Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] This discussion of the Qt copyright is beginning to sound like a flame war. Could we please end it and do something productive instead? Summary: - Debian has a policy about copyrights, and it's not likely c

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "Karl M. Hegbloom": > With XEmacs and ViewMail, the problem becomes obvious! I've enclosed > a uuencoded screenshot to demonstrate: It is _not_ a good idea to post 140 kilobytes to a public mailing list. Please put it on a

Re: X11 bashing

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner": > I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt. It looks better than Athena widgets. :-) (I use xaw95 myself. I haven't tried Qt or KDE, nor am I interested in with the current copyrights.)

Re: X11 bashing

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Martin Konold: > So [Qt] is really free and can be well used for gpled sw. Well, yes, for some definitions of the word free. Free is one of those words that everyone likes to define for themselves. For Debian, the relevant que

Re: pgp

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] I've saved these notes on using PGP with mail, and will be adding a summary of them to a new version of the PGP packages (but it won't happen until 1.3). Thanks to everyone. -- Please read

Re: PGP and MIME

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "linh (l.) dang": > What should I put in my .mailcap to make pgp handle > your "application/pgp-signature" as text. I use mailcrypt so I don't > want rmime invoke anything for pgp stuffs. I don't know understand .mailcap (I've

Re: pgp

to a file, say foo, and then run PGP with the -sta options: $ pgp -sta foo You need a pass phrase to unlock your RSA secret key. Key for user ID: Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024-bit key, key ID 4CBA92D1, created 1995/09/26 Ente

Re: pgp

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "Karl M. Hegbloom": > The package is broken! Where else can I look for it??? I fetched a copy, and compared it the one I have on my hard disk. They're identical, and both work. You may have forgot to set binary mode when dow

Re: XFree86 3.2 is available

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Paul Seelig: > Why is I-Connect obviously allowed to include non-free on their disk and > not e.g. InfoMagic who are selling more or less an image of the primary > Debian FTP server as well? It's not Debian who are restrictin

Re: cleaning up kernel source

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "David Morris": > do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? Except possibly the documentation, no. Debian distributes the header files as part of the libc5 package. -- Please read

Re: Missing Package

Fabien Ninoles: > Some Debian packages ask me for some package I didn't see for a while > (though I know they exist). They're the pgp_us (althought if someone can > say to me where I can find the the International package) and the pbmplus > package. I'm looking too for the kaffe and the povray pa

Re: Bad block on disk

Christian Lynbech: > - How do I get rid of the bad block? There are some instructions in the Linux System Administrators' Guide, version 0.4, available at . Sorry I can't quote it at the moment; I had to clean out all unnecessary cruft to be able to make a backup

Re: Annoying package dependence concept

Johannes Plass: > and xdvi (why actually does xdvi depend on ghostscript ?) Xdvi can show Postscript graphics included in a TeX document. It needs ghostscript to do so. "Recommends: ghostscript" might be too strong for xdvi; "Suggests: ghostscript" would be much better, since xdvi works well

Re: Where is pgp?

J.H.M.Dassen: > To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the > PGP packages were moved outside of the US. > > Currently, you can find them at > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.html Those packages are experimental versions, and have at least one problem: they d

Re: where to put clock -s?

David Puryear: > But when I do "date" and "clock" I get two different times. The > time I get from "date" is way off. So I usually do "clock -s" > and everything is fine. Any idea as why? I've heard of rumours of some versions of the clock binary being broken. Don't know which ones. I've also hear

Re: where to put clock -s?

David Puryear: > I would like to run "clock -s" every time I start the machine. > What I need to know is where do I put this? It should already be run automatically by /etc/init.d/boot. -- Please read before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying

Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road Ahead

Amos Shapira: > Does the main figures in the Debian community have anything to say about this > ? > Do you intend to cooperate in this important effort? Read also the response from Unifix, just posted. It's already on the web site, if your news service is slow. -- Please read

Re: Any Linux books that focus on Debian?

CoB SysAdmin: > I'm interested in getting a book on adminstering Linux systems, but just > about *every* book I look at focuses on Slackware. *Blech!*. > > Are there any books that focus on Debian? Blatant self-promotion dept.: The Linux System Administrators' Guide (SAG), my book, is not specifi

Re: main-menu.hook, menudefs.hook?????

David Puryear: > I just like to know why when I installed package with > "..registers itself via install-fvwm2menu", it deleted my old > main-menu.hook and menudefs.hook. I like the ones I had. This is sort of my fault, sorry. I designed the new system.fvwm2rc and install-fvwm2menu. I'm not sure

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

Craig Sanders: > The bug is actually a typo. In the apache section of your .postinst > scripts you had "foundhttp=yes" instead of "foundhttpd=yes". I.E. you > missed the final "d". That was part of the problem. 1.1.1-5 also moves the ServerRoot and cgi-bin directories. Anyway, fixed in dwww 1.1

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

I wrote: > The names of the Apache server executable file and the default > locations of the server's HTML directory and cgi-bin directory > changed with 1.1.1. The Debian package I have (1.1.1-5) does > not install cleanly and does not work, and I haven't been able > to test my fixes for dwww and

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

Lawrence Chim: > when install info2www and dwww, they said that they cannot > find the httpd. I think it is because I am using apache > and http daemon name is apache rather than httpd. > > Is is a install script problem? or a file dependancy problem? The names of the Apache server executable f

Re: dselect sort by section

Bill Wohler: > Would anyone else like to see a "Sort by section" major sort in > dselect? Already there, at least in 1.4.0. Use some combination of 'o' and 'O' to get it. (Sorry, don't remember the exact sequence.) The dselect user interface is quite efficient, but somewhat difficult and it's

Re: Where is PGP-i or PGP-us ?

"Rosenberg Yigal": > It seems that in Debian 1.1.7 pgp-i and pgp-up were in non-free pkgs, > but in the newer dist' of Debian they are missing. > Can some one tell me why they are missing and whre can I find them . Problems with US International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Cryptographic pro

Re: Two system admin suggestions, where to post them?

Amos Shapira: > and suchlike, I'd rather like to have a command to turn features off > and on, like IRIX' chkconfig(8). The idea is that the init scripts > use this command to check simple text files that contain "off" or "on" > for each feature and act accordingly. A simple on/off is inadequate.

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

Gerry Jensen: > While it may be untrue that you *need* twice the physical memory size, I > believe it's true that twice the physical memory size is about the limit > of what you can effectively use if you need it. It depends on what you do. Operating system theory has a concept called "working se

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

Christian Schwarz: > My suggestion of tagging the files as conffiles was thought as a solution > to your problem, if the files change. The problem scenario: Version 1.0 installs an app-defaults file. It defines resource ``*Background: black''. Admin installs versi

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

Boris Beletsky: > YES! u always need a swap - no metter how much ram u have. > I would say, create a 32swap part. - that would be the best. If you never use more than 16 MB of memory, and you have 512 MB of physical memory, you most definitely do not need swap. swap needed = total memory

Re: where's man ??

> > This was done because AE is small enough to fit on the base disks. > I am sorry, but isn't vi designed for that purpose? $ ls -l /bin/ae /usr/bin/vim -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root23825 May 9 06:05 /bin/ae -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 269380 Jan 14 1996 /usr/bin/vim $ I don't t

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

A R Abid: > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. The terse form of the formula is: swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size (Forget everything about "twice physical siz

Re: Suck and innxmit

Tapio Vaattanen: > Unknown reply to "/var/lib/suck/153-155" -- 480 Transfer permission denied You either need to configure suck to use the NNTP POST command, or add "localhost" to (I think) /etc/news/hosts.nntp to allow it to use the NNTP IHAVE command. -- Please read

Re: where's man ??

"Chris R. Martin": > I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, > there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a > "required" thing... I assume you have installed just the base package. /bin/ae is part of the base package. > another thin

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

Michael Alan Dorman: > I feel like a broken record, here, but would people involved in this > discussion please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README? I did that. I didn't notice that paragraph, probably because it comes under the heading of ``xdm-start-server''. The visual clues given by the formatt

Re: ?-html

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html > output for my manual pages? There's rman, in non-free. > or better still act as the front end of man? I'm working on a WWW front end to all on-line documentation on a Debian system, but it's

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

"Brian C. White": > Personally, since these are _defaults_ that are intended to be overridden > by user configuration, I think they are fine where they are. These > programs are not system utilities that need to be configured. These > are just defaults and there are documented ways for a user to

Re: ELM and PGP

joost witteveen: > BTW, I'm _not_ saying there's something wrong with the way Larz > signs. I'm just noticing a pattern I share the office with God[1], of course there isn't anything wrong with my signatures. The problem with my signatures is the I'm using the new PGP/MIME draft-RFC, while elm pr

Re: how to sign up to debian-devel?

I'm not responsible for the mailing lists, but I understand there's some problems with their maintainance. Bruce is working on it. -- Please read before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. pgpJn2F7c13OE.pgp D

Re: hellish symlinks in archive

"Nathan O. Siemers": > You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries > mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: ... > Does anyone have a better config file for this purpose? Here's a sanitized version of mine: package=debian-rex site=ftp.l

Re: PGP pP

Jan Camenisch: > well for me a PGP signature in MIME format looks like this > mail and the PGP header says PGP-signature rather than message... More precisely, it says Content-type: application/pgp; format=mime; x-action=signclear; x-originator=29160A2D T

Re: PGP pP

Ronald van Loon: > This message is an example of the problem I mentioned earlier. > > The actual message is "File pgptemp.$01 has signature but no text." Your Elm probably doesn't support PGP/MIME. See http://www.c2.org/~raph/pgpmime.html for more information on PGP/MIME. -- P

Re: time to split the list?

Casper BodenCummins: > After reading your posts, I'm coming around to the view that two groups > - debian-user and debian-install - would be best. There is perhaps > insufficient non-technical discussion to warrant a separate list. We already have the debian-talk list (send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

Mark Eichin: > and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over > 100 characters GNU tar does that as well. -- Please read before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. pgp3uzEpYi8ov.pgp De

Re: mailing list

I hope this to be my last contribution to this thread, so I'll try to make it thorough. Sorry about the length. I will use "must" to indicate that unless we do it that way, there is going to be problems and the Debian project will suffer. (No film at 11.) I'm willing to stake whatever reputation I

Re: mailing list

Shaya Potter: > > Not everyone's news server carries the linux.* hierachy, such as mine. You could talk your news admin into arranging a special feed for it. (I think one of the FAQ's or HOWTO's has contact information. If not, I vaguely remember that Yggdrasil may be involved.) > Would it be

Re: mailing list

Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE: > First... An added [Debian:] tag before the suggest for those > like me who receive from mush than one list. The mailing list software adds the following header to all messages on this list: Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org This is good enough to

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

"Daniel Lynes": > GNU Emacs for OS/2 still has this feature. Very, very dangerous. Vi and clones aren't completely safe, either. In some circumstances, at least, they load a .exrc (and/or .vimrc or whatever) from the current directory (not the home directory). The intention is that you can custom

Re: mailagent and MH

"Susan G. Kleinmann": > What's odd is that I often have to execute inc more than 1 time -- sometimes > 2 times, to get all the files from mbox.sgk into +inbox. Are you sure the mbox.sgk has all the messages? If you route them via sendmail (or smail or whatever MTA you have), it may take a few mo

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

Bruce Perens: > We don't have a person who follows the kernel and keeps an accurate list > of module arguments. Also, Lars took on "modconf" when I had too much to > do, but he was less than enthusiastic about it. We could use another > volunteer to be the module mayven. Ilucius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftape format warning!!!

> There were only two sessions on my tape. Sadly, the second session > contained the /usr filesystem, so I lost everything :( Whenever doing backups, _verify_ your backups, even if it doubles the time it takes to do them. Oh, and whenever you're going to do something dangerous, _double_ your bac

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

Robbie Honerkamp: > Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. Not true. The Good Times virus is a hoax, but it is possible to get a virus from e-mail, in some circumstances. Some e-mail systems allow the sender to tag the contents as being plain text, HTML, C source code, a s

Re: Unidentified subject!

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > THE QUESTION - How big can a Debian ( and/or slakware) filesystem be?? The ext2 filesystem can be at least 2 terabytes, with files up to at least 2 gigabytes. Other filesystems Linux support have lower limits. > - AND is that size limitation consistent

Re: smail 3.1.29.1-22 append_header="..." problem

h of mail bombing for this year, and it isn't even summer yet. I haven't been mail bombed -- yet -- but I sometimes gets hundreds of kilobytes of binaries in my comp.os.linux.announce moderator mailbox, and I'm _not_ amused. -- Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAI

Re: smail 3.1.29.1-22 append_header="..." problem

Scott Barker: > You might want to consider saving some of the junkmail (perhaps a database > holding about 5Meg worth of junkmail), and send each spammer a copy of each o > f > those junk mails, just so they know how it feels :) Preface each one with > "Gee, your junk mail was really boring. Perhap