Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread joost witteveen
check out the libc6 update FAQ frequently posted to debian-user). Note that problems with "unstable" should ideally be posted to debian-devel (an open list). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread joost witteveen
> According to joost witteveen: > > I don't really think this has anything to do with setuid stuff > > or anything, as "ls" running as root itself doesn't see anything > > eighter. > > ??? I don't understand. As root: > kant# ls -la /var/sp

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread joost witteveen
nately, due to a bug in it (it sefaults on squach_uid stuff), I cannot install it on my machine. > Does my test program work for you? Well, just "ls" doesn't work eigther (and "ls filename" doesn't much but stat eighter), so I don't think your progra

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread joost witteveen
t from uid=0 will be mapped to uid=nobody, and thus root isn't allowed to access the directory. > Here are some version that might be relevant (please ask if you need > another package's version number): > > base, 1.1.0-14 > libc5,5.4.33-3 While you are

Re: LaTeX, docstrip, ntg brief.dtx

1997-09-26 Thread joost witteveen
> joost witteveen writes: > > > Does anybody know how I should create a "brief.cls" from a "brief.dtx" > > with the debian teTeX packages? > > Get the contents of the whole ntgclass directory from a CTAN site. > Unpack it, say in /tmp/ntgclass,

LaTeX, docstrip, ntg brief.dtx

1997-09-25 Thread joost witteveen
t speed now, I tried just to move the .dtx to .cls, but apparently the .dtx has a \documentclass in it. Strange). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: kde & menus

1997-09-25 Thread joost witteveen
ease, everybody, upgrade to menu_1.5_4. (If it is at all possible, I'd like to get it included in the next stable-fixes. If there are more people like you who test it, I may have more chance of getting it in stable). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Hard links to a directory in a chroot environment

1997-09-24 Thread joost witteveen
y suddenly a problem in chrooted environments? (I'm not questioning your wisdom, I'm just curious). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: dpkg-source

1997-09-24 Thread joost witteveen
The problem you see is a problem found in the old dpkg (or was it dpkg-dev) packages. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ldconfig help...

1997-09-23 Thread joost witteveen
t the libraries came from unstable, so what do you expect. To summerise: Unless you want to compile X packages, your current setup is OK. If you do want to compile X paackages, and absolutely don't want to brake your system, go back to the xlib6 pacakges from bo. Otherwise, go for it, and instal

Re: how many account?

1997-09-23 Thread joost witteveen
f("sizeof(uid_t)=%i\n",sizeof(uid_t)); } $ gcc uid.c $ ./a.out sizeof(uid_t)=4 -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: update-menu problem

1997-09-21 Thread joost witteveen
, and look at the error message menu-1.5 gives. Probably it will all be clear, but if you still don't know what is wrong, just mail me the error message you get. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: xlib6(g) 3.3-5 problems

1997-09-19 Thread joost witteveen
find $ARGV[0]: $!"; # Read it in one slurp select IN; undef $/; select STDOUT; $file=; close IN; # Remove this string $count=$file=~s!/usr/X11R6/lib\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0!g; print "Replaced: $count occurences in $ARGV[0]\n"; # Write the file open OUT, ">$ARGV[0].out&qu

Re: How to upgrade libc6?

1997-09-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi,all > > Simply, 'dpkg -i libc6_2.0.X.deb' can't instlled. How about telling us the error messages? It worked for me, anyway. > How to Upgrade from libc5 to libc6? Just install the packages. If they don't install, tell us what your error message

Re: elf-x11r6lib ?

1997-09-18 Thread joost witteveen
age elf-x11r6lib"? That package doesn't exist. It used to be a virtual package, but not any more. Xforms should depend on xlib6. I assume you've got that package installed, so you can safely use "dpkg --force-depends -i xforms0.86_*_*" -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [ 0.84 Debian compile ?]

1997-09-18 Thread joost witteveen
. (And, you could also have a look in the debian/rules file, to see if anything special happens in the "build" target). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: root access via telnet?

1997-09-15 Thread joost witteveen
only for playing with... :-) Option 1, the usual way to do this: just telnet as an ordinary user, and then "su" to root. Option 2: man securetty (add the tty's to /etc/securetty) -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~ab

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
attacker may still read files owned by "shadow", etc). So /tmphostname(ro,squash_uids=0-100,squash_gids=0-80) may be slightly more safe. But after that, I don't anticipate any problems. If anyone still knows problems with that, I'd be interested to hear! -- joost wittev

Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
> How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I > almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the > screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. xset m 10 (or see the xset -h output for more info). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/per

Re: root and .rhosts file (again)

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
iour > To the debian 1.3.1 machine: > |- > | # rsh deb2 date > | Permission denied. > | > | # rlogin deb2 > | Password: > |- Is consistant, and preferable. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr

Re: how can I add a program to my x-window menu?

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
xecutable). Then run update-menus, and the nedit entry will be installed on all window-manages installed on your system (except gwm). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Unable to open initial console

1997-09-07 Thread joost witteveen
aybe other people with "Very Old Maxtor HD"'s will be able to give you more info, but it seems to me that it's time to by a new HD. (213M, how much are they, these days? $50?) I strongly suspect that you'll see that 33% ratio go up as time goes by, to suddenly go up to

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread joost witteveen
are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named > pipes or unix-domain sockets ... and the ownerships of /dev/tty* -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: xrsh?

1997-09-07 Thread joost witteveen
example I was unable to run an xv through an ssh connection, xv exited > with "server kill" or something like that immediatelly :( Then something must have been wrong. I run xv (and fvwm2, emacs, xterm, whatever) regularly under ssh. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/p

Re: libX11.a

1997-09-04 Thread joost witteveen
> > I'm trying to compile a program and it's asking for libX11.a > What package contains this ?? $ dpkg -S libX11.a xslib: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a (You can view the Contents file on the ftp site to search for packages not on your system). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-02 Thread joost witteveen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > > > > > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with > > > > gs-aladdin 4.03 > > > > on it gets s

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread joost witteveen
unsubscribe immediately if that were true), but also very much for beginning developpers, or just beta testers (users of unstable). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-02 Thread joost witteveen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with gs-aladdin > > 4.03 > > on it gets sued (read the copyright on gs-aladdin), so that's the reason > > it doesn't get included with debian

Re: wu-ftp...libraries for the guests!

1997-09-01 Thread joost witteveen
or ls to work. > But, does anyone know which libraries i need exactly, and if there is really > no other alternative. ldd knows. But you'll have to ask her politely, like: ldd /home/ftpuser/bin/ls -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/

Re: AUC TeX: is it safe?

1997-09-01 Thread joost witteveen
auctex quite a lot, though I'm sure I'm not using every part of the system! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-01 Thread joost witteveen
etting the sources, and compiling for yourself shouldn't be too hard, I guess. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Perfmeter?

1997-08-30 Thread joost witteveen
e automatically), or give them a "-display myhost:0" argument. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: update-menus failed?

1997-08-29 Thread joost witteveen
ries in the > path to a certain file. Is this it? Possible. Take a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/netscape.postinst, and see what it does after it says " Installation OK. Hit RETURN.". maybe that gives a clue? Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mirror Cron job ?

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
rror can look like $ cat $HOME/debian/do_mirror #!/bin/bash date>> $HOME/debian/mirror_results /usr/bin/mirror $HOME/debian/mirror.defaults >> $HOME/debian/mirror_results This way you don't get email about it every day, while you still have a logfile to see what went wrong (if any

Re: Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
comes with an update it'll go into Hamm. My question is, > to make it work with Bo (libc5) all that is needed is to recompile in > a bo system? Yes, unless there are bugs in the package... But usually, it works OK. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://w

Re: Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, for an update? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
/usr/sbin/statnet /usr/sbin/trafshow /usr/sbin/netwatch /usr/bin/netload > And another question - how many hosts can one have on a single thin > ethernet cable? Dunno. Wasn't there a maximum to the lenght of a BNC cable? (100 meters or thereabouts)? -- joost witteveen, [EMAI

Re: bash

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
h build on Debian, and you are not using them now. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Another package setup problem

1997-08-26 Thread joost witteveen
debian/tmp/usr/x11r6/lib/x11//config/ echo "this is the contents of a config file" > debian/tmp/etc/x11/xmcd/config.cfg ln -s /etc/X11/xmcd/common.cfg debian/tmp/usr/x11r6/lib/x11//config/ That should work. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: New Login

1997-08-23 Thread joost witteveen
, or that you now type faster (or some other reason of that kind). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-22 Thread joost witteveen
1.2 (probably only a subset of the base system). So, if we want to allow users to do upgrades of old systems, maybe we should consider keeping 1.x/base, and throwing away the rest? (base fits on 3 floppies, and should surely fit on the mirror sites). Or do you really need non-base 1.2 stuff to

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread joost witteveen
indows was rebuilt because Richard > > Hang on, aren't I already running Debian 1.3 Revision 1 (or in other words > Debian 1.3.1)? 1.3.1 != 1.3.1 Revision 1. The latter is the first revision of the former. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.

Re: Needing more than 8 chars for usernames

1997-08-17 Thread joost witteveen
> Hello, > > I need more than eight characters for usernames. Where can I configure this ? > Or wich packet do I need to recompile ? Never tried it myself, but I believe others have just gone ahead and used longer usernames. They reported no problems. -- joost witteveen, [EMA

Re: man pages?

1997-08-17 Thread joost witteveen
this is a bug in xman: most manaul pages of X applications are in section "1x", not "1". And, choosing Section "(1) User commands" only selects section "1" manual pages, not section "1x". (the files they refere to live in a different directory too)

Re: hello - probs

1997-08-12 Thread joost witteveen
> debian/ is correct. The DEBIAN directory is just a temporary > directory created during the package build steps which are put in > motion with dpkg-buildpackage. Actually, that is called "debian/tmp/DEBIAN". -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: using menu in debian 1.3.1?

1997-08-09 Thread joost witteveen
mate that about 1/2 or more of all packages that should have menu entries have them now. But that is in "unstable". -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: memory usage

1997-08-09 Thread joost witteveen
, you'll have saved 614 M, even on a 6 M machine). So, what xosview does in calculating persentages of "shared" mem is just bogus. Just another reason I didn't want to maintain xosview. As long as swap usage is low, and you don't notice too much swapping, I don't t

Re: libreadline..

1997-08-09 Thread joost witteveen
pkg-source -x libreadline*.dsc cd libreadline-* dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us (or, change that last step to "./debian/rules build" if all you want is build it. But apparently you don't, as you also did a "make isntall") -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/per

Re: Emacs and Xemacs on same system

1997-08-09 Thread joost witteveen
from ``unstable'', they don't conflict. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread joost witteveen
c. What I will end up with is a procmail script that removes any double-posted questions, thus making sure I don't see any question sent to me by arrogant users. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NFS

1997-08-02 Thread joost witteveen
hen I or anyone ellse presses the RESET/POWER button, so I don't try it very often). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: uudecode

1997-07-30 Thread joost witteveen
xport") all message into text file and run uudeview > on it - it's smart enough to figure what is required to be > decoded. works for me And, *NEVER* use something like word -- it will probably save your nice document in some binary format, that makes it unusable anything. -- joost wit

Re: ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-07-30 Thread joost witteveen
ib directory. Then type something like: cd lib cp ld-linux.so.1.* ld-linux.so.1 sync cd / unmount /mnt #or wherever you mounted your root partition and you should be OK again (I'm not sure about the actual wording of that cp command -- I never actualy tried it, but I *THINK* that'

Re: menu in fnwm95?

1997-07-28 Thread joost witteveen
ead with "Read()" statements. (andreas) -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: /usr/bin/pon

1997-07-28 Thread joost witteveen
bin/pop #!/bin/sh if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ]; then /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp.chatscript" `cat /etc/ppp.options_out` else echo "You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or /etc/ppp.opti

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-24 Thread joost witteveen
> >>joost witteveen wrote: > ... > >i.e., mount and cp arn't bash internals. But cat is, so that's why I > >suggested the use of "cat ..>". > > (Somehow I was sure cp was a builtin) cat isn't listed in the docs as > a builtin eithe

Alessandro Barbieri & nfsroot

1997-07-24 Thread joost witteveen
bed in the > "kernel korner" of LJ issue38. That's something else I really should do some time. (but wait, not with loadlin, but with that netbios stuff, or what was it's name? Get the kernel over the network that's really cool). > Thanks in advance Mr Joost for any r

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-23 Thread joost witteveen
t method (the only one available for people that use real bash). If it works, I'll post a letter about that weekly to debian-user, explaining future victims how to save their systems. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ --

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
27;ve got a wroking system again. Please, Please, tell me if this worked! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Xlib

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
bly the best is to file a bug against X. > $ ldd LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/xlib-threadsafe ~/src/xlib-threadsafe Really should return the same (as I just deleted) without the /etc/ld.so.conf addition. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rs

Re: unknown undentifier "" in script

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
1.5 is more strict in syntax checking than 1.3), but you will get much more informative error messages. You might even find the real problem! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Xlib

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
t assuming his thread safe libs are OK, he problably wants to use them for all his programmes. The best way probably just is to add `~remco/src/Xlib-threadsafe' in /etc/ld.so.conf. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: xdm path

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
e to use and > at this point I'm just curious. Thanks. This probably very much depends on your window manaager. What window manager are you running? (one solution would be to add the full pathname to the netscape comand in the /etc/X11/$WM/system.*rc script). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL P

Re: Where is as86 command?

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> I am attempting to compile a new kernel but get an "as86: Command not > found error" during compiilation. bin86 package. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: master down?

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=251.3 ms 64 bytes from 206.190.143.161: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=236.5 ms No porblems here (from rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl, the netherlands), and I don't remember seeing any problems tha last week. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.

Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
> joost witteveen wrote: > > > > > What on earth is wrong? I have my symlinks (asm, linux, scsi) set > > to > > > the kernel's include directories correctly > > > > Just as a side note, that isn't correct. Those to asm, linux > > dire

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
they intend to move away from xforms now, I might start getting interested in Lyx. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
xforms for libc6, for example). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: quota-1.55 problem w/ hamm

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
ge, and you shouldn't mess around with them. See /usr/doc/libc*-dev/FAQ.Debian.gz for more info. Still, that probably isn't the cause of your error. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-19 Thread joost witteveen
ix for libc6 (gcc-2.7.2.1 is too old for libc6). > Also does the kernel use libs or not use them or is it completely self > sufficient? The kernel is about the only thing on your hardisk that does not use libs. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.

Re: telneting

1997-07-18 Thread joost witteveen
a look at their /etc/termcap (if they have one), to see what terminal types they do know. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ssh

1997-07-18 Thread joost witteveen
.bash_login. ssh is different than ordinary login/telnet, in that ssh appears always to parse your .bashrc file, whereas login will read you .bash_login file. My guess is that you've got a "cat /etc/motd" somewhere in your .bashrc file. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/p

Re: g++ won't compile. How do I fix it?

1997-07-18 Thread joost witteveen
To correct, just remove libg++27-dev, install libg++272 and libg++272-dev The libg++272 versions can be found on master's incoming, or on it's mirror: ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~a

Re: bash 2.01

1997-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii bash2.01-0.1 The GNU Bourne Again SHel

Re: upgrading

1997-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
It's only one package, but many people have already been bitten by this, and it bites rather hard, so I thought I'd send out a warning to people on this list too. (It's also in the hamm description for ldso, but who reads those descriptions?) -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: telnetd problem

1997-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > How I can set up telnet server to debian? I don't like compiling, can I > get binary-files from somewhere? Just install the netstd packagre. It'll setup a server for you. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: running X remotely

1997-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
clientname:0 $ xterm& Now you've got an xterm sitting on your client, running on your server. You can also start other programmes. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

Re: Q: gcc/g++ test programs, xmkmf local config files, ...

1997-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
./hello hello world If you got the last bit of output, you're able to create binary files. But probably something else is wrong, and we'll be able to help you better if you give us the output of the last couple of commands that fail. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -s

Re: libc5 and libc6

1997-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
> How can I install *BOTH* libc5 and libc6?? Can't we all just get along? Just install them. There's no problem. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: ncurses3.4 not found

1997-07-16 Thread joost witteveen
the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: missing file

1997-07-16 Thread joost witteveen
it's own header files. Don't know what went wrong. > the install.sh script executes > without error, and the files are moved into /usr/src/linux's > subdirectories. Anyone know what might be going on? I really should take alook at the debian kernel packagre some day! L

Re: where should examples go ?

1997-07-15 Thread joost witteveen
That's another bug. (BTW, questions about debian packages really belong in debian-devel, but never mind). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: locking up...

1997-07-15 Thread joost witteveen
> I'm used to emacs and somethings when I save it pico I type ^x ^s which > locks up that window... how can I stop this from happening? ^Q -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

Re: ? missing files... ?

1997-07-14 Thread joost witteveen
package that contains a file that is not on your system: "-S" only finds packages that are on your system. For files that are not on your system, I recomment looking at the Contents-i386.gz, on your local mirror. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.d

Re: gdb dependencies

1997-07-14 Thread joost witteveen
7;ve put those packages in ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/incoming for those that cannot access master's incoming. However, there are many other (better) incoming mirrors, that I keep forgeting to save a pointer to. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.

Re: uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread joost witteveen
!= no ] then uname -a > /tmp/motd sed 1d /etc/motd >> /tmp/motd mv /tmp/motd /etc/motd fi -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Scroll

1997-07-12 Thread joost witteveen
kages that when started disable the scrolling, but I don't know what those are. You should be able to check the latter by trying to scroll while you are booting the system: initially, it should work. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rs

Re: libc6 at which rev?

1997-07-11 Thread joost witteveen
y . (or maybe without the final .). > without going package by package to compare them? The above command will make dpkg do all the comparing. Warning: compleately untested!!! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-09 Thread joost witteveen
4 lines? > > I do. And you are the first one being irritated by that :( Well, I'm sure my ex-girlfriend would like that signature, and maybe I think it's cute too, but it _is_ rather long :( -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/r

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-09 Thread joost witteveen
_)ooO Ooo > \___) Who needs a signature of 14 lines? Footnote [1] If enough people seriously and politely ask me for a libg++27-altdev package, that's different. I may release that (libg++272 is basically glibc, libg++27 is libc5, so the altdev package h

Re: Kernel Panic

1997-07-09 Thread joost witteveen
uot;yes" to ext2 in the "make config" stage? Another option may be (I'm not sure) that you have SCSII disks, and your kernel is apparently (dev 03:01) configured to load the first partition on the first IDE disk. If so, change the "root = /dev/hda1" statement in /et

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-09 Thread joost witteveen
libg++ stuff, you'll also have to install libg++272-altdev, and I didn't make that package. (I'm the libg++ maintainer). If there is enough demand for a libg++272-altdev package, I'll release one, though. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://w

Re: Mirror Site Size

1997-07-08 Thread joost witteveen
er, but prefer to have the faster access, of the HD. Order a bigger harddisk? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Building Debian's source for Sendmail

1997-07-08 Thread joost witteveen
the .orig.gz, the .diff.gz and the .dsc, and then type dpkg-source -x sendmail_8.8.5-1.dsc and let dpkg-source do the unpacking and patching. Note that due to serious shortcommings in dpkg-source, this may fail (usually it does work, though) -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bi

Re: Missing packages

1997-07-06 Thread joost witteveen
iner to return from holliday. For the time being, you can try ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/incoming > > > Regards, > > Jarno Paananen -- End of PGP signed section, PGP failed! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk

Re: [not really debian, somewhat related] GCC links static

1997-07-06 Thread joost witteveen
#x27;s _statically_ linked to libc. is there any > way to change this to it's normal behaviour (ie., make it link w/ shared > libc)? Just make sure you've got the same libc6 (or libc5) version as libc6-dev version installed. That probably fixes your problems. (and, make sure you

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread joost witteveen
slrn have been built with a later version? Yes, slrn is fully libc6, whereas you don't have a libc6 capable ldso installed (nor, do I think, do you have libc6 on your system). Upgrad ldso to unstable, and install libc6. Optional: check "dpkg -s slrn", and see if it does depend on

Re: fvwm2rc95

1997-07-03 Thread joost witteveen
used as a template. Then your changes will stay longer than "a couple of days", even if you upgrade packages during those days -- nay, your changes may stay as long as weeks, months, untill you get bored with them. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.

Re: What happened to fvwm95.

1997-07-03 Thread joost witteveen
ver a bug that hasn't been located in the source yet. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: What happened to fvwm95.

1997-07-02 Thread joost witteveen
d menu? Anyway, the "old" system.fvwm2rc95 is somewhere in /usr/doc/fvwm95//system* -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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