teTeX packages

I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

We've been having a logo contest for a long time. It failed to generate a consensus on a logo for the project. It got to the point where people were clamoring for me to hire a commercial artist and get the job done. I went over the candidates in the logo contest, and found one that was probably as

Packaging Gimp .99.15

Anyone notice that the Gimp available for Debian 1.3.1 is the old .54 version? I have downloaded and successfully compile .99.15 on a libc5 system, however if you want to get this version (actually .99.14 last I looked) from Debian you HAVE to install from the "hamm" area, and that requires upgrad

Re: starnge behavior of the list

> "Lazar" == Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lazar> I have noticed that I am getting "doubled" mails. What I Lazar> mean is that very often I receive two copies of the same Lazar> mail addressed to debian-user ( not me ). Is it only Lazar> me?.. Is it normal? I've g

Re: dev for SCSI tape

Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Lawrence wrote: > >What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape > >drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? > > SCSI tape drives are: > crw-rw-rw- 2 root root 9, 0 Feb 19 1997 /dev/st0 > crw-rw-rw-

installing ethernet nic

Howdy, I am attempting to install a 3com 3c905 nic through the debian install. While doing so, I get prompted for a module command-line argument for my particular nic. I have read that the 3c59x driver will work for the 3c905 but I don't know what to enter for the module command-line argument. Can

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to > read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. > > ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults > emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1 > ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe > emacs.font: -mi

Re: Configuring a pcmcia networkcard

Selim Issever wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am trying to install debian-linux on my laptop. If it matters: it is > a Panasonic CF-61 and the card is a NE2000 compatible card. > So far eveything worked very well! Wow,.. very easy,.. up to one little > problem,.. connecting to the net. Ill start at th

Re: dev for SCSI tape

Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape : drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? Mine is /dev/st0 for the rewinding device and /dev/nst0 for the non-rewinding. It's an H-P SureStore 2000 DAT unit. E

Re: fetchmail problem

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: > Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to > be normal, but the downloaded messages are _NOT_ appended to my mail spool, > and, fortunately, they are also not deleted from the mail spool on the ISP. > > I see no error mes

Re: fetchmail problem

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: > After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine, > I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation). > > Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to > be normal, but the d

Re: daft mail questions

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote: > I'm using fetchmail and sendmail and they seem to work. However when i > threw Smail away and ran deselect to install Sendmail, the dependency > information said that I needed "deliver". I had already installed > procmail and thought that procmail was the

2.0.32 based Rescue/Root disk needed

Hello, after completely destroying a system when trying to upgrade from stable to unstable (libreadline anybody?) I have/want to re-install it completely. I need a 2.0.32 kernel (actually the 2.4x NCR/Symbios SCSI drives which handle the NVRAM on the 875 controller and the UW IBM HD gracefully),

starnge behavior of the list

Hi everybody, I have noticed that I am getting "doubled" mails. What I mean is that very often I receive two copies of the same mail addressed to debian-user ( not me ). Is it only me?.. Is it normal? ZORO -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

daft mail questions

Hi all. Let me see if I have this right. I'm using fetchmail and sendmail and they seem to work. However when i threw Smail away and ran deselect to install Sendmail, the dependency information said that I needed "deliver". I had already installed procmail and thought that procmail was the logic

Re: dev for SCSI tape

Lawrence wrote: >What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape >drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? SCSI tape drives are: crw-rw-rw- 2 root root 9, 0 Feb 19 1997 /dev/st0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 9, 96 Feb 19 1

Re: fetchmail problem

On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:19:33AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine, > I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation). > > Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to >

Duplicate Messages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (linux.debian.user) Whoever this is needs to do a serious adjustment. They're duping messages and beying listed in both the TO: and FROM: fields. All the duplicate messages have come from this address... :( (I'm no mail GOD so I dunno whats wrong, just a wee bit annoying!) debi

Encrypting ISO9660 images?

Hello all! I know there has been a bit of discussion about encrypting filesystems under Debian. From what I've seen, the ext2 filesystem can be encrypted with CFS. But, my question is.. is there any good way of doing filesystem encryption for an ISO9660 image that is later burned to a CD-ROM? O

taper question

Hi all, I have managed to install my tape drive ( Seagate travan 3200 on a floppy controller ) and to have it work under Debian . I even managed to figure out how to make the modules detect the new floppy controller ( not easy in my case :-) ) . As far as I can see only taper exists for user frie

fetchmail problem

After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine, I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation). Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to be normal, but the downloaded messages are _NOT_ appended to my mail spo

Re: dev for SCSI tape

Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape : drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? Mine is /dev/st0 for the rewinding device and /dev/nst0 for the non-rewinding. It's an H-P SureStore 2000 DAT unit. E

Debian 1.3.1 and sendmail-8.8.5 source package

I try to change the sendmail package slightly. Because there is no sendmail*.dsc in 1.3.1 I have to unpack the file manually with tar. If I try to "dpkg-buildpackage" in that directory I only get the error message: dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open debian/changelog to find format: \

Re: Xfree with a Diamond Stealth II ?

> does anyone have an idea which card I should select in XF86Setup? I really > would like to use a resolution like 1024*769 in 32bit color - is this > possible with the X-SVGA server - or du I need to install anotherone? If you click on the "advanced options" after you choose your card in XF86Set

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Ultra SCSI

On 27 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > Hi, > > i was wondering if any of you could please list the better places to buy > scsi disks and controllers in the usa? > for dirt cheap prices but service that's nonexistant and you can't really return stuff, computer quick http://www.cqk.com/ for drives (not

Re: Terminal setting: linux

On 27 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I remember a bug report saying that gnuplot was not > compiled with svga . That was true true few weeks ago. > Gnuplot now runs on lib6 and the latest release was uploaded yesterday, > perhaps this bug has been fixed; though I do not recall rea

Re: diald & cached webpages

Hi >> Solution? At best whatever you or others come up with will be a >hack >> since the problem is with Netscape and not diald. > >Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what >it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the >remote server unless the pa

RE: free backup tailored for removable disks

Hi Carl >So: are there any free (or cheap) backup programs for Linux, which by >design support multivolume archives? > >(I kinda miss DOS. PKZip 2 would be perfect for my job, but >unfortunately the InfoZip ZIP doesn't natively handle multivolume >archives.) You should consider RAR. It is ava

dev for SCSI tape

What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

emacs and .Xdefaults

I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1 ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-

RE: allow mount to normal use

The simplest and most direct solution is to add "users" to the list of options for each filesystem that you want your users to be able to mount (in /etc/fstab). So, your cdrom entry might look something like: /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users 00 best, -bill > i

Re: local net problems

Thanks LeRoy, I'll have to go look at the other system but I know that I looked at the /etc/init.c/network file. I have two Debian i386 configurations here, one bo (the one I am now using) and one hamm. Everything on the bo system works. The mystery to me is that when things seem to be config

RE: problem with bash -- probably

I am not sure what is going on with your system. However, the fact that "." is not in your search path is rather standard with any Linux/Unix distribution that even so much as pays "lip service" to the idea of security. Not as critical for ordinary users as for root of course, but by not incl

Configuring a pcmcia networkcard

Dear all, I am trying to install debian-linux on my laptop. If it matters: it is a Panasonic CF-61 and the card is a NE2000 compatible card. So far eveything worked very well! Wow,.. very easy,.. up to one little problem,.. connecting to the net. Ill start at the beginning (ill try to be brief):

Xfree with a Diamond Stealth II ?

Hi! I would like to use xfree with my new Diamond Stealth II graphic adapter... does anyone have an idea which card I should select in XF86Setup? I really would like to use a resolution like 1024*769 in 32bit color - is this possible with the X-SVGA server - or du I need to install anotherone? Th

RE: smartware from angoss

On 28-Nov-97 butch wrote: > > i used to use a dos office automation package called smartware and it was so > far in advance of anything else at the time. the spread sheet was the best > of its time. > now i see that it is availabel as an impaired free download at: > www.angoss.com. so have any of

Re: allow mount to normal user

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. > because i dont want to run apps in root account... > what should i do. One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which allows ordinary users to mount a filesystem. Che

Re: lpd daemon (LPRng variant) does not stay in background when exec'd

> My LSL Debian 1.3 installation came with the > LPRng variant of the lpd setup. > > Does lpd need to run in the background for > lpr to work? Yes, it needs. It is started in debian by script /etc/init.d/lprng. > I thought it did, but when > I do this: > > # lpd > # ps -ef | grep lpd > >

Re: problem with bash -- probably

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:... >I thought bash always prepended the pwd to the commands so that it >would always find a shell script in the current directory. bash doesn't do so by default; it uses the search path > In the >.bash_profile for my user login shell, I set the path as follows:

Re: free backup tailored for removable disks

Carl Fink wrote: > So: are there any free (or cheap) backup programs for Linux, which > by design support multivolume archives? Take a look at PerfectBACKUP. It's free and a cursory look indicates that it is complete. http://www.unisrc.com/ Paul Serice

Re: Lilo Conf

> > > --- Forwarded Message from "Chris Beckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- > > I would also be interested in lilo.conf > > I curently use a boot disk to get into linux. It is inelegant, > but it works. > Chris, Sorry to take so long to get back to you. I am including my /etc/lilo.con

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Hi, Perl is your friend (tested solution). % perl -pli~ -e 's/\t/ /og' Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

ThinkPad 560

I seem to be having trouble configuring a custom kernel. The only kernels that work are on the 'tecra' rescue disk, and the one I got from Valery Petrov's site, but those don't support fat32 and when I make a boot floppy from the rescue disk, it loads the kernel then immediately reboots when it tr

Re: hostname problem

Hi, >>"E" == E Papantoniou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: E> Hi all, I am having the following problem with the hostname: E> when I login as a normal user I get the message: E> hostname: you must be root to change the host name E> I suspect that I might have messed up with files or permissions E>

Re: A tool to clean out packages?

Hi, >>"Louis-David" == Louis-David Mitterrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Louis-David> Recently I reinstalled the whole "base" package from a Louis-David> rescue disk and thus dpkg no longer sees any of my Louis-David> previously installed packages. Is there a tool or option Louis-David> in dpkg t

Re: video problems

Hi, >>"Carey" == Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carey> Jesse Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the >> window manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red and >> blue vertical lines. The only thing to do at this

allow mount to normal user

hi, now my linux box running good, thanks for your answers :) i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. because i dont want to run apps in root account... what should i do. Thanks i advance. Benoit Joly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: problem with bash -- probably

You want something like this in your $HOME/.bashrc : PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\\$ " export PS1 There are man pages that deal with this in detail. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Re: mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: > Yes, I am noticing some duplicate messages. I am getting copies of messages I > sent again a day or so after I sent them (and received them the first time). > I > was wondering why yesterday (the 29th) was such a heavy day. I didn't check > my > mail the whole da

Re: problem with PS2 mouse

KIN KOI LO wrote: >I want to use my PC Concepts mouse. It is a PS/2 compatable mouse. Some people >told me to install the psaux.o module first. When I use the "modconf" to >install the driver, I get the following error message: >device or resource is busy > >Then some people told me that since the

Re: mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

--- You wrote: Hi, I'm suddenly getting duplicates from debian-user through a [EMAIL PROTECTED] gateway to the linux.debian.user news group. Someone somewhere screw something up?? --- end of quote --- Yes, I am noticing some duplicate messages. I am getting copies of messages I sent again a

IMAP folders

How do I setup multiple IMAP folders? All of my mail is sorted using procmail... I also need to change the default inbox, how can I do this? Thanks -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Kicking the dead sed horse

I tried a couple of the mentioned solutions for removing the hyphenated words from a file and they didn't work for me. Here's my solution: file sedtest: This is line one. This is another long- er line with a hyphen. Another. One more hyphen- ated word. the sed script (ssc): /-$/{

Re: diald & cached webpages

David Stern wrote: > The good news is that I got wwwoffle running, so now I get to test it > out. Thanks for the idea, fellow heretic. :-) > Good to hear. *BIG GRINS* -- Wintermute ## Registered Debian Hertetic Serial # 233C78S -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

Hi, I'm suddenly getting duplicates from debian-user through a [EMAIL PROTECTED] gateway to the linux.debian.user news group. Someone somewhere screw something up?? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Re: Video capture boards and Linux

John Goerzen wrote: > > Does Debian/Linux support any video capture boards? If so, what > software is needed and what boards are supported? Connectix {Colour} Quickcam (it is not a board) or Brooktree BT848 based capture card, e.g. Happuage Win/TV card. I am maintaining cqcam and I sold my colo

Re: ftp question

On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Paul Tanner wrote: > > : Since my ISP upgraded to x2 56K I have been unable to ftp several sites > : (including ftp.debian.org) However I can ftp , for example, > prep.ai.mit.edu . > : > : The ISP's old 33.6 system is availab

Re: local net problems

Hi Bill, In the boot process /etc/init.d/network is run. Here is a sample from my home machine. #! /bin/sh # #Setup loopback # /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 # # Attach ethernet device # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 patches-place netmask 255.255.255

Re: diald & cached webpages

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: > David Stern wrote: > > (byte comparison, and I've looked at the tarballs with tar, .dsc with > > editor), I've tried changing the directory name, giving the files > > executable permission, I'm running as root, in /usr/src/.. , and I'm > > just about out of

problem with bash -- probably

I'm new to the Debian community. I've used Slackware before. Debian's package tools are reasonably good. I found it easy to install. But a few things are definitely different like the standard shell environment setups are stripped bare. I'm running the Debian system from a network termina

[Off Topic] Dumb Perl Question...

Howdy... Sorry for this stupid question but I'm hoping someone can shed some light, and I'm a 'Perl Beginner'... I'm writing a suid perl script which needs to search through a whole bunch of files in a directory and return some information. It all works fine except that the tainting doesn't li

Re: .32 kernel

Because I am running 2.0.29 and thought it was time for a new kernel. ;-) Though I'd ask after the last two kernels had their share of problems. Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Yes. Why? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: mp3 debian/linux

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, unless you register it or obtain a code somehow, you're out of > > luck. > > Is there any other encoderes for linux available? I've tried to look a > bit around, but have so far been unsucce

Re: mount /floppy

Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /dev/fd0/amsdos user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0/fd ext2user,noauto 0 0 You can try: /dev/fd0/floppyauto user,noauto 0 0 to automatically detect the disk format. -- C

Re: Xlock questions

David S. Zelinsky wrote: > > I have some questions related to xlock: > [ snipped questions 1-3 ]--- > > 4. Is there a way to get xlock to activate itself automatically, after a > specified amount of idle time? If not, is there some other screen saver that > will do this? Or

Re: svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.

Olivier THARAN wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 12:49:32AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > > This happens when a regular user runs a graphics program out of X - such > > as squake... How can I fix this? > > > > svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. > > You need to make your program setuid root (becau

[Q] xscreensaver does not work

Hi, I initialize xscreensaver in Xsetup with script as below: xscreensaver & However, it is not initialized. xscreensaver-command [-option] reports no screen saver being runing. With thanks and regards, Ching-Hua Ting Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering The University of Sh

95 to Debian

Can Debian be hooked to Windows95 in a 10Base2 Coax client to client network? -Travis Pettijohn Reply here as well as posting (replace '.fuzz.' with @): travis.fuzz.inil.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAI

Re: mp3 debian/linux

Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, unless you register it or obtain a code somehow, you're out of > luck. Is there any other encoderes for linux available? I've tried to look a bit around, but have so far been unsuccessful in finding any other encoders. -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mat

Re: has anyone seen my old friend lndir (sp?) ?

In linux.debian.user Frisco Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just A thought, but have you tried ln -R? I dont know that it will give > you actuall directories but I know that it will give you sym links all > the way down (up?) a tree. Where'd you get an ln that knows -R? The man page (or ln --

I must have missed the partition mount step...

Hi... This morning was my first attempt to install Debian Linux (1.3). It went pretty smoothly (I was impressed) except for 2 items I need to ask about: 1. I seem to have missed the selection step that allows me to determine which of my partitions I want to mount where (eg /usr, /usr/src, /ho

Re: .32 kernel

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I used it, until I heard that file system corruption was being experienced : by some. I had no problems that I can see, and will probably do some more : "experimental" use of it in the future. Particular problems? Uhmmm, don't scare me!!! Three of our pro

problem with PS2 mouse

Hi, I want to use my PC Concepts mouse. It is a PS/2 compatable mouse. Some people told me to install the psaux.o module first. When I use the "modconf" to install the driver, I get the following error message: device or resource is busy Then some people told me that since the mouse is connect

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

There is something that bothers me about your stance that there is something wrong with the driver ... surely this woudl have been exposed before. Are you the only 486 running a 509? You yourself say that the same hardware works fine on another machine with the same driver. This leads me to beli

Re: simple questions

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, me wrote: > If you can get a copy of OS2 BootManager, it will take care of everything. > I believe it is about the best out there. I have used it with > Win95/FreeBSD, Win95/Linux(slackware), and now Win95/Debian. > It works flawlessly. As does most of the rest of OS/2. It

tar, cpio, or cp?

Hi Torsten! > I use: tar cvf /dev/st0 . TH>I regulary create backups of my whole system using tar on SCSI tapes. What about symbolic links if the link is restored before the file it is pointing to? Is this handled correctly? MbG, Ekkehard --- OS/2 Merlin - mchtig magisch! -- -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: printing in 2.1.x kernels

Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (i am using the dev kernels because i have an Intel EtherExpress ProB > 10/100 and the driver is built in. i still haven't been able to get my > win95 laptop networked with my Debian box, but i'll keep working on it a > while before i ask for help. :) )

Re: video problems

Jesse Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the window > manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red and blue vertical > lines. The only thing to do at this point is a hard reboot. This has > happened with a range of kernels

Re: diald & cached webpages

David Stern wrote: > > > (byte comparison, and I've looked at the tarballs with tar, .dsc with > editor), I've tried changing the directory name, giving the files > executable permission, I'm running as root, in /usr/src/.. , and I'm > just about out of ideas. Got any? :-) > > Got one right her

Re: .32 kernel

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I used it, until I heard that file system corruption was being experienced : by some. I had no problems that I can see, and will probably do some more : "experimental" use of it in the future. Particular problems? Uhmmm, don't scare me!!! Three of our pro

Re: .32 kernel

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Anyone tried out this kernel? > I used it, until I heard that file system corruption was being experienced by some. I had no problems that I can see, and will probably do some more "experimental" use of it in the future. Particular problems? Luck, Dwarf --

Re: diald & cached webpages

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:24:10 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: > It is worth a try. I have wwwoffle_1.2.de in a backup directory, but it > requires libc6 as well. > > So get wwwoffle.dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz from source/ > > Do dpkg-source -x wwwoffl

Re: .32 kernel

> Anyone tried out this kernel? Yes. Why? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +--

Re: dpkg error :-(

Jason Wright wrote: > > > I've gotten this trying to install truncated or otherwise corrupted > packages. > > PeeWee > > -- Which is all the more reason to use dselect to install packages as this should catch broken/truncated/corrupt packages before install. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: dpkg error :-(

On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 12:14:45AM +0100, Vaclav Hula spewed forth: > At home, when I tried to install some non-official package, I got this error: > > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe > dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: error processing /root/L3263TMP.deb (--install): >