I'm not sure if the problem is related, but I've also had
trouble with debian-user digests, in my case using Emacs/RMAIL
on a non-debian system.
In my case the problem appears to be that debian-user-digest
uses a row of dashes as message separator, but some messages
already include rows of dashes,
On Jun 11, Randy Edwards wrote
:I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
: They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and
: whether it's safe to remove them?
:I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also
: rep
From: "Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I would like to setup my home-net using 10bt cables between my linux and
> windoze boxen, but the only way I have to run the cables is to run it out
> a window, under the house, and back in a window. Is there any method of
> protecting the cable
> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jens> Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
>> These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont
>> know where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
>>
>> I would like to know w
> Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the
> web site and searched the ftp site with no luck...
I don't think so but there's a ytalk deb. I'd recommend ytalk anyhow.. if
I remember right ntalk is a fairly old Berkeley program and can't talk to
machines using a d
Randy Stocking writes:
>
>Brian K. Servis writes:
>> Brian K Servis writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
>> >not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
>> >true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
In your email to me, Karl M. Hegbloom, you wrote:
>
> > "Paul" == Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Paul> Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday,
> Paul> and it worked just fine. Another question can you make a
> Paul> script to use xv to save the
> "Paul" == Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday,
Paul> and it worked just fine. Another question can you make a
Paul> script to use xv to save the file from an extention of ppm
Paul> to jpg? Thanks again
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
>
> Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
> >
> > These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
> > where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
> >
> > I would like to know what is t
Brian K. Servis writes:
> Brian K Servis writes:
> >
> >
> >I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
> >not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
> >true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
> >
> >Warning: locale not supp
kill -l for a list of the names attached to the numbers
man 7 signal for a more exhaustive explanation.
On 10 Jun 97, Andy J. Smith wrote regarding:
__ Re: Script help __
> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, J. Paul Reed wrote:
>
> [different types of signals]
>
> > Do you know what -1 to -?? does? I've alw
> I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
> I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?
The searching in dwww doesn't work very well. I'm planning on
fixing it very soon.
Cheers,
- Jim
pgpjshqD6j7Cd.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Hello,
I'm planning to convert my home systems to Debian Linux from RedHat and was
wondering if there was anyone out there who had performed this task before?
I'm currently running RedHat 4.0 and want to install Debian 1.3. I'm
wondering if there is a better way to do this cutover then nuking th
Brian K Servis writes:
>
>
>I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
>not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
>true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
>
>Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
>
>
I am far from being knowledgable on Linux but I struggled with this
recently and this worked for me on debian 1.2 with the most recent deb
version of slrn. Go to the appropriate line in your .slrnrc script file.
Remove the % sign to uncomment the line. You do need to use the quote
marks. Mainta
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
>
> These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
> where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
>
> I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does
> it come from ?
Linux doesn'
I'm using debian 1.3 and having problems reading digest email with elm.
First I get the following status message when opening a
debian-user-digest email:
Seems that message/rfc822 data was corrupted
The other problem is that elm will sometimes stop reading before the end
of the digest. When t
Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
>
> Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
> > I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?
>
> I do not know why. Indeed I am using Apache as my httpd but I do not think
> this c
I'm using mirror 2.8-9 to set up a mirror of ftp.debian.org. I'm just
starting the mirror, which means downloading hundreds of MB's overmy ISDN
line. Well, I've gotten this message several times:
bind: Address already in use at /usr/bin/../lib/mirror/ftp.pl line 1273.
Attempt to free unreferenced
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
> I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?
[...]
I do not know why. Indeed I am using Apache as my httpd but I do not think
this could be the problem.
One gu
On 10 Jun 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> > There already is a package with ncftp. It is in the non-free tree on any
> > decent debian-ftp-server. You won't find the non-free tree on most
> > "Cheap"-CDs like Cheap-Bytes (I think) or Infomagic's (I know)
>
I had a similar problem with tcpdump. After I saw it referenced in a
message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out. The
info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I
couldn't connect to any other machines. The light on my hub indicated
the card wasn't
I may be wrong, but the xforms package became the xforms0 package recently.
Purging the old xforms package and installing the 'new' xforms0 package
should get rid of and obsolete package and will work just as good. (I think -
I am using the xforms-0.86 package from hamm so that I can use the most
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
> Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked
> just fine. Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the
> file from an extention of ppm to jpg? Thanks again for all your help.
> Paul
I think the answer is
Sent this before but got no response so I'm trying again...
While attempting to install debian 1.3 on a IBM ThinkPad 760CD,
I've run into a small problem.
The inital install from the disk set went fine. Not having a
Debian CD, however, I'm trying to do an FTP install. My
problem is all my com
This is somewhat embarassing, but I was replacing one of my hard drives
with a larger one this morning, so I backed up everything to my
SCSI DAT drive with "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga".
When the new drive was in, a meant to restore the files (tar xvf), but
I typed "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga/*"
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:07:04 -0700
From: Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
While I'm on the subject, does anyone know the correct boot
path to add to NT's boot.ini to boot Linux?
We've done this on our NT/Debian machines using the free program
"bootpart". I don't know a download
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:59:43 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then the message appeared: message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] EXT2-fs panic
> (device
> 02:00): ext2_writeinode: unable to read i-node block - inode=2, block=
> 858796085.
Just a corrupted floppy.
Major block device 2 is floppy.
Just ign
Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> Just an example, if I search info on mount I get
>
>
> Search results
>
> Documentation related to mount
>
> Package: mount
>
> Manual pages: nfs(5) fstab(5) swapoff(8) losetup(8) mount(8) swapon(8)
> umount(8)
>
> Info files:
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> W Paul Mills wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> >
> > > Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain
> > > Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work
> > > OK.
> > >
> > > per
IMO, if you try dwww, you are gonna live without it anymore.
David Pfitzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (I don't have dwww since I don't have any other need for
> a local web server,
I've heard 'boa' is a ligth web server that can be sufficient for you. I have
also heard that lynx does not nee
I don't know of ntalk, but there is a ytalk if that helps. It is in the
stable binary directory tree.
Paul
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:
> Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the
> web site and searched the ftp site with no luck...
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
>
>W Paul Mills wrote:
>> Change your LANG variable to LANG="en_US". That should solve it.
>
>Hi,
>
>I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us
>when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice. What am I
>overlooking?
>
>Sorry for the delay in replying. We h
> ./ns-install: line 289: 15565 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
> 15566 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
> -xf - )
This is a bug in the tar available in Bo. It's supposedly been fixed
in the version in Hamm.
> I also found that netscape 4.0 installer have a
I am new to Linux/Debian/Unix. I have Debian 1.1, kernal 2.0.25, on a K5-90
dual boot pc with a 1.0 linux partition that is about 25% full. I boot from lil
o. I have been experimenting with backups. I have a parallel port zip-drive and
a Colorado/hp 100 meg tape drive. At the panic time the zip dr
APC makes 10BT surge suppressors (Part no. P10BT.) I don't know how
good they are, but I've been happy with their UPSes.
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I'll throw in one web server too. Today I found the thttpd server written by
Jef Poskanzer. I haven't tried it, only unpacked it and looked around a bit.
The url is http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ and here's the head of the
README file from the source distribution:
thttpd - ti
Karl Ferguson wrote:
> Well this won't affect you then - I was referring to a completely
> fresh
> install of the 1.3 basedisks - during that setup it asks whether or
> not you
> want to uyse shadow passwords. Enabling shadow passwords in 1.3 is
> simply
> a matter of doing a "shadowconfig on" at
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> :
> :> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi
> :> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I
> :> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be bette
Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the
web site and searched the ftp site with no luck...
Thanks,
Dennis
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It looks like the banner has been hard coded in the in.fingerd source file.
In.fingerd is in the netstd package and if you view the
source/net/netstd_2.13-1.diff.gz file and search for the string 'fingerd' in
your pager you'll find where the banner is printed out.
I guess the easiest way to hav
That was it, thanks! (detail: eth0 usin IRQ10, but it's an ISA card;
one of the PCI cards decided it too should usr IRQ10. Soln: Tell the
BIOS that PCI/PnP isn't allowed to use IRQ10)
--Zachary
On Wednesday, Jun 11, 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq writes:
>I ran across this message when there was a
Got this top tem from another list ... and I know that it probably fits
most people here to a T ;) Well, have fun with this one.
Chad
Chad D. Zimmerman
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Install cfingerd. We use it and it's quite cool ... has a bunch of
other features as well, which I haven't even looked at yet :)
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Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81
How do I change the banner that 'in.fingerd -w' gives? Right now it gives
Welcome to Linux version 2.0.30 at
I would like to get rid of the uptime info and add some Debian info.
Thanks,
Brian
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I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
If I do 'rxvt -ls' I don't get an
Thanks, that was just the ticket. It's going beautifully now.
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* and men are that they might *
* have joy. 2
These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does
it come from ?
Thanks a lot
Franck
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> I have just upgraded my netscape and I seem to have a problem, which I
> hope you may help me resolve. I seemed to have a problem with my
> java_301 therefore I purged the old package. Downloaded new one and now
> I seem to have pa problem (I think it still relates to java problem). I
> get this
Hi,
after updating my Debian box at work from 1.2 to 1.3 (with
no problems) I accidently managed to lock as well my root
as my user account.
To repair I got the newest 1.3 Rescue Disk (resq1440.bin)
from my Debian mirror, rawrite2´ed it to a floppy, booted the
system using the floppy, mounted my
At 09:57 AM 12/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
>My servers went from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3 using ftp to upgrade. The
>last time I used the installations diskettes was when I installed 1.1.
>During this process I don't recall having been asked for any shadow
>options at all. Can you tell me
I would like to setup my home-net using 10bt cables between my linux and
windoze boxen, but the only way I have to run the cables is to run it out
a window, under the house, and back in a window. Is there any method of
protecting the cables & cards from lightning damage? Several pc's and a 16
port
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:
> At 05:28 PM 11/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3.
> >It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer.
> >However, I just read the followin
Hi,
> But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é,
> ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters).
...
>From the different answers I got (thanks to everybody), It seems that
the 8-bit input encoding is handled by:
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
(why no
I seem to have screwed up my setup playing with PPP. Welsh's Install
Guide got me going when I was running Slackware but the setup is
different under Debian, or maybe Linux has changed during that time.
I've read the NAG doc and NET-3 HOWTo, ifconfig and route manpages
but something is still screw
>I just installed several parts of the new XFree86 3.3 packages
>including xlib6. xemacs will no longer start up. The versions of
>packages are
[...]
> Is anyone else encountering this problem or is it something peculiar
> to my system? The gory details are shown below. I wanted to find out
> i
Hello everyone,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: You may be right in suggesting uucp to the originator of this thread,
: though. He should take a look at the bear book (Managing uucp and Usenet,
: O`Reilly).
I am the originator of this thread and yes, I'll go with UUCP. For what
I've heard in the thr
Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked
just fine. Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the
file from an extention of ppm to jpg? Thanks again for all your help.
Paul
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Pa
anyway to install without formatting the HD, because I can't back
anythig up right now
so
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Had that EXACT same problem. There's a fix on the XFree86 web site.
Anyway, get to /dev (?) and do a ./MAKEDEV tty0.
Rick Morrison
>>> Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/12/97 2:46:53 AM >>>
I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since
I mave a Matrox My
On Jun 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>During the installation phase, text flew by on my screen, seldom pausing.
>I believe install went well until post-configuration. As text flew by, I
>saw some "broken pipe" and either "gzip" or "grep" errors, until dselect
>hung on post-configuring xfnt75.
>
>Aft
I have run debian's "bo" since December, 1996.
I nightly mirror the debian packages.
Usually, I use dpkg to update a package, though I have used dselect 20
times.
Last night I used dselect to update packages that I have not updated
with dpkg.
During the in
W Paul Mills wrote:
>
> On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
>
> > Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain
> > Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work
> > OK.
> >
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please c
> Is this located in the unstable/x11/ section of the webpage? I looked at
> it, and the version numbers are 3.3 but the descriptions of the packages
> are the same as the old 3.2 versions.
You mean this description (for xbase):
Description: Local clients and configuration required by X
This
> If SVGAdummy replaces SVGAlib why are there dependancy prblems with gs
> etc?
Because gs etc depend on a specific version of svgalib, and dpkg drops
all "provides: " when there are version numbers in a dependancy.
This apparently will be corrected in dpgk.
> Will these SVGAlib dependant progra
Looks like your rescue disk is broken. Did you try another floopy? Did
you check the floopy image? If you are connected to the internet you can
grab a new image and copy it to a new floppy and see if this helps.
Regards,
Andree
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:53:32 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'. I am
> hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually
> solve the problem. My recent confrontation was when I installed
> mpeg_play. The
I have a laptop that is not always connected to the network.
If I am connected to the network, lpd starts fine. However,
If I am not, lpd fails with "Get_local_host: hostname 'artasp1' bad".
Apparently, this is a get_host_byname() problem. However,
"hostname" returns "artasp1" and "hostname --fqd
And I also have a problem, When I push enter at the boot screen when
first installing it says
Loading Linux.
root.bin..
Then just reboots what should I do?
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Got this question...
Whenever I resize an xterm (or rxvt) with an nvi session, I need
to either go to the bottom of the screen with the cursor and type
^L, or explicitly type :resize before the editor `realizes' the
screen has become larger. Other programs, like less, adjust
immediately. Is ther
Zachary DeAquila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> 'ifconfig eth0 up' results in the message
> 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again'. Anyone got any ideas? is this
> a known bug? I thought the 3com drivers were pretty bug-free...
I got this with an IBM Etherjet (UTP only model) when it wasn't
physi
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
> They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and
> whether it's safe to remove them?
xforms is a toolkit for making GUIs. There are a few programs that
r
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
>I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
> They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and
> whether it's safe to remove them?
xforms is a library for creating X applications, offix is a set of X
c
>I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since
>I mave a Matrox Mystique. Everything was going well, until I ran startx,
>whereupon I received the following error message:
>
>fatal server error:
>xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
T
I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since
I mave a Matrox Mystique. Everything was going well, until I ran startx,
whereupon I received the following error message:
fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
When repo
A little more info:
It appears that they are correct, however, I deleted the symlink and
reinstalled. Still no luck because I get the same error. I also just
checked ldconfig -v and it shows that it sees libXt.so.6:
/usr/X11R6/lib:
libXm.so.0 => libXm.so.0.76
libMrm.so.0 => libM
I realize this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I currently cannot
access any news groups and hopefully someone here can help me with this
problem.
I have been using the slrn_0.9.3.2-2 package as a news reader and suddenly
it isn't working any more. It turns out my ISP's news server just sta
Heiko writes:
> You should ask your provider for an UUCP account, this will show you the
> qualification of your ISP.
I got my news and email via uucp for years. I'm not about to ask my
present ISP about it, though. They are the only ISP I can reach without a
long distance call, and view anyone
From: dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'.
I think this happened to me a while back. It turned out that
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 was a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0,
and that second file did not exist. Please go look very careful
I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'. I am
hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually
solve the problem. My recent confrontation was when I installed
mpeg_play. These is the errors I get:
mpeg_play: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.
At 05:28 PM 11/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3.
>It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer.
>However, I just read the following from H.J. Lu regarding his new
>release (5.4.33) of li
I have several uucp over TCP/IP connections and you do not even need the
service 540 entry, it defaults to 540, use the service entry if you are
connecting to a non-standard port.
> : 3. port:
> :
> : porttcp-conn
> : typetcp
> : service 540
> :
> : and that's it. The d
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save
> the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg. After xv saves the
> file, it should work on your web site.
[Haven't tried these, but they should give you the idea]
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> This is an indication that your libc5-dev package is out of sync with your
> libc5 package. Finishing the upgrade will solve this problem.
>
> Just let the upgrade fix it, when you install the new libc5-dev package
> the link will be correct.
>
> Your LANG variable shoul
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
> Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It
> takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera.
> For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my
> website. The quickcam m
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