Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #56
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- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 20:19:37 +0800
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On 30 Mar 1997, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
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>debian-user-digest Digest Volume 97 : Issue 56
>
>Today's Topics:
> tset?
> Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X
> Modem not detected
> Re: tset?
> Lilo and CDROM
> Re: Modem not detected
> Re: Modem not detected
> Re: tset?
> Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)
> Re: TeX fonts
> Re: Lilo and CDROM
> Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)
> Debian Package Finder
> Qpopper: what happened to /etc/popper.deny
> Re: bug package
> RE modem not detected
> RPM
> Debian Book list
> XFree86 3.2, XDM and Chooser
> Re: Postgres95 - missing library
> Re: Debian Book list
> Firewall logging... where?
> Re: RPM
> ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v10)
> Debian on Sparc...
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:36:22 +0800 (WST)
>From: Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: tset?
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970329151623.306A-100000@elm.ax>
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>When telnetting into a remote Debian box I want to have the screen size
>set automatically to 100x40 to suit my home Debian box. At the moment I
>am using:
>
>export LINES=40 COLUMNS=100
>after I log in.
>
>As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to
>depend on how I access it and I want it to stick when I su to root.
>
>Pointers, anyone?
>
>Lindsay
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:22:04 -0500
>From: Clint Adams <schizo@simons-rock.edu>
>To: Steve <steve@edmweb.com>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X
>Message-Id: <199703300122.UAA01638@betrayer.simons-rock.edu>
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>> That was one of the first things I tried.
>
>Got me, then. Sorry.
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 19:19:33 -0600
>From: Peter Yarych <deathh@autobahn.mb.ca>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Modem not detected
>Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970329191933.006cf0f8@mail.autobahn.mb.ca>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Hello all
>I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it refuses to see my modem
>during the boot-up process /dev/cuaX = no such device
>I'm new to linux, but not that new...
>I have been running RH for a few months.
>I ran setserial /dev/cua1 and it returned the correct values
>BTW, usr 33.6 pnp ( but jumpers r set to com2 or cua1)
>under redhat I had no problems using it, for my ppp connection
>I tried minicom out to see if I could get the modem to dial with no luck
>I've spent about 3-4 hours looking in the doc's that I can find on the web
>and as of yet had no luck.
>I hope this isn't on the FAQ list.. or if it is plz send it to me :)
>
>TIA
>any and all help is welcome flames pleasently ignored :)
>
>
>Peter
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>****************************************************************************
>*******
>There are 2 major products to come out of Berkley: LSD and UNIX. I do not
>believe this to be a coincidence.
>****************************************************************************
>*******
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:26:02 -0500
>From: Clint Adams <schizo@simons-rock.edu>
>To: Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: tset?
>Message-Id: <199703300126.UAA01674@betrayer.simons-rock.edu>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>> As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to
>> depend on how I access it and I want it to stick when I su to root.
>
>I generally put something like this in login files (as well as aliasing it to
'rs'):
>
>eval `resize`
>stty cols $COLUMNS rows $LINES
>
>You may find it useful to do conditional checking on the terminal type before
doing this or your fixed configuration.
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:39:49 -0500
>From: "Chris Trantau" <chris@webyte.com>
>To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Lilo and CDROM
>Message-ID: <"Y6L5q.0.y16.7OSFp"@debian>
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>I just installed Debian Linux v1.2.0 for the first time and im having some
>problems.
>
>I have a 486dx2/66 16 MB RAM, 540 HD. Linux partition about 200 MB and
>Linux Swap partition 16 MB.
>
>I have to boot off of my rescue disk because my lilo wont work. When i try
>to go to
>the Boot of the Hard Disk option it gives me this error:
>
> sbin/dinstall: cannot creat /target/etc/lilo.cong: directory
>nonexistent
>
>How do i fix this? I dont know many commands. Also when i boot off of my
>rescue
>disk (its the only way i can get in unless i set my Linux partition as
>bootable but i
>need access to my win95) it loads up hundreds of drivers that dont work.
>Several
>for each thing...like 5 for the CD ROM but none of them work, is this
>normal? Even
>when my linux was booting off of the hard drive it did this. It took over
>3 minutes to
>load.
>
>Another problem:
>
>I can't install any packages because I cant mount my CD-ROM. I tried:
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom/ ( and many others)
>
>but they still will not work. I get this error EVERY time:
>
> mount: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device
>
>I get the same error when im in dselect trying to configure the CD ROM.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Chris Trantau
>chris@webyte.com
>
>PS: I tried being logged in as ROOT and normal user but with the same
>results.
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:59:38 -0500 (EST)
>From: sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)
>To: deathh@autobahn.mb.ca (Peter Yarych)
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Modem not detected
>Message-Id: <9703300159.AA13656@sun10.sep.bnl.gov.sep>
>Content-Type: text
>
>In your email to me, Peter Yarych, you wrote:
>> Hello all
>> I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it refuses to see my modem
>> during the boot-up process /dev/cuaX = no such device
>> I'm new to linux, but not that new...
>> I have been running RH for a few months.
>> I ran setserial /dev/cua1 and it returned the correct values
>> BTW, usr 33.6 pnp ( but jumpers r set to com2 or cua1)
>> under redhat I had no problems using it, for my ppp connection
>> I tried minicom out to see if I could get the modem to dial with no luck
>> I've spent about 3-4 hours looking in the doc's that I can find on the web
>> and as of yet had no luck.
>> I hope this isn't on the FAQ list.. or if it is plz send it to me :)
>
>in /etc/modules, either uncomment the line
>
>#auto
>
>by removing the #, or add the line
>
>serial
>
>and reboot. This will add the serial module, and you should be all set.
>
>Tim
>
>--
> (work) sailer@bnl.gov / (home) tps@buoy.com - http://www.buoy.com/~tps
> "I have abandonded my search for the Truth,
> and now am looking for a good fantasy..."
> Ashleigh Brilliant
>** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:54:11 -0500 (EST)
>From: Paul Wade <paulwade@greenbush.com>
>To: Peter Yarych <deathh@autobahn.mb.ca>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Modem not detected
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95q.970329205256.11999A-100000@greenbush.greenbush.lan>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>Use modconf and add the serial module. It's under misc on the modconf
>menu.
>
>Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
>http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
>Linux CD's sent worldwide
>
>
>On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Peter Yarych wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hello all
>> I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it refuses to see my modem
>> during the boot-up process /dev/cuaX = no such device
>> I'm new to linux, but not that new...
>> I have been running RH for a few months.
>> I ran setserial /dev/cua1 and it returned the correct values
>> BTW, usr 33.6 pnp ( but jumpers r set to com2 or cua1)
>> under redhat I had no problems using it, for my ppp connection
>> I tried minicom out to see if I could get the modem to dial with no luck
>> I've spent about 3-4 hours looking in the doc's that I can find on the web
>> and as of yet had no luck.
>> I hope this isn't on the FAQ list.. or if it is plz send it to me :)
>>
>> TIA
>> any and all help is welcome flames pleasently ignored :)
>>
>>
>> Peter
>> __
>> / / (_)__ __ ____ __
>> / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a
>> /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
>>
>> ****************************************************************************
>> *******
>> There are 2 major products to come out of Berkley: LSD and UNIX. I do not
>> believe this to be a coincidence.
>> ****************************************************************************
>> *******
>>
>>
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 21:09:00 -0500 (EST)
>From: Paul Wade <paulwade@greenbush.com>
>To: Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: tset?
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95q.970329210241.12018A-100000@greenbush.greenbush.lan>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>I have .bashrc setup for remote login differences. I also have executable
>scripts in my home directory to account for other differences. I usually
>give them single-letter names because I am not a great typist.
>
>Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
>http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
>Linux CD's sent worldwide
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:51:06 -0800 (PST)
>From: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>
>To: David Puryear <dayear@market1.com>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)
>Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970329184935.25050D-100000@physics>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote:
>
>> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now
>> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
>> same error:
>> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this?
>
>If you are in any of the mounted directories (including the top, e.g.
>/mnt), then umount would give this message and refues to unmount the
>device.
>
>Syrus.
>
>--
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:54:15 -0800 (PST)
>From: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>
>To: Ralf Comtesse <rcc@socrates.in-berlin.de>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: TeX fonts
>Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970329185146.25050E-100000@physics>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Ralf Comtesse wrote:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of
>> debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files
>> are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are correct. Is there a
>> fix for that?
>
>I don't know, but I'm very happily using the new tetex packages from
>unstable which seem to fix most of the previous problems with the tex
>packages. I'm doing this on two machines that I upgraded to the "bo"
>distribution.
>
>Syrus.
>
>--
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 21:50:00 -0500 (EST)
>From: Paul Wade <paulwade@greenbush.com>
>To: Chris Trantau <chris@webyte.com>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Lilo and CDROM
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95q.970329211720.12018B-100000@greenbush.greenbush.lan>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Chris Trantau wrote:
>
>> I have to boot off of my rescue disk because my lilo wont work. When i try
>> to go to
>> the Boot of the Hard Disk option it gives me this error:
>>
>> sbin/dinstall: cannot creat /target/etc/lilo.cong: directory
>> nonexistent
>
>The partition has to be mounted. I seem to remember that the 1.2 rescue
>disk has an option to mount without reinitializing the partition.
>
>>
>> How do i fix this? I dont know many commands. Also when i boot off of my
>> rescue
>> disk (its the only way i can get in unless i set my Linux partition as
>> bootable but i
>> need access to my win95) it loads up hundreds of drivers that dont work.
>>
>
>I may get flamed for saying this:
>
>If your system boots w95, create a boot floppy for Linux. W95 is garbage
>and sometimes needs to be reinstalled. When you reinstall it, it will
>overwrite your lilo boot. I had it setup to boot Linux unless I typed
>"w95" within 10 seconds. This seemed to create problems when I wanted to
>restart w95 in "dos" mode. I hardly ever use w95, so I leave the linux
>boot floppy in the drive. It's not a big problem because Linux doesn't
>have to be rebooted after every 2 or 3 internet sessions like 95 does.
>
>You can create one using the rescue disk. I think you should do this
>and test it before you do anything else.
>
>
>> for each thing...like 5 for the CD ROM but none of them work, is this
>> normal? Even
>> when my linux was booting off of the hard drive it did this. It took over
>> 3 minutes to
>> load.
>> I can't install any packages because I cant mount my CD-ROM. I tried:
>> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom/ ( and many others)
>
>Make sure you only select one CD-ROM from the device drivers. This is
>available from the rescue disk. If the system is booted it is the modconf
>command. The iso9660 support is also selected this way. If you have
>unecessary drivers selected, it will take a long time to boot.
>
>Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
>http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
>Linux CD's sent worldwide
>Date: 29 Mar 1997 18:08:31 -0600
>From: Graeme A Stewart <graeme@fis-esp.igeofcu.unam.mx>
>To: David Puryear <dayear@market1.com>
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)
>Message-ID: <87bu82mebk.fsf@glasgow.lancaster.mx>
>
>David Puryear <dayear@market1.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now
>> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
>> same error:
>> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy
>>
>
>Try doing `fuser -m /usr', then you'll find out what process it is
>that's still using /usr (you probably want to put it into your
>/etc/init.d/halt script at an approprate point, then exit from the
>script to get more information). /etc/init.d/halt should send SIGTERM
>then SIGKILL to all processes before umounting filesystems, so it is
>strange that there is still a process that's alive.
>
>Hope that helps you work it out,
>
>Graeme
>
>--
>| Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger graeme@ariel.igeofcu.unam.mx
|
>| Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 |
>| "Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb." Dylan |
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 15:54:50 +1200
>From: Adam Shand <larry@earthlight.co.nz>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Debian Package Finder
>Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970330154613.0072c9a8@earthlight.co.nz>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Does anyone know what happenedn to the http://rae.ton.tut.fi/preview/?
>
>I loved this page. It made life *soooo* much nicer evertime I wanted to
>find a new package.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam.
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 15:54:50 +1200
>From: Adam Shand <larry@earthlight.co.nz>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Qpopper: what happened to /etc/popper.deny
>Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970330154131.0072a990@earthlight.co.nz>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Hi.
>
>I noticed that the debian version of qpopper doesn't seem to use the
>/etc/popper.deny file which our old version of qpopper did.
>
>Does anyone know what I need to do in order to be able to use this file
>again to restrict POP access to mail?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam.
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:42:15 -0300 (ARST)
>From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <nick@Feedback.com.ar>
>To: Francesco Tapparo <cesco@mizar.goldnet.it>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: bug package
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95q.970330004143.513K-100000@newton>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
>
>On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Francesco Tapparo wrote:
>
>> I'm a happy debian user: I have a bo installation.
>> I have noticed that rxvt and emacs don't run automatically update-menus
>> after the installation. I think that these are bugs, and I have reported
>> thes using bug. Bug has mailed the message to submit@bugs.debian.org, but=
> I
>> don't have received any answer. Is this a problem of bug? Is this a probl=
>em
>> of the bug tracking System?
>
> Try reading smail logfiles to find out what happened with the mail...
>
>--=20
>Nicol=E1s Lichtmaier.- | Try visiting #debian in Undernet.
>nick@feedback.com.ar | The channel of the debian developers =3D)
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 23:30:01 -0600
>From: Peter Yarych <deathh@autobahn.mb.ca>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE modem not detected
>Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970329233001.006b88a4@mail.autobahn.mb.ca>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Thanks to everyone for the tips.
>modem now works :))
>
>
> __
> / / (_)__ __ ____ __
> / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a
>/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
>
>****************************************************************************
>*******
>There are 2 major products to come out of Berkley: LSD and UNIX. I do not
>believe this to be a coincidence.
>****************************************************************************
>*******
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:29:47 -0600 (CST)
>From: Gith <gith@quicklink.net>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RPM
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970330002632.3699A-100000@localhost>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book.
> RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX,
> HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the
> de-facto packaging standard for free software on the
> Internet.
>
>I have to say up front that I don't like RPM. I'd like to hear
>more about the direction DPKG is going in. All this RPM talk is
>giving me a complex.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Willie Daniel
> gith@quicklink.net
> http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/
> Linux-GGI Project: http://synergy.foo.net/~ggi/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 23:48:14 -0700 (MST)
>From: Chad Zimmerman <chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Debian Book list
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970329234033.5822A-100000@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>For those that remembered a few weeks ago when I had posted my idea for a
>Debian Manual/Book. I got such a good response on it. I have started the
>outline but I don't feel that the current debian lists that are out are
>the proper place for this. So I have started up a list for the book.
>
>You can subscribe to it by sending a message to
> majordomo@timberwolf.provision.net
>
>With a body message of:
> subscribe debian-book-discussion
>
>Then to send messages, send your email to:
> debian-book-discussion@timberwolf.provision.net
>
>
>The current outline is located at
>http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/Book.outline.html I encurage
>feedback on what should be included. Also, if you go onto Undernet IRC, I
>am usually on the channel #Debian with the nick WildOne-
>
>
>Chad D. Zimmerman
>chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu
>http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:56:34 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: "Vebjorn Forsmo" <Vebjorn.Forsmo@hiMolde.no>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: XFree86 3.2, XDM and Chooser
>Message-ID: <19970330075635.16281.qmail@blight.rimo.net>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>I'm trying to get the Chooser to work with XDM, so I can select what
>machine I want to use. (In other words, I want to use my own machine as an
>X-Terminal.)
>
>I've managed to get the chooser to select a couple of machines (including
>my own), but whenever I try to select one of them I end up with the
>xdm-login-promt for my own machine.
>
>Relevant configuration information:
>/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess (Added one line)
>blight.somewhere.net CHOOSER blight final retry maleficium anguish
>
>/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers (192.168.200.20 is my own machine, eg. blight)
>:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -indirect 192.168.200.20
>
>When I log in it seems to use rsh to start something on the machine I'm on
>(using remote, perhaps?).
>
>I tried starting xdm with "-debug 9" and the output MIGHT indicate that
>something is going wrong:
>---
>select returns 1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 1
>Process chooser socket
>Accepted 6
>Read returns 14
>Read from chooser succesfully
>Got indirect choice back
>signals blocked, mask was 0x0 <---
>Manager wait returns pid: 16024 sig 0 core 0 code 0
>Display exited with OBEYSESS_DISPLAY <---
>---
>
>Also, I'm using xdm-shadow, not xdm.
>
>
> Vebjorn Forsmo vebjorn@mo.hiMolde.no vebjorn@hsr.no vforsmo@sn.no
> 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13
> To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy.
>Date: 30 Mar 1997 11:04:49 +0200
>From: Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org>
>To: softcorp@netvision.net.il
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Postgres95 - missing library
>Message-ID: <87afnlbvi2.fsf@bora.winnegan.north.de>
>
>softcorp@netvision.net.il writes:
>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've recently downloaded the latest stable POSTGRES95 package and installed
it (Debian 1.2; kernel - 2.0.27).
>>
>> Apparently I'm missing a package, as postmaster keeps on complaining: "can't
load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0".
>>
>> I will appreciate advise as to the whereabouts of the above mentioned
library.
>
>This bug has already been reported - there has never been a shared libbsd.so in
>Debian. It's only an hour that I've asked postgres95's maintainer if he is
still
>maintaining the package and offered to drop in.
>
>I'm running a locally compiled version of postgres using the upstream sources.
>
>Thanks
> Siggy
>--
>Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org> aka: bsb@north.de
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>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 04:27:49 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
>To: Chad Zimmerman <chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Debian Book list
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970330042341.1721A-100000@cancerous.braincells.com>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>The developers have realized more and better documentation is needed. Did
>you know there is now a mailing list for discussing this type of thing?
>(debian-doc@lists.debian.org. the subscription address is
>debian-doc-requests@lists.debian.org) This might be a better place to
>discuss a Debian book. (which is something we desperately need IMO.)
>
>-- Jaldhar
>
>On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
>
>>
>> For those that remembered a few weeks ago when I had posted my idea for a
>> Debian Manual/Book. I got such a good response on it. I have started the
>> outline but I don't feel that the current debian lists that are out are
>> the proper place for this. So I have started up a list for the book.
>>
>> You can subscribe to it by sending a message to
>> majordomo@timberwolf.provision.net
>>
>> With a body message of:
>> subscribe debian-book-discussion
>>
>> Then to send messages, send your email to:
>> debian-book-discussion@timberwolf.provision.net
>>
>>
>> The current outline is located at
>> http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/Book.outline.html I encurage
>> feedback on what should be included. Also, if you go onto Undernet IRC, I
>> am usually on the channel #Debian with the nick WildOne-
>>
>>
>> Chad D. Zimmerman
>> chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu
>> http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/
>>
>>
>Date: 30 Mar 1997 10:31:35 GMT
>From: pascal@ramoth.xs4all.nl (P.A.M. van Dam)
>To: submit-linux-debian-user@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
>Subject: Firewall logging... where?
>Message-Id: <5hlfe7$6jl$1@ladystrange.bluehorizon.nl>
>
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>Hi!
>
>I've got a little question:
>
>I'm setting up a firewall and wanted to examine what happened with the
>packets I put through it. I've configured the kernel for firewall logging
>but somehow, nowhere in the logs in /var/log the information shows up.
>
>Is there anything else that I have to do, or is something wrong with
>the 2.0.29 kernel. BTW I'm running Debian 1.2.
>
>Thanx in advance!
>
>Pascal van Dam
>
>
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>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 04:49:23 -0600 (CST)
>From: Perry Piplani <netserve@bayou.org>
>To: Gith <gith@quicklink.net>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: RPM
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970330042249.22839A-100000@apollo.netservers.com>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Gith wrote:
>
>>
>> >From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book.
>> RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX,
>> HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the
>> de-facto packaging standard for free software on the
>> Internet.
>>
>
>Oh really? De-facto standard? This type of bloated marketing claim reminds
>of another very popular commerial software company that makes operating
>systems for PC's. And the fact that Redhat often reminds me of them is one
>of the reasons I choose not to use Redhat
>
>> I have to say up front that I don't like RPM. I'd like to hear
>> more about the direction DPKG is going in. All this RPM talk is
>> giving me a complex.
>>
>
>Sure, you can port dpkg or RPM to another Unix. Shouldn't be that hard.
>But different unixes have different directory structures and require
>different binaries. So you gotta get people to start making packages in
>that format for that particular system.
>
>Redhat my have ported RPM to other platforms but I don't see any
>of the free software distributed over the Internet for various Unixes in
>RPM format. It's all in tarballs as usual. Most commercial Unixes have
>their own packing systems anyways.
>
>Dpkg can swallow redhat RPM's via the alien feature. So even in the
>unlikely event that the entire planet were to convert to RPM, we can still
>use dpkg!
>
>
>Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas
>
>Perry Piplani http://perrypip.netservers.com
>perry@perrypip.com http://www.netservers.com
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:45:38 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>
>To: Debian Publicity <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org>,
> Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,
> Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v10)
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970330144518.1039B-100000@klee>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
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>
>Hi folks!
>
>I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v10) today. You can have a look
>at it via
>
> http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
>
>The new page contains 14 new and 9 old logos and uses HTML forms to
>make it easy for you to tell us your opinion.
>
>We collect all the comments we get this way and make a ``feedback
>page'' out of it. The current version contains 217 comments. Thanks a lot
>to all that told us their opinion!
>
>Thanks a lot to all who submitted a logo so far! Our plans are to have an
>official logo until the next Debian release.
>
>If you think you can make a better logo or have a nice idea feel free to
>send me your drafts. We have set up an extra mailing list for discussing
>these issues: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
>
>Our plans are to have a collection of, say 20 nice logos soon, so that we
>can start an election. Since we don't have much time left we would appreciate
>it if people would try to improve the old logos instead of making new ones.
>So if you want, just take on of those old logos, have a look at the comments
>at the feedback pages and try to improve it.
>
>The feedback page for the current logo page (v10) will be released on
>Sun Apr 6, 1997.
>
>The next logo page (v11) will be installed on Sun, Apr 13, 1997, the
>dead line for logo submittions is 10:00am MET DST (+0200) this day.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>- -- _,, Christian Schwarz
> / o \__ schwarz@monet.m.isar.de, schwarz@schwarz-online.com,
> ! ___; schwarz@debian.org, schwarz@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
> \ /
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>- -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,----.-.-
> "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"
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>Date: 30 Mar 1997 09:10:23 -0500
>From: Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Debian on Sparc...
>Message-ID: <qa208xfp2o.fsf@hermes.berkshire.net>
>
>I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list
>(or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a
>sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-).
>
>The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux
>up and running on a sparc w/o a CD-ROM drive? Can Debian
>Linux/Sparc boot off a floppy and establish an ethernet connection
>so that the rest of the install can proceed off a mounted
>filesystem?
>
>--norm
>
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