I tried /etc/environment - and that works for my login shells (bash
as root, zsh as user) ... but isn't seen from scripts run from cron.
Is there any recommended way to make a an environment truly global?
Is there something I've missed?
sorry, scripts do not inherit the environment. You
On 28-Nov-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds better than anything else I've seen... and will certainly solve
my immediate concern/problem.
...but I wonder about non-scripts that might try connections out on port 80.
(perl modules spring to mind)...
wrap them in shell scripts is
On 25-Nov-2001 mallum wrote:
Aloha all;
Is it possible for me to setup my laptop to 'know' what network its
connected to and run scripts based on that ?
There are severl packages in Debian. Read through /var/lib/dpkg/available.
On 24-Nov-2001 David Natkins wrote:
tar replaces cpio in unstable. You may not want to do this.
see my post yesterday on the thread tar conflicts with cpio for an
explanation.
On 24-Nov-2001 Brian Furry wrote:
Hello All:
At work my company is switching to a Novell 5 network and
the network Jocks said that I can no longer use a local IP
address. They said I need to be able to get a novell login\
prompt on my screen.
run, run away now. What kind of morons is
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by
extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between
cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least
complementary. Why do they now conflict?
tar
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by
extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between
cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least
complementary. Why do they now conflict?
from
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by
extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between
cpio
On 24-Nov-2001 Carlos Sousa wrote:
My daily dist-upgrade has recently started holding back 8 python
packages (listings below). I usually investigate and resolve these
issues so as to have as clean a woody system as possible, but trying to
install one of the packages (idle) makes apt-get
The priorities are skewed towards novice users. I believe the
expectation is that people who use vi can probably manage to change the
default. As a vi user I'm quite happy for them to stay that way - I
think it's a lot worse for a new user not coming from a Unix background
to encounter vi
On 22-Nov-2001 Daniel Toffetti wrote:
Hi All !
Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and
python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody give me a
clue ??
python-base (which was python 1.5) went away. Debian still has python 1.5
hwoever the default
On 21-Nov-2001 Greg Fischer wrote:
I installed some 3rd party packages onto my Sid system with apt-get,
making the necessary entry into sources.list. I would like to remove
all of them. Is there any simple way to do this, or do I have to remove
them one by one?
deborphan has an option to
On 20-Nov-2001 francisco m neto wrote:
Hi there,
what happened to the task packages in woody? I can't find
neither them or
any kind of package that coudl substitute them - and tasksel keeps
complaining about the same task-packages not being anywhere in the servers
On 21-Nov-2001 Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
I have installed Debian on at least a dozen systems now (I guess I'm not
a total newbie now...)
Anyway -- this is the first time I have had a system with a 905c 3Com
card not be able to get out on the network. (All but one of my systems
us 905x
On 21-Nov-2001 Jeff wrote:
Brian Nelson, 2001-Nov-20 10:32 -0800:
Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture
of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that
package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list
On 21-Nov-2001 Jonathan Hunt wrote:
Hi,
I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied
Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the
following things in my new setup:
GCC = 3.0
XFree86 = 4.0
Linux kernel =2.4.0
Have a peek at /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, I have an option of '-nolisten' listed
there which seems like it could be your problem.
On 19-Nov-2001 Jeremy Hankins wrote:
I know python in sid is in a state of flux at the moment, so if the
answer is wait that's fine. But I'm trying to get some python stuff I
wrote a while back to work with the new python setup in sid, and I'm
having problems.
I used pygresql originaly,
Ah. Thanks -- I hadn't realized it was postgresql that needs to be
updated (as opposed to python). It appears there is a bug filed. Two,
in fact: #117778 and #118562, since both bugs seem to be the same issue.
python has been updated to the new scheme, it is everyone else who needs to
On 20-Nov-2001 Chapman, Matt wrote:
Hi:
Here is my plan. Take Tier system approach to a proxy/cache/filter setup
using debian as the linux distro. I want to setup a box and then slim it
down to just what it needs for the appliance type of system. How can I
then make an image (CD
On 20-Nov-2001 Petro wrote:
I have a little...issue with dselect.
I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers,
and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them.
At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that
wants
On 18-Nov-2001 Shaul Karl wrote:
Can anyone recommend a program to indent and format C++ program sources
for consistency of style and perhaps better readability?
Specifying the used options or attaching a suitable configuration file
(like a .ident.pro for GNU indent) is desirable.
GNU
On 15-Nov-2001 Paul McHale wrote:
Just curious how long people have left their system running without reboot.
I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran fine. In
three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash.
I have rebooted about once every 3 to 4
On 15-Nov-2001 Craig Coles wrote:
I have got three different machines, out of serveral more, that are
reporting the message:
eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401
The message doesn't appear continually, but periodically through-out the
day, and sometimes a few times per minute.
On 15-Nov-2001 Jeffrin wrote:
Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need.
unrelated, but flyspell is also really cool.
On 16-Nov-2001 Christopher N. Deckard wrote:
Hello. I'm running Debian Unstable and I want to use gnucash, but it
depends on having libguppi, libgal, and libgtkhtml. All four of these
packages depends on python-base (= 1.5.2-2).
python packages are all being changed out right now. *ALL*
On 14-Nov-2001 Christian Groessler wrote:
Hi,
I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of
it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages
download from the internet.
After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded
On 12-Nov-2001 Patrick Hsieh wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to made a customized debian cd. Can I dpkg --get-selections to
get my installed package selection and put all of them into 1 or 2 CDs?
Is it possible? How?
I forget the name of it, but there is even a package that will do it. Search
On 12-Nov-2001 Stan Brown wrote:
I'm trying to build vorbis for my potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine.
All goes OK, except that the build of libao fails because it cannot locate
something called artsc.h Anyone know what package has this include file?
Alternativly, does anyone know ehre
On 04-Nov-2001 Michael C. Alonzo wrote:
may i propose that the debian-RFC package should be divided by subject,
e.g, all RFC(standard) concerning mail should be in RFC/standard/mail/
subdirectory and
RFCs(best-current-practice) concerning TCP should be in
On 03-Nov-2001 Steve Kieu wrote:
Hi,
I need to tell dselect or dpkg... , that I have lynx
installed but not by debian packages, so it wont
complain dependancies with others, for example..; Is
there the best way to fake it? I know a package
somewhere but it is rather complicated to do
On 04-Nov-2001 Steve Kieu wrote:
--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 03-Nov-2001 Steve Kieu wrote:
Faking the package system is rarely easy or safe.
I did it, thanks someone told me using equivs
yeah, I just don't trust it, hence the 'safe' part.
Does anyone know what the correlation is between text-based emacs and x?
(this is the emacs20 package from woody -- NOT xemacs21) Is this something
I can safely override (probably not) or work around and still use the debian
package system?
emacs is big enough already that people did
On 30-Oct-2001 Meir Kriheli wrote:
Hi,
I'm setting up a computer as a multimedia center using Debian (Sid).
The machine is connected to the TV for display and to the receiver for sound.
I have a wireless keyboard/mouse to access it. It'll serve as DVD/CD/MP3/Ogg
player.
I have no
So, having done that, I'm curious: why does run-parts have such a narrow
view of a valid filename. It's there for a reason, else why write the
validation code?
I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know.
my guess is that Debian calls the directories to be run by run-parts foo.d so
On 26-Oct-2001 Mark Morshedi wrote:
using my Official CDROM as the source I tried to add packages using
APT-get. I issued the command but after initial set of instruction
and the rest of usuall text, the process comes back and tells me that
Dbconf is in web mode GOTO HTTP://localhost:8001.
On 25-Oct-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote:
I've got a laptop with potato installed on it which has been
exhibiting a strange behaviour for a while now: After resuming from
a suspend-to-disk, it will frequently (I'd say somewhere around
2/3rds of the time) wake up with /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp*, and
On 25-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote:
I want to write a bash script that will run through my
/var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete
(either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the
standard Debian package repository). How can I tell which
On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote:
Hi,
Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have
gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making?
i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as
it is still grayed. What to do?
On 24-Oct-2001 Brian Nelson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes:
Please wrap your lines at ~72 columns.
I haven't been using Debian long enough to experience a full new
release.
Currently I'm running 2.2r3 and my apt-sources point to 'stable'.
When Woody is released as
On 24-Oct-2001 Kai Sterker wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the
manuals; perhaps you can help me:
Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can
(a) download all of them in one go and
(b) reinstall exactly those
On 23-Oct-2001 Andrew Pritchard wrote:
I see in the debian package list a pppoe package, but no pppoatm package. Is
this likely to continue to be the case?
This package is needed for us in the UK who want ADSL from British Telecom.
Being British they decided to be different and use ppp
On 21-Oct-2001 Daniel Jones wrote:
Every so often, say once an hour or so, my Celeron 400
server runnng Debian unstable emits three short beeps. They
sound quite similar to the error beeps that occur on system
start-ups, although this system boots and seems to operate
just fine. I'm not
On 21-Oct-2001 Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone
MAILTO=
5 * * * * run program
not so sure about the MAILTO thing. If the run generates an error the admin
may still get a message I think. Why not just have it do:
program
On 21-Oct-2001 Theo Wribe wrote:
How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds?
Tried crontab -e
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1
/dev/null 2 /dev/null
That is every 10 minutes. It is also quite evil to have this in a crontab.
On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote:
I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them
down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here?
not at all. Most people only need a few -dev packages and when they do they
know what they want (GTK, X, image
On 20-Oct-2001 Lance Simmons wrote:
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:09:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote:
I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them
down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here
On 19-Oct-2001 Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
Hi,
I have bought me a new computer.
I i'm womndering how i can manage it to get ALL of the data from my Linux
partition to the new system WITHOUT LOOSING ANY PERMISSION AND FILE DATA. I
must be over the LAN. I can't change HDDs. I think that NFS
On 19-Oct-2001 Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=452
I like this concept...maybe an apt-src tool that's like apt-get but does
build-dep, makes everything and goes the extra mile to install the
resulting deb and optionally clean up source
However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to be 4.
I would like it to be 3.
If you decide you must do this, others have pointed the answer to you. I just
want to say beware the path you are taking.
Users of other editors will find editing your codce to be a royal
On 18-Oct-2001 tim haegele wrote:
hello all
topic says all...
I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 .
How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect?
you need to find the deb for the older version and install it with dpkg. Once
this is done
On 17-Oct-2001 Morbo wrote:
My motherboard has a built in speaker, which can be very annoying,
especially while I'm using my computers while others are sleeping.
Is it possible to stop the terminal windows from beeping every time I press
tab where there are multiple
matches etc.?
open
On 16-Oct-2001 joe golden wrote:
I am running the testing version of debian and have recently installed
povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None of these recently
installed programs appear on my desktop. I can call them from an xterm, but
can't get them directly from the
On 16-Oct-2001 Gerard Robin wrote:
hello,
In the package binutils there are :
as and ld.
I did man as, man ld, info as, info ld, but
I need a tutorial or a book which contain examples of programs...
(the programs write with tasm of borland don't works with as an ld)
Can someone give me
On 14-Oct-2001 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
Dear All
I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux.
Just tried running ' apt-get update apt-get upgrade' on my
Debain 2.2 r3 system. It updated itself and then it came up with an
error message..
E: The package kernel-image-2.4.9-586 needs
On 14-Oct-2001 John Foster wrote:
I am trying to solve a recent problem that has developed with my Apache
server installation. This happed with the last upgrade of testing. My
system is now giving me the message below; and a complete disk search
shows that there is NO file on the disk named
Well, it turns out that there are 79 packages in the base dist,
but once you go in and out of dselect, you end up with 169 packages. It
takes up about 220M of space.
dselect tries to install packages from priority 'Standard' by default. This is
why there are more packages. That and
On 13-Oct-2001 Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
I have read the mini-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and RTFM. Here is what
appears in /var/log/xdm.log
AUDIT: Fri Oct 12 20:02:22 2001: 359 X: client 3 rejected from local host
Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
Xlib: connection to :0.0
I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello
World program you can make a window appear. Pressing the close button
closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did
not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has to
On 13-Oct-2001 Petre Daniel wrote:
so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe..
just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ?
it says maximum mount count.. and it runs fsck..
Dani
after a certain number of successful mount a filesystem gets
blackbox should give some form of message on the screen stating why it failed.
This sounds vaguely familiar. Give this list and the blackbox@trolltech.com
list a search.
On 06-Oct-2001 michael young wrote:
i know i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed,
hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet
running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the
inet addr... I would like to
On 05-Oct-2001 David Purton wrote:
at some point in the last day or so my .xsession-erros fil grew to an
enormous size and completely filled up my hard disk (like almost 1GB in
size).
it seemed to contain binary junk, but I've delete it now (needed to
download my mail :) )
what would
On 05-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote:
I have another debian system I'll try compiling the module today... But,
what is it that I need to copy? just the tulip.o? will there not be
dependencies and stuff like that? Can I put that tulip o in a floppy in
/lib/modules/net or something like that
On 03-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote:
Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that
needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy
the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module...
The instalation cd I have for
On 02-Oct-2001 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
hello,
i updated woody today and found that the new xlib package wanted to
install a file over the mixviews package.
Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
dpkg: error
On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not
file one.
Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file.
I would have thought that any X application's package could put
Is there is a possibility for using the Debian
distribution for creating Linux routers?
- How low can anyone go?
- Has someone tried to use the debian distribution
for diskless linux routers ( 5 Mbytes).
- Any URL, documentation, or does this idea not
sound at all?
so let's look
On 26-Sep-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote:
I find that it's necessary to set /tmp world readable and writable,
otherwise various programs that need to write to it can't do so (e.g.
lynx). As this is a stand-alone machine connected only intermittently to
the net, it isn't a big security problem
On 26-Sep-2001 LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote:
hello everybody,
i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461.
Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ?
Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install
linux easily.
Could i have yours point of
On 21-Sep-2001 Doug Fields wrote:
Hello,
I'm using BIND9 on Debian Woody with Kernel 2.2.19 with several patches
(primarily freeswan).
have you looked at the bug list? have you submitted a bug? could the patches
you added be the culprit?
On 17-Sep-2001 Clay Berlo wrote:
Hello!
I'm presently using a version of Progeny, but I've been updating via the
Debian APT unstable sources. I was wondering if anyone has been able to
connect to the Sony DSC-P30 properly using either gphoto or by mounting
the camera as a removable
I found in a list that I can eliminate the problem removing the packet
debsig, but the system doesn't permit it. Again, I found the advice to put
a --no-debsig option to apt, but it doesn't work.
please explain the system does not permit it.
shmat(8, 0x1, 0x1ptrace: umoven: Input/output error ) = ?
shmat(8, 0x1, 0x2ptrace: umoven: Input/output error ) = ?
I could be wrong, but you may need to enable this in the kernel.
Also try here. http://cepstral.com/website/pages/prev_eng.html.
So, I have two questions.
1: Why does dselect detect problems that the other
tools ignore? Can I safely ignore these problems
myself (I can't find any more conflicts--but dselect
insists on changing my selections. Should I just use Q
to override?)
dselect reads more packaging field
On 15-Sep-2001 dman wrote:
I need to set up a script to be run by crontab. This script needs to
mail a (html) file as an attachment. How can I do this? I know mutt
has a '-a file' argument, but mail doesn't have this. This script
needs to run on a FreeBSD box (that I don't have root on)
On 15-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Help! I've moved an important message with an attachment to /~mbox without
saving the attachment! now I can't go back and try to get it since it's now
in ascii format and I basically don't know how to extract it or pipe it out
in binary format...
It's also interesting to note that the modem works fine under W2k. Oh, and
I thought that that it could have been pppd not correctly telling my modem
to disconnect, so I tried echoing ATH0 to the device after the connection
was brought down, which didn't help...
Any ideas?
sounds more
On 14-Sep-2001 csj wrote:
None of the mail programs (all X-based BTW) I use appear capable of
deleting an email from a pop server without downloading it first. So I'm
curious: Is there a mail program (MTA, MUA, etc.) that can delete
(filtering, say, on size or spammer) an email from a pop
On 14-Sep-2001 Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote:
hi all
I had recently posted a question regarding the availability of a driver
fpr a V.90 modem. Many replied saying that this much info was inadequate
to tell anything. So I have gathered as much info as i culd have
considering that I bought
Okay, seems there's a debian way. But how painful is setting up
mailfilter? Will it work transparently with my X-based mailer,
intercepting before the offending mail gets to download? The apt-cache
info for the package shows just generic dependencies on libc6,
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 and
On 14-Sep-2001 Rino Mardo wrote:
hi. a friend of mine asked but i couldn't give a definite, not even
an, answer so i was hoping someone here can shed a light:
I'm checking out snort, a network intrusion detection system. I
noticed that when I start the snort daemon to listen on eth0 (my
On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
there is a unix command called 'file' it tells you what the contents of a file
are believed to be.
On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
tgz - a gzip'ed tar. Use tar xvf filename.tgz. It is basically a shorthand
for .tar.gz. It is from the days when people has to deal with MS DOS
Is there any way to avoid this ?
not really. The problem here is you are using potato cd's and woody from the
net. So apt thinks it needs to upgrade you all the time.
On 14-Sep-2001 Josh McKinney wrote:
We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things
like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want
to now how I can get that too.
Let's see:
some mail clients do it
some smtp daemons can do it
some
On 13-Sep-2001 Chris Kenrick wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a bit confused about Unix timestamps on files. In
particular, I want to know what the timestamp on an
'ls -l' or a 'find . -ls' means.
$ ls -l test.py
-rw-r--r--1 shaleh users 131 Sep 12 13:10 test.py
This is referred
On 26-Aug-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is more efficient:
Using two ethernet cards, each with their own IP address, and each running a
DIFFERENT server application, or ONE card running both?
Hard to answer this. What you are really asking here is if adding a second card
will
Anyone knows of a good picture browser for Linux (preferrably
.deb´ianized, of course, but I can live with compiling myself)?
there are gobs and gobs of them. GNOME has some, KDE has some, plain GTK+ and
QT. Try Multimedia-Graphics-Viewers on freshmeat. All of the good ones are
On 07-Aug-2001 Victor wrote:
I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital
camera to use with it and the Gimp.
Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian?
Personally, I say forget OS support. Buy a pcmcia card that will support the
removable media
On 01-Aug-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install IceWM, but it keeps telling me it needs libXpm.
However, I searched packages.debian.org and I could not find any packages
that would satisfy the dependencies. Does anyone know where I can get the
file I need?
$ dpkg
$ wvdial
-- WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
-- Cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Input/output error
All your help would be very much appreciated.
is the user who started wvdial in group dialout and is the modem tty own by
group dialout? You can check what groups you are in by using the
On 23-Jul-2001 Stan Brown wrote:
I'm building a new STABLE machine this weekend.
By not paying enough attention to the depedncies that dselect picke, I
would up with a broken install of aolserver. I don't need this package at
all, but dpkg --remove aolserver fails.
How can I remove all
Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-18 (using
.../libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb) ...
cp: invalid option -- L
Try 'cp --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
On 22-Jul-2001 David Turetsky wrote:
I would like to migrate some large c/c++ programs from Windows to Linux.
Right now I'm invoking gcc -- and even for the most trivial program I am
getting the error message: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus':
no such file or directory
gcc is 2
On 20-Jul-2001 Adam Bell wrote:
I'll bet there is a very easy answer to this, so here goes.
I have a laptop on a LAN which should be on all the time. HOWEVER, our
power grid has been known to have trouble, so if the AC should go and the
batter gets low, I would like the
On 20-Jul-2001 Phil Reardon wrote:
What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into
/etc/apt/sources.list to get this for potato?
package name is ssh. It is hosted on the non-us debian servers. A quick
search on debian.org for non-us should find the apt line for you.
BTW Is there a way to build debian pakages manually, I
mean I rather download the files (diff, dsc
orig.tar.gz ...using any ftp client into local and
build it.
sure, how do you think we do it?
dpkg-source -x foo.dsc
cd foo-version
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc # make sure you
On 01-Jul-2001 Thomas Champion wrote:
Greeting all. I am attempting to personalize my menu optins in WindowMaker.
After adding the new options as I have done in the past for other distros, I
find that there has been no change to my menu options. What is the correct
way to personalize my
What I would like to see, in the light of LSB, would be that
1) A transparent way to install LSB-compliant rpms in Debian is
implemented. Preferably one should be able to install rpms with 'dpkg'
command line tool, although an automatic format transform with 'alien'
could be performed
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