Re: Finding left-over libraries

On Tue, 1999-12-07 at 23:13:32 +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages > depend on? > > When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are > installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - w

Re: Trying to install X-windows

On Sat, 1999-12-04 at 17:57:00 -0700, csager wrote: == snip == > I have run XFR86Config, but when I type the command: > startx > I get so many error messages that scroll by my screen so > fast that I don't know what all the problems are. > Is there

Re: Clock problems

On Mon, 1999-11-29 at 15:28:57 -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > I think this is caused by the file /etc/adjtime, which is supposed to > adjust for clock drift, but gets skewed when you first set the hard- > ware clock. Remove the file, then re-set the clock. It will be re- > created as needed. > >

X font and chown problems in potato

This basically reprises a message sent on 1999-11-07 at 06:10:18 +, Subject: Cannot chown /dev/pts/0 to 0,0; likewise for /dev/ptyxx, which received no response. On starting xinit, the xterm it brings up only displays characters as solid blocks of color the foreground color. When the xterm is

Re: [potato] broke ps printing (still)

On Sat, 1999-11-20 at 17:31:37 -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello all; > > I upgraded to gs-aladdin from gs as one person suggested, but I still > can't print ps. Basically nothing happens, lpq shows: > > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color Pro' > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > S

ptys and /dev/pts

I've just switched to potato, and still don't have it entirely working (mainly in that X can't find its fonts), but while I am waiting to figure out a solution to that, here's two small questions: Can anyone explain the following behavior: $ tty /dev/tty0 $ script Script started, file is typescri

Clock mini-HOWTO

The subject of "how to adjust your clock" is a real FAQ on this list. I just ran across a "Clock mini-HOWTO" at . It seems to do a really excellent job of explaining the relations of the various hardware and software components concerned with time maintenance. I think it m

Re: What the hell happened to X on Monday?

On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 23:18:03 -0600, Erick Kinnee wrote: > I seem to have lost the 'fixed' font or whatever it's aliased to. X no > longer starts for me, and I have heard reports from other users of this. > Anybody got an idea? > I've had no luck with X under potato: see post late on 1999-11-06,

dselect logging

One may easily log an apt-get session, by starting a script beforehand, then using the --quiet option to apt-get to suppress the periodic progress reports on downloads. But when I try to operate dselect within a typescript situation, all the cursor control characters (ncurses or whatever), while t

Re: Can't find a valid termcap file at .../Readline.pm

On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 13:44:06 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Keith Harbaugh wrote: > > Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm > > line305 > > > > What do I need to (re)install to cure this, > > without (further) breaking my sy

Re: printing specific pages

On Wed, 1999-10-20 at 23:29:36 +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:12PM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote: > > Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it > > > possible? > > > > Probably. How to do i

Cannot chown /dev/pts/0 to 0,0; likewise for /dev/ptyxx

The slink -> potato saga continued (Chapter X): Doing xinit on my upgraded potato system yields an xterm without fonts, that is, where the characters should be, there are just colored boxes. However, the messages from the X server all look reasonable; the font path is shown as: (**) FontPath set t

Can't find a valid termcap file at .../Readline.pm

I used to have a slink system which was running basically just fine, then in a moment of Neanderthal adventurism decided to try to "upgrade" to potato in one fell swoop. Well, I got swooped all right, and have been trying to dig myself out from a hole of unknown depth ever since. I'll spare the bor

Re: updating of CMOS clock

On Sat, 1999-11-06 at 14:36:25 -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Whenever I reboot/shutdown my debian system, one of the message I see on > the console during shutdown is : > > CMOS clock updated to Sat Nov 6 14:25:38 EST 1999 > > This alongwith the fact that APM support (which I have compiled into

System halted (Linux 2.0) versus Power down (Linux 2.2)

Can any kernel gurus out there explain why the final message the kernel gives upon system shutdown changed from System halted in Linux 2.0 to Power down in Linux 2.2? For specificity here is the relevant code from kernel/sys.c for 2.2.12 (pardon me for sending this through the mail

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast! [gets rid of libc5 too!]

On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast! [Details of how to get]

On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that

debian-security: another new mailing list

u for your cooperation. -- Keith Harbaugh

Re: Potato frozen?

On Thu, 1999-10-07 at 20:05:51 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I know that as a matter of policy, Debian doesn't announce release > dates in advance, but can someone give a *hint*? Is the potato > release even frozen yet? I mean, I heard that the only problem > remaining was a Perl tweak months ago, so

Re: GNU Emacs-20.4 debs

On Fri, 1999-10-01 at 18:48:03 +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > Hi! > > Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find > GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages? This doesn't answer your question directly, but it may help keep you up to date without having to wait for deb's: If you have the a gcc compiler (I u

printing debian web page using html2ps

The design spec for dpkgv2, aka the Herring Package Management Library (HPML), is available for our browsing pleasure at http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/hpml; specifying precisely that URL does bring up the proper web page on my web browser. If I am interpreting the html2ps documentation correc

Re: Root password

On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 08:32:28 -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Here is how you do it: > reboot and at lilo prompt type > linux init=/bin/sh > > This will rop you into shell. In there, > mount -n -o remount rw > > Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The > second fie

Re: Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?

On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 00:42:35 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am trying to install real player and have the following lines in my > ~/.bash_profile: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0 > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0 > > When I do an "echo $PATH" in the

Re: Strange bash prompt

On Wed, 1999-09-22 10:25:29 +0530, XRDLAB wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed a strange behaviour of bash regrding the prompt. I have set > PS1='\h:\w$ '. With that I get both the host name and the working > directory as my shell prompt. Yesterday I noticed a strange behaviour > accidentally. The sequence

Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

On Sat, 1999-09-18 14:57:50 -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to > run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages > from unstable but that's ok. > > Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like right > now : > > # Use for a

Re: Fonts

On Tue, 1999-09-14 22:10:09 -0700, Craig B wrote: > I really like the way X works on my Hamm system. The only complaint I > have is with the font quality. Sometimes they look fine for example as > I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The > biggest problem I have is with

Re: glimpseindex

On Mon, 1999-09-13 18:03:35 +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: > I thought I'd give glimpse a whirl to index a bunch of email archives, > but I get a segmentation fault: > > > % glimpseindex -o -B archive > > This is glimpseinde

Re: where is what? - clarification (hopefully)

Thanks to all who have replied. Actually what motivated my question was the advocacy of the procmailer Jari Aalto: please see his http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips.html (`pm' here and below is for `procmail'), in particular, its 1.1 for its examples of the `@(#)' identifier (in addition to the

Re: xterm-menus not working

On Sun, 1999-09-05 21:50:52 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks Keith. That did it. After changing my .Xdefaults to > Xterm.vt.geometry in stead of using * the menus are usable. In which > documentation did you find that? Well, actually it wasn't so much the documentation as the experimentation

Re: xterm-menus not working

On Sun, 1999-09-05 14:44:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > > > If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, > > try the following: > >xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm > > and post the results back. > > &

where is what?

`what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files without having to use a pager or editor. I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching on `what', but to no avail (the first sear

Re: xterm-menus not working

If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, try the following: xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm and post the results back. And yes, I am using slink, but with some addons. Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list if you're interested deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ deb http://security.debi

Re: xterm-menus not working

Change XTerm*geometry: 80x24 XTerm.VT100*geometry: 80x24 to XTerm.vt100.geometry: 80x24 Let me know if that doesn't work; it works fine for me (although actually I use 80x63).

Re: X with kernel 2.2.12

I just compiled 2.2.12: here's the uname -a: Linux euler 2.2.12 #1 Fri Aug 27 05:43:17 UTC 1999 i586 unknown No problem whatsoever, it just dropped in and replaced the previous 2.2.11 I had been running. I'm running mainly a straight slink system, but with netgod.net's X 3.3.3.1 + glibc-2.0.7 c