Re: ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-07-30 Thread Winfried Truemper
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, joost witteveen wrote: So, you were doing something unnatural. I know I'm mad by using Linux. But I'm not so mad to upgrade an production system only because there is a new release of Debian. I guess you've already reboted your computer now. No, fortunatly not. I

ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-07-29 Thread Winfried Truemper
I tried to upgrade some packages on a 1.1.* installation. Made the system nearly and so I have two questions: is it a known problem (- bug report) and how do I fix it? -Winfried [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/winni dpkg -i ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 19925 files and directories

[LOCAL] Any Debian-People at the GUUG-meeting in february?

1997-01-21 Thread Winfried Truemper
The German Association of Unix Users (GUUG) will hold their spring meeting (Fruehjahrsfachgespraeche) from 26.-28. of February in Cologne (Germany). Sven Rudolph and I will be present to give some talks about Debian and Linux in general (1 full-day tutorial and 3 work-in-progress reports). If

Re: Dselect suggestions: mailing list created

1997-01-12 Thread Winfried Truemper
Pete Templin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : If any one else wishes to provide this service (in a more standard There is a mailinglist debian-admintool@lists.debian.org which works just as any other Debian mailing-list (if you don't know what this means, it's the wrong list for you). Please keep

Re: Interesting idea (was: Apache config error)

1996-11-10 Thread Winfried Truemper
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : export LOGS=/var/log/apache : export DOCS=/var/web/webspace : export CGI=/var/web/cgi-bin : the config files. However, I think there *may* exist somewhere in this idea : the ability to avoid more configuration change hassles than it

Re: NTeX for Debian generalized packaging

1996-09-27 Thread Winfried Truemper
Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I myself have been using NTeX and have found it very good. Until july, NTeX shipped with modified cm-fonts that made it _incompatible_ with every other TeX of the world. Some students here at the university of cologne installed the german

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-24 Thread Winfried Truemper
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and : not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in : this! The last time I used teTeX it was necessary to allow ordinary users to re-build the database so new

Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

1996-09-24 Thread Winfried Truemper
Matthew D Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only : for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... From the reports in linux.dev.kernel (awful it's used for this) it's likely the Reader will work under all distributions. A drawback: it

Re: Need advise on repartitioning

1996-09-21 Thread Winfried Truemper
Pedro I. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two : primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third : partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in : /dev/hda in the same partition of

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-21 Thread Winfried Truemper
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to : install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design. I did not look into the new 0.4-release, but there was no upgrade-mechianism in the past. And if several

Re: Does IP aliasing work?

1996-09-21 Thread Winfried Truemper
John D. Amidon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : vtcs-cvs# ifconfig eth0:0 136.0.0.1 : SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument It means you have no eth0:0. Probably you didn't load the ip_alias module; just issue insmod ip_alias and it should work. A good idea would be to run kerneld (he manages things like

Re: Java Workshop

1996-09-09 Thread Winfried Truemper
Miro Torrielli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I doubt it, because there are some new shared libraries : and executables not mentioned in the howto, obviousy in : Solaris format. You may wish to ask Mike Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED], he is the maintainer of that HOWTO and very reponsive in general.

Re: time to split the list?

1996-09-06 Thread Winfried Truemper
I'm only subscribed to lists which do not carry more than 10 mails/week. This way my mailbox keeps mostly interesting stuff which I can oversee. It is a _must_ to convert high-traffic lists into newsgroups because: - one gets overwhelmed by the number of e-mails per day, - the disk gets

Re: printing in debian/unix is hard...

1996-06-07 Thread Winfried Truemper
Carlos Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : using apsfilter. It's more flexible than magicfilter, btw. The config Please explain this. Last time I used apsfilter, it was horrible to set up (that was more than 1 year ago). Winfried

Re: Getting 'less' to do the right thing (was Re: xterm subtleties)

1996-05-30 Thread Winfried Truemper
Austin Donnelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : $ export LESS='-M -X -z-2' In addition to that, I suggest '-I' which makes the text-search case insensitive (a search for Linux will match Linux, linux or LINUX ...). Winfried

Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)

1996-05-15 Thread Winfried Truemper
Kevin M Bealer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : The current dselect screen isn't bad -- it's efficient, etc. But it is : too 'unix' ... which is to say, you're expected to think. At this stage : the first time user has ~ 400 packages to deal with. All the power in : the world can be hidden