Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two > of the files it has downloaded are different versions of the same package, > it installs the more recent version and discards the older one. Can't dftp > do something like that

Re: Can't do setuid

1996-10-11 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a > feature that I can turn on through a configuration file? I would recommend that you investigate the sudo and super packages. They will allow you to do exactly what you want muc

Re: Latex Help !

1996-09-30 Thread Rob Browning
Jan Ramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dvi to word seems difficult. I know a utility latex2wp (or wp2latex ?) > for converting between wordperfect (5.1 ?) and latex (.tex-files). Perhaps > you can use this in combination with wordperfect-word conversion ? I believe that there are also tools

Re: The *"'($^"'( list... and Xdm login

1996-09-30 Thread Rob Browning
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many utilities would have to be changed to implement the > following password logic: > > If the stored hash is 13 characters long, use crypt(). > If it is 32 characters long, use md5sum(). > Otherwise, fail. > > This would allow us to retain

Re: util-linux

1996-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
"Ervin D. Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find that the clock binary in util-linux 2.5-6 still makes my real > time clock go nuts. The binary from 2.5-4 works fine. > > Am I missing soomething? It's broken. -- Rob

Re: Scsi errors

1996-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on > the end of a 50 pin ribbon? Normally, there's a switch, or jumper you have to set that terminates the drive. If the drive's not terminated, and is at the end of a scsi chain. You'll most lik

Re: Graphical package management tool

1996-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and > Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already > written anything like this? Is anything planned or in the works? > Any warnings or encouragement? I think that I

Re: Unsubscribe from this list...

1996-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups, > I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an > integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc). That would be any recent version of Gnus. The

Re: hint on handling mail volume: sortmail

1996-09-25 Thread Rob Browning
"Paul Christenson [N3EOP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could the list maintainer set up the list so that all subject lines > start with a unique string, such as [DebUser]? A number of other lists > I'm on do this; it would make automatic sorting a lot easier. (Message > number optional.) You

Re: Problem with GIMP

1996-09-25 Thread Rob Browning
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same problem here. I'm afraid it's a GIMP bug. I'll see about forwarding it upstream, but there's a major upgrade the works so chances are this would be wasted effort. -- Rob

Re: bleh...

1996-09-13 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes: > This problem goes away when you recompile your kernel *without* extended > Real Time Clock support. > > Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Actually I believe that on the Dell portable we have here, it still segfaults, even without RTC support. If w

Re: static vs. dynamic - gimp

1996-09-12 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > gimp-dmotif (dynamic) Use this one if you have purchased and installed Motif on your computer. > gimp-smotif (static) Use this one otherwise. -- Rob

Re: Cross posting per request

1996-09-03 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > (like RCS) on /etc . "dpkg" doesn't currently know how to check control files > in and out of RCS - is this a good idea? Currently, it will leave a > "filename.dpkg-new" file around for you to hand-edit if you decline to > over-write a control file. This

Re: chat problems

1996-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ross) writes: > The "chat" program cannot find my modem, and as far as I can tell, there > are no command line switches to force it to use /dev/modem or /dev/cua1. Chat only reads from standard input and writes to standard output. pppd just launches it with it's standard

Re: perl/tk

1996-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
Dirk Bernhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ii perl5.003-2 > ii perl-tk b11.02-2 > What can I do? I'm pretty sure you have incompatible versions of perl and perl-tk. I believe that perl-tk b11.02-3 is the first version compatible with perl 5.003. You can get this version

Re: mailing list

1996-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or, if you prefer, you can use GNUS. For me, procmail dumps > debian-user into the file incoming/mail.lists.debian-user.spool, GNUS > automatically adds those messages to a special mail folder, > 'mail.lists.debian-user', which looks just like a newsgrou

Re: Transfering system.

1996-08-28 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bring the system down to single user mode and mirror/copy(how?) the > entire system onto the new partitions There are many ways, but I'd suggest (assuming that you have the new partition mounted on /mnt, and assuming that you want the entire old drive on th

Re: tar-1.11.11-2.deb broken?

1996-08-27 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) writes: > Anyways, downgrading to the tar of the buzz release seem to fix this for > me. Is this a tar or a make-kpkg problem? As I understand it, that upstream version of tar is "broken". Debian is going to revert to an earlier version until the problems are

Re: cron

1996-08-27 Thread Rob Browning
Al Youngwerth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If anyone really knows how to get cron to stop pestering me, let me = > know.=20 If the command has output, you will get the results mailed to you. I don't know of any way to stop that, but it's easy to arrange for the command to avoid sending results.

Re: Kernel headers

1996-08-23 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miroslav Ruda) writes: > Is any reason why not to use this schema in Debian too? Read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz -- Rob

Re: does Linux support 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI?

1996-08-23 Thread Rob Browning
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone > using it? Does the kernel support it yet? I just started using one with my new machine, and it appears to work fine. You might need to make sure you have a fairly recent kernel. I wi

Re: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

1996-08-19 Thread Rob Browning
Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (a) packages which control superuser execution are not generally > found in distributed commercial UNICES (and how many sysadmins > have the time or the inclination to seek out these packages?); Hmm, I hadn't thought about that. Ok,

Re: Solved: mouse problem (running both gpm and X)

1996-08-19 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I right in thinking that the cua devices are now obsolete and that > ttyS devices are the way to go? That's what I was told. I found that switching solved my modem problems. -- Rob

Re: libwww-perl installation incomplete

1996-08-17 Thread Rob Browning
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the current version of the libwww-perl package is incomplete. In > particular, it does not install the HTML sub-package. After > obtaining the sources to libwww-perl and installing, I got past > the errors above. Hmm. So did you have to do anyt

Re: RAID in Linux (was Re: SCSI and EIDE)

1996-08-17 Thread Rob Browning
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Few questions: > 1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both? The linux md driver is software, so it doesn't care what the underlying block device technology is. You just give it block-device partitions to turn into a RAID device. Thes

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

1996-08-16 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes: > I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion > of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure > if it is anything other than a joke? Well, I'd like to see the code for the infinite loop that'd melt down my process

Re: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

1996-08-16 Thread Rob Browning
Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root: > >chmod +s filename Not to be nasty, but this is generally a *REALLY BAD IDEA* unless you know *exactly* what you are doing. If "filename" was not designed with extremel

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

1996-08-16 Thread Rob Browning
Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is > quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control > characters and punctuation marks. Then, many people don't use the full 8 > characters, so we have to reduc

Re: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

1996-08-16 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: > Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but > su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd > call well documented. su will only work if you want to give the users the root password (not a good ide

Re: SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-16 Thread Rob Browning
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0? > Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping? It also currently handles RAID1, and linear; higher levels have been temporarily disabled because they are still too bug

Re: SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-15 Thread Rob Browning
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's wonderful! > > Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0? > Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping? > > How many drives can be striped? That I don't know. I'm not sure there's a (small) limit. I

Re: How to debianize packages?

1996-08-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Ossenkopf) writes: > To maintain a well organized system I would like to install them > with the Debian package installation tools and not by hand or at > least to register them when being installed as debian packages. > > To focus the problem: How do I convert tar.gz arc

Re: SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-15 Thread Rob Browning
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good point about RAID0. > > I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you > know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for > it? How is it used? I'm using it on two machines in the lab. One has t

Re: SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-14 Thread Rob Browning
Al Youngwerth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, I just had to get in my two bits about this... No problem. > The drive's CPU can always make better decisions about reordering = > requests because it knows the details of the drive's parameters and > its = current state. A drive's CPU can reord

Re: SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-14 Thread Rob Browning
Sherwood Botsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that you can do this in the OS, but I don't think that it > *should* be done in the OS. > 0.In general smarts should be at the point they are used. We had a > VAX that was about as speedy as a 12 MHz 286 with 287 co-processor. > However,

Re: Real Audio

1996-08-12 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Lynbech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my > soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it > stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet, > so I haven't the error message at han

Re: About Triton DMA IDE vs. SCSI performance

1996-08-10 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > I didn't say wide fast. On my system I am getting about 5 MBPS on IDE from > a Quantum Fireball drive, which is as fast as my narrow fast SCSI drive > on a narrow fast Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI on the same motherboard (an IWILL > P54TS). The speed seems to be

Re: Serial ports...

1996-08-09 Thread Rob Browning
Sherwood Botsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CAVEAT I'm an ignoramlepuss about Linux/Debian. [ good info about serial ports deleted ] I do recall a discussion recently where someone posted text from the maintainer of the Linux kernel's serial port code that essentially said that cua* devices

Re: chat bugs

1996-08-09 Thread Rob Browning
Randy Gobbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian Linux 1.1 on my new Pentium Pro a couple of weeks ago. so > far everything mostly works great, but I've noticed that the chat program > seems to have a number of problems: Just a personal experience: I had all kinds of trouble with th

Consensus about /bin/perl.

1996-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
So what was the decision about /bin/perl, and the packages that depend on it right now (kernel-*, etc). Should it be a symlink, or should these packages just be fixed? Just wanted to know so know whether or not I should create the link or patch the scripts on my systems. Thanks -- Rob

Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?

1996-08-07 Thread Rob Browning
Dermot Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Started work on it last night - just a bit confused with libgr/libgr-dev > versus libtiff3/libtiff3-dev/zlib1 needed for building it. libgr is dead. Use the individual libs. -- Rob

Re: a memory + SCSI error??

1996-08-06 Thread Rob Browning
Sounds to me like you might have unseated one of the cards, most likely SCSI, or loosened a SCSI cable. You might want to check that. Also make sure all your termination switches (if any) are right. -- Rob

Re: rename a machine

1996-08-05 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Where is this info written ? /etc/hostname at the minimum. -- Rob

Re: GCC frepo patch don't work.

1996-08-04 Thread Rob Browning
Jimen Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone ever tried the -frepo feature? It is actually patched in? > Using the switch to g++ doesn't tell you anything since g++ ignores > arguments it doesn't understand. This feature is very important. I can't > continue my project without it. Plea

Re: mail-delivery-agents?

1996-08-03 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Several people have asked me for my Gnus setup, so I'll post it here. Hope no one's offended, but it has a fairly high signal to noise ratio if you're interested in gnus for mail with debian. This is stuff I've sent to a coup

Re: LILO and W95

1996-08-03 Thread Rob Browning
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it were that bad, why are there so many people using it? I'm not commenting on anything but this line. IMO this may be a reason why you have to put up with something, but it is never a good argument for the merits of an item. -- Rob

Re: mail-delivery-agents?

1996-08-03 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can really recommend emacs with the vm mode. Really. My personal favorite is Gnus. It does a *wonderful* job with mail. Threading, filtering, deleting duplicates, etc... Getting it set up just the way I wanted was a little tricky, but anyone who's interested can m

Re: gcc and libg++27

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Are you using STL? If so, I was completely unable to compile certain bits of STL code until I modified the bottom of /usr/include/g++/std/bastring.h like this: #if !defined (_G_NO_EXTERN_TEMPLATES) //#include breaks stl (RLB) -- ambiguous instantiations

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > We suggest you use the same mirror script we use, and set it so that if > > more than 10% of files go away at once it won't delete them. > > Which one do you use? Where to get it? 10% seems reasonable. Is

Re: debian.93 and inn

1996-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
Chris Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rather than install Debian 1.1, I would prefer to stay with Debian .93 > because my reason for changing from Slackware is it's general unreliablity > (and I have already spent a lot of time getting this far!) Don't take this the wrong way, but you are wa

Re: Meta/Hierarchical packaging?

1996-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amos Shapira) writes: > Got the idea? Any comments about it? This kind of thing has been discussed a little, but the discussion was postponed until after the 1.1 release. -- Rob

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > I work for two years to build the system and this is what people use it > for :-) Who do you work for :> Anyway, what else would you do with a computer :> :> -- Rob

Re: manpage compression

1996-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there some way ask the install scripts to do so? I cannot just go This issue has been discussed, but not resolved. It was decided to wait until after the 1.1 release to deal with it. For now you would probably be better off to try and just live with th

Re: .xinitrc

1996-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have > one that looks like: > > #! /bin/sh > > sh $HOME/.xinitrc Or just ln -s .xinitrc .xsession which has worked fine for me. I do the same for .Xdefaults -> .Xresourc

Re: package conflicts

1996-06-13 Thread Rob Browning
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) Are there Debian packages for the following (as of 0.93R6, there > weren't)? > kermit Don't think so. > mpeg viewer Yes, ucbmpeg. > pdf (acroread) Yes, xpdf. > psfonts Don't know what you mean. > vrml Don't think so (feel free to

Re: installation notes

1996-06-13 Thread Rob Browning
Scott Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where is the option for this ftp method? I'd love to give it a try, but it's > not listed in the access methods of dpkg-1.2.6elf You have to install dpkg-ftp. -- Rob

Re: More groff weirdness

1996-06-13 Thread Rob Browning
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now poke yer nose into groff.list and just see if you can find a directory > called /usr/doc/groff. Nope, hain't there. > > Again, I'm using 0.93R6. If this has been fixed since, I'd love to hear > about it. I'm poor and would have to suck the new

Re: .xinitrc

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and now emacs is telling me that it doesn't recognize a -geom option. > huh? so how do i get it to place itself automatically? Are you using -geom or -geometry? I use the latter and it works. -- Rob

Re: .xinitrc

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the > .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious? Is it's executable bit set? /etc/X11/Xsession checks this to decide whether or not to run the user's script.

Re: Strange IP address...

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a nutshell: this is normal. You don't have a problem. I'm not sure if this is related, but there was one problem with the *configuration* of the loopback interface that was fixed in the latest package. The original /etc/init.d/network read: # C

Re: Debian 1.1beta problems

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This does work. Since I don't know how to find the configuration > programs for some package, I use dselect to remove the package and > then to reinstall it. I assume there's a better way, but this does > work. There's nothing too terribly wrong with

Re: kernel header files

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it necessary to install lib5-dev in order to compile programs. Yes > I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel, > it comes with its only kernel headers. Install libc5-dev and read /usr/doc/libc5-dev/FAQ.gz. > Also, if I in

Re: POP forwarding

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have suggestions on > a) does this seem like a reasonable approach? > b) if so, what would be good tools for creating such a POP forwarder? > I have some experience with sockets under perl if that seemed to be a > good way or I could treat

Re: xdm problem

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Zachary DeAquila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1 > system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to > the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server? > whatever) and then... it comes back

Re: what/where is kernel-package-1.01?

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw some messages about kernel-package-1.01 in the debian-user list. > Where is it? I cannot find it in tsx-11.mit.edu or master.debian.org I think it's in debian/experimental. Don't know why. -- Rob

Re: Debian 1.1beta problems

1996-06-12 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Not sure about all your problems, but... > * Why do I automatically get an xterm coming up when I start X? It > didn't happen with Slackware. This is the default for debian when you don't have your own ~/.xsession. /etc/X11/Xsession is where this happe

Re: loss of routing info with 2.0.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing > info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). "route" only shows the > machine itself. > > If i manually add the missing router & gateway, it works fine, but i > lose this on reboot. I

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am afraid I am not familiar with the kernel-package package. > Is this a package to build any kernel version and install it in > a debian way? Bingo. I'm using it as we speak. I'm not sure if it has made it to the unstable tree on all the mirrors yet, b

Re: stty vs setserial

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can point setserial at a particular port, but can't seem to tell it to > set the stop bits to two. > I can tell stty to set the stop bits, but can only seem to use it while on > the tty in question. Is there any way to point stty at the port I want > ch

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Would the release of debian 1.1 use the new stable Linux (v2.0)? I'm not sure if it'll be packaged in time for the initial 1.1 release, but it'll certainly be available shortly thereafter. Anyway, using the new kernel-package package, it's pretty trivial to do it your

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
"Larry Loos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have > the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the > packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it > needs libc.so.4. Where is it? Where did you ge

Re: pthreads and libc version for debian 1.1

1996-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) writes: > > The MIT pthread library 1.60 beta2 seems to work. It passed most of tests > > in the MIT pthread package. The pthread libraries are not installed by [...] > Would someone like to test the pthread library that is built? You'll > need to get the libc5

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Rob Browning
Gerd Bavendiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the > following. > > koko:/root>>> ping us1by-6 > PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes > > --- us1by-6 ping statistics --- > 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% pack

Re: Help with auto-pgp (emacs)

1996-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With a default installation (1.1 from scratch), I can't use auto-pgp as > documented. When I do C-x y s to sign, I get the following error: > > /usr/bin/pgp-auto: connect to pass-socket for passphrase: No such file or > directory Did you set the enviro

Re: Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Rob Browning
> "D" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a D> good idea to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex D> which among other things declares a dependance on metafont. I can D> find no metafont package. I assume it

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
> "C" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to C> allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout C> with minicom or send faxes? C> I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't want to add users to a C> dialout

Re: uninstalled packages in 'dpkg -l'

1996-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
>What can I do about this? dpkg --list 'ncurses*' | egrep -v '^un' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDes

Re: which..

1996-05-16 Thread Rob Browning
> "R" == Richard Dansereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> Is the command "which" available in any of the debian releases? I R> haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything R> installed so I may have missed it. I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new r

Re: 3D Graphics Cards?

1996-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
> "B" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: B> Is anyone out there using 3D graphics cards with Linux? The only B> one I know about is the Matrox Millenium that works with B> Accellerated X. I need X support and Open GL, and as much B> rendering power as possible. I'm using the Millen

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
> "R" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces R> and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter. R> Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root? Right, pppd really needs to be run as root.

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-11 Thread Rob Browning
> "M" == Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I just have my ip-up script (it's a ppp config script, see man >> pppd) touch a file in /usr/local/etc/ppp when I connect, and >> ip-down remove the file when I disconnect. Then I can just check >> for the existence of that file, and k

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-11 Thread Rob Browning
> "e" == eckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: e> Actually if your modem is configured correctly (CD drop on Carrier e> loss &C1), and if the pppd is given the option "modem" the Process e> will hangup if the line goes down. This is not the actual hardware e> handshake, but on of the RS232 signa

Re: 1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.

1996-05-11 Thread Rob Browning
> "G" == Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> It's interesting that people are having problems now with Motif G> apps, because suddenly, my problems with Motif apps have been G> magically solved. That is, the backspace key now works correctly G> for both Motif and non-Motif apps. Pre

Re: 1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.

1996-05-11 Thread Rob Browning
> "K" == "Keith Beattie[SFSU Student]" writes: K> I don't think there is a .deb package for it but it compiled "out K> of the box" for me. FYI: Actually, there is a debian package for xkeycaps. -- Rob

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-10 Thread Rob Browning
> "L" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: L> Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so L> that I only run popclient when it is? I just have my ip-up script (it's a ppp config script, see man pppd) touch a file in /usr/local/etc/ppp when I connect, an

Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "I" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I> I don't know if dftp (or dpkg-ftp for that matter) support I> dependencies and/or pre-dependencies (the latter are required for a I> smooth upgrade to the ELF system). The current dftp doesn't (I haven't used dpkg-ftp). Currently dftp's bet

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "C" == Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses C> ncurses is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no C> longer wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a C> character sequence that can be

Re: Verifying that download was successful?

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "M" == Martin Rheumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> Rob, Any hints on where I would find dftp Check the contrib directory on your favorite Debian ftp site. It's /pub/Linux/Debian/contrib/tools on the site I use. Contrib is at the same level as the stable, unstable, etc. directories.

Re: How to remove a user?

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "A" == Andreas Wehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A> After searching a while for a program or script to completely A> remove a user I didn't found something and did it per hand. Is A> this neccessary? Thanks. Right now, this is the only way to handle it. You need to remove their /etc/pa

Re: uudecode?

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "F" == Fundamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: F> what package does uudecode come in? sharutils -- Rob

Re: Verifying that download was successful?

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "M" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> Hi, I am downloading debian 1.1 beta using ftp. I want to check M> that the files have been downloaded correctly. One way of doing it M> would be to manually do a md5sum on each file and check it against M> the "Packages" file, but this w

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