Amaya + ENTER key

1998-01-25 Thread grin
I installed Amaya, and I understand that it's a hack, and using lesstif so there can be quirks and stuff. Still I wonder, anyone have a working ENTER key? Mine's just does nothing, and seems it's not possible to insert elements and some other without ENTER. If yes, what to do to be able to use EN

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread grin
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > I don't understand your response. next time I won't answer after 4:30am :-] > > > > For instance I don't have "Packages.gz" in 'hamm/hamm' but only > > > > in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. > > > > > > Packages.gz is supposed to be in binary-i386

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread grin
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not > > using a full mirror. For instance I don't have "Packages.gz" in > > 'hamm/hamm' but only in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. Seems > > that it looks for the files in the wrong

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread grin
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed > > to use it through NFS. > > I am using it succesfully via NFS against a mirror of Hamm. Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not using a full mirror. For i

[Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-24 Thread grin
Hello, The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed to use it through NFS. I have a partial mirror of hamm on the NFS, containing only the di

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-24 Thread grin
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote: > I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that > Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat. Maybe there are TOO MANY > alternatives offered for a new install. Well, dselect should perhaps start with "--newbie" switch :) o

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread grin
Hello Phil, On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > > I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. > > This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. > > It this the case with ppp-pam installed ? With or without. Tried both. > If you are u

[postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

1998-01-05 Thread grin
Hello, I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql, postgresql-dev. When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message: == perl: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb ===

Re: UPS

1998-01-02 Thread grin
> > > I recommend Best Power's products (I use their "intelligent" Fortress > > > model [...] > > Yes, I strongly recommend AGAINST APC. I own one, it works but they keep > > the interface secret, and they have minus one support. Of course if you > > don't wanna have "smart" UPS (system load, volt

Re: UPS

1998-01-01 Thread grin
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: > > Is a UPS good protection or is it "fluff"? > > It's well worth it. My UPS has saved my system at least four times in the > past year. Good stuff. I know no worse feeling than a powered-off-in-10ms Linux server. > > like to find out which models have

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread grin
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't > > > > know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). > > > > Sun calls it NIS Plus. > > > > > > And you are best staying away from it unless you want

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread grin
you want to spend long hours > getting it to work correctly ... and it is fragile ;) What's for an alternative between debian machines for central password management? (Encryption _is_ essential.) cya grin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&qu

libc6-2.0.5c -> 2.0.6 and a dead system

1997-12-31 Thread grin
Hello, Seems nobody met this on the list, perhaps it was my fault. Got libc6-2.0.6 and I tried to upgrade from 2.0.5c. dpkg unpacked it, and while setting up I got a very ugly error from ld.so with FULL CAPS and mumbling some assertion error. From that point the system was without dyna libraries s