[moving the discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bruno BEAUFILS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is something I do not understand about resolving hostnames. It seems the
> search primitive of resolv.conf does not work properly in sid, nor in woody.
>
> Let's see some of my configuration files :
>
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sync:
>
> The shell of user sync is /bin/sync. Thus, if its password is set
> to something easy to guess (such as ""), anyone can sync the system
> at the console even if they have no account on the system.
>
> HELP: If that
"Oliver Elphick" writes:
> I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on starting
> and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ people
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ gdb people
> GNU gdb 2001
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:33:11 PST Janos A Csirik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
du) wrote:
[snip]
> I have been using dctrl to look at timeouts and noticed that although my
> general tcp timeout is set to 10 minutes, fetchmail generates tcp
> packets that start as though they'd keep the link up for 10 minutes,
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:07:05 +0100 Remco Blaakmeer
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I posted the message below to comp.os.linux.misc but I didn't get any
> answer. Does anybody know more about the problem I describe below? Or can
> anyone point me at the right newsgroup for this question?
Your frie
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:34:12 EST Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
a) wrote:
> Hi can I do the fg on vertual consloes. Lets say when I go home and login
> with telnet?
You want to use screen's session management features.
Let's say you're login from the console, you start screen, run a few things
(inclu
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:34:52 EST Scott Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
>
> > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I
> > normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad
> > line quality?'...
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:38:38 +0800 Jieyao ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Regarding patching the kernel source
>
> I tried to patch the debian kernel source 2.0.30-9 using 2.0.31 and 2.0.32
> from the usual kernel distribution sites but there are always error and I
> can't complie correctly.
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:17:51 GMT Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> > > > > - are symlinks really fast?
>
> > > >Quite, except on NFS.
>
> > > could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where
> > > symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating
> > >
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1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/>
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:21:04 PST George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote:
> > 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly).
> > I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user se
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:13:35 +0800 I wrote:
>
> 2) Intel has been estonishingly linux-friendly (Linux went to their
-^
> headquarters discussing the linux patch, they mention Linux on the
> web page they devoted to the bug)
You shoul
On Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:26:15 +0100 Lukas Eppler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> There was a message in my newspaper this morning
> (Tages-Anzeiger,17.Nov.97, Switzerland, www.tages-anzeiger.ch)
> Which said the following (translated, my english isn't perfect)
> -
> New Pentium bug
>
> Inte
I wanted to print the policy manual, and wanted to use sgml2latex,
but it tells:
% sgml2latex policy.sgml
Processing file policy.sgml
/usr/bin/nsgmls:0:1:27:W: cannot generate system identifier for
document type "DEBIANDOC"
/usr/bin/nsgmls:0:1:27:E: reference to entity "DEBIANDOC" for
which
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997 08:15:04 +0100 Robert Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> in a fit of abysmal stupidity I manage to break my 1.3.1 system.
> I wanted to upgrade to netbase-netstd 3.0 and FORCED an un-install of
> libreadline2 to install libreadline2g ... now my bash is broken and god
> kn
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:24:10 -0200 Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
br) wrote:
> - are symlinks really fast?
Quite, except on NFS. You really should worry about it unless you're
a performance freak.
> - I read somewhere that "500mb for /var and /tmp" is fine;
> what exactly does that mean? two
On 14 Nov 1997 11:46:46 +0100 Ole =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen?= Tetlie
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I upgraded some packages to unstable yesterday, and now xdm
> dies, restarts, dies, restarts, dies, ... so I can't log on
> to fix it (I probably removed the old libX, while xdm is still
> linked to i
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:05:47 MST Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> The release notes for Communicator 4.04 say that Linux plugins only work
> with the dynamically linked version of Motif 1.2.
>
> Does lesstif provide this, and do plugins work?
Lesstif provides *source* compatibility
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:27:48 GMT "Batista, M." ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Know somebody set up the ISDN link to an ISP on demand?
> I make this link by hand, but when the hangup time out to come, the
> ISDN driver shutdown the link and i have to start
> up by hand once more.
Ha
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 21:01:29 EST Tim Ferrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have left after a
> backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on tape - how do I know
> how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a 4-8GB DAT drive with
On 10 Nov 1997 17:53:49 +0100 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
che.de) wrote:
> I want to add a new style file to my system. I'm using an unmodified
> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Therefor I should be able to place new style
> files under /usr/lib/texmf/local. I've tried this but LaTeX never
> foun
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1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/>
On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 02:48:26 -0900 Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm setting up an automated script which needs the functionality of rsh to
> execute some commands on a remote machine, and I need it to *not* prompt
> for a pasword. I know that I can do this with SSH using a .shosts fil
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:40:32 PST "Howard S. Ostrowsky" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I recently went through the process of upgrading from libc5 to libc6.
> After testing the resulting system for a couple days and finding it
> apparently ok, I went on to upgrade the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers an
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:25:14 +0100 Michael Legart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Before I had a diskcrash and hat to reinstall my linux, the ppp connection
> worked fine with diald.
>
> How do I get the diald connect script installed again? It was really messed
> up, and I wanted to reinstalled t
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 14:09:00 +0700 Francesco Potorti` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> The subject says it all: I am installing a Debian 1.3.1 system on a
> brand new PC with a 3c900 Combo board. Since I have a Buslogic
> Flashpoint SCSI card, I used the disks under the special/ directory,
> which
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 22:39:32 +0100 Michael Legart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with diald ...
[snip]
> Anyone has a connect script that is working?
The diald package provides a nice connect script in /etc/diald/connect.
You just have to fill the variables at the top of
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:03:13 EST Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Is /etc/networks used the same as /etc/hosts ?
It's almost the opposite :-)
It consists in one entry per line with #-comments. Each entry has a net name
first and a net address in seconds. No aliases allowed on net
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 10:45:10 CST Ken Lauffenburger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon
> as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The
> PPP link would connect, but the PPP link no longer was selected
> as th
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:07:20 +0100 Magic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Where can I find libdl1 ?
In the package dld.
You can get this info by grepping into the Contents-i386 file located in the
stable/ subdirectory of a debian ftp site.
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On 04 Nov 1997 23:56:23 EST Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am
> > using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/Xf86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> You probably want
On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:48:52 EST Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm looking for a timeout program which will _NOT_ kill my xterm sessions
> but will kill my idle telnet sessions. I attempted to do this with idled
> by making it ignore users in a 'console' group which the login program
[sent only to debian-user, not cross-posted to debian-devel]
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:30:58 GMT "Oliver Elphick" (olly@lfix.co.uk)
wrote:
> I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the
> capacity of this is something around 2Gb.
Yes, about 2Gb.
> dump seems to believe
[sent only to debian-user, no cross-posted to debian-devel]
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:45:23 GMT "Oliver Elphick" (olly@lfix.co.uk)
wrote:
> The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct
> multi-volume backups.
>
> However, the man page is dated 1993.
>
> Is this
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:13:48 PST Matt Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying to install the driver for this card. I followed the
> instructions, and when I executed the compile-command I found at the
> bottom of the eepro100.c file (gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE
> -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/s
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 09:42:59 EST "Colin R. Telmer"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the "check for
> > bad blocks" and "force" options. However, the disk seems to be fine.
> > Strange.
>
> Here are the key parts of the original note:
>
> T
On Sat, 23 Oct 1997 22:22:38 +0200 "Daniel J. Mashao" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > Now my question is - does it mean that Debian pci drivers are older that
> > > those in Redhat? Why would Redhat work and not Debian? Is the differences
> > > that deep
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Philippe Troin mentioned something about a password option,
>
> >Lilo has a password option (which you probably want to use with the
> >restricted option too). RTFM.
>
> but I have been unabl
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 14:43:07 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being
> able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay=
> settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult to
> get
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:23:19 EDT Shaul Peleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that
> gcc compiles? Is there some kind of setup required? I am compiling in my
> home directory and another file, without the suffix is made but can't be
>
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:28:57 EDT Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have used Philips CDRs exclusively and have not been satisfied. For the
> usual reasons, I am replacing my current CDR and want something that will
> last a while. I can get an "HP SureStore CD-Writer 6020" for a
> "rea
On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 14:26:02 +0200 Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have a linear partition on my linux box (/dev/md0 =
> hdb7+hdb9+hdb11), and when I run the `mdadd -ar`, and I then mount the
> filesystem something like the following comes up:
>
> Warning: /dev/md0 has no
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1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/>
On Sat, 04 Oct 1997 18:08:19 +1000 Alan Eugene Davis
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> This happens to me quite often: a floppy or a cd isn't being accessed,
> but I cannot unmount it: umount gives the error I have indicated.
>
> Is there any way to find out what process or which xterm might be
> ac
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:16:12 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> > Because /dev/sda16 has major 8, minor 16, which is the major/minor pair
> > for /dev/sdb: look at 'ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb'. BTW, you hav
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to
> format /dev/sda16 and message says:
>
> > debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16
> > mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> > /dev/sda16 is entire
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:45:02 EDT J Hulley-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I was just trying to upgrade to the latest libc6 tcl/tk packages and
> the install failed because it could not overwrite libtk4.2.so.1.
>
> ls -la reports:
> p-w---s-wt 1 5513 33730 0 Jul 5 1962 libt
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 15:24:07 PDT Ed Slocomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.com) wrote:
> I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the
> debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is
> missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version:
> the m
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:54:50 CDT Joe Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have IP MASQUERADING on our network, and when a client connects to some
> sites we get this in the logs:
>
> MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from 204.74.200.69!
>
> Otherwise, it seems fine. Is this a problem? E
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:23:06 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd..
> how can I reload samba's configuration file?
I'm afraid you have to:
# killall smbd nmbd
which means that all connections are broken.
And as SMB is
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:38:46 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and
> > nedit:
> >
> > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s'
> > Warning
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:28:18 MDT "Chad D. Zimmerman"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> > Plug-and-Pray ?
>
> No Plug and Prey on this system. Not even windows.
Good boy ! :-) Me too.
Ok, so, from boot to boot, serial de
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:28:53 MDT "Chad D. Zimmerman"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have had an interesting problem rear it's ugly head two times now .. my
> /dev/tty0's get SNAFUed for some reason.
>
> This is what they look like normally:
> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
> tty01 at
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:43:53 +0200 joost witteveen
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [..]
> > Hard linked directories are bad, it would taker longer than that to explain.
>
> That's apity, cause I've been wanting to know why they are
> bad for a long time. Do you have any reference where I can
> sea
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:08:27 MDT Al Youngwerth ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Here's what I want to do:
>
> Have restricted ftp access for users (chroot to their home directory).
>
> Allow certain users to be webmasters, these users should have a link in
> their home directory to a common direct
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:30:24 +0200 Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
raz.ac.at) wrote:
> I accidentally installed ldso 1.9.2-3 when trying to test some unstable
> packages. The rest of the system is still a "bo". How dangerous is it to
> downgrade ldso?
Perillous.
Just don't do it, it will break
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:13:43 +0200 Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ual.net) wrote:
> On Sep 15, Jeppe Buk wrote
>
> > > Try adding "-h" after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows
> > > your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts
> > > will be silently ignored.
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 23:08:28 - Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> It's the elf-x11r6lib I'm looking for not the elf-xlib as I stated in this
> posting.
>
> I searched the pkgs list from the Debian web site using elf as the keyword
> and nothing. I looked up a few of the pkgs that keep tellin
[Followups redirected to debian-devel]
Some packages in hamm have been linked with the -r /usr/X11R6/lib
option and break on a libc6 system with the new libc6 X libraries
(coredump).
This perl script will patch these programs and make them work:
=== BEGIN SCRIPT
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
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On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 15:51:49 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1.
>
> in /var/log/messages I see the line:
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9
>
> but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command:
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 08:36:27 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Karsten Bolding writes:
> >
> > When I try to start x (startx) as a normal user on the new machine I get:
> [snip]
> > Fatal server error:
> > xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root
>
> Easily fixed. Go into /usr/X11R6/bin and ...
On Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:40:35 CDT Anthony Landreneau
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greetings,
> While doing some software upgrades to my debian box I lost the POP3
> ability. Tried to reinstall smail, nothing, sendmail, nothing. Eudora
> will connect to the box, but as it starts to log in
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:49:28 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It
> has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the
> PCI card. Do I need to get something and recompile the kernal in order
> for linux to see
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:06:51 CDT Jesse Goldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ov) wrote:
> Our group is considering ordering some Debian servers running kernel
> 2.0.30 either with 2 Pentium Pro CPUs or 2 Pentium II CPUs. I've read
> somewhere, however, that, in the dual CPU configuration, lock-ups are
> occ
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:00:48 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> shel-init: cannot get working directory : getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories
>
> This is only with user accounts. Root doesn't do this.
Check that all directories above your home directories are rwxr-xr-x.
Phil.
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:45:24 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I'm not quite sure what I did.. but, somehow I managed to remove
> telnet and ftp from my Debian installation through dselect. Of course,
> this is rather inconvenient. Which package can I find these
> programs?
netstd.
Phil.
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:51:22 +1000 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm.
> Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD
> from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already,
> the problem is that the mirror
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 07:29:11 PDT Kenneth Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
id.com) wrote:
> Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from
> Debian Linux 1.2 to
> 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore.
>
> "startx > /tmp/x.out 2>&1"
>
> to capture the e
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0300 Felix Almeida ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a
> new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the
> Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:44:22 -0300 Carlos Marcos Kakihara
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have a netware which access the Internet in a school. People
> here abuse this service so who really needs the machines can't use them.
> IRC is the worst of all! So, I want to restrict the conection t
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:59:30 +0800 "A.D.Y. Cheng" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff,
> wave audio data into .voc file?
Sox. In debian package sox.
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:20:05 MDT lc29b50 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> This is part of the message I recevied from the bootup, although
> everything seems to be working fine, is there a scsi module I should
> install??
>
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Failed initializa
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On Sat, 09 Aug 1997 02:22:32 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Is there any way to get bash to work like 4dos? -- If you type the first
> couple of characters of a command in history, it will only scroll through
> those commands begining with those characters...
^R aka CTRL-R
man rea
On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:15:06 BST "Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses?
> Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been
> compromised.
There are per-package md5 sums to check the integrit
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:22:13 EDT Peter S Galbraith
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> What package do people use to record .au audio files?
There is xwave in hamm (which should currently work on a 1.3 system).
Phil.
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On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 16:07:24 +0400 Eugene Sevinian
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> few weeks ago I have installed Debian from self made CDs with 1.3.0a.
> It seems that everything was fine! [Exepting the fact when I did not find
> some nice lovely things like xman and xload]
[snip]
xload is in th
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:48:35 BST "=?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Delker?="
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Can anybody help on this?
>
> All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error:
>
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP:
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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1. Note
I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective
Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph s
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:36:30 +1200 Richard L Shepherd
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
>
> > I'm using debian 1.3 with samba 1.9.16.
> >
> > When my main workstation was running Win95 I could connect fine now I'm
> > running NT 4.0 and I can browse the to
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:49:43 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Check your permissions on /dev/mixer. Mine permissions are set to '666'.
Or better, add yourself (and all users who should be allowed sound access )to
the audio group in /etc/group.
Phil.
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:46:42 MDT Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.gov) wrote:
> I have a pentium computer with a dual IDE controller, but BIOS can access
> only primary channel.
>
> Will Linux be able to 'see' both channels? (hope it is a yes...)
Yes. Of course :-)
> I have tried to
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:36:46 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering if there was anyone working on putting enlightenment
> into a deb
There is someone working on it.
Phil.
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On Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:16:18 PDT Oz Dror ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have just installed 1.3. dselect ignores selected packages from
> non-free. Is there a way to fix that?
You probably have some packages that cannot configure in the main
distribution (or contrib). Try to resolve these probl
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:02:51 EDT Brandon Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I recently attended an internet security talk, and one thing that caught
> my attention is placing an offender in a virtual playpin or jail cell,
> where they could do all the damage they wanted without hurting the ac
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:11:28 EDT Shaya Potter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
l) wrote:
> I just got a chance to get a spare machine to try out the 2.1 series
> kernels, well I decided to go with 2.1.45, and everything seems to work
> ok, except that when ever I boot up, I get the error
>
> SIOCADDRT: Invali
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 02:18:27 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I know this doesn't totally relate to Debian...
>
> I want to add a clear screen character to the begining of the /etc/issue
> file instead of having a clear command in the .bash_logout... I think it
> is ^L... how can I
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:12:36 CDT Brian K Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> Here at Purdue the Engineering Computer Network staff have developed a
> very awesome account management package called ACMAINT. They currently
> use it to manage all the accounts and machines on the network.(Over
> 13
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:39:22 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> I have no problems with the Slackware setup - Afterstep works beautifully
> and is very appealing visually. Under Debian however, I have almost NO
> color. Upon exit I see the message:
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entr
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:54:07 CDT larry ives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure =
> compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work =
> however.
> I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.48 1997/07/14 05:59:38 phil Exp $
1. Note
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Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph s
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:22:23 EDT Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the
> output of a "uname -a" at the top of /etc/motd?
>
>I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try
> as I might, Linu
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:06:28 -0300 "Samuel J. MacDowell"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm running a debian 1.3 and would
> like to know what packages should I
> download to upgrade to the new X
> release
Use dselect with the ftp method to contact a ftp server.
It will download what it needs to
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 01:35:38 EDT "Richard G. Roberto"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the
> > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passw
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:03:24 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I know how to compile the kernel the regular way, but doesn't Debian
> have a special script for this? I install it and I don't know the name
> of it... what is it?
There is a kernel-package package to compile the kernel
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:01:57 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> where are the /dev/cua? entries?? how can I install them?
You should use /dev/ttyS? devices instead because:
1) /dev/cua are obsolete
2) /dev/cua have a weird locking mechanism
3) All software in debian (and 99% of
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