point me in the direction oif whatever I need to get started. I was about to complain about the lack of documentation about this, then I looked:

Midnight Commander

1997-05-23 Thread Adalberto da Silva
I've just installed Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 133 and everything is working presumably well except for Midnight Commander. When I try to run mc I receive a message: mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' Does anyone know what's happening? My previous Debian release does

Re: Midnight Commander

1997-05-23 Thread Rowan Deppeler
Hi Adalberto, You need to install the libgpm1 library. It is a seperate package in the 'Optional Misc' section using dselect. Rowan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rowan Deppeler System administrator Cybernex Networking http://www.cybernex.net.au vk3vw / vk3rcr -

Re: Problem with telnetd ??? (fwd)

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
The International versions of PGP are illegal to use within the US, due to a patent on RSA. There are two alternatives. If you are *not* a commercial enitity you can use Viacrypt PGP. See their web page. If you use PGP for individual use, non-profit, etc., you can use the US version which

Re: Majordomo w/Smail ?

1997-05-23 Thread tomk
John Foster writes: [snip] I'm not intending this to be a flame, but I think that we can all lighten up a bit when it comes to replying to posts on this list. If you read my post you'll see that I had read the docs - and they were wrong. As were the scripts. Perhaps you are running a different

Where is Python: Makefile.pre

1997-05-23 Thread Johann Spies
When I try to do makesetup Setup I get the following error message can't read Makefile.pre: No such file or directory I am trying to install pg95module.c as a module. Can somebody help, please? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi there ... just installed frozen, and I love it. I've been cleaning up my log files, config files, and generally poking around ... so I tried to enable shadow passwords. Here's what occured: endor:/etc # shadowconfig on grep: xdm: No such file or directory sed: can't read xdm: No such file

ppp packet errors

1997-05-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
I used to get excellent ppp transfers, but of late I get errors and the modem lights often cease activity for several seconds at a time. ppp version is 2.2.0f-23. ifconfig shows:- ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol inet addr:203.59.0.18 P-t-P:203.59.24.26 Mask:255.255.255.0

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
I've already aubmitted a bug report on this - it shouldn't happen. There's been no reply from the maintainer as yet. At 01:03 AM 23/05/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Hi there ... just installed frozen, and I love it. I've been cleaning up my log files, config files, and generally poking

Re: Midnight Commander

1997-05-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Rowan == Rowan Deppeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rowan Hi Adalberto, You need to install the libgpm1 library. It Rowan is a seperate package in the 'Optional Misc' section using Rowan dselect. So, why doesn't `mc` require libgpm1? Someone should file a 'bug' on it, maybe. (man

Re: failure notice

1997-05-23 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
I'm using qpopper_2.2-4.deb and I have 2 strange problems: 1. When someone connects to it's port with MSIE 3.0 I have such line in my /var/log/messages: -ERR Unknown command: auth . I've searched RFC's about POP3 and really there is no such command but why MSIE tries to do it? Maybe something's

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 22, 1997 at 04:43:03PM +0200, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: Hmm, I was looking towards something more specific, I just didn't know yet, whether the kernel IP-Accounting was sufficient for my purposes; which it unfortunately isn't... I'd need to get a finer split in traffic list,

Re: sysklogd

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
As far as I know, this is normal behavior. There was apparently some sort of BadThing (TM) that occurred if syslogd did not pause on startup. I suppose if you reboot a lot it gets annoying ... At any rate I just hunted through the source code ... I found a flag KLOGD_START_DELAY in the Makefile,

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-23 Thread Kevin Traas
: I'd need to get a finer split in traffic list, I'd need to get an : accounted list indicating each service and each new destination : separately. Is there a package to do that yet? Try net-acct. There's a debian package out there. Nice thing, but produces hge amounts of data.

Re: Weierd afterstep-1.0-3 problem

1997-05-23 Thread joost witteveen
On May 22, Kevin Hilman wrote It installs with no complaints, but i can't run it. I can run it if I download and compile the source myself, but I'd like to get the .deb working to use on multiple machines. What is going on here? what file is missing here? The package seems

Re: Weierd afterstep-1.0-3 problem

1997-05-23 Thread Toens Bueker
On May 23, joost witteveen wrote The package seems to require ld-linux.so.2 (try strings afterstep). I already reported that one to the maintainer. And (as you probably know) that means you need to install libc6 to get it working (and, ldso-1.9*). (The package needs to depend on libc6).

Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(

1997-05-23 Thread Stefan Eriksson
On 23 May 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: Paulo Ramos writes: Paulo Anyone know how to make this?? I've been thinking about this for a while now. A friend of mine has to do this, poor him! I think the way to go is to produce RTF files. For fairly simple LaTeX files it should be

ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my

wu-ftpd package weirdnesses

1997-05-23 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hiya All, I'm new to Debian -- just installed -- and am trying to get things set up as I had them on my Slackware machine (approximately ;). Using dselect, I installed the wu-ftpd package (that's what came with Slackware, and I got the impression it was 'better' than the default Debian ftpd),

AfterStep 1.0 release ...

1997-05-23 Thread John Burwell
Has the AfterStep package been upgraded to the 1.0 release. If so, where can I get on the Debian ftp site?? Thanx. See ya round. -jOHN --- John Burwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Transylvania University, Computer Science Division The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org

copying dpkg info to another machine?

1997-05-23 Thread Colin Telmer
Horrible subject, but what I would like to do is to install a set of files on one debian machine via dselect and find an easy way to install the exact same set on another machine. I know there has been a discussion about this in terms of using backup/restore commands, but I only want to do this

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
Ditto what Dale says re: the output from pppd ... are you actually running pppd by hand or using the debian pon script? I've found that the scripts work quite well for me ... I suppose it depends on your ISP. Also, even if you are connected via PPP, you still need to configure DNS resolution.

netscape-beta: where should java40.jar be?

1997-05-23 Thread Douglas Bates
I have the netscape-beta package installed using communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz I thought I removed the netscape package before installing this but I may not have purged the netscape package. If I try to run a java applet I get the message that java40.jar is not on

Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Kendall P. Bullen wrote: :Hiya All, : :I'm new to Debian -- just installed -- and am trying to get things set :up as I had them on my Slackware machine (approximately ;). Using :dselect, I installed the wu-ftpd package (that's what came with :Slackware, and I got the

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Pavel Galynin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, it was just a series of odd ascii characters. A lot of } characters in it, per chance? That would be a PPP packet that should have been directed to your modem, not the console. This indicates the wrong arguments to pppd. Just how did you connect? Give

Re: copying dpkg info to another machine?

1997-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Could you take some file (status?) from /var/lib/dpkg and edit it by hand It's not nearly that nasty. Use dpkg --get-selections to output the list of selected packages, and use dpkg --set-selections to set it on the other machine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: Pentium 200 Mhz, 2 x 3.1 GB WD hdds, 32 mb ram, 33.6 modem on com2. I edited the ppp files (i can send em if you need em) and tried to ftp with dselect without doing anything to connect to my isp, assming that dselect would spawn pppd and make it

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
endor:/etc # shadowconfig on grep: xdm: No such file or directory sed: can't read xdm: No such file or directory Please correct the error and rerun `/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on' I believe the correct shadow config should have an if [ -f xdm ] ie... if [ -f xdm ]; then if ! grep -q

Re: HTML in email

1997-05-23 Thread Dima
Brian White wrote: I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this? Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course i t won't tell you that.)

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Guy Maor
I have to fix the NIS stuff in passwd. Then I'll release a new one with this fix also. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
This does indeed fix the problem. Thank you! I really appreciate this! -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 23 May 1997,

signify keeps dying on me

1997-05-23 Thread Richard Morin
Hi folks, Its a small thing, but its been bugging me for awhile now. I start signify with the following command: signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature This allows me to at least get to the compose screen in pine. Oddly there is no sig presented, and signify then dies with the following error to the

Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses

1997-05-23 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: The wu-ftpd man page has some excellent advice on these questions. Hmm, well I wasn't exactly looking for advice, but thanks for directing me to the man page. (blush) Anyway, I created the directories and gave them permissions as they had under

Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses

1997-05-23 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Thanks. I haven't had problems with wu-ftpd -- just with the Debian package thereof. (grinshrug) Thanks, Kendall Debian wu-ftpd package comes with /usr/sbin/addftpuser script which would do everything for you. Try it! Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Benjamin White, M.D.
At 7:15 AM 5/22/97, Pavel Galynin wrote: hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i figured

Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(

1997-05-23 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello! :) On 23 May 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: Paulo Ramos writes: Paulo Anyone know how to make this?? Kai But there are quite a few people who opt to use SGML because it is a standard and thus has some amount of interchangeability. Also, it allows you to do `semantic tagging' which

Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(

1997-05-23 Thread Leslie Mikesell
One interesting (and encouraging) note is that Corel WordPerfect 7 comes with some utilities to do SGML. Haven't looked into it yet. :) Has anyone used this feature? You have to supply your own dtd. Does the one used by the linuxdoc project work and if so, how do you set it up? Les