eckes said:
its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is
needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given
inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run ps (from the
procps package in the base) the first time. This speeds up ps a big
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
I just went through a base upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 using Dale Scheetz's
upgrade notes. Before I begin upgrading anything else, I though I would make
some comments.
Firstly, things went very smoothly. However, there were some minor snags:
1)
Can someone who has successfully installed 1.1 tell me what they get
with the following queries?
ls -l /dev/console
ls -l /dev/xconsole
ls -l /dev/tty0
My installation failed to put in /dev/xconsole, so I have to put it in
by hand. I tried:
mknod /dev/xconsole p
chmod 666 /dev/xconsole
so that
I notice the Packages file for the unstable tree at ftp.debian.org is out of
date. I though it was updated automatically? Perhaps not...
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On Sun, 12 May 1996, Derek Lee wrote:
Can someone who has successfully installed 1.1 tell me what they get
with the following queries?
ls -l /dev/console
ls -l /dev/xconsole
ls -l /dev/tty0
My installation failed to put in /dev/xconsole, so I have to put it in
by hand. I tried:
I think this was meant to be sent to the mailing list.
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From: Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kettlewell)
Subject: Re: diald (Was: Re: Must pppd be run by root?)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 00:17:42 +0200
Hi,
It was not clear from the description of your problem whether
mail was ever seen by the mailagent. I'm assuming that you tested it
locally, and have a log file. Does that show any hits? What about
the stderror of the filter (for example, this is how I setup
mailagent at work:
I found some time this weekend to finaly set up X windows and was able to
learn enough to put it off again.
The graphics card in my machine is a Trident TGUI 9440 AGI which the docs
say is not yet supported (as of June of 95) but that someone was working
on it. Has there been any news?
I have a
Derek Lee said:
ls -l /dev/console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sgk 10004 May 4 19:31 /dev/console - tty0
ls -l /dev/xconsole
prw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Apr 13 09:59 /dev/xconsole
ls -l /dev/tty0
crw-rw 1 sgk 1000 4, 0 May 10 06:40 /dev/tty0
My
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I found some time this weekend to finaly set up X windows and was able to
learn enough to put it off again.
The graphics card in my machine is a Trident TGUI 9440 AGI which the docs
say is not yet supported (as of June of 95) but that someone was
Hi all,
this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
because it is very debian related too:
I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remove the package.
I have come at the following but it
Thinking about the dselect interface...
What we need is a simpler job, yes power is nice, by the word here is
interface, and we want an interface that any 'dos' user can understand.
This is just a concept mockup -- it should be larger, not be made of ascii,
etc.
I'd like to ask the maintainers to post a description of the package
updates to debian-users or somewhere in the archive. In the last week
or so I upgrded two machines to 1.1 and downloaded about 53Mb of deb
packages. However on Saturday I noticed that many of them had been
upgraded. It's
One of the joys of getting X up is that you'll get Netscape
up and then you'll be able to use DejaNews to answer every question under
the Sun!
When I looked in DejaNews with the query terms trident xf86config I got
about 2 dozen hits, which told me:
a) lots of people were offering their
Hi all,
I would like to set a disk resource accesible for users on my network
working on PC's under DOS. After many attempts I wasn't able to put
proper options in 'exports' file. Does somebody know what I should do?
Of course all neccesary daemons are running. Thanks in advance.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that
you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so
Has anyone noticed that with recent kernels, the pipe to xconsole fills
up on
eckes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But what is required more then
a new look is the ability ... to select a
singe package to be installed/removed,
I second that!
and a method of seeing which package
(installed) is older than its archive version (and will therefore be
updated).
Yup,
The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a
fresh installation. I'm sure some xmodmap commands (though I'm not
sure which ones, if you can help) would do the trick, but I wonder
what neither of them is usable by default?
In the TU Munich Computer Science Department, the
Dear list members,
On my 93R6, fmt (elv-fmt 1.8pl4-19) dumps core whenever I do `!}fmt'
in vi (elv-vi 1.8pl4-19). Anyone else has this trouble? Any ideas
how may I find out what's wrong.
Thanks in advance.
--
Billy C.-M. Chow // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Debian Linux 1.3.84
On Mon, 13 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am I missing something? I don't see a tset, but I have all of the
standard packages for Debian 0.93R6. Should I be using something
else instead?
Ditto for me. Please summarize what you learn.
Hi all!
Does the iomega ZIP drives work under Linux? I believe there are
two different models.. a SCSI model and a parallel port model.
Do they both work? If so, is it easy to get them working under Linux?
Richard..
-
Richard
Hello,
With the zsh package version 2.6-beta13-2, there is something really
strange happening when root uses zsh: if I do a
% su
I get a new shell that is *not* a root one, where when I do
% su -
I effectively get a root shell. This is especially strange as the su
command
The output of safe_finger is truncated even if my terminal has, say
180 columns. Is this the intended behaviour? There is no man page
for safe_finger, so I'd like to know if this should be reported as a
bug or if it is correct. And of course, what does safe_finger do to
get the `safe' name?
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