On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:24:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Marco Pistore [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Debian Users Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
(Hello Britton, sorry, I had been really lazy and didn't reply your
e-mail about your STC600 problem about a month ago... ^_^)
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Britton wrote:
Actually, I think the st800 supports an older Epson printer. They have
been just brilliant about naming them. Incidently, I bought
On Oct 09, Remco Blaakmeer wrote
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5
and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine.
However dpkg-ftp doesn't work and dftp doesn't take into account
Quoting Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 for the first time on a system that has
a 3Comm 3c905 100Base-T card. I set it up using the vortex driver.
Everytime it reboots and loads the 3c59x module, it
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 05:44:43PM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Britton wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for
so
long...
Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 03:15:07PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
is the xlib6g problem known to break netscape? Ever since I upgraded it
yesterday, netscape's been crashing with a bus error.
I get lots of complaints from it about the C locale being missing. :-(
(Navigator 3, not Communicator.)
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 03:15:07PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
is the xlib6g problem known to break netscape? Ever since I upgraded it
yesterday, netscape's been crashing with a bus error.
I get lots of complaints from it about the C locale being
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 03:15:07PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
is the xlib6g problem known to break netscape? Ever since I upgraded it
yesterday, netscape's been crashing with a bus error.
I get lots of
Will Lowe wrote:
is the xlib6g problem known to break netscape? Ever since I upgraded it
yesterday, netscape's been crashing with a bus error.
These links might help:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9709/msg01081.html
Some weeks ago, I asked for recommendation s for a textbook for a
couse on System Administration in Linux. Thanks very much to those who
responded. A list of the books that I discovered, with minimal
comments is at
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~odonnell/OData/Courses/CS501/books.html
Several
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I get lots of complaints from it about the C locale being missing. :-(
(Navigator 3, not Communicator.)
A couple of weeks ago the current set of files on hamm was such that
if you installed them and didn't notice what you were doing, the
locales package
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
The problem is with the xlib6 package, not the xlib6g package. I assume
you have version 3.3-6 installed. It has a serious bug that wasn't there
Yes, that fixed it. I downloaded the package from your server, thanks a
billion.
That is pretty much it, in theory at least. Rename the files there and
int the /etc/printcap magicfilter generates for you, and away you go.
Actually, I get endless strings of printer resets (visable in
/var/log/messages) which I thought were due to gs, but apparently someone
else has
Dave Cinege writes:
On 06 Oct 1997 11:03:47 +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
It is a remainder. It will be removed soon.
Look in unstable for an binary package.
Any idea when 1.2.4-ssl will be available?
Perhaps next week, if I get enough time.
Christoph
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At 13.30 -0500 97-10-09, Mike Miller wrote:
Anybody managed to get enlightenment to run under Debian 1.3?
Any hints?
Mike
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I've got it to work. I used the site
On 9 Oct 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
Another thing to try is explicitly setting the floating point control
word to the IEEE standard. Some older versions of the C libraries set
the floating point control word to a non-standard value. That can
affect the production and detection of NaN's.
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
You don't have to configure rxvt, bash's the one. You need:
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
in the .inputrc, or set INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc on /etc/profile, and write
the above lines to /etc/inputrc.
Nico De Ranter wrote:
Hi:
Yes there is; cu is part of the uucp package in debian.
I use it for setting my modem.
OK, I installed cu, but when I try:
cu /dev/cua0 or /dev/ttyS0
I always get: cu: /dev/cua0: System not found
( I get more or less the same message during
Britton wrote:
It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so
long...
Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to be made sometime, but I
can't help feeling that it wouldn't have hurt to put it off a bit more.
I suppose they make it possible to upgrade
Hello,
I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user
basis. I have tried the standard
crontab -e
... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then
when I save and quit, I get the following:
wrote /tmp/crontab.a28090, 2 lines, 3
I believe I read the other day that a secure shell package does exist, and
it was mentioned to do a search 'ssh' from the packages.html page.
However, my search on 'ssh' and 'secure shell' showed nothing. I also
searched ftp.debian.org for the most likely places it might be with no
luck. Does it
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user
basis. I have tried the standard
crontab -e
... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then
when I save and quit, I get the following:
On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 10:05:34AM -0400, dpk wrote:
I believe I read the other day that a secure shell package does exist, and
it was mentioned to do a search 'ssh' from the packages.html page.
However, my search on 'ssh' and 'secure shell' showed nothing. I also
searched ftp.debian.org for
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, dpk wrote:
I believe I read the other day that a secure shell package does exist, and
it was mentioned to do a search 'ssh' from the packages.html page.
However, my search on 'ssh' and 'secure shell' showed nothing. I also
searched ftp.debian.org for the most likely
On Oct 11, 12:11am, Craig Sanders wrote:
Subject: Re: How to create a crontab per user?
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user
basis. I have tried the standard
crontab -e
... this allows me to think I
On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 02:08:35AM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
I'm doing it just today, now I have it working with the awe 64 Gold
(but still must pass via DOS and loadlin, see attachments for the problem
I have here with isapnp;
Content-Description: isapnp-result.cat,the error
Question: How do I show a fortune when I log in (with the prog. Fortune).
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Thanks a bunch for you quick responses!
Thanks again,
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, dpk wrote:
I believe I read the other
Hi, I am having some problems trying to run the demo programs from
the svgalib1-dev package. After the compile I try to run the 'fun'
program, here is the error I get:
abapc# ls -al fun
-rwsr-xr-x 1 jsg HT 13177 Oct 10 15:06 fun
abapc $ ./fun
svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console.
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Heiko Heijenga wrote:
Question: How do I show a fortune when I log in (with the prog. Fortune).
you could just put fortune as the last statement in your bash_profile.
Will
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I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has
broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx':
failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't
Actually it does exist. A person here responded to me to look for it on the
debian us web page and search for ssh . It shows up but in another non us
site. ssh I believe is distributed out of the us. should be in non us
debian, stable. The wierd question is that why is ssh outside the us debian
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Britton wrote:
It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for
so
long...
Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to be made sometime, but I
can't help feeling that it wouldn't have hurt to put it
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
In Dos I can use interlnk or laplink to link my notebook to my desktop
computer and copy or execute software on the other computer.
Can this be done in Linux if
1. both computers have Linux as OS
2.
Bob Nielsen wrote:
Actually quite a bit of new stuff appeared in bo yesterday (1.3.1r4 under
the new numbering scheme). gs 5.x and a fixed bash aren't among the
changes, unfortunately.
Yes. I am under the impression that updates to bo are only made to fix
bugs, not to add features (new
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Perhaps there is a newer isapnp out there, that could help you?
Did you read the isapnp-faq?
Ah, by the time I was popping this message and the one you CCed to the
list I was also sending you the workaround I found... OK I'm going to
reply you also
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
WRT the DOS packet drivers, are there versions that will work for '95?
I haven't heard of any, but I haven't looked for it either.
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Ok, I should read _more_ docs, but I already spent sime time looking
for this.
Delivery of my previous posting took a lifetime, most with the modem
leds off. Isn't it possible to tell smail (or any other substitute for it)
to start contacting simultaneously ALL of the e-mail addresses
Hi,
Try creating a personal crontab file, and then uploading it.
% vi ~/etc/crontab
% crontab ~/etc/crontab
% crontab -l
manoj
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Updating ghostscript to version 5 would be considered adding features.
Actually I am aware of a bug in version 4 of gs-aladdin. I have only seen
it when printing a file generated by WordPerfect (any version) and don't
know if it is fixed in gs
I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has
broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx':
failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect:
Hi,
Stephen == Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephen Lukas Eppler wrote:
When a mail server is set up properly, you can use the command
'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]' to see when your recipient checked his mail for
the last time.
Stephen Assuming the admin is supporting fingerd, the
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Bob wrote:
I recently add X to my debian box. My debian version still shows 1.3
Shouldn't this now read 1.3.1??
No. The most recent releases have been 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 while the
upcomming release is to be 2.0 (which may explain the fairly long
developement cycle for
I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I
discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns
without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe
that this is because the .gz extension is preventing it from recognizing
the font
The .deb's are not quite right. Use source until a non-beta is
released.
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Hello,
Both of the suggestions listed below worked. Thanks Manoj and Brandon.
I changed my EDITOR setting to xedit and that worked.
I normally use elvis as my editor of choice, and this is the first
time I believe that I have had a problem with it exiting with an error
code. Should I consider
I have set up a server that was originally intended to supply FTP
and http services on the internet. As a convenience to my self I set
up NFS and started using it for various temporary uses. When one of
the guys found out that it was available he set up the means for
access to my NFS
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote:
I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I
discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns
without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe
that this is because the .gz
Hi,
I've just download the ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/packaging.ps.gz
and it is incompleted. Would someone tell me where can I get
a complete version?
Thanks!
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be delivered locally immediately but queue up mail bound for the Internet
and send it all out once every 30 minutes?
Thanks in advance,
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Hi,
Would someone build the debian package for MySQL and other MySQL related
such as mySQL-perl, mySQL-tcl, mySQL-JDBC, mySQL-ODBC on 1.3? I've
downloaded the one in hamm/ and it requires libc6 which my
debian box is not yet upgraded.
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote:
I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has
broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx':
failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc'
Fatal server error:
could not open default
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:56:06 -0500 (CDT), Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi,
Would someone build the debian package for MySQL and other MySQL related
such as mySQL-perl, mySQL-tcl, mySQL-JDBC, mySQL-ODBC on 1.3? I've
downloaded the one in hamm/ and it requires libc6 which my
debian box is not yet
This is a bit over my head, but one of the questions that you answer
while running 'make config' during kernel compilation has to do with
optimizing the kernel as a router rather than as a host. Perhaps this is
what you need to do.
Rikki Hall
Joop Stakenborg wrote:
Hi, I am having some problems trying to run the demo programs from
the svgalib1-dev package. After the compile I try to run the 'fun'
program, here is the error I get:
abapc# ls -al fun
-rwsr-xr-x 1 jsg HT 13177 Oct 10 15:06 fun
This is a file
On 10-Oct-97 Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
Hello,
I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user
basis. I have tried the standard
Try the non-standard:
crontab -l my.crtb
vi my.crtb # or emacs or whatever
#make the entries you need and exit
crontab my.crtb
or even:
Hi,
Does anyone know of a program that will read WP files in linux ??
TIA
George
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then
when I save and quit, I get the following:
wrote /tmp/crontab.a28090, 2 lines, 3 chars
crontab: /usr/bin/vi exited with status 1
[...deleted...]
I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on.
I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet
are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there).
griffon:~ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/bin/X11/xlock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
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