Evan Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a person has a box connected to a network, but there are no daemons
such as telnetd, ftpd etc etc is it still possible for that box to be
hacked into?
There is no way to have perfect security on any system connected to a
network. It's just about impossible.
T.V.Gnanasekaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking for good reliable backup program under linux.
I know BRU is good but it is priced. I want a free product.
-gnana
I've been happy with afbackup. It's a bit of a steep learning curve,
but after I finally got it set up to my taste I haven't had
For some time I've had a partial mirror of debian. Partial being the
slink distribution and only the binary-i386 directories. It's worked
well and greatly eased upgrading the machines I have Debian installed
on. Recently I decided to start mirroring potato instead of slink. I
thought it would be
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 20-Aug-99 Kris wrote:
Are you fed up of having six or seven useless lines of text and carriage
returns at the end of each mail from debian-user and the other lists?
Well, fear no more! For a limited period only, you too can have those
lines stripped
John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:34:35AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Unresolved questions:
- What do we get for smart mode? I presume more info about the
state of the UPS and the line
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Unresolved questions:
- What do we get for smart mode? I presume more info about the
state of the UPS and the line condition gets to the user
software. But can the Linux software display it?
If you get the APC Back-UPS pro and use
Steven Klass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While we're on the topic. How can I customize the font display for bash?
Can I make it narrower and smaller?
This, to my knowledge, isn't a BASH issue, but a terminal issue. If
you're using X windows you can use any of the available xfonts for
your xterm.
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 12-Aug-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
Hi Andrew,
I recently installed slink on a Thinkpad 560 too. I'm using kernel 2.2.5
however, I think your problem could just be the bzImage. Have you tried
using a zImage instead? Many laptops have a problem
Is there any policy on which run level does what? Just looking at
rc2.d and rc3.d they appear identical. Personally I like level 2 to
boot non-X and level 3 to be exactly the same, but starts an X login
manager, e.g., wdm or xdm. Is there any reason I shouldn't update the
rc2.d and rc3.d
Pedro Bastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hello list :) someday, somewhere, for some reason, i tried to compile
asmem. and, as you all know, asmem uses a lot the xpm library.
so, the configure part of the compile process was sucessful.
but, unfortunely, the compile process itself (make) returned
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote:
Hi!
Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software
combination to use to make frequent FULL backups
of a Debian system
(operating system, applications, and data).
I asked recently at a fairly
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I guess I don't see the logic here. If one of the binaries on your
backup has a Trojan that, presumably, means that before you did the
backup you were running a system that had a Trojan. I would assume
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) writes:
Thanks to everyone for the answers on installing KDE or GNOME on a
2.0 box. I appreciate it.
Installing GNOME brought something to mind I hadn't thought about,
although I noticed it months ago: my .xsession file is never read.
I had to edit the
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
whois domain[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Pollywog wrote:
I got spam from a host using a .gov TLD and I forgot how to do a whois on
those. Anyone know?
There's also a Web interface to whois,
I'm in the process of getting a little home network set up. One of the
hosts, call it mach2, won't have a connection to the internet, just
to other hosts on my home network. The other host, call it mach1, will
occasionally connect to the internet via dialup. I have mach1 all set
up but can't seem
Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm in the process of getting a little home network set up. One of the
hosts, call it mach2, won't have a connection to the internet, just
to other hosts on my home network. The other host, call it mach1, will
occasionally connect to the internet via
Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most everything you need shouldbe in this article...
www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html
A nice article. Unfortunately it really doesn't cover my situation. My
secondary host, that I can't get to send email, is also a Debian
box while Jan had a
Jor-el [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gary,
The problem is with exim which thinks that mach1 is your entire
domain name. Here is a snippet from the ROUTERS CONFIGURATION section of
exim.conf :
[snip]
route_list = * $domain byname
[snip]
That byname was all I needed. I'm not running
Rune Linding Raun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hey yo bros!
i cant compile my pcmcia-modules with the new kernel 2.2.11?
i got: pcmcia-cs 3.0.9-3
pcmcia-source 3.0.12-2
debian 2.1 (and dont wanna mesh with my libc/glibc in order to go
unstable in the
Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? For instance I
just ran an install script for a non-Debian piece of software and it
put some stuff in /sbin. It had a remove option that seemed to get rid
of everything but it'd be nice to have something that would tell me
that /sbin/junk
I ordered a couple of the FA310TX cards the other day for a simple
home network application. I ordered them because they were based on
the Tulip chipset and I've heard good things, in general, about that
chipset and Linux; and their price was hard to beat.
Today I was browsing around Deja and
I knew I would regret not saving the post to this list that said where
we could get version 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 for debian slink and that time
has come. Anyone have that apt source location handy? I tried
searching the mailing list archive but it's EXTREMELY slow and I can't
seem to hit the right
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*- On 14 Jul, Gary L. Hennigan wrote about XF86_SVGA 3.3.3?
I knew I would regret not saving the post to this list that said where
we could get version 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 for debian slink and that time
has come. Anyone have that apt source location
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Nuessgen) writes:
Does anybody know how i can uncompress the .deb files from the
installation-CDROM? I must install sed before I can install Linux.
The *.deb files are simple ar archives. You can extract their
contents with:
ar x file.deb
Do a man ar for more options.
So I decided to take the plunge and install a 2.2.x kernel (2.2.10),
under slink. Everything works fine, except for printing. I can't seem
to get the printer to work. lpr seems to work, but when I do an lpq I
get something like:
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank Owner Job
I'm going to be setting up a small 100Mb home network soon and I'd
like some info/help. While I know plenty about Unix/Linux sysadmin, I
know next to nothing about networking. At first my network will
consist of two hosts, with a third host present intermittently (a
laptop that floats with me). I
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
Hi,
I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
Now I want to try to extract it.
I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip .
In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
How
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Assuming all your users are using bash,
put your global environmental setting in
/etc/profile
Marco Maggesi wrote:
I am looking for the appropriate place where to put some
basic environmental definition like:
PAGER=less
so that they
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I could not find it in the xemacs-documentation.
Emacs20 and Xemacs20 are using the same .emacs file. Emacs can read .gz
files and Xemacs not.
How can I get Xemacs to do it?
I have got (require 'jka-compr) in my .emacs file.
There was a bug in
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to put a small UPS on my work system to let it shutdown
gracefully when there's a power outage. I'm looking at:
Best Power Patriot
Best Power Patriot Pro
APC Back-UPS BK500M
APC Back-UPS BK650M
Anyone have any recommendations?
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to
press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT
behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running
without having to press anything.
This is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Apparently intel has discontinued 450 MHz PII processors. Will linux (the
| debian flavour, of course) work with a PIII?
|
| I checked the linux hardware HOWTO, but no mention of a PIII.
Not a problem. Been using one for a month or two now and it hasn't had
a single
Has anyone taken the plunge and installed all the new Riva TNT OpenGL
stuff? Any gotcha's? I've been using the XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 server for
quite some time with my TNT card and haven't had a problem.
I've been waiting for EONS for a GLX implementation to allow me to
display results from my SGI
Steve Kondik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| im running the new code now. its great, quake2 rocks, but the code is still
| a little choppy. and i could only get the xserver started in 16 or 32 bpp,
| and at 32 i got segfaults. at least its an effort.
That's good to hear. Dave Schmenk (the
Peter Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Ok, I give up,
| having found an old ps2 90 lying around I decided to set it up to
| do all the dogs body tasks like email etc. I have got everything
| working except X. What graphics card is the default one in this
| baby, as I cannot find it anywhere on
Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
| Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I)
| X-UIDL: e4da9602a16b12e6fe1dfa928c15b9e8
|
| The best reason I can ever come up with for creating
Nadarajah, Dinesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I read somewhere that AWE32 driver works only for kernels later than 2.0.36.
| I might be wrong (anybody???).
As far as I know this isn't true. I've been using the AWE32 driver
since at least 2.0.32, if not earlier. Of course something could've
Armin Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best
| Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend?
The V550 is based on the nVidia TNT chip. You'll need to get XFree86
3.3.3, or better, in order to use it. Unfortunately Debian 2.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nguyen Hai Ha) writes:
| On Mon, 24 May 1999, Mr. (Ms.) Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| It's probably something strange going on with the BIOS function used
| by linux to detect the amount of memory in your computer. I have two
| suggestions you can try:
|
| 1) Manually
Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| * Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc'
| for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't
| been able to do this without getting the 'no manual
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nguyen Hai Ha) writes:
| Hi folks,
|
| I've just installed the debian 2.0.34 on my machine.
| Everything seems to work well excepts the memory.
| The real memory consists of 2 DIMM 128M+32M. But it
| seems to me that the kernel doesn't think so.
|
| % cat /proc/meminfo
|
|
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so)
| and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker
| or programs.
You just put them in a directory somewhere. Generally /usr/local/lib
is a good location if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes:
| Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| | How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so)
| | and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker
| | or programs.
|
| You just put them in a directory
Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 04:56:30PM -0500, Andri Bell wrote:
|
| I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the
| system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of
| unzipping the file and all of its contents.
|
|
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly
| what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd
| think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a
| pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) wrote:
| I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding dev/null to the
| appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email
| (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never
Thomas Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library?
| The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize
| there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS library, but this is for
| light development work on an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes:
| Thomas Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| | Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library?
| | The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize
| | there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS
Richard Harran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I am trying to completely copy a complicated directory structure using
| ftp. It has four levels of directories, all with lots of branches. I
| have a root directory on the target machine, and want to create the
| directory structure, and copy all the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes:
| Stefano Stabilini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I am a brand newbie to Linux.
|
| I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect
| afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in
| partitions hda3 (linux)
Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library?
The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize
there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS library, but this is for
light development work on an old 486 and I'm not even sure the PPro
optimized
I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding dev/null to the
appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email
(slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never
bothered. I had hoped that the simple fix would be quickly uploaded
and I wouldn't need to bother.
Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| From: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| ...
| On 9 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| ... how do I install
| them so that I don't have to explicitly list the jar files in a
| classpath...
|
| Put them where they should be, then add
H C Pumphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Yike. That is a nasty thought. I have Debian and W98 on separate physical
| discs at home and W98 refuses to acknowledge the existence of the Debian
| disc. Hopefully a W98 virus would trash W98 on hda and leave my Debian
| setup on hdb alone, except that I
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have found a problem when using the time command. From the man page
| -o FILE, --output=FILE
| -a, --append
|
| So the command 'time -a -o log makebzImage' should log the time used
| to compile the kernel (in this example) to the file 'log'. What is
|
Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain
| drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and
| buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on!
|
| I've been reading on dejanews that you need the 2.2 kernel
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I'm trying to start ddd or xxgdb in order to debug c/c++ programs
| I tried versions 3.1.3-2 3.1.3-1 and the slink version.
| on the potato and up version I get a message, oops you found a bug in
| the program
| and then segfault every time i try to start
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
| I wonder, does anyone use ddd in a serious way with C++? Everytime a
| new debian release arrives I give it a try, and everytime it manages to
| segfault within a few minutes. I suppose ddd should
Rick Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I would like to use a proxy server with ftp. How do I specify this?
| With http, I used http_proxy=htpp://proxyserver:port/ with great
| success. I tried ftp_proxy but it didn't work.
Personally I use ncftp. It can deal with a lot of firewall types and,
in
Christopher J. Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 14 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
[snip]
| You guys need to read your Slashdot (http://slashdot.org). I've heard
| that this particular benchmark was commissioned by Microsoft. Anyone
| who pays attention to a benchmark commissioned
Sebastian Lindenmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Hi!
|
| XFree 3.3.3 is on the 5. CD of my debian-distribution, but I can't install
| it. Could anyone please help me by writing a short manual how to install a
| new program with DSelect? I'm trying it since 9 hours now.
Personally I didn't
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| There already has been feedback on the web (and this list) about this.
| It does appear that a great effort was made to pull all the stops out
| in configuring NT, and little care was given to setting up Linux. IE:
| use of a kerenl with know network
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| If I need to upgrade a kernel on a Debian system, can I do it in the same way
| as it is done with other distributions or is there some obscure Debian way to
| do this? It seems that when I do it in the customary way, I later run into
| problems which appear
Andrew Waltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
|
| Building the kernel the standard way is fine in Debian. I did it for
| almost 2 years before recently switching to the 'make-kpkg' method.
| Make-kpkg is really nice, and quite easy. It turns the newly
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 09-Apr-99 Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
| Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| | I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim
| | filters
| | and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3
| | type
| | names. I
I'm doing some Java development and I'd like to use my Debian box as
one of the development platforms. Trouble is that I need the swing and
infobus libraries for this project and they're not included with the
Debian JDK. I can download these puppies from Sun but how do I install
them so that I
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim filters
| and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 type
| names. I believe there are some ways around this which I cannot
| remember, but instead I will keep
Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Hi,
|
| I have installed xntp3 (running slink). However, the daemon is stared from
| init.d and I am not yet online. The log tells me that the network is not
| available (what a surprise!;).
|
| How do I best utilize xntp on a dialup box? Could I put
Aaron M. Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| i'd like to build perldap on debian linux. as it uses netscape c sdk i
| decided that the fastest way would be to build it first. unfortunately,
| the configuration failed because it didn't find Xm/Xm.h.
|
| is there a debian package with that
Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have kernel 2.2.3 installed. I on boot when the sound module is loaded I
| get the error
| lspci:can't find
|
| I forget the rest (i'm at work), but when I try to initalize the sound card
| with isapnp I get the same error. What is
I'm having problems with the newgrp command. Whenever I try to change
my primary group with it, as a user, I get:
% newgrp - audio
getgroups: Invalid argument
I suspect something in my environment is causing the problem, since it
seems to work ok for other users, and root. I've had trouble like
Jonathan Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
| Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
| editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
| CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals
| or do everything under X.
|
Jonathan Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| Jonathan Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
| | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
| | CNTRL-Z
Lorina Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| titrax is the package you should check out. [Time Tracker 1.98 is the
| version I have.]
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the author; I can't find the URL for the
| location that I got the source from.
Thanks Lorina! I found it via ftpsearch. If anyone else is
I'm looking for a time tracker utility for X similiar to the Gnome
Utility gtt. I don't really want to use Gnome, since I'll be using the
utility on different architectures, namely a Debian box and a SGI
box, and the idea of compiling Gnome for my SGI isn't exactly
appealing.
If you're not
Justin Akehurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
|
| Ok,
|
| I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to
| mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still
| too large. So I tried to make bzImage -
Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Has anyone else had problems with v2.2.2?
|
| I just downgraded to 2.2.0 because my ppp connections were sluggish, and
| my screen actually froze on me!
|
| I couldn't believe it. So now I'm running 2.2.0 just to see if I keep
| having these
I have mathematica installed on my system and was thinking it'd be
nice to make this available via the menus. I know Debian has a nice
method of doing things like this but I can't seem to make it work. I
THOUGHT it was as easy as adding a menu entry in /etc/menu, so I
installed a file called
What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's
getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized
piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall
utility. I believe you simply run it after doing a make install, or
similar, and it scans the
Tim Heuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| o type make zImage
|
| I got to the make zImage command and sat around till the computer got done
processing all kinds of stuff.
| The last 6 lines printed to the screen were...
|
| as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
| make [1]: as86: command not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I was also looking for just this sort of package, but never did find one.
| There are some similar tools, but none that perform the functions you're
| looking for.
|
| * tripwire monitors systems and reports modifications to files, but
| it doesn't
| tell you what was
Dan Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown
| in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie
| file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think
| I already know the answer
with Debian's file placement.
| On 15 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| Dan Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| | Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux
| | and sitdown
| | in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few
| | differences (ie
| | file
Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Is there a way to have my system automatically eject a tape from my scsi
| tape drive? I'm wanting to add this to my backup script, so I don't
| forget to change to tape and overwrite a backup.
man mt
Short answer: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoff
Gary
Has anyone successfully swallowed FreeWRL via Xswallow? I can't seem
to get it to work. Netscape keeps giving me an error about blib not
being found. If anyone has a functional xswallow.conf entry for
FreeWRL I'd appreciate a copy of that info.
Thanks,
Gary
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll
| of distributions. Have you all voted?
A beating? Second place? Seems pretty good to me. True, it trails
RedHat by a significant margin but I don't think that's really
surprising. Just reading
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 09-Feb-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote:
|
| Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll
| of distributions. Have you all voted?
|
| Why is that? I just ordered a copy because I have heard good things
| about the distro.
You won't be sorry. I've
Sergey V Kovalyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| How about just pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login through the text console ?
| AFAIK, you problem is a known bug - missing ;; in the /etc/X11/Xsession.
| Hopefully it will get fixed soon.
|
| Sergey.
|
| On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote:
|
|
Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| When I try to boot to install Slink I get frozen up just before my
| SCSI stuff loads. The same disk works fine on my non-SCSI machines.
| I have tried all the special rescue disks and they do the same.
|
| Any idea what I am doing wrong?
What type of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Above asks it all ... will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to
| 2.1.xx?
|
| Sorry if it's been asked before.
Debian frozen/slink is based on 2.0.34 but provides packages for both
2.0.35 and 2.0.36, so, yes it will work with 2.0.36.
Most things in
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
| Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1.
| I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work. If I
|
| This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now
Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I had occasion today to be playing on a Sun Sparcstation which ran XDM with
| the chooser. Out of curiosity, I entered my machine's address, and whoa!
| it worked! So I was playing around on my own system from the Sun for a
| little while, complete with
Serge Gavrilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Hello debian users!
|
| I haven't direct connection to Internet, but I can use http or ftp via proxy.
| How can I upgrade my system using dselect or apt-get in this case?
man sources.list
All you need to do is set:
http_proxy=http://proxy server:port/
Alfie Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Question:
|
| Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch
| between text terminals and X, and vice-versa?
|
| That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text
| terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so
Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
| I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the
| kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :(
|
| ftp.debian.org doesn't either
|
| Matthew
|
|
|
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
| | I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the
| | kernel-source or kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| 4) According to the README in /usr/src/linux, I should link as follows:
|
| ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 /usr/include/asm
| ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
| ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi
I upgraded to slink some time ago, via apt-get, and it's been running
smoothly ever since. I hadn't even thought about using dselect again
until recently and it upgraded a few thing apt-get hadn't
caught. However, it's also got a lot of packages in Obsolete
sections. What do I do with these?
Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2
| version under:
| ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/
| I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site. Am I looking in the
| wrong place?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote:
| On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade
| 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg
| download, it would take a long time and be expensive :(
|
| I'm afraid that
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