Re: net install
tf wrote: hey guys, I just got my modem happily dialing and connecting, however, apt-get --update can't open (sources list). can someone please tell me what files to edit? /etc/hosts? hosts.allow? /etc/apt/sources.list (Mine looks like this:) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free (Hoggin' the debian bandwidth cos my buddy ain't keeping the potato stuff on our local mirror up to date. Maybe I gotta buy him more beer). Whenever they're out, I shall get myself a potato cd. Been running potato since slink went frozen. It's gonna be a *great* release! (Kudos to the Debian community!) :-) Thanks, -t -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Oops! Hey, tf! [was:Re: net install]
KaHa wrote: /etc/apt/sources.list (Mine looks like this:) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free erm.. needless to say, switch the unstable to stable if you're running slink. Sorry. -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Install problem: LI, than nothing else
Walthier Mate Tamas wrote: I tought I've allready installed DebinLinux but I never got over the LI after several times. Try putting the line: linear in your /etc/lilo.conf, right below the line that says compact. Then run /usr/sbin/lilo, and reboot. An other problem: I created a bootdisc at last in Dos but after Uncompressing Linux it stops with crc error System Halted What is it? Bad floppy/corrupted file. I really want to try this Linux but the beginning semms hard. Keep smiling; it gets better fast. :-) Walthier Mate -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Mission critical Debian
David N. Welton wrote: Is there any list of people using Debian for mission critical applications? Such a list wouldn't necessarily have to include exactly what, if the person preferred not to disclose that information, but might include a company name, at least. NASA? Don't know what they're doing now, or if this example counts as mission critical, but Debian was chosen to monitor some zero-G experiments on a space shuttle mission back in the summer of '97. http://www.debian.org/News/1997/19970708b -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: bashrc file gone! Where is it?
Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks. umm.. try vi .bashrc. :-) It's just a text file, that you can use to configure your non-login shells. But seriously, you should have been given a default one (blank) from /etc/skel/ when you created your user account. Is there a chance that you may have accidentally deleted it? Read /usr/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/bashrc.gz Brendon -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: A Linux CIA(Red Hat Bruhaha)?
George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 21 May 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: I say we form a watchdog committee called the Linux CIA :) it seems like slashdot's crash came from the grassy knoll and NOT the book depository...h...All I know is..I glanced something on Redhat and Linux care, and Rob is out at LinuxExpo I believe...I don't know if I can go without slashdot for this long :) Looks like freshmeat is down too. Looks up to me. /. is still down, tho. Isn't Rob still working stuff out with the new server? -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Separate list for newbies
Pollywog wrote: I like to get lots of messages, because I scan through them to see if I can learn something. I would be one of the newbies to take advantage of a newbie list. :) But most newbie questions tend to be covered in the FAQs or through a perusal/search of the debian-user archives. Newer problems/questions tend to get handled via the debian-user list. Hrmm.. on the other hand, if there *were* such a list, I think that several somewhat experienced Linux users (myself included) and maybe even a real guru or two might be happy to chime in and field questions. Prolly along the lines of the Teach a man to fish parable. :-) -- Andrew -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Separate list for newbies
Sean wrote: Not true at all. I have many more questions now that I have a clue as to what I'm doing than I did when I first started using Linux and was pretty much clueless about what was going on. It's kinda like that saying: The more you know the more you realize how much you don't know. Yeah. But you can also probably answer more newbie questions than you could back then. It's not a subjectively linear thing. :-) It's like life; none of us have all the pieces to the jigsaw, but we constantly gather more. The jigsaw is huge, but that doesn't make us helpless. Quite to the contrary. Polliwog said: I think that I will know I am no longer a newbie when I answer more questions than I ask :) Sean -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: WARNING: oops!
KaHa wrote: Hey, Ken: get a virus scanner. Apologies, Ken. 'Twas Alexander that I meant. -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: WARNING: VIRUS ATTACHED TO MESSAGE FROM Alexander Gutfraind gutfrnd@tht.net
Kenneth Sims wrote: Why did you (Alexander Gutfraind [EMAIL PROTECTED]) just send a virus (HAPPY99.EXE) to the debian-user list? That's how the HAPPY99 virus propogates itself; the sender isn't even aware that it's attached. Hey, Ken: get a virus scanner. Or better yet, dump Winblows. :-) -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: gimp: gif support?
Joel Gautschi wrote: I didn't found any gif support in gimp of slink. is that because of the licence of gif or what? Yup; that's exactly why. To provide the Gimp with gif support, you need to get and install the gimp-nonfree package from non-free. -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: installing
darrin griffiths wrote: hi, i'm having a hard time installing debian. it's on an old 486 with 8 meg ram and a 100 meg h/d. i put it together with spare parts and it works well. when i install all goes well ( i am installing from floppies ) untill i put in the 7 base discs. after the 7th it starts to extract but then says there was a problem... blah blah blah. i've tried everything-ie used brand new discs, changed to a newer floppy drive, etc. i What's the blah blah blah translation? cheers darrin griffiths -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Talk
Brian Schramm wrote: OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The man pages and config files are no help. Everything that I have read says it should be working. Any ideas? Yup. Any user who wants to recieve word from the talk daemon that somebody's trying to chat with them needs to have: mesg y in their .bash_profile (or if you want to make talk accessability mandatory for some reason, you can put the line in /etc/profile). It's not enabled by default (some folks don't want to be bugged by every soul who telnets into their box). :-) Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: [Debian]: Ein paar Fragen
Bernd Mayer wrote: Martin T. schrieb: 2. Was hat es mit den timezones auf sich und wie kann ich die veraendern ? Ich habe bei der Installation Eurapa/Berlin angegeben. Wenn die BIOS-Uhr nun auf die lokale Uhrzeit eingestellt ist, ist die Systemuhrzeit 2 Std. voraus. Stelle ich die BIOS-Uhrzeit 2 Std. zurueck, damit die Systemuhr unter Linux die lokale Zeit anzeigt, stimmt die Uhrzeit unter Win nicht mehr. Vermutlich hast Du bei der Zeitzoneneinstellung UTC gewählt statt Lokalzeit. Tut mir leid, wegen mein schlechten Deutsch. :-( Lese doch den manpage fuer hwclock. Dass erklaert hoffentlich einiges. Bernd Mayer -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Procmail debian-user
Nidge Jones wrote: Can some kind soul suggest an entry for my .procmailrc file which will seperate debian-user mails to another foler/mbox. I have tried using various things, even some of the /usr/doc/procmail/example 'examples' All to no avail. Well, this one works for me with Mutt: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: linux usage by well known sites
A. M. Varon wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I would like to know if there are any well known sites which are running linux? I need some statistics to persuade some decision makers to consider linux for a crusial task machine to provide different internet services. Form netcraft.com: slashdot.org, www.register.com, www.dejanews.com, www.realnetworks.com You could e-mail the site administrator or whatever. Just happened to remember: www.artbell.com runs Linux as well. As a matter of fact, Keith Rowland, who maintains the site, appears rather proud of that fact. You can read about the system specifics at: http://www.artbell.com/server.html -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Trouble with Installation
Stephen Parks wrote: Hi, I tried to install Debian on my second harddrive. I went through bootstrap and then when I set my bios to try booting from D:, all I get is the following output: LI_ (where _ is a cursor which won't actually echo anything I type) Try putting the line: linear in your /etc/lilo.conf file. -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
Re: netscape and libXpm
Vincent Murphy wrote: because netscape kept giving my crap about illegal instructions in libBrokenLocale, which is in the libc6 pkg (thanks to the people who told me that BTW), i'm trying to run navigator 4.08 libc5. here's what happens: $ /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' all the xpm pkgs in stable/x11 are installed. Did you install the xpm4.7 from /oldlibs? That's the libc5 compatable xpm, and should fix you up. -- . . | /-\ (-) /-\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux
Re: irc help
Shawn Nguyen wrote: I am using Zircon IRC to try to hook up to irc.debian.org but I can't seem to get there. Is there something special that I need to do in order to open the link to irc.debian.org? Does it work? Hmm.. irc.debian.org was a sort of a round-robin thing; wasn't working anymore last I tried it either. Use irc.Openprojects.net to get to the #debian channel. Hope this helps. Shawn -- . . | /-\ (-) /-\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Gary Singleton wrote: [..] As an aside, this person sends .doc files regularly too; luckily we're not susceptible to their evils. Don't get mad: get even. People that send me .doc files generally recieve a copy of the bash manpage or a big ole tarball. :-) Regards, G.S. -- . . | /-\ (-) /-\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux
