Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 01:30:12PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: > As if I had installed Debian afresh. My suggestion for this, since you are in "paranoid mode", is to do exactly that, but without the "as if" part :-) I install Debian by using debian-installer and installing only the base syste

Re: non-free software requirement

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:11:29AM +, Steve Greig wrote: > When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines > laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the > software were given although I did not record the names. I decided to go > ahead witho

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:43:04AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Then I ran 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -j4' as root' [...] Note: Debian packages do not require to be built by root, so it's better that you don't. Using fakeroot is the default. Just install it and it will be used automatically by dp

Re: Emacs 23?

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > Can Debian Wheezy 7.x Emacs 23 be installed in Debian Jessie 8.x? Yes, it seems so. > Anyone tried this? Yes, just tried that on a jessie chroot using both wheezy and jessie lines in sources.list and it worked. However, be careful

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:44:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] see bug #770492. Truly amazing! For "ping", it would be like this: $ /sbin/getcap /bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep $ chown root:root /bin/ping chown: changing ownership of '/bin/ping': Operation not permitted $ /sbin/getca

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:56:11PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > How, just by executing dpkg-reconfigure, did I tell it this is what > I wanted? If that's the default, why wasn't it that way to begin with? AFAIK, the tar file format, on which the .deb package format is based, does not allow for

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 03:27:16PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > you definitely can get this very error due to something to do with > the firewall, Well, you can get this very error if you follow the steps I explained here: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20160602225359.gb11...@cantor.unex

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:06:54AM +1200, Jan Bakuwel wrote: > Check your firewall rules. It can't be firewall rules. Try this to block outgoing ping: iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j REJECT then try to ping anywhere. You will get a different error message, namely "Destinat

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > So far as I can see, ping IS executable by normal users. But then I have > only > got Wheezy and Jessie. Are you using Stretch or Sid?? This is not really new in stretch. You can experiment this funny effect in jessie as well. Try

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:56:08PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably because the bit

Re: cross-debootstrap error

Christian Seiler wrote: > This is really weird, especially since /etc/os-release is owned by > base-files, so it should only be created when the package is installed, Yes, it is weird, but debootstrap has to put everything together, so if it has to put the symlink in place before unpacking base-f

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:20:14PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Does any one know who hosts this list. It doesn't have any info > at the bottom of the page like the others do. There used to be information at the bottom of the emails but it was moved to the headers because it broke digital signature

Re: apache 2.4.10, debian jessie, PHP 7.0.4 SWAP issue

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 07:42:06PM +0200, Marek Soha wrote: > We are experiencing weird issue when we implemented this new combination of > debian+apache+PHP. > The system is serving PHP pages. It is running correctly for a quite a bit > and then start to heavily swap without any outer issue (no l

Re: Samba 4.2 upgrade broke domain controller

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 08:06:11AM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > Also, I had a computer that only had samba client libraries > installed and update wants to install entire samba. At least that one is a known bug and it's being worked on: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=samb

Re: gettext is one minor rev too old

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:16:07PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have that in /etc/apt/sources.list as > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free > > Do I need to add another option word above to see 0.18.2? You have to install the gettext backport the same way

Re: gettext is one minor rev too old

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 08:39:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > running 99% wheezy, trying to build gEDA because whats in the repos is > very old. > > geda-gaf is refusing to autoconfig, gettext is 0.18.1-1.9, and I need > 0.18.2 or better. > > Is there a deb repo I can raid just for that? whe

Re: Extract substring from cat

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:15:46PM +0200, Alfred Charles Stockton wrote: > Now what I would like to do is to only print the substring "Debian > GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" from the 1st line, preferably in bash. The standard says /etc/os-release is shell-compatible, so I would do this: . /etc/os-release

Re: Using Jessie Backports

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 07:39:58PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > How can I disable further usage of backports without harming other packages? You don't really need to do that. All backports are deactivated by default and you need to do apt-get -t jessie-backports install whatever to install

Re: testing/stretch package source

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 03:35:13AM +, Ryan Barber wrote: > Why are some common packages like gnuradio and gqrx not available in > testing/stretch at the moment? Try looking for them here: https://packages.qa.debian.org It seems they were removed from testing to allow the big C++ migration to

Re: / 100% used

On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 04:19:36PM -0300, Beco wrote: > > 1 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco kernel: [66691.859352] ieee80211 phy0: > rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin' >2 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco kernel: [66691.859358] rt2800pci :03:00.0: > firmware: faile

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: > http://i.imgur.com/dRaGiY6.png The image snapshot confirms that you are using stretch (testing). Try Debian stable (aka Debian 8.1, aka Debian jessie). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: > I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the > netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM. > It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64 MB. The > one na

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 07:43:53AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On my Raspberry Pi, locate finds me a shitload of systemd files; yet ps aux > -A | grep systemd does not show anything. > > Does this mean I can get rid of all those systemd files, to clear some space > on the storage memory card

Re: PHP-FPM socket disappearing

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:30:33PM +0200, Proxy One wrote: > I installed Jessie on my new server few days ago and moved website that run > previously on Centos 5. I'm using Apache and PHP-FPM. [...] > [...] > If you are using jessie, your Apache version is >= 2.4, so you could ditch fastcgi a

Re: System not booting

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:56:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > You can ping but not ssh. This suggests that services are not being started. > dmesg confirms this as nothing is showing up after the network is brought > up. Hmm, no. My system has ssh running but there are no traces of ssh in dmesg at

Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:25:18PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all > of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will > grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old > partition scheme? I'm curious: Wha

Re: check file system on virutal server - Wheezy

On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:10:52PM +0200, Chris wrote: > I have a virtual server running on my provider. It is an up-to-date VM Wheezy > system running under Parallels. I've beem wondering about fsck, the provider > says its a virtual file-system and that for this reason the fstab entry is 0, >

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:27:01AM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote: > Hi > > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 i686 > GNU/Linux > > I have forced installed latest version of gettext: Note: Installing something from backports is not considered to be "forced". Packa

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:19:01PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > When you upgrade to Debian 8.1 , what does the "setting " show, Debian 8 or > Debian8.1? I don't know what exactly you mean by "setting", but the way /etc/debian_version, /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net are usually handled for point rele

Re: Bash

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > #!/bin/bash BTW: bash is fine as a login shell, but I would not use it as a programming language. Stick with /bin/sh if you can. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Systemd and Unix

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:38:00PM -0400, David Kline wrote: > I have heard a lot of talk about how systemd deviates from the unix > philosophy. What is the unix philosophy, how does debian follow it, > and why does systemd break it? I suspect that people do not want yet another thread about syste

Re: Linux kernel version for Jessie

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:56:19PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > what kernel version will Jessie have when it became stable ? Is there > any chance for newer version than 3.16.x (for example 3.17.x, 3.18.x). Is this important at all? You will always be able to build your own kernel or use one

pine-4.50

[ Please note that I'm not subscribed to this list ] Before more people ask about it: pine-4.50 is available in project/experimental. I will not upload it for unstable because IMHO it's not stable enough yet. Sorry. Please note that I'm subscribed to pine-announce and *don't* need [stupid] bug r

Re: Bug#122845: What happened to compose? - further information

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Matthias Klose wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > Package: libreadline4 > > Version: 4.2a-2 > > > > Johann Spies wrote: > > > I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but > > > not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash. > > > > > > Any id

Re: procmail adding extra "From " header line

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tres Hofmeister wrote: > I upgraded a potato box to woody recently. With the current > sendmail (8.12.1-2) and procmail (3.21.20011028.3.15.2-2), it looks > like the mail delivery agent (MDA) is sensible-mda, which seems to > use procmail as a first choice. > > Wh

Re: WHERE DID PINE SOURCE & DIFFS GO IN WOODY

Dean Roman wrote: > Where did the Pine source and diff .debs go in woody that were > part of the potato release? They were removed. There will be no more -src and -diff .deb's. > Are they planned for addition to the woody release or discontinued? In woody, pine is distributed in source-only form

Re: Why non-free (was Re: unzip - again)

unzip license changed from potato to woody. That's why it is in non-free in potato and in non-US/main in woody. BTW: The version in woody (for i386) supports encryption and works ok under potato because it was compiled under potato (i.e. no need to use glibc-2.2).

Re: Where to find unzip?

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Håkan wrote: > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > right dist. > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? In potato it's in non-free. In woody it's in non

Re: /etc/nologin

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > each system boot ereases /etc/nologin > > there's a way to solve this ? If you consider it a "problem" you can always modify the script that does it, namely /etc/init.d/rmnologin, it's a "conffile" so the change will be preserved in upgrades (unless you

Re: SmartList: problem subscribing

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Wade Parker wrote: > I'm using Debian 2.2, Exim 3.1, procmail 3.13.1 and SmartList. > > I've installed Smartlist using dselect. I can create a list. But I > cannot get anyone subscribed to the list or if I add an address > manually, Smartlist will not send out any messages

RE: German keys on console

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.) > > Two things are important: > > 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented >(it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey > still works fine, BT

Re: Procmail

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Martin Breidung wrote: > procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/alois/.procmailrc" > procmail: Couldn't read "/home/alois/.procmailrc" I would check for permissions and ownerships of this file.

Re: *.deb files : installation

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, S. Champ wrote: > is dselect the only way to install a *.deb file? No, you can always use dpkg by hand: dpkg -i whatever.deb

Re: watch dvi files

maths wrote: > without X11, how to watch dvi file? dvisvga (previously called "tmview").

Re: potato intallation failed

On Thu, 4 May 2000, David Karlin wrote: > I'm installing potato from floppies, and when I try to load the kernel > modules, I get: "modprobe: Can't open /target/etc/modules.conf" > and "Installation failed." Just switch to the second virtual console and do touch /target/etc/modules.conf This wi

Re: smartlist headers

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Brosemer wrote: > On potato, smartlist adds "Resent-To:" headers which list all the people > subscribed to the list on every outbound message. > > Can this be removed? Yes, please read /usr/doc/smartlist/README.exim. > I tried with the following (and enabled RC_LOCAL_SUB

Re: /dev/null: permission denied - problem

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > At least since I mixed my slink system with potato packages (glibc 2.1) a > couple of months before, I have a problem with /dev/null. Firstly, lprng > reported at startup: "setuplog: open /dev/null failed: permission denied" (I > "fixed" it by instal

Re: procmailproblems

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Mithrandir wrote: > I have some problems with procmail, it will not deliver the mail as wanted, > does anyone can help please?? as attachment there is my .procmailrc. > The user doesn't get any mails anymore :(( > The procmail is installed with sendmail and called through the

Re: Is apt-cdrom necessary ?

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > Many months ago I learned somewhere that you have to use 'apt-cdrom' > in order to add CD's to your sources.list, and that worked. > But now Pann McCuaig sais he manually added a line for a CD > to sources.list: >deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main >

Re: How to build for Slink on a Woody system?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Brian Boonstra wrote: > I'd like to compile some binaries capable of running on slink, but > my only available platform is woody. What is generally involved in doing > this? I've tried to search the mailing list archive, but the engine seems to > > be broken (mo

dhcpcd and remote NFS mounts

Hello. It is ok that the dhcpcd package does not create any symlink in /etc/rcS.d? I have a system running dhcp in which I'm trying to mount a remote filesystem by using /etc/fstab, but unfortunately remote mounts do not work because dhcpcd has not worked at that time yet. /etc/rcS.d/README says

Re: Which packages are new in potato

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I'm looking for a list of all packages that are new (not only a newer > version) in potato compared to slink. Is something like that available > somewhere? Just take the Packages.gz file from slink and potato, make a list of the package names by doing som

Re: Potato inconsistency

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, peter karlsson wrote: > Got this during today's apt-get dist-upgrade: > > Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) > ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb > (--un

Re: ISO-8859-15: setfont and default font

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > Hi, > > I have defined iso-8859-15 charset in my $HOME/.bash_profile, and it > works as such if I set a proper font for it, eg.: > > # setfont lat9u-16.psf > > lat9u-16.psf is a font I copied into /usr/share/consolefonts/. I use > /etc/kbd/default.map

Re: Installation under /usr/local

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I installed Debian at my friend's lab and he wants to install > everything > in /usr under /usr/local to remote mount. > What is the safesty way to copy /usr to /usr/local? Why not just exp

Re: dpkg hosed after crash

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Mike Schmitz wrote: > A while back, my system crashed, but I was able to bring up a crippled > system that I can limp along with. I lost mostly just data, and what > programs I lost, I have been able to replace by reinstalling them. One > that is becoming a sore spot, though,

Re: Need help installing Pine

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Larry Huffman wrote: > steps taken: > > dpkg-source -x pine_v.dsc > cd pine > debian/rules binary (as root) > > error message received: > > test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules > debian/rules binaryPine > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-v' > test -f pine/p

Re: Does cdparanoia swaps channels?

On 19 May 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Before I reopen the bug, could anybody having a test CD confirm/deny this > > behaviour? > > Hi Santiago. I just used my test cd with some headphones and confirmed > that

Does cdparanoia swaps channels?

Hello. A few days ago I reported a bug saying that cdparanoia (and cdda2wav, on which cdparanoia was based) swaps channels when translating a CD track to a .wav file. I later closed the bug because of "lack of evidence", but now I have more "proofs" that this could be indeed the case and not jus

Re: libc6(-dev) version problem in slink

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris Gray wrote: > I've been having a problem installing Debian standard packages. > > The version of libc6 installed from the base diskettes was 2.0.7v-1 but > the version of libc6-dev listed as available from the ftp site is 2.0.7t-1 This is strange. In slink, libc6 and

Re: slink dir: binary-hurd-i386?

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've read binutils 2.9.1-0.2 is broken or faulty, and the suggestion is > to get 2.9.1-0.3 > I found the package in ftp.debian.org/.../sid/main/bin/binary-hurd-i386 > what's the reason behind adding "hurd" to binary-i386? "hurd-i386" is the dpkg arch

Re: Installing slink from a Zip drive

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Wright wrote: > One of the nice things about installing hamm was that I could do it with > one floppy and a zip drive. So I was really looking forward to putting > slink on a couple of new boxes which are, as far as possible, MS-free. > > So I partitioned a disk, got to

Re: Discussion with Pine developers & Debian Issues

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote: > The possibility of UW releasing a version of Pine specifically for Debian > Linux is not out of the question, I think a possible solution for this "problem" is that UW itself distributes pine in .deb format. Would you willing to do this? > but it is also

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Chris Reay wrote: > I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have > loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add > a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility > packages; to this end I've copie

Re: quickie Question

On 16 Mar 1999, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > I dont have 2.1 and won't be able to get it for a few weeks (i'm in > the UK). Where can I get apt from, and how does it differ from dftp ? The best place to get apt for hamm is from slink's upgrade-2.0-i386 directory. APT is also a dselect method, but t

Re: quickie Question

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, archangel.8eight8.net.ph wrote: > i have a quickie question for those who have already tried slink. is > apt and apt-get already built w/in the "base" or "required" field ? Yes, in Debian 2.1, apt is in "base".

Re: Potato soon to be frozen?

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, sepp_r wrote: > I read on slashdot.org that potato will soon be frozen. Is this true? It depends on the definition of "soon" :-) We don't know yet when we will freeze potato, if this is what you refer. Debian 2.2 will include Linux 2.2 and glibc 2.1 among other things. Even

Re: What to do with "base"???

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > My system is now uptodate with the newly released Slink, but there are > now a number of obsolete packages. In particular, there are two > _required_ packages listed as obsolete: > > --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- >

Re: Using Procmail

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, XRDLAB wrote: > Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp > account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of > messages I am getting has increased, I > am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different > folders. H

Re: Smartlist not sending to sender

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Erik Forsberg wrote: > I'm using smartlist for some small mailinglists on a Debian machine (I > hope this isn't too offtopic) > > Is there a way to configure smartlist NOT to distribute a message to > the sender of the message ? I don't want my own postings. Short answer: no,

Re: libc6-19981211-6

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Anyone had problem with this version of libc6? > > After I install it, all my dns stop working, I had to down grade > to the version in the stable hamm. Please, remember to report this as a bug. > A couple of weeks ago, I upgrade my sys

Re: crc error

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Henrik Damkjaer Vind wrote: > I get the error message > > > crc error > > --System halted. > > > trying to boot for the first time from my newly prepared rescue disc. > I've just run the install.bat from a dos prompt in the directory > containing the compressed kernel.

Re: rescue disk doesn't rescue me

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > I am using Debian 2.0r4 and trying to boot my brand new PC since 4 days > with several rescue disks I prepared with dd on my good old Linux PC. > > I even tried to boot with a self prepared root.bin disk but a reader > of this list told me that I don

Re: rm /var -> dpkg ???

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: > Recently, i have done something really stupid: rm -r /var > and, yes, everything was away, including my /var/backup directory! > Yes, i know, it's no place for a backup. > Everyting is restored now. > > Just all the info that dpkg put there is away a

Re: upgrading slink -> potato

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i am trying to upgrade to potato... > > first question, to stay on the safe side, in sources.list the line concerning > potato should come before or after the slink line? Mmm, I think there is not any difference, but to really stay on the safe side,

Re: gnuplot/libvga and permissions

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: >I downloaded gnuplot 3.7 today, as I wanted to compile it to plot graphs > on the console. Compilation went OK, but if I try to plot a graph in the > console, I get an I/O permission error. For a try, I logged in as root, and > everything worked

RE: .bash_profile

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > On 12-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > Can someone send me his or hers original > > /root/.bash_profile, file. > > I messed up mine. > > And i don't no what was in it. > > Stuppid eh > > Nothing important -- you are not missing anything. /usr/sbin and /sb

Re: .bash_profile

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Can someone send me his or hers original > /root/.bash_profile, file. > I messed up mine. > And i don't no what was in it. Look at /usr/share/base-files

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

Navindra Umanee wrote: > My bo system used to say "System halted." everytime I halted the > system but since I upgraded to hamm it sez "Power down.". Where has > this changed? I grepped for "Power" in /etc/init.d/* and /etc/*/* but > couldn't find where to configure this. Did you update your ker

Re: How to force re-installing a package?

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Mamoun Alissali wrote: > I've done a very stupid thing taht removed the /bin/cat binary, > so I think I have to reinstall the textutils package (is there any > other/better > solution?), but can't do it since it is marked installed/up-to-date. How > do I force dselect to rein

Re: libc6 or libc5???

Install the libc5 from the "oldlibs" section in hamm. Then you will be able to install libc6. libc6 conflicts with the libc5 in bo, but not with the one in hamm.

Re: Upgrading

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Evan Parry wrote: > What's the recommended method for upgrading from hamm to slink? Other than waiting for slink to be released? :-) The APT package is quite good, you might want to try it as dselect method. Be careful with the X packages, some of them changed their names,

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

Branden Robinson: > I don't know yet exactly how the new font and static library packages > will be handled. I want to build developer consensus on a solution. I have one possible solution here: deb http://master.debian.org/~sanvila frozen main [ The above is an apt-like line ]. Yes, these are

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "MH" == Mark Herrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink > MH> is? > > Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly. > > Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install) >

Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version > > of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( > > the glibc-doc package is your friend If we are

Re: emacs19, hamm and segmentation faults

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote: > [ upgraded from bo to hamm ] > > There were small problems here and there, but nothing more than I > expected, and all the diagnostics I ran (apt-get check especially) > gave (and give) no indication of trouble. > > There is one big problem though---try

Re: non-free

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Cagdas Ogut wrote: > Last night I was interested with the non-free directory of the > ftp.debian.org and I have downloaded binary-i386 completely. For an > Intel based machine do I need anything else? I know that many docs etc. > was just symbolic links to files in binary-all

Re: fetchmail & procmail

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail I would add quotes: fetchmail -v --mda "formail -s procmail"

Re: dpkg-source -x

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: > Is it possible when installing a debian package with: > > dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc > , followed by ./configure, make, make install, > > to get dpkg/dselect to understand that the package has been installed, > so that I can later uninstall it wit

Re: Subjects not so comfortable

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Andrea Novara wrote: > I have a small config feeling question? > Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it > would be more comfortable to have a constant string > in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy > filtering. > > If anyone have better suggestions or cat f

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > [...] > When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I > change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get > root's correct path. Are you sure that /bin/bash is your login shell for root and not /bin/sh?

Re: Something with Pine.

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Okay, It has now REALLY gotten to me. I like pine, but my only gripe is > that I cannot get rid of those annoying pauses when you go to open another > folder. Can anyone alleviate my anger/lack of patience/stupidity?? You may use Maildir folders with D

Re: No more procmail, now exim..........

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Well i still cannot make procmail to filter my emails. [...] I'm sad to hear that. Did you bothered to read /usr/doc/procmail/QuickStart and follow what it says to the letter? (It worked for me).

Re: resc1440.bin for slink?

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote: > Is there a resc1440.bin image for slink? > All I can find is resc1742.bin ( whatever size that is) There will be one very soon.

Re: Problems installing ncurses-base

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install > ncurses-base. > > dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered whi

Re: linux operating system

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > By the way, the FSF is working on their own kernel called the "Hurd." The > Hurd will probably also run an operating system comprised mainly of GNU > utilities, just like most Linux distributions. In fact, Debian is > developing its own Hurd distributi

Re: Pre beginner

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Rombalski, Emmanuel wrote: > I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel > 166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible > NIC. I created a 400 M

Re: Errors compiling kernel

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > make[2]: as86: Command not found as86 is in the "bin86" package. Just install it.

Re: Newbie Question

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Costa, Michael J. wrote: > I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any > documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any > help would be much appreciated. > > man-db packages was ---> >

Re: slink features?

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote: > Since I am going to install Debian 2.1 on a new hard drive once it is > released, > I thought I'd ask a few pertinent questions here (I haven't installed Debian > since Feb98). > > - Has the install process changed? improved? > - Is apt or dselect used? which is

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