Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

ist of MD5 checksums tomorrow morning just to be sure they get all of the files right. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

why modules?

ory. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MSDOS to LINUX ?? HELP!!

vide all of the programs pre-compiled, so that is definitely optional. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: APM problem on laptop

n blanking. I don't know if this will solve your suspend problem, but it will make that message go away. Tell us the APM settings in your BIOS setup. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A

Re: is it me or deselect?

m has been resolved (after almost 5 days, what a headache) and this should improve. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

We had a report that adding PPP to /etc/modules rather than letting kerneld load it made it work. I don't know why that would be, so if you can corroborate it, that would help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Re: Fresh 1.2 instalation with minor problems

You didn't read install.html :-) . Log in as root and run .configure . This will be fixed late tonight, I hope. The 2.0.27 kernel is uploading now. I must build a new floppy set with that, and with various bug fixes. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: AGREE kazem Bakhshesh

of a Linux system. Thanks Bruce Perens Mailing list operator and generally responsible person around here. -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBS

Re: utmp still confused with new base-files 1.2.0-3

use that to choose an X keyboard mapping? Should we go into the keyboard configuration part of xf86config in the "xext" postinst? Should the X server postinst comment if you are using a non-US Linux keyboard and you have not installed "xext"? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce

Re: too many syminks?

ll commands. rm /dev/console mknod /dev/console c 4 0 chown root.tty /dev/console chmod 111 /dev/console Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

tomaticaly selected, there was little to do. Then I told it to install, and it did the job for me. If you are a modem user it could take days. I would also suggest that you update the list of available packages every day, as we are still making small changes. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce P

Re: Can't load the nfs module

This is fixed in 1.2 . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: creating custom boot disk

_CS4232 is not set # CONFIG_MAUI is not set CONFIG_AUDIO=y CONFIG_MIDI=y CONFIG_YM3812=y SBC_BASE=220 SBC_IRQ=7 SBC_DMA=1 SB_DMA2=5 SB_MPU_BASE=330 SB_MPU_IRQ=-1 MSS_BASE=530 MSS_IRQ=11 MSS_DMA=3 DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536 # CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_PROFILE is not se

Re: creating custom boot disk

ot set # CONFIG_SMWAVE is not set SBC_BASE=220 SBC_IRQ=7 SBC_DMA=1 SB_DMA2=5 SB_MPU_BASE=0 SB_MPU_IRQ=-1 DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536 # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_PROFILE is not set -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D

Re: wrong name of kernel-packages?

l multiple kernels without removing old ones. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.

Re: Swap overdraft ?

it to /etc/fstab so that it's started automaticaly. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: /etc/passwd and /etc/groups not consistent?

This is fixed in Debian 1.2 . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Wrong permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp?

I'm sorry, that was fixed in a later upload that seems to have not made it to your mirror. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBS

Re: creating custom boot disk

the "linux" file on the rescue floppy with your own kernel and run rdev.sh (it's on the floppy). The floppy is an msdos filesytem. Install the boot-floppies package, and you will have all scripts used to create floppies in /usr/src/boot-floppies* . Thanks

Re: Rex install report

ale modifiers not supported, using default > X protocol error: BadAtom on protocol request 18 > > [1]+ Exit 70 emacs > > I can start emacs with no problems after installing xbase_3.2-1. > Should emacs depends also on xbase? > How much space is

Re: problems with notebook suspend feature

I think the 2.0.6 kernel that is currently in the archive doesn't have APM. Certainly the 2.0.25 one in "frozen" doesn't have it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F

Re: restoration of ~ftp

Re-install the ftpd or wu-ftpd package. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: /debian/buzz/binary-i386/devel Packages

The files should return to that directory sometime this evening. We've been having real serious problems with our "master" system that caused the mirrors to remove some files. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP f

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

I uploaded a bad version of base-files. I have fixed it, but if you upgraded using "dselect" you might have had your permissions messed up. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 6

Re: kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb corrupted?

There should be a 2.0.25 in "frozen". Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

Yes. I fixed this in a later version of the boot-floppies package. Sorry! Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- This message was delayed because the list mail

Re: problems with notebook suspend feature

I don't build the default kernel with APM because it crashes some systems when I do. You need to build a kernel with APM for notebook suspend to work correctly. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint

Re: Is it ok to install from frozen?

I've been installing from frozen on ftp.debian.org, and nothing has broken yet, but I have not yet had a chance to test X. There are unsatisfied dependencies on 3 non-essential X accessory packages that I have yet to fix. Otherwise, it's "safe". Thanks Bruce

Re: xbase install fails - where is xlib6?

ET and Internic. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

provide it unstripped. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

Note that I am stripping all executables on the base floppies (to get them to fit). This means if ld-linux.so has to be unstripped, simply changing the package won't be enough. You have to tell me to fix it in the install floppy set. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [

Re: Swap overdraft ?

ask for them, or mapping them the first time you actually touch them. I thought Linux did the latter. Is this really not the case? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89

Re: Netscape - bus error

Do you really have to replace the _entire_ libc, or can you just do LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5 ? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: start-stop-daemon busted

Are you perchance running a 2.1 kernel? There was an exec bug that would break interpreter scripts. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Is Debian 1.2 out yet?

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Re: Linux and 6x86

It's been reported to work fine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

Re: Mirrors with problems.

I just started the job to regenerate the Packages file. The mirroring process might not be complete, which would explain the missing fonts. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

Re: How to activate SCSI CDROM after install ?

I think you haven't loaded the driver for your SCSI controller. The message about the NCR53c406a seems to indicate you don't have one of those. Try using the "modprobe" tool, or you can build a custom kernel with the driver linked in. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce

Re: internet-time

Besides using "xntp", you can simply put an "rdate " command in the appropriate place. If you use PPP, this would be /etc/ppp/ip-up . That would set the time whever connecting to the PPP server. If you have an Ethernet, you can call it from a script in /etc/rc2.d . B

Re: BUG: utmp and w output

I think installing base-files clobbered your utmp and wtmp. There is a new base-files in Incoming that fixes this. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: BUG: utmp and w output

See if /var/run/utmp exists, and is owner root, group root, mode 644. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: modules 2.0.0-14

I think modules-2.0.0-14.deb has been withdrawn. -13 is in "frozen" now. We have modules 2.1.8-1.deb in "unstable", but that may depend on the currently-shaky 2.1.x kernel. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for

Re: Archive maintenance (problems) in progress?

it is, etc. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What happened to master.debian.org?

ated as of 0430 GMT Dec 1, 1996. I wrote them a while back and got no response. It's time for me to write them again. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 2

Re: Gosh, I can't believe this!!! (was: who's guilty...)

I'll copy your report to Donald Becker, the driver author. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Goodbye, all!

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Eckenfels) > The bootdisks where finished 2 day ago. These are the 1.1 boot disks from 6 months ago with "initrd" added and a few bug-fixes like keyboard configuration. It's not like it's a brand-new program. Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Re: dial up

PPP is included in the 1.2 base disks, along with a "dselect" FTP method. If you do a floppy install, you don't need to add anything to have dial-up IP. If you don't do a floppy install you need the "ppp", "netbase", "netstd", and "dpkg-ftp&q

Re: Goodbye, all!

do have a "private" list, but this argument was carried out in public view on debian-devel. The private list is useful when a security bug comes out and you want to tell people to fix it before you tell the world about how to exploit the bug. ! From bruce Thu Nov 28 14:24:25 1996 ! To: [EM

What is happening with Debian 1.2

tem manager to look into the problem. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

ftp.debian.org problems

"frozen" seems to be mostly gone from ftp.debian.org . I'll ask Greg Hankins, the administrator, to look into the problem. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

Re: Goodbye, all! (Whatever became of X3.2)

I don't think it means much damage for the project at all. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: Goodbye, all! (Whatever became of X3.2)

an's invasion > on his ground (the FTP site). I don't sanction Ian's actions. I just agree with him that releasing with XFree86 3.1 would have been a tremendous mistake. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fi

Specialized reboot parameters (was: who is guilty, the kernel or Debian)

l version introduced this functionality. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: Debian for AXP?

Mike Neuffer, Bdale Garbee, Miquel and Danny of Cistron, and I have all purchased DEC ALPHA Multias in the past two weeks. This bodes well for a 1.2 release on them. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0

Re: Mailing lists back up

One thing though, this list is relatively free of spammers. Because I go after every one. I've also called up the spamware suppliers and have asked them to filter out the debian.org domain. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. P

Re: DOS <--> Linux

But will Lantastic use the TCP/IP transport, or only NETBEUI? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: DEFRAG for ext2fs

ystem, and restore it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

Re: DOS <--> Linux

boot Windows mode to do configuration. It's a lot easier to find all of the pieces that way, since they are all on the Win 95 CD, and they are newer versions. Most of the work of running WFWG was getting all of the parts together. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger

Re: Shell scripts (first line -- what is that called?)

and adds the pathname of the file you actually exec-ed at the end. So, if file "foo" has this line "#! /bin/sh -v", what is actually executed is "/bin/sh -v ./foo". Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Re: Mailing lists back up

The $1000 charge for advertising (it's not really a fine) is a donation to Debian's still-in-formation corporation, "Software in the Public Interest". I doubt I'll be collecting it any time soon, it's mostly a strategy to put off spammers. Bruce -- Bruce

Re: Trouble installing debian from floppy

ompressed root filesystem, and there isn't one there. Use a new floppy (don't reformat the old one). Also, if you can find the right signal to send to kill the automounter on your workstation, you should probably do so. It does get in the way. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

From: Ron Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bruce Perens writes:" > Who have you been talking to? Ian Nandhra? He works for Caldera. Ian Phillips, if I remember correctly. >> I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope >> the availability of WABI

Mailing lists back up

The mailing lists are back up. A spam filter is in place. If you post from an address the list doesn't recognize, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will mail you a copy of the list rules, and will insist that you send it AGREE before it will let you post. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Debian lists shut down temporarily

The debian lists are being shut down temporarily due to too much spam. They should be back up in a few days. Bruce Perens Debian List Manager -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A

Re: upgrading base-passwd

manager he's a busy Guy :-) . Anyone else want to give it a try? It's something you need to be _very_ careful with. Clobbering some poor user's passwd file would not be appreciated. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for

Re: I'll try Debian 1.2 some other time

y. Hopefully then it will work out ok. Thanks again for all > your help. That's fine. Please do wait for the 1.2 release and give us a try. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F

Re: libc-5.4.13

From: Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It should be the last libc5 release and the next one should be libc6. Debian 1.3 (the release after this one) is based on LIBC 6. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprin

Re: permissions wrong in new base-files ?

Oops. I added "(umask 0;" before 4 lines in the Makefile to fix that. It will be in my next upload. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B

Re: libc-5.4.13

s concerned), and another moving target wouldn't help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: Dselect docs for beginners

minology. This is especially important if they are not native English speakers and they need a bit of extra context to understand the technical buzzwords in your document. I can see what we need next - a bibliography. One with web sites and books where you can learn about Unix and Linux. Any v

please use V

#x27;t place this sort of restriction on the system. I think I'll encourage people to use V - it's GPL-ed and arguing about Qt's license just isn't our job. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

commercial plans, which they have not disclosed to me, and which of course I wouldn't publish without their permission. I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. Thanks Bruce -- Br

Re: Floppy installation problem

Hm. I am uploading a 2.0.25 boot disk this evening (probably late). That might have a better Adaptec 28xx driver. The chip is detected just fine, the microcode that we load into the chip appears to be buggy. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL

Re: Installation Instruction at www.debian.org

Thanks! There is someone writing a short tutorial on "dselect" for 1.2 . That will get most people over the hurdle, I hope. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 9

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

as a whole, > including this notice. > > That's what applies to FTP archive administrators, and that's what > applies to CD vendors. -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76

Re: PnP in kernel?

We generally distribute Linus' sources. When he accepts the PnP patch into the main source thread you'd see it here. Perhaps he's already done that for 2.1 . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A

Re: How to choose safe configuration at boot time?

hell. Paul, I have just obsoleted that Slackware rescue disk. The next boot floppies package has a one floppy combined installation root/boot disk that contains fsck and other rescue tools. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprin

Re: Serial port IRQ strangeness

Put "serial" in /etc/modules . The problem will get better. Kerneld is not starting before 0setserial. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBS

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

ad that. I just hacked generate_library to always include llseek if the library defines it - that should fix it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Re: Emacs and tcsh

Oh, now I have a guess at what is going wrong. Invoke "unset noglob" and see if the csh problem gets better. Then you'll have to figure out what is setting it. It is generally set while running "tset" because the termcap strings sometimes contain shell metacharacters

Re: csh * expantion problem

If you really want to echo an asterisk, use: echo '*' If you want to echo the list of files in the current directory, use: echo * If the current directory is empty, you will get the "no match" message. Is that what is happening? Bruce -- Bruce

Re: Got unusable memory address 0x400cd008 (and libtermcap)

tcsh: setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5 If that fixes the problem, there's a malloc bug in the program and the new allocator we're using makes the bug show up instead of being silent. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for

Re: Newbie Question

if that suggests the name of an appropriate man page. PPP put configuration files in /etc/ppp, and "man pppd" (that's the PPP server, or "daemon") will tell you about them. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

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spam on debian-user

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Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

e and it will help you file your report. There are still known problems (see the bug list on our FTP site), so this is for people who won't perish if they install a buggy package that takes down their system. As always, make backups. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project L

Re: [OFF TOPIC]Re: X is painful

g to catch on in the market). The interface wasn't so bad, it's just that the computer wasn't up to running it. Hopefully GNUstep will catch on. I hope we can straighten out the compiler issues and have good GNUstep support on Debian. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: last date for frozen upload (was: Re: bo, rex?)

November 27, I think. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: syslog daemon is dying

. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: T130 driver for win95

nux (which is what we do on this list), the Trantor driver comes with the Linux kernel. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Please do not use Qt

I'm sorry that Qt has that messed-up license. It does severely restrict its usefulness. A good substitute for "Qt" can be found in the "vx" package in "unstable". It's another C++ GUI package. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL

Re: No CD Now what?

allation tool in the installation menu. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

network problems at list server

There seems to be a bad AlterNet link between master.debian.org and Pixar. This might mess up mailing list service until they get it working. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!

Did your PPP server on the other end change? Perhaps it isn't handling compressed packets correctly. Try adding -vj and -bsdcomp flags, and see if it improves. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the

Re: AX25 packages

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lists working again

It looks as if the lists are working again (Thanks, Mike!). Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

r policy manual. Maybe we can come to some sort of merge on that. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

at the moment towards giving > Debian the ability to use RedHat packages? It works now. Download the latest "debmake" package and run "man alien". Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Computer insane behaviour!

ardware problem. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

that. By the way, this should not become a continuing discussion on debian-user. It should go to debian-talk (is there still a debian-talk?) or one of the Linux newsgroups. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

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