Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-02 Thread Sean Richardson
i think this might be what you want: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1 if memory serves, i came across something of a debian filesystem-hierarchy standard, somewhere at debian.org -sean

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Sean Richardson
try zless or zmore...they are shell scripts which basically unzip the file and pipe it into more/less for you The will let you read the .gz readmes with no additional effort. zless /usr/doc/xmms/FAQ.gz At Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700, S. Champ wrote: what is the command to read these

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Sean Richardson
i think this might be what you want: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1 if memory serves, i came across something of a debian filesystem-hierarchy standard, somewhere at debian.org -sean

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Sean Richardson
try zless or zmore...they are shell scripts which basically unzip the file and pipe it into more/less for you The will let you read the .gz readmes with no additional effort. zless /usr/doc/xmms/FAQ.gz At Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700, S. Champ wrote: what is the command to read these

mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-01 Thread Sean Richardson
Hello, This may be an absurd/silly question...but I have been unable to find an answer elsewhere...so bare with me... I am currently running potato(recently switched from redhat/suse) but would like to upgrade a few of its packages to newer versions (php,ssh,apache,etc.) for a variety of

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-01 Thread Sean Richardson
A friend of mine asked his provider (SWBell) the same question when they thrust the PPPoe software into his hands and made him use it for his connection. They said that they had started using it because it provided easier administration of accounts...tracking and such...and because it limited the

Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-01 Thread Sean Richardson
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: At this point, potato and woody are very similar, so it might not be as big of a download as you fear. You could try pointing your sources.list at before I wrote my message I did try a dist-upgrade...and it was going to be around

[Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread Sean Richardson
to be the same (wvdial, pppd, etc...) any ideas? anyone? thanks again On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:12:50AM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: Hello, I recently migrated from SuSE 6.4 to Debian potato...and I am having some problems with my PPP connection. Under SuSE my connection worked

Re: httpd and directories

2000-07-30 Thread Sean Richardson
Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc. --apacheconfig This is the alias that sets up /usr/share/doc to appear as /doc on your web server. Remove

PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-29 Thread Sean Richardson
Hello, I recently migrated from SuSE 6.4 to Debian potato...and I am having some problems with my PPP connection. Under SuSE my connection worked flawlessly and I was able to use SuSE firewall to share it among my home network with little effort. However, under Debian I have been unable to