Re: Applixware and alien

1997-08-04 Thread Joey Hess
Dennis J Perkins wrote: > Has anyone tried installing Applixware 4.3 using alien? I have, but then I'm the maintainer of alien.. > I installed > alien from unstable, which has the appropriate patchfile. When I try > installing Applixware, I get the following errors: > cannot open package: No s

dosemu w/ graphics mode in X

1997-08-04 Thread Erv Walter
Does anyone know how to get graphics mode to work in X with dosemu. I have seen screenshots of windows 3.1 running under X in a xdos box. I don't want to do anything that exotic. I want graphics mode in an xdos box. Any hints? Thanks, Erv -- Graduate Student

Re: Libc6 Upgrade Howto?

1997-08-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Steve Phillips wrote: > - edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc5.postinst and comment out the following > do_locale lines l: > > #do_locale fr_BE ISO-8859-1 > #do_locale gr_GR ISO-8859-7 > #do_locale hr_HR ISO-8859-4 > #do_locale iw_IL ISO-8859-8 > #do_locale kl_GL ISO-8859-1 > #do_

Re: Migrating from Slackware to Debian?

1997-08-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If I do get the Debian Linux distribution, how hard will it be to > install it in my Slakware system? Upgrading a Slackware system to anything (including a newer Slackware system) is always "absolute madness", IMHO. >

Re: Smail is getting confused

1997-08-04 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Bruno O. M. Simoes writes: > Based on RFC #1035,974, there's no such problem about IP addresses on MX > entry. Are you sure? According to RFC 974, "Each MX matches a domain name with two pieces of data, a preference value ... and the name of a host." There's no mention about IP addresses, and

Re: ICQ

1997-08-04 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that what you're really looking for is an add-on to > -- IRC seems to be the best candidate -- a protocol that would allow > a person joining the channel/network send their ID > (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the server. Interested parties can > now

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Wade
debian-help is a good name. Some people are offended by newbie or novice labels because those words are often used in conjunction with expletives by rude netizens. Mailing lists are a fine way to go. News postings take too long to propagate and many ISP news servers just don't work right. Some of

Re: ? boot from CD?

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Paul Tanner wrote: > What's the magic incantation? > > My machine finds the CD, gets to the " boot: " prompt. Then it reboots > (after each of my many guesses). I have sucessfully installed by booting > from floppy, but I'm still curious. > > BTW I have an Intel Zappa board

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > I am afraid that I am no longer capable of reading every article in > > > the debian lists. I guess it's the price of success. But then I don't neccessarily think you should. I think (personally) you should help

Re: ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Try running 'ldconfig' with root... > > On Jul 29, Winfried Truemper wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/winni> dpkg -i ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb > > (Reading database ... 19925 files and directories currentl

Re: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Wade
That's why the name Debian-lite makes me sick. It reminds me of those commercial products where you have to pay for a full version of the product. If the name is to be changed at all, it should be 'complete' or 'universal'. I actually prefer to keep the current name unless research shows that 'De

Re: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 01, 1997 at 05:29:13PM -0700, Travis Cole wrote: > On 01-Aug-97 Paul Wade wrote: > >A single CD that allowed a wide range of installation types should have a > >powerful name. > > > >Debian Complete? > >Debian Universal Linux? > >Multiple Personality Debian? :) > > Take a look at Calda

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 01, 1997 at 11:00:20AM +0100, Alec Clews wrote: > There is obviously a desire to make a small, simple Debian and so I > propose a project to make > one available. Do you mean small on the source media? I would think Debian is a scalable as you want at installation. hamish -- Hamish M

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the >debian-user list into several lists: > > debian-user: user discussion > debian-install: installation problems > debian-novice: newbies are intimidated by other lists, so

problem with named

1997-08-04 Thread Alexander Koch
Hiya. I have a constant problem with a server of us (the only Debian server, it's been hard enough to convince them to install Debian on it)... There're some errors you might already know, so I'm asking: Aug 2 09:01:37 cephyr named[17820]: Malformed response from [194.221.77.66].53 (answer to

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > debian-user list into several lists: I know what you mean. Just this week I turned off a couple of other general Linux lists I was subscribed to simply because I was dealing with to

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
On 13:16:26 Randy Edwards wrote: >>On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > >> It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the >> debian-user list into several lists: > > I know what you mean. Just this week I turned off a couple of other >general Linux lists I was subscrib

off-topic question

1997-08-04 Thread Lawrence
Anyone using Easy CD Pro buring their CD? Do you have any problem using the program? I have create a CD image in Linux and try to burn it in win95. Whenever I try to run the program, it displays a blue screen saying fatal exception error. I have to burn under win95 becase no software support for

XEmacs can't find pathes

1997-08-04 Thread Cheng-Chang Wu
Hello, I am using XEmacs recently. I have found 2 problems, I think they are bugs. The problems: 1. GNUS try to find active file under /usr/lib/news, I think debian installs active file under /var/lib/news. 2. When I execute CVS with menu "Tool/VC/Update CVS Directory", XEmacs try to find /

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread lantz moore
> "Robert" == Robert D Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> I think this should be the main object of a smaller version Robert> of debian (Please not Debian Lite!). A normal debian installation Robert> loads up a single user machine with a lot of unneeded and unwanted Robert> se

exmh can't send mail

1997-08-04 Thread Victor Torrico
--- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:09:43 -0400 Received: from root by zippy.machine.net with local (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wugkR-66-00 (Debian); Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:09:43

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 02, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > A third idea, make a debian-news. A few debian people put together some > > pages each week summarizing the latest with debian. It could be an > > outgoing list only, warning people of potential problems, new releases, > > security holes, packages that need m

Re: ICQ

1997-08-04 Thread Dima
>>Stefan Berndtsson wrote: >Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It seems to me that what you're really looking for is an add-on to >> -- IRC seems to be the best candidate -- a protocol that would allow >> a person joining the channel/network send their ID >> (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the

Re: Where is Netscape Communicator?

1997-08-04 Thread Dan Hugo
Jack Holt wrote: > > At 12:38 PM 7/25/97 -0400, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > >On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Matt Kazmar wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > >> > >> > I'm trying to download the latest beta of Communicator (b6 I believe) > >> > but I can't find it in any of the ftp[12.

Re: Accessing NTFS partition.

1997-08-04 Thread Philip Rangel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paulo Ramos) writes: > > Hi people, > > Unfortunally, I have to work with Window$ NT (Not There). Four weeks ago, > NT crash, freezing the computer (crash proof, they say), so I press the > reset button. After that, when NT is starting up, in the blue screen > appear a message

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > >debian-user list into several lists: > > splitting one group into 3 groups will double the total traffic, > so every group has 2/3

Debian news letter volunteers (was Re: splitting up the ...)

1997-08-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > >>> A third idea, make a debian-news. A few debian people put together some > >>> pages each week summarizing the latest with debian. > >Couldn't debian-announce be used for this? Perhaps. I wasn't aware that debian-announce was different from deb

Re: Where is libX11

1997-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 02, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: > > > I tried to compile some programs for X11 with: > > > > gcc prog1.c -lX11 > > > > The compilation went O.K., then the linker complained that it couldn't find > > X11 library. > > I have installed almost every -d

Comunicator 4.02b7 is out

1997-08-04 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To those of you interested, it is out but I don't think it is on all of the Netscape ftp sites. I am downloading it right now from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/linux20/ The final verion is also out for IRIX, Solaris and SunOS

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Kevin Traas
>> It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the >> debian-user list into several lists: >> >> I am afraid that I am no longer capable of reading every article in >> the debian lists. I guess it's the price of success. > >I've resisted this for a while, but the time may have

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Kevin Traas
> I >forsee that a novice today, who possibly was helped very much by >answers to his questions on debian-{novice,install}, would stay >subscribed longer to debian-{novice,install}, to be able to >"pay back" the support he got. At least that's how I see it. This is exactly what I've tried to do.

Re: Where is Netscape Communicator?

1997-08-04 Thread Jack Holt
At 12:38 PM 7/25/97 -0400, Colin R. Telmer wrote: >On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Matt Kazmar wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to download the latest beta of Communicator (b6 I believe) >> > but I can't find it in any of the ftp[12..].netscape.com sites (actually >

Re: Gimp compiled w. libc5

1997-08-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Damir" == Damir J Naden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damir> My question: has anyone else compiled Damir> gimp0.99.10 w. libc5 and how big is gimp binary file? TIA My gimp package in hamm runs 'strip' on the resultant gimp binary. Try that. :) Or, just install the proper Debian g

Re: [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]

1997-08-04 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Paul Miller, you wrote: > > Ted Okada wrote: > > > > Hi.. After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting > > > > [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly] > > > > in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660 > > and is readable excep

Re: time

1997-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Jul 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > please stop mailing me stuff. unsubscribe. this is the THIRD time I've said > this. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I'm sorry. This is not t

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread jghasler
I think debian-help is a good idea, but I don't think debian-install is. I think that most install questions come from new users, who won't know which list to post to. Debian-help should be a mailing list, and new users should be offered an opportunity to subscribe at install time. Newsgroups are

x11 font&res setting

1997-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! I dont know if this is really debian specific... how do I set the approbiate fonts for an resolution of 1152x900 or how do I set another resolution? I ask here cause maybe there is something Debian specific that eases setting things like this. I didnt find really clear docs that I actually u

Re: Migrating from Slackware to Debian?

1997-08-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Gonzalo A. Diethelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : If I do get the Debian Linux distribution, how hard will it be to : install it in my Slakware system? My current system has been heavily : modified by installing patches, new releases of existing software : packages and new packages altogether. Will

Pine in a xterm , icon text left.

1997-08-04 Thread Per Eric Rosén
I have a little problem with pine - it does not reset the xterm icon title from "pine". It does not set the title at all , but this is maybe no bug , but a feature. The result : may xterm icons labelled "pine" :). The newmail-in-xterm works fine , so it seems being able to change the icon title. No

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Joe Stewart, Extra Specialized Services
On Sat, Aug 2, 1997, 6:40:50 AM GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >splitting up the debian-user mailing list Just to add my two cents. I was a subscriber to the mac-wizards mailing list. The format there is that questions are answered via direct email to the person asking for help. Then this pe

Re: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread George Bonser
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > That's why the name Debian-lite makes me sick. It reminds me of those > commercial products where you have to pay for a full version of the > product. I do not like that name either (though I might have been among the first to use it here.) mini-Debian

ispell - Looking up words

1997-08-04 Thread Per Eric Rosén
Have I found one other bug in pine :-) ? Sorry if a previous message went posted to the list. I *told* pine not to use sendmail directly ! -- Forwarded message -- I have installed ispell ( International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95 ) with "swedish" as the default dictionary , and

Re: Gimp compiled w. libc5

1997-08-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> /usr/local tree and it is working. However, my /usr/local/bin/gimp file > is (I think) too big -4.8Mb almost. I ran ./configure script as is in I believe all debian packages have the debuging info removed (probably for space reasons). "strip /usr/local/bin/gimp" HTH, Brandon - Bran

Gimp compiled w. libc5

1997-08-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- I just compiled and installed non-debianized Gimp-0.99.10 program. Installation went without any problems, everything is tucked under /usr/local tree and it is working. However, my /usr/local/bin/gimp file is (I think) too big -4.8Mb almost. I ran ./configure script as is in the o

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:12:30 -0700, Jason Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In one of the first posts of this thread I suggested that it be aimed at > single user systems will low resource software. ie) Get rid of all the > server stuff, the user can install later if they want. > > Does this fit

Re: [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
Ted Okada wrote: > > Hi.. After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting > > [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly] > > in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660 > and is readable except for the lock... POP3 mail is also not allowing > mail to be pu

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Randy Edwards
>>> A third idea, make a debian-news. A few debian people put together some >>> pages each week summarizing the latest with debian. Couldn't debian-announce be used for this? Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __

ispell - Looking up words

1997-08-04 Thread Per Eric Rosén
I have installed ispell ( International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95 ) with "swedish" as the default dictionary , and some other dictionaries to use with "ispell -d". This works , but when looking up words with an alter dictionary ( ex "ispell -d british" ) , I only get matches from the default (

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Bruce Perens
Paul, I agree that we've had this argument before. What has changed between then and now is that the number of postings has become 2 to 4 times what it was before. I'm hoping that I can bring some clarity to various lists by splitting them up. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your op

x11 font&res setting

1997-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! How can I set global font and another resolution than 1152x900 for X11? Is there a debian specific thing that eases stuff like this? If not, sorry for asking here. Someone pointed me to the Xresources file, but I didnt actually understand whats going on in there or in related man pages. --

"KTI ET32/Px Series PCI Ethernet Adapter" support?

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Anyone know if there is support for the "KTI ET32/Px Series PCI Ethernet Adapter" and if so what is the module called? - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+N/O/MRUhbnJu3lAQF1JwMAvwKbQhg8GearDMfD92CivjJtAnwIiSDT d8mTEM

Re: Recording sound

1997-08-04 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:22:13 EDT Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What package do people use to record .au audio files? There is xwave in hamm (which should currently work on a 1.3 system). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

xlock and "-forcelogout"

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Serice
The man page says this option may not be available. Is it available? I've tried playing around with xlock's resources to no avail. If it is available, is the resource I need to be playing with "Xlock.logoutAuto". Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: xemacs20 won't start

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Serice
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I just loaded xemacs20 and tried to run it. > > It fails before any window appears. You are not alone. Same problem here. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with Adaptec 2842VL

1997-08-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, couldn't it be that the autodetection of other devices is affecting the behavior of the SCSI adapter? Why don't you try compiling a kernel with just the devices you have? E.- Ralf Lederle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I can't install Debian 1.3.1, because my SCSI host adapter (Adaptec : AHA-

Re: Comunicator 4.02b7 is out

1997-08-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > To those of you interested, it is out but I don't think it is on all of the > Netscape ftp sites. > > I am downloading it right now from > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/linux20/ Strange, when I look all I see is an empty

Re: Comunicator 4.02b7 is out

1997-08-04 Thread Dan Hugo
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > > > To those of you interested, it is out but I don't think it is on all of the > > Netscape ftp sites. > > > > I am downloading it right now from > > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/linux20/ > >

Re: Gimp compiled w. libc5

1997-08-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
On Aug 2, Ben Gertzfield wrote > > My gimp package in hamm runs 'strip' on the resultant gimp binary. Try > that. :) > > Or, just install the proper Debian gimp package. libc6 is incredibly > easy to install; just try installing that! (You don't need the -dev > packages :) Thanks to you and oth

Re: Accessing NTFS partition.

1997-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
On 19:19:16 Philip Rangel wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paulo Ramos) writes: > >> >> Hi people, >> >> Unfortunally, I have to work with Window$ NT (Not There). Four weeks ago, >> NT crash, freezing the computer (crash proof, they say), so I press the >> reset button. After that, when NT is startin

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
On 15:18:49 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: > > I think this should be the main object of a smaller version of >debian (Please not Debian Lite!). A normal debian installation loads >up a single user machine with a lot of unneeded and unwanted server and >network administration stuff. > >Bob > Man

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
On 01:41:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Paul, > >I agree that we've had this argument before. What has changed between then >and now is that the number of postings has become 2 to 4 times what it was >before. I'm hoping that I can bring some clarity to various lists by >splitting them up. > >

re: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread Evil Twin
In regards to the naming problem. Might it not be easier to decide which packages are to go into which sub-distribution. Or maybe just come up with a sentence describing each sub-distribution. Then define the packages. And finally name each: 1) Single-user, minimal install that may be useful,

netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Netscape 3.01 won't start. It ran fine for a week or so, then it started balking. The disk lights up for a few seconds, but the window never opens. The PID is still there, and a second effort results in a message window informing the user that there is a lock file in ~/.netscape. Previously,

Re: [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]

1997-08-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ted Okada wrote: > Hi.. After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting > > [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly] > > in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660 > and is readable except for the lock... POP3 mail is also not allowi

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15:18:49 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: > > > > I think this should be the main object of a smaller version of > >debian (Please not Debian Lite!). A normal debian installation loads > >up a single user machine with a lot of unneeded and u

Re: netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > Netscape 3.01 won't start. It ran fine for a week or so, then it > started balking. The disk lights up for a few seconds, but the window > never opens. The PID is still there, and a second effort results in a > message window informing the user that there is a lock

sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Some teTeX PrOblEms

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Also, there seems to be no provision for placing new files in /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a major weakness. Also I am having a similar problem as with

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Possibly the need for "Debian Lite" would be lessened with completion of a friendly dselect or replacement for dselect, that would present some reasonable options. My biggest worry is the multiplication of packages. Perhaps it is an inevitable situation with the kind of distribution that Deb

Re: sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?

1997-08-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the > user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up? >From the xterm man page: -ls This option indicates that the shell that is started in the xter

Re: sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?

1997-08-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the > user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up? Make the xterm a login shell Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Problems with Adaptec 2842VL

1997-08-04 Thread Ralf Lederle
Hi, I can't install Debian 1.3.1, because my SCSI host adapter (Adaptec AHA-2842VL, Bios 1.01) doesn't work. With an older Linux distribution (Kernel 1.2.13) it runs without problems. Here are the boot messages: aic7xxx: Re

Merit Radius The Debian Package

1997-08-04 Thread Andrew Brigham
Is it just me or does debian Merit Radius package come with a precompiled no shadow password default Long sentence to say... Its not working with my shadow passwords... ??? I've compile merit radius by itself before and it gave me an option for shadow passwords in the Makefile... I would ass

Which Debian bundle should I get?

1997-08-04 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
OK, I'm almost ready to go for Debian 1.3.1. I would like to get a CD bundle with more stuff in it (like ftp sites archives). Who sells such a beast? I need delivery to the LA area. -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

[PGP] Re: fingering/pgp keys

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > === > Key matching expected Key ID E726EDE5 not found in file > '/home/wildfire/.pgp/pubring.pgp'. > Enter public key filename: > WARNING: Can't fi

system broken... ;-(

1997-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! The next time I could work on this problem is not before Thursday next week, e.g. somewhere around the 4+3+7... hmmm 14th August. So this message is not that urgent but I would appreciate any (helpful answer) very much. I need some help. I installed a Debian 1.2 base system, then updated the

Re: ? boot from CD?

1997-08-04 Thread Shaleh
on my machine the boot cd works. it depended on where in the chain my bios found the cd. ymmv -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: outside zone

1997-08-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
The problem is that you have an "A" Resource Record for dns1.onsyd.com in the zone file for the zone "newsfeatures.com" which is invalid because dns1.onsyd.com belongs to the zone "onsyd.com", not "newsfeatures.com". This is, in the file /var/named/newsfeatures.hosts there is a line like dns1.onsy

Re: bug or feature?

1997-08-04 Thread Eloy A. Paris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : That said, there are many cases where more than 8 chars would be desirable. : IIRC, using PAM (http://parc.power.net/morgan/Linux-PAM/) would free us from : this limit. AFAIK we have the basis for PAM, but no applications are : PAM-aware yet. I don't know anything about

Unsubscribing

1997-08-04 Thread Matt Dorre
I would like to know how to unsubscribe from this list. I went to the web site where you are supposed to be able to unsubscribe, but, unsubscribing was not an option. I vaguely remember instructions for unsubscribing in my subscription confirmation, which has since been deleted (to make room for

Re: Some teTeX PrOblEms

1997-08-04 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello Alan! :) On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have > placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Hmm... Did you run texhash to update its search file /usr/lib/texmf/ls-R (or $TEXMF/ls-R) after you added the files? :) B

Loading Software

1997-08-04 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I have a gzip tar copy of The Dotfile Generator that came on a dos formated floppy. I tried to load this through dselect but as I scrolled down the list of programs I could not find the dotfile program. Could someone send me instuction on how to install it. Thanks Patrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Off-topic

1997-08-04 Thread Ciccio
Hi, I would need help for coding matrix generation and multidimensional interpolation related math; if there is any expert willing to help me, please contact me privately. TIA -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: XF_S3V

1997-08-04 Thread Britton
On 30 Jul 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > does anybody have a diamond 3d 2400 4MB running at 1280x1024? If so, > > with what refresh-rate? The information on the diamond-site says no > > 1280x1024, XFree 3.3 says it does. Also, the listed refresh-rat

Re: Some teTeX PrOblEms

1997-08-04 Thread Olaf Weber
Alan Eugene Davis writes: > I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have > placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Also, there seems to be no > provision for placing new files in > /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a major > weakness. You hav

rlogin - hostname: Success

1997-08-04 Thread Peter Nilsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, A week ago I installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1. Most of the things work fine, but I have one problem: Before the installation I ran Slackware. I used rlogin to lg in on a remote machine, and it often worked. Now, when I run rlogin it only says ": Success" (wh

Re: netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > >Netscape 3.01 won't start. It ran fine for a week or so, then it >started balking. The disk lights up for a few seconds, but the window >never opens. The PID is still there, and a second effort results in a >message window informing the user t

Re: XF_S3V

1997-08-04 Thread Carey Evans
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > I think I must have been missing something about the color depth. I > thought with 4MB video memory you could run 1280x1024x24, albeit at 60 Hz. > Mayby this is why my highest resolution mode looks so bad, with blurred > screen and window edges and sl

Icons disappeared on fvwm2 menu, netscape doesn't display.

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I recently posted that netscape 3.01 doesn't display, and I will take the advice to upgrade. Meanwhile, it occurs to me that this problem may be concurrent with a problem with fvwm2: the icons diappeared from the menu. Does this will suggest something? Meanwhile, thanks again for the advic

Re: Some teTeX PrOblEms

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes: > I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have > placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Also, there seems to be > no provision for placing new files in > /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a > major

Help with Debian and ISDN

1997-08-04 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello everyone: I am trying to get BONDING working with Debian 3.1. I'll explain my setup. - External Motorola Bitsurfer Pro - using cua1 or ttyS1 (both dial and connect via V.120) - I am using ppp (start and stop) in /etc/init.d I have the isdnutils package installed but have not deployed tha

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Wade
Alan is absolutely right. The base install will always include a dpkg/dselect tool. There are certain components of base that are always necessary in order to provide a maintainable and upgradable system. These will always need to be installed and kept available. The current packaging system alr

Re: Comunicator 4.02b7 is out

1997-08-04 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Strange, when I look all I see is an empty directory at > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix It's only on some ftp servers. I found it on ftp25; others gave me the same empty directory as what you found. Regards,

Re: bug or feature?

1997-08-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On 3 Aug 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : That said, there are many cases where more than 8 chars would be desirable. > : IIRC, using PAM (http://parc.power.net/morgan/Linux-PAM/) would free us from > : this limit. AFAIK we have the basis for PAM, but no applications ar

Re: Help with Debian and ISDN

1997-08-04 Thread Udjat -A MiB
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I am trying to get BONDING working with Debian 3.1. I'll explain my setup. > - External Motorola Bitsurfer Pro > - using cua1 or ttyS1 (both dial and connect via V.120) > - I am using ppp (start and stop) in /etc/init.d > > I h

IRC bug ?

1997-08-04 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Found this message in BUGTRAQ, not sure if it has been seen here yet... Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:10:57 -0500 From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bugs in Debian Linux's ircd package There are a couple

Netscape beta install package gone... Re: Comunicator 4.02b7 is out

1997-08-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997 08:58:29 -0400 (EDT), Randy Edwards wrote: >On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > >> Strange, when I look all I see is an empty directory at >> ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix > > It's only on some ftp servers. I found it on ftp25; oth

Re: [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]

1997-08-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ted Okada wrote: > Hi.. After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting > > [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly] > > in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660 > and is readable except for the

Smail Configuration

1997-08-04 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
My preferred login on my machine is not the same as my userid with my ISP. Smail uses my login on this machine to form the "return_path_field". As a result, I can not receive messages from mailer-daemons about undeliverable mail, etc. Is there any way to make smail create the return_pa

Re: Help with Debian and ISDN

1997-08-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997 09:40:35 +0700 (GMT-7), Udjat -A MiB wrote: >Also I cant seem to get LCP EchoReq to work. I have turned that feature in >pppd off. (in /etc/ppp/options) On the same note I also cant seen to get >LCP ConfReq working for bsd_comp.o eather. I had this same problem with both a Zyx

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