Re: ucd snmp

debhelper. You should be able to install the potato version on a slink system without any problems. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SNMP

agent, or is it a bug in the ATM driver > or protocol stack? How can I debug the problem? Are the stats in /proc/net/dev correct? If they are, it is most likely a bug in the SNMP agent. If they are not correct, the problem is probably in the driver. Let me know if it's the former. David

Re: SNMP

little HOWTO > file somewhere, is there? Please see /usr/doc/snmp/FAQ.gz. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SNMP

ying: > > Aug 26 16:36:06 lusitania snmpd: Connection from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX refused The new SNMP agent uses a different configuration file format from the old one. The default configuration only allows access to the MIB2 system group. You will need to edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf to allow gre

Need a nice, large, fixed font

Hi, Does anyone know of a large, nice looking, fixed-size font for X? With my poor vision, I need something slightly bigger than the standard 10x20 font for extended use. The 12x24 font is about the right size (maybe a tad too large), but it too ugly. David -- David Engel

Re: ld.so.conf question

rder they are in. > > The problem I'm encountering is that linking -lXmu seems to cause > the libc5-compat version of libXtk to get included and then I get > warnings about libc5/libc6 conflicts. I was wondering if this could > be the cause. Could be. What does ldd report for

Re: ld.so.conf question

uld only be one, but the duplicates shouldn't cause any problems. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snmpd weirdness

packets. To get accurate values of ifInOctets and ifOutOctets, you must run kernel 2.1.15 or later. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- E-mail the word "

Re: ld.so linking conflict

uot;dl" libraries are: You probably have a left over link in /lib. Perhaps you 'forced' something that conflicts with libdl1-dev. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: kde for debian's menu program

and mirrors in a day or two. It will support Debian's automatic menu system. FYI, there are some problems with the new version and it will probably take a revision or two to sort things out. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001

Debian on Dell Latitude Laptop

Has anyone successfully installed Debian 1.3.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi laptop? If so, what it the secret? When I try booting from the install/rescue disk, it gets about halfway through "Loading linux..." and then reboots. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL

[coteau@westriv.com: Network Problem]

der. When we type the "ps -ef" command, no daemons appear to be running. If you have any suggestion for us. Please e-mail us, we'll be thankful. Sincerely, Riaz Khan -End of forwarded message- -- David EngelODS

Re: Bo has been Frozen -- Beta Test

On Apr 5, Brian C. White wrote > Bo has now been officially frozen! If you'd like to start upgrading Great! However, unstable still points to bo meaning that anything put in unstable will also magically appear in frozen. David -- David EngelODS Network

Re: code-names

The only reason libc6 is in the experimental section rather than the unstable (i.e. development) tree is because I didn't want it's presence to confuse anyone and slow down the release of Debian 1.3. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tk4.2: had to ln -s ld-linux.so.1 ld-linux.so.2

On Mar 27, Rick Macdonald wrote > I had to link ld-linux.so.1 to ld-linux.so.2 in order to run > tcl7.6/tk4.2. Get tcl76_7.6p2-2 and tk42_4.2p2-2. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 23

Re: glibc in 1.3?

On Mar 26, Francesco Tapparo wrote > I'm wondering if glibc 2.0 (i.e. libc.so.6) will be in debian 1.3. > This release of libc is already out, but I not see it in debian. It's in the experimental section. David -- David EngelODS Networks

Re: wish4.2 - the disappearing file

ng "strings" on the wish4.2 executable. ld-linux.so.2 is the dynamic linker for glibc which is available in the experimental section. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: problems with the new libc6 packages

On Mar 15, Joseph Skinner wrote > I've just installed the libc6 packages and find that this seems to break > gcc which sort of makes it useless. > > The error generates is that crtBegin.o is missing. You need to use gcc-2.7.2.2. David -- David EngelOD

Re: Q: ldso_1.8.10-1_i386.deb

ly have mismatched run-time and development packages. For example, your libc package might be at version 5.4.23 while your libc-dev package is still at version 5.4.20-1. The version numbers are supposed to match exactly. Dpkg is supposed to prevent this from happening but doesn

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

o it's name, at least for a while. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: ld-linux.so refuses to link the libraries I need...

nd I'll tell you what you are doing wrong. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More diald problems. (fwd)

ling the patch. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: More diald problems.

On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, David Engel wrote: > > I have a nagging problem with 'defaultroute' that maybe you can help > > me with. Everytime diald drops the link due to inactivity, it deletes > > the default route. After t

Re: More diald problems.

route. After that, diald won't bring the link back up for non-loopback addresses because there aren't any routes. I have to manually force the link back up. Any ideas? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Ara

Re: Grrr! Dangling links in /usr/lib/

3.dpkg-tmp This is a hold over from a problem between dpkg and ldconfig. Just reinstall the binutils package and you should be fine. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: Some notes on Debian experiences

nel headers at build time. You won't need any kernel headers in /usr/include, symlinked or otherwise, to compile programs with it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code

. However, _dl_debug_state is contained in the .dynsym section (which doesn't get stripped) of ld-linux.so.1, so I'm thinking that it should be possible for gdb to get the address from there even when ld-linux.so.1 is stripped. David -- David EngelOptical Data

Re: libc-5.4.13

Karl M. Hegbloom writes: > Will Debian 1.2 have libc-5.4.13? It's on sunsite; says it's a bugfix. Unless Bruce vetoes it, yes. I uploaded it last night. It should show up in the next few days. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EM

Re: bo is full of symlinks to rex?

lly tried this yet: > [description of flags_[no]recursive+L option deleted] > Anybody got a better method to mirror only the "unstable" tree > efficiently? This is exactly what I do to mirror just "unstable". It works fine. David -- David Engel

Re: Dynamic Linking

ked ELF binary (according ot ldd). Some of your lib*.so symlinks might have been deleted accidentally. Reinstall the appropriate *-dev packages and see if that fixes it. > If this is not the appropriate place for this message, my humblest > apologies. Yes, this is the right place. David -- Davi

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

version which is named correctly. > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname > (libread > line.so.2.0), skipping This is a known bug in the readline package. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: g77 failure

ntaining gcc, I asked multiple times for the maintainer of GNAT to send me the necessary files, but I never heard from him. It only takes 2 or 3 files being in the right place and gcc's configure script will automatically include Ada support. Fortran support is already done in this way. Davi

Re: GnuStep Re: X is painful

le and is reported to work, though I don't know of any Debian packages using it. We can switch to LinuxThreads when we go to libc6. FYI, LinuxThreads is already available as a compile-time add-on for libc6, so I would expect it to be well supported. David -- David Engel

Re: Anyone tried nm on libc5

Paul Chau writes: > I tried running nm on the libc5 and it said that no symbols found. Can > anyone explain to me why? You have to use -D to see the dynamic symbols. All of the regular symbols were stripped out. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc.

Re: JDK

g/java-linux.html. The site points to > installation instructions. It installs in the /usr/local tree so it > won't conflict with any Debian stuff. JDK v1.0.1 has been available for some time. Search for jdk*. I mailed the maintiner about upgrading it to v1.0.2, but I nev

Re: Netscape 3.01 libc5_5.4.7 crashes

Guy Maor writes: > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so netscape That should be LD_PRELOAD=libgnumalloc.so.5 ... David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richard

Re: nm /lib/libc.so

Bernd Eckenfels writes: > some softwre PAckages run nm on libc to get the available functions. This > wont work with ELF anymore. nm only prints symbols for .a files. Arent the > symbols in .so needed for linking? You have to use 'nm -D'. David -- David Engel

Re: Problems building Python 1.4

library included in the 'libreadline' > library? Readline appears to depend on it and it is nowhere to be > found. If this is the case I'm sure Guido would like to know about > it, so he can modify the Python configure script. You need to link with ncurses instead of termca

Re: Is this acceptable?

in the unstable section. This is OK as long as the packages you are building also go in the unstable tree. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0

it.html This page is empty as far as I can tell. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: gcc 2.7.2.1 + objc support-- debianized package available

to take over the gcc package, please you a different numbering scheme. There already is a gcc 2.7.2.1-2 package in the Incoming directory waiting to be installed. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972)

Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0

and/or know of the fix? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: libc5-dev upgrades

y there) so > that I can save my kernel setup from zapping when I upgrade libc5-dev? Please read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 R

Re: g77 and gcc-2.7.2.1

rce to see how fortran is already handled. > recompiled to recognise Ada code, or the GCC binary from GNAT > won't work properly because it's 2.7.2 not 2.7.2.1, etc. > It might be possible to hack it together but not worth it. > As soon as GNAT is updated and then the Debian pa

Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

To make it work with Tcl7.6, you would have to rebuild scotty anyway. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

Juergen Schoenwaelder writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) said: > David>Aside to Juergen. What do you think of Dr. Ousterhout's > proposed > David>improvement to package loading? I will probably add it, or > something > David>simil

Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

e Debian version of Tcl 7.5 before packaging Scotty 2.1.2. > Thanks for Tkined and Debian. You're welcome, at least for Debian. Tkined is Juerhen's work. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: DANGER: installing ld.so & libc5 with dftp

> unpack libc5(error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1") > unpack (error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1" occasionally) This is due to a problem in the ld.so packaging. It will be fixed in the next version. Until it's available, you should install ld.so by its

Re: tk-blt package released

ions of a package can be installed simultaneously. Take a look at how this is done in the tcl74 and tcl75 packages. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: elf-x11r6lib

Simon Martin writes: > Whilst trying to install tk40 I get a dependency error on elf-x11r6lib. > I've checked the Debian Web and ftp sites and haven't been able to find it. > Can anyone tell me where to access this file? 'elf-x11r6lib' is provided by the xlib pa

Re: libg++-2.7.2.deb is old?

ibg++27-2.7.1-2 builds fine for me with libc5-5.2.18-10. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: g77 and gcc-2.7.2.1

n you make a small test case? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Cross posting per request

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Wed, 04 Sep 1996 11:04:06 CDT David Engel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > There is a curses-based version of Tk, but I don't have any idea of > > how well it works. > > Do you know where we could find this thing ? Mig

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

ame me if I am, > but I just _think_ it would work, and it's easy to find out). My point was that somebody built a package that uses a shared library that we don't even provide. IMO, finding out, what it is, where it came from and why it was used is more important than ma

Re: Cross posting per request

much better. There is a curses-based version of Tk, but I don't have any idea of how well it works. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

uestion.) I have no idea where the libbsd.so.1.0.0 came from. David --- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: what is -ltk looking for?

lt; tk7.4 (?) and for every new libtk (7.4, 7.4) I encountered slight > changes at API level) you should consider change your makefiles to > the proper library (-ltk74 rsp. -ltk75). This is what should be done, except your examples should actually -ltcl7.4 and -ltcl7.5.

Re: clock -w writes bogus date

/etc/timezone from Factory to US/Pacific thinking that was my > problem. This has already been reported in Bug#4265. Here is a quick patch to clock.c in util-linux that fixed it for me: David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PRO

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

ot;. > > There is no varargs.h in libc5-dev_5.2.18-9 . Maybe older versions > contain it. varargs.h is provided by gcc. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ldso package and perl

Douglas Bates writes: > When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I > suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of > the transcript. This due to a packaging problem in ldso. It will be fixed in a few days. David -- Da

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

termcap.so.?, but I > guess gcc is looking for a *.a file. > > How should I go about fixing this? You should convert the source and/or Makefile to use ncurses. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is wish ?

1 packages. if you install both, the wish from tk41 will be used by default. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: GCC frepo patch don't work.

heavy demand for it by Debian users or H.J. Lu includes it in his general Linux versions, I have no plans to add it. Until that happens you'll have to get the Debian source and patch it yourself. It isn't that hard. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: No Distribution is 2.0.0 Current

Jeffery S. Coy Jr. writes: > On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, David Engel wrote: > > Debian's version of libc 5.2.18 has the security fix plus a few other > > fixes. I really wish H.J. would continue to fix serious bugs in the > > last stable libc while the new one is still in

Re: aout svgalib problem

86-linuxaout/lib to /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout. I did this so users who didn't install any a.out development packages (eg. libc4-dev, aout-gcc, etc.) wouldn't have a /usr/i486-linuxaout directory cluttering up /usr. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EM

Re: Problems doing compiles.

Evan Harris writes: > reference to `_ctype'" messages on the link step, although my "hello, > world" test program will compile and link (but nothing else will). Please send the output from 'dpkg -l' and from compiling your program w

Re: pthreads and libc version for debian 1.1

led pthreads1. Packages with threaded binaries should depend on pthreads1. This will make it easier to split out pthreads later if we want to. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Hard versus extended partitions

Bill Wohler writes: > Is there a performance hit for using extended partitions, or should > one be unconcerned about creating them willy-nilly? I don't know of any performance hits regarding extended partitions. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems,

Re: pthreads and libc version for debian 1.1

.18 when libc-5.3.12 is available? > Is it for stability reasons? For stability. Libc 5.3.12 was brand new when we first started preparing to release Debian 1.1. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: re-upload kernel-package-1.01

eady started. There is now a /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz file in the latest (5.2.18-8) libc5 packages. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: kernel headers

nworkable. As I have time, I will continue to encourage H.J. Lu and other Linux distributors to do the same. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: kernel headers

as /usr/include/*. > things to break. Debian should concentrate on providing a complete, stable > system. This is why the change was made. The new arrangement is more stable. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 110

Re: linux include files arrangement

ems level work), you should add -I/usr/src/linux/include to your compile line. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: problems compiling with R0.93

o have the libc.so.4 library in the /lib directory. The problem is that the shared X libraries need the shared libc but the old, a.out gcc links in a static debug version of libc called libg when -g is used. Either don't link with -g so the shared libc will be used or add -static so the shared X l

Re: diald (Was: Re: Must pppd be run by root?)

ol, too! (I can email it to the one making the package if > needed). The debian package hasn't been upgraded to 0.14 yet. Would someone please do this. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unstable Packages file

> I notice the Packages file for the unstable tree at ftp.debian.org is out of > date. I though it was updated automatically? Perhaps not... We know about the problem and are trying to fix it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PRO

Re: tk & tcl and dependecies

. To cope with this, the run-time packages are completely independent. You can have all of tcl74, tk40, tcl75 and tk41 installed if you like. Of course, you still only have one set of development packages installed at a time. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: 1.1 upg & libc - long

7-14.deb (--install): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb > linux96:/home/debian# Could you please retry this with dpkg 1.1.6. David -- David EngelOpti

Re: Permissions

. I renamed 1440_boot_floppy to 1440_boot_floppy.old and added world read permission to 1440_boot_floppy.gz. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Permissions

th newer version, 1440_boot_floppy.gz, is the one that should be used. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

h dselect not coping well with packages being listed twice in the Packages file. IMO, the upgrades directory idea makes a lot of sense. Just tell users to upgrade to the packages in that directory and then run dselect on the packages in the binary directories. Very simpl

Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

maintainer has not created the updates directory yet. When that happens, the a.out version will be placed there and the ELF version will be moved to the binary/base directory. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect

uld get to the control C. Only packages you have marked for removal, by using either '-' or '_' in the select window, should be removed. All other packages should be left alone. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

>Is anyone out there using a linux box as an NIS client? > Does it work? Yes and yes. ypbind used to die occasionally with older versions but doesn't anymore with the current version. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAI

Re: Bug#2807: X <-> cpp dependency?

nd on 'cpp | gcc'? or maybe gcc should provide > cpp. It only needs to depend on cpp. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Bug#2807: X <-> cpp dependency?

's right, though there is one scenario due to a bug in previous versions where /lib/cpp may be deleted. It is fixed by reinstalling. I'm going to fix it in the next version. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]