Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.69 1998/02/02 23:05:28 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ . 1.2. Purpose of t

Re: Last login by UNKNOWN

Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last login: Mon Feb 2 09:32:36 CST 1998 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What is the reason it doesnot recognise my user name? > Is it a problem on my Debian node or remote node I telnet to? Do you have a identd running on the debian box? Usually it i

Re: procmail and folders

Catalin Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you to everybody answering my question on procmail and smail. I've > put the files .forward and .procmailrc, modified the USERNAME to my > usernaname (ie cpopescu), but it still does not work. Do I have to create > the files where procmail is sup

NY Times article on Netscape and free software in general

Perhaps I missed any discussion of this article because I was off the list for a few days while travelling but today's (Mon, Feb 2) New York Times "Digital Commerce" column by Denise Caruso discusses Netscape's decision to make the source code for version 5.0 of their browser freely available. I'm

Re: Problem with LaTeX in debian ?

Wojtek Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all! > I'm sorry if my problem is rather LaTeX, not debian specific... > Last time I unfortunately stopped LaTeX, when it was running > MakeTeXTFM. When I ran it again later, I received series of > messages, that some characters are unavaila

Re: No setup signature found?

Hi, may be you are using the wrong X-Server? Just today I saw the same problem (blinking screen) and the problem was a S3-Server on a et4000 card. On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: > Hi all. first post to the list... > 2: > When I try to run xdm to startup X, the screen blinks (ever so slowly)

Re: netscape 4.0 can we get just navigator?

On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 08:18:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2 Feb, Andrew wrote: > > > > I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look & > > feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link > > anywhere but netscape to download the new versio

RE: extremely off-topic: help

Hmmm... This has gotten more requests... :-) Found it as "Mac Theme" on both themes.tierranet.com and theme.simplenet.com - tells you how to change things to look more like a Mac, how to edit the Registry to change some desktop settings to be more like a Mac... If you have any rabid anti-Mac pe

Problem with LaTeX in debian ?

Hi all! I'm sorry if my problem is rather LaTeX, not debian specific... Last time I unfortunately stopped LaTeX, when it was running MakeTeXTFM. When I ran it again later, I received series of messages, that some characters are unavailable in this particular font, which was generated when

Re: procmail and folders

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Re: hamm (fresh) install considerations

Regarding "Re: hamm (fresh) install considerations" of 00:32 -0800 1998-02-02, David Stern wrote: >On 01 Feb 1998 22:42:53 EST, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> I'm considering a fresh hamm install, however I haven't found much >> information about installing hamm fresh. I presume that bash and libc >> would b

3130B & 3c905 boomerang

Hi, i've installed debian 1.3 on a system with controller scsi DT3130b 6 eth card boomerang 3c905b. I was not able to install on a floppy, so i decided to install on sda1 (scsi disk a partition 1). The disk now is bootable and debian starts regularly but without detecting 3c905. I downloaded ke

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

"David E. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a whole suite of tools I'd need to be running on the linux > side before I could make that switch. For example, I'd need to be > running ppp and Navigator and Navigator's email before I'd consider > dropping Win95. For another thing, I'd nee

Re: extremely off topic: help

As long as it is alright with Joost Kooij I have put the file on my web page: http://users.andara.com/~sgregory/logo.sys by copy: Joost you did send the file to me correct? -- Stephen Gregory > > Hey, > > I remember someone posting a message a few days ago saying something > about having a

Re: extremely off topic: help

Hey, I remember someone posting a message a few days ago saying something about having a bitmap that looked like the old Commodore 64 loading Windows 95 from floppy :) If you still have that, mind sending it to me? Sorry for posting this here, but I trashed the mail accidentally... Rob [EMAIL P

Boot and base disks packaging

It is difficult to sort out the various files pertaining to a new installation from the long list of files on Incoming. It would be helpful if all of these files could be combined into three .tgzfiles - one tarball containing all files for 1.2mb disks, one for 1.44 mb disks, and the base2_0.t

RE: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Here it is: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/dos/linux_load95.zip Works like a charm. Only deviation from the included documentation I found was that it says you need the partition you load Linux on to start at cylinder 1023 or lower. I loaded Debian on the last gig of a 6gb drive and it w

RE: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

If you search for "loadlin" and "win95" you'll find several ways to dual-boot. I actually found a loadlin-win95 package that gives me a cute "Linux95" icon for Win95 and boots into Debian. (Still have it at home - I'll search again and re-post the URL and exact filename.) There are a whole suit

Re: Doom

I assume you're using the "old" doom floating aroung the net, rather than the debian packaged version from hamm... in that case, what I believe you need is the aout-svgalib package (available in bo) this is because that version of doom was compiled a *long* time ago. -brad On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Ro

RE: extremely off-topic: help

Actually, my Debian box comes up with a Mac startup screen (animated loading bar and all), while my home box has the Linux95 startup screen... Keep 'em confused! -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 5:06 PM To: Craig Sanders Cc: debian

Last login by UNKNOWN

Hi, Sorry to bug you with a question that perhaps was answered hundreds of times... If I telnet from my Debian computer to any other, then for some reason it tells about my previous login something like: Last login: Mon Feb 2 09:32:36 CST 1998 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the reason it doesno

Re: procmail and folders

On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 05:13:36PM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote: > Thank you to everybody answering my question on procmail and smail. I've > put the files .forward and .procmailrc, modified the USERNAME to my > usernaname (ie cpopescu), but it still does not work. Do I have to create > the files w

Re: procmail and folders

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: > the files where procmail is supposed to save the incoming messages? Is > there something wrong with permissions? What mua are you using? Pine, emacs? You might need to "touch" the files where the mail is supposed to go to make an empty file for proc

procmail and folders

Thank you to everybody answering my question on procmail and smail. I've put the files .forward and .procmailrc, modified the USERNAME to my usernaname (ie cpopescu), but it still does not work. Do I have to create the files where procmail is supposed to save the incoming messages? Is there somethi

Re: Need help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi My name is Linda, I need some help with my Brother HJ-400 inkjet printer >I downloaded it like I was suppose to...but it still won't print...I need to >know about >what kind of cablesand drivers I might need.This printer says it Apple/ >IBM comp... I have

libc5 problem?

Another thing I have a problem with in my recent installation. When I tried to install libc5-dev, libdbl-dev and ncurses3.0-dev they all are dependent (directly or indirectly) on haiving libc5 version 5.4.33-3 BUT, the version that seems to have shippied with my distribution is libc5 version 5.4.33

Need help

Hi My name is Linda, I need some help with my Brother HJ-400 inkjet printer I downloaded it like I was suppose to...but it still won't print...I need to know about what kind of cablesand drivers I might need.This printer says it Apple/ IBM comp... I have a COMPAQ Presario V-410..2200.I

Re: Question for SysAdmins re: Debian, C++

Steven Morrill wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am interested in learning system administration and security. > After looking at some of the system administration related sites, it > looks like I need to have a knowledge of is C++, among other things. Are > the any Debian packages where I can star

Question for SysAdmins re: Debian, C++

Hello All, I am interested in learning system administration and security. After looking at some of the system administration related sites, it looks like I need to have a knowledge of is C++, among other things. Are the any Debian packages where I can start some sort of self-tutorial? I'm kin

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > I was able to set up Boot Manager such that when I showed the > > > > partition > > > > table, the fat15 partition was listed as drive c:, even when I was > > > > running Partition Magic out of the fat32/Win95 partition!! Very curious! > > > > ;) And when I

gcc 2.7.2

Hi, Please grant me a few moments of your time ... I came unstuck while attempting to create an assignment to a declared pointer to a function (type void). After much fiddling about I noticed that the error was incurred on account of (any) of the args to the declared functi

Re: What Driver for Compaq Ethernet Card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 09:23 -0600 on 2/2/98, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Butch Kemper wrote: > > : > : I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that has an ethernet card that Windows NT > : identifies as "Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP Bus 0". The card has a big >

Re: Q: How stable is "hamm" ?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rolf Obrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >is the "hamm" tree of the debian distrib stable enough for use in a >production system? Well, we run it on our mail server / authentication server, on the news server, and on the proxy cache. The shell machine is update

Re: hamm (fresh) install considerations

On 01 Feb 1998 22:42:53 EST, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I'm considering a fresh hamm install, however I haven't found much > information about installing hamm fresh. I presume that bash and libc > would be non-issues (at least for installation), but beyond that, what > can I expect, in terms of errors

Re: modconf and whiptail?

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I went to upgrade and it says the new version of modconf depends on whiptail > which isn't a package, teh 'i' command shows two different depends though, > one says newt0.2 (or similiar number) and the other shows whiptail, is this > a bug? if not wher

Re: What Driver for Compaq Ethernet Card

Last version of TLAN driver should be 0.39. Working very smoothly for me here (but I know there are still a few problematic models - just download the tar file and read the README. There is also a TLAN mailing list (low volume) : send "subscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps. Ph. A. --

modconf and whiptail?

I went to upgrade and it says the new version of modconf depends on whiptail which isn't a package, teh 'i' command shows two different depends though, one says newt0.2 (or similiar number) and the other shows whiptail, is this a bug? if not where is whiptail? G'razel the shifty-kitty [EMAIL PR

No setup signature found?

Hi all. first post to the list... I have two questions. 1: Last night I installed the bulk of the software (found on the boot disc distribution of debian) and bascially configured XFree86. I believe I set it to load on boot, but I'm not sure if that's important. When I rebooted, from the hard disk

SOHOware NIC

Hi, I'd like to know what driver should I use with the SOHOware 10/100 Auto PCI Fast Enthernet Adapter? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAI

Q: How stable is "hamm" ?

Hi, is the "hamm" tree of the debian distrib stable enough for use in a production system? There are many new nice packages in hamm which I would like to install and use, but not at the cost of possible system crashes (Oh yes, it is _MY_ phone that doesn't stop ringing in such cases...) Yours Rol

Re: What Driver for Compaq Ethernet Card

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Butch Kemper wrote: : : I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that has an ethernet card that Windows NT : identifies as "Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP Bus 0". The card has a big : chip on it that is marked as "ti Tlan Chip TNETE100APCM E303W-7BAF2TW" but : that didn't give me a clue

Doom

Hi all, I'm trying to get doom working on my machine. I'm using Debian 1.3.1. When I attempt to start it, I get the following error: doom: can't load library '/usr/lib/libvga.so.1' Unknown error doom: can't load library '/lib/libvga.so.1' Unknown error doom: can't find library 'li

Re: HOW? Xwindows Clients

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a debian server and several debian workstations, and I would > like to set the workstations up to connect to the server via XMCPD(??). > Basically I do not want users to have access to the individual workstation > (nor have an account on it)

Re: netscape 4.0 can we get just navigator?

On 2 Feb, Andrew wrote: > > I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look & > feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link > anywhere but netscape to download the new version. I'd like netscape 4, > but I'd also like to avoid the 10 Mb download and e

Re: Debian Support for Fujitsu LifeBook 535T Notebook

Check out http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ for info and links to tons of Linux laptop info. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis On 2 Feb, Lee Rhoads wrote: >>

Problem with xfs

Hello all! Last time I have noticed a strange behaviour of xfs on my Linux box (debian 1.3.1r6). Some users are using XAppeal (X-server for DOS) to connect to my machine. When such a user launches netscape, downloads any page and selects encoding "ISO-8859-2", the xfs on my machine crach

3c905 & DT3130B

Hi, is there some guru of debian team that knows how prepare a bootdisk that is able to recognize 3130B and 3c905 ? I've two boot disk now: the one that come from debian cd and one i did with zdisk the first one recognize 3130B but doesn't recognize 3c905 i'have compiled 2.0.32 putting in ker

Re: Nis refusing logins

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi > >== > > > >I have instaled nis_3.1.deb (with libc6) but I am having problems > >with the non-local users. > > > >I have the following entry in /et

xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

I've upgraded XEmacs from 19 to 20. When I try to start it, it returns XEmacs: `getwd' failed: errno 0 The point is that it can only be started from root directory. I've read in getwd(3), that this can happen if the buffer is too small. What can I do? jenne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Sound Card Opti 931

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Antonio Doldo wrote: > NeuTroN wrote: > > > > I recently bought a system (Intel Pentium, 166 MMX) and it has a Sound > > Card that seems to be an OPTi 82C931. (At least that is how the > > software in DOS sees it and how Win95 detects it.) I guess Trust > > Computer Product

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Re: debian 1.3 & 3c905 boomerang

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Maurizio Marini wrote: > Hi, > I've just installed a debian 1.3, and booting with boot disk eth0 3c905 is > not recognized. > So installed with dselect 2.0.30 kernel image and i copie it onto the boot > floppy. > Nothing changed. > The strange thing, is that i've already inst

problem with libXt.so.6...

Hellow, I have recently ('bout a week now) been successfully upgraded to hamm... I've upgraded all my packages, and with the exception of a few, have no programs running off libc5 anymore. My delema being, I have a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 1 20:19

Re: procmail and smail

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: > Does anybody have any idea what should I put in my .forward file to get > procmail working. I've already put > > "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 > #YOUR_USERNAME" > > in .forward and took a procmailrc from the examp

Re: system crashes

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am a relatively new user of Debian Linux, and am trying to determine the > cause of a couple crashes that have occured during the past month. I am > running Debian version 1.3 on a dual-processor Pentium II machine. On two > occasions the scree

WORKAROUND: Having trouble with mutt in an xterm?

For (t)csh: alias mutt 'if $TERM == xterm setenv TERM xterm-color; /usr/bin/mutt $*' Those Other Shell Guys can work out something similar. See bug #17707 for details. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | // // // / / [EMAIL PRO

Debian Support for Fujitsu LifeBook 535T Notebook

>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop >> From: Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:46:09 -0500 >> >> Greetings! >> >> I have a Debian 1.2 CD from iConnect. When I boot my Toshiba Tecra >> 730CDT laptop f

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

> Hi, Michael, Hi :) > > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > I was able to set up Boot Manager such that when I showed the > > > partition > > > table, the fat15 partition was listed as drive c:, even when I was > > > running Partition Magic out of the fat32/Win95 partition!! Very curious!

Kerneld can't unload ppp under 2.0.33

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Greetings! We've been happily using Linux as an ip masqueradion firewall from sometime. We've recently upgraded to 2.0.33 for security reasons, and have run into the above problem. The system functions fine fo

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Carey, Thanks for all your comments. I can't think of anything further at this time, so to conserve bandwidth, I'll the rest of this. Dave -- --David E. Scott Ohio Administrative Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: procmail and smail

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: > Does anybody have any idea what should I put in my .forward file to get I havE: "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #harpo" you'll want to change "harpo" to your username. > I have smail and not sendmail. Is this causing the problem? N

Re: tseng cards

> > Is there anybody out there with a tseng et4000 video card??? > > Would they happen to have the file "tseng3.exe" for it > > Have they got a working libvga.et4000 file they can lend me > > > > I would be greatly appreciative for some help :) > > > > Thanks, > > > > > tseng3.exe is i

procmail and smail

Does anybody have any idea what should I put in my .forward file to get procmail working. I've already put "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME" in .forward and took a procmailrc from the examples, but it does not work. I have smail and not sendmail.

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

Hi, Michael, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > I was able to set up Boot Manager such that when I showed the > > partition > > table, the fat15 partition was listed as drive c:, even when I was > > running Partition Magic out of the fat32/Win95 partition!! Very curious! > > ;) And when I boot

Re: hamm (fresh) install considerations

I'm considering a fresh hamm install, however I haven't found much information about installing hamm fresh. I presume that bash and libc would be non-issues (at least for installation), but beyond that, what can I expect, in terms of errors -- both quantity and complexity? There ar

hamm (fresh) install considerations

Hi, I'm considering a fresh hamm install, however I haven't found much information about installing hamm fresh. I presume that bash and libc would be non-issues (at least for installation), but beyond that, what can I expect, in terms of errors -- both quantity and complexity? Also, I've alwa

RE: some initial X questions

The binary for xman is in the xcontrib package. On 01-Feb-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi >>1) could someone comment on the relative merits of emacs vs xemacs?? >2) where is xman?? can't find it on the debian binarys cd-rom. >thanx :) >dave >running Debian GNU/Linux."Free at last" ---

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

> I was able to set up Boot Manager such that when I showed the partition > table, the fat15 partition was listed as drive c:, even when I was > running Partition Magic out of the fat32/Win95 partition!! Very curious! > ;) And when I boot up with a diskette, and switched to drive c:, I > cou

HOW? Xwindows Clients

Hi, I am running a debian server and several debian workstations, and I would like to set the workstations up to connect to the server via XMCPD(??). Basically I do not want users to have access to the individual workstation (nor have an account on it), but for all the logins (via xdm) to be done

dpkg

Hi All, I do not have a Debian system, but would like to start installing .deb packages. I have converted he tools (dpkg, deselect etc.) using alien, and installed them. I think I need some kind of database in /var/lib/dpkg to keep track of packages, and receive an error "unable to create upda

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

"David E. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was able to set up Boot Manager such that when I showed the partition > table, the fat15 partition was listed as drive c:, even when I was > running Partition Magic out of the fat32/Win95 partition!! Very curious! Hmm. I added OS/2 to the mi

debian 1.3 & 3c905 boomerang

Hi, I've just installed a debian 1.3, and booting with boot disk eth0 3c905 is not recognized. So installed with dselect 2.0.30 kernel image and i copie it onto the boot floppy. Nothing changed. The strange thing, is that i've already installe debian 1.3 on e pc with 3c905. this is the dmesg: ole