Please, everybody: could you address your e-mails to the list, instead of
sending them personally to somebody and cc them to the list? Many people (like
me) set up filters to separate mailing lists from personal e-mail, and check the
To: field in the message header. To have the filter check
I hate to follow up to myself but here we go anyway:
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
I just installed suck-3.3.2-1 at my Debian-1.2 system and noticed that
when i upload the messages from my own newsserver to our universities
newshost using the supplied get-news.inn script i get the
Hi...
Thanks for the help.
I've tried different combinations of using wait. And they all work fine
for making the child exit. But now the problem is that the parent for some
reason is not going to completion. It seems the very first statement in
the parent (after the child) executes, but the rest
Hi,
I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
me that all the problems I've encountered could have been easily
detected if any test has been
Hi,
I'm running into another problem again with gcc while try to
build vile.
The gcc can not load -ltermcap nor -lncurses. Here are the
two small programs that caused the problem:
prog1.c
char initscr(); int main() { initscr(); return 0; }
$ gcc prog1.c -lncurses
ld: cannot
Hello everybody!
I just installed suck-3.3.2-1 at my Debian-1.2 system and noticed that
when i upload the messages from my own newsserver to our universities
newshost using the supplied get-news.inn script i get the following error
message (look for --relevant part on the right hand side):
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
Well, my problem persist. Even after downgrading to rex, using
netbase_2.06-1.deb,
netstd_2.08-1.deb,
popclient_3.05-3.deb,
Mario == Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mario I'm using popclient to retrieve mail from my
Mario server. It's working fine, after a reinstall it. I didn't
Mario ask to remove it.
I was mystified by this, too. It appears that popclient has been
obsoleted.
Kendrick Myatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
system installed here. Is there
Someone please send me there pppd files so i can see what i am doing wrong
with my setup... thanks..
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
Hello. When writing papers, I have always used idraw to make my
figures - I like it alot more than xfig for various reasons.
Anyways, Interviews has
From: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
Control keys under X windows? =
It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
Thanks for the information, thought not for the possible attitude. (How
would someone know to look in xmodmap?)
..
When I run emacs as root, it works fine. However, when I run it as a mere
mortal (from a normal user account), I get the message:
emacs: can't find library /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
What might cause this difference?
Thanks,
Daniel
--
This message was delayed because the list mail delivery
Gregory Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org.
I created a 1.2MB rescue disk, it is available from
ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/sr1/debian-boot/
You have to create an additional root disk; the README says:
-
The file
Nathan L. Cutler writes:
I'm running a modified 1.1 system. The whole question is moot now,
On a separate problem, I had 1.1 on my system and for whatever reason, 1.1
refused to shutdown cleanly. At first it was random, then it became constant.
Thanks to the redundancy in ext2, the boot up
bob writes:
Hello all,
I am setting up my home computer with Debian 1.2 and so far so good. My
question concerns my desire to use Suck to pull down newsgroups that I am
interested in. What package do I need to be able to allow Tin to read the
articles that I have downloaded? I am a little
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
done first?
You need to CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot before shutdowning down. or as root,
you can type
I couldn't reach the ftp.debian.org site this morning either, here's a list of
the mirrors (from: ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian/README.mirrors):
Argentina
ftp.fceia.unr.edu.ar:/pub/linux/debian * - -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote:
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
Tape is common.
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote:
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
than a *quality*
From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just read the config files and man XF86Config. Add the following
to the Keyboard section of XF86Config:
XkbRules xfree86
XkbModel microsoft
XkbLayout us
XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps
If you want the control keys _and_ caps lock to
From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the
version was 0.95r6 or something like that.
I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly
not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading
1.1
Well, the child is a zombie because the process which called fork
did not wait() on the child process. This can be accomplished
asynchronously by handling the SIGCHLD signal. The following (somewhat
modified to remove unecessary SysV stuff) example comes from the
perlipc manpage:
sub
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks.
hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB.
You bet. If possible, stick to hda and hdc. I saw a 10 to 1 performance
improvement in Win95 ScanDisk when I moved my second 1.2G
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
than a *quality* tape system?
I use the taper program for
Yes!
This is EXACTLY what happens to me when it tries to connect to the ftp site
using dselect. At least I know now that I'm not the only one :) The only
difference is that it DIDN'T work once for me...
Regards,
Kendrick
At 09:34 AM 1/3/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Victor still can't post
At 11:11 PM 1/2/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
What do you mean? If you can ping any host in the Internet then you have
anything you want (FTP, Telnet, News, WWW, etc.) - unless you are
behind a firewall or something.
Any way, what's the specific problem?
##
That *is*
At 07:45 PM 1/2/97 -0800, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
If you did not get the ftp binary, then you did not get a complete base
system. It's included. Is your path okay? I think ftp should be in
/usr/bin.
##
That's what I was thinking. No, didn't get it... Do I have
This could be the result of the ARP cache in your router (or on your machine
if you are running some routed type thing...) not expiring before the other
server happened to come back up. I can't remember how long this is, and it
_may_ be vendor specific when it comes to the hardware side.
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
done first?
What you could do is use the command 'shutdown -h now' to stop all
processes and cleanly
At 05:08 PM 1/3/97 +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
If you got no ftp, that means you don't have the netstd package... which is
in section net. You need netstd, and netbase... if memory serves. If you
do have the binaries, and the setup isn't working... try reading the HOWTO
for networking
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote:
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
than a *quality*
pgpzQBX0lIqbg.pgp
Description: PGP message
Hi Eric --
You said:
I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite
ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error
that says:
Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed
successfully. And it won't d/l
Well, I'm not one of the developers so I can't answer for them... but I
agree that its a great distribution.
I don't use dselect... I did as you and used dpkg straight from the command
line, for more or less the same reason... it was crying about dependancies
when I already had the package,
From: Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
Put those lines into a file, and then run 'xmodmap [file]' and the
Control_Left and Caps_Lock keys change places. With or without the
extension.
After some digging (through startx and xinitrc scripts), I found that the
_right_ answer
Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
done first?
a 'shutdown -h now' to shutdown immediately and halt the CPU.
or...
a 'shutdown -r now' to shutdown immediately and reboot the CPU.
if
From: Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I run emacs as root, it works fine. However, when I run it as a mere
mortal (from a normal user account), I get the message:
emacs: can't find library /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
What might cause this difference?
Never mind. It was running
Knight == Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Knight Ok Mr Newbie here again. I have been trying to get Debian
Knight to connect to my local ISP threw an external modem. When I
Knight issue the PON command it dials the connection fine, the
Knight modems connect, but then the line
# as root
unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set it
tzconfig # set the time zone
date 0103143897# set the internal clock
clock -u -w# write internal-CMOS
vi /etc/init.d/boot# set the GMT variable to -u
That hardwires your
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir.
Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir.
Does it moved to a new place.
The base package has
Hi ...
I have asked individuals this question and I have posted it, with RTFM as
the answer. Polite answers, but ... I have done the RTFM on all module
issues: insmod, modprobe, modules,...
The Problem: On my home machine, deb 1.1, 486-66, scsi hd and cd rom, 16
mb vlbus, I'm having trouble
Hi Jens:
In addition to not having the device files in /dev, I had the problem of
not having support for the CD Rom devices in the kernel. My kernel had
the decency to suggest insmod.
Locate your cdrom module, for SCSI it is sr_mod.o, or for (E)IDE, cdrom.o
Use insmod to insert these. If
Thanks for the information, thought not for the possible attitude. (How
would someone know to look in xmodmap?)
There was no attitude... apologies if I sounded that way.
--
Ørn Einar Hansen
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
Given my current frustration in
dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX
stuff that is presently on this machine (standard Debian 1.2 packages),
I want to try out TeTeX.
Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is
One thing which really bothers me about Debian-1.2 is that it almost
takes ages for lynx to come up at my 486DX-33 with 20MB. Measuring time
for starting lynx with a locally served web page (apache) i get the
following result:
Hello there,
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
me that all the problems I've encountered
One reason may be that I just don't have as many packages installed,
but I was wondering if anybody had any other explainations as to why many
small incremental upgrades over the months seems to be more stable (in the
sense of installations not breaking) than making larger leaps from
point
Having read that the interface card is capable to reply to icmp echo
requests, my next question should be this: Why does does the card assume
that we are using the internet protocols? (On a side note, this does
no good to those who ping the machine and conclude that everything is well
I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
me that all the problems I've encountered could have been easily
detected if any test has
I've been having this weird problem since this morning.
I can ping either machine from the other, but only if I am running TCPDUMP
on machine named dst. I moved the modem to machine spacewalker which
is currently running diald, which I have finally gotten my setup to work
both the ethernet and
I am writing my questions in between the text, if anyone can
answer them I would appreciate it.
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks.
hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around
Apparently, the problem with ICMP echo requests (aka ping) not bouncing
back from machine dst unless tcpdump is running, is NOT a problem with
dst but a problem on spacewalker due to diald. So.. it all points to
diald. hmm...
--
Daniel Stringfield
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That hardwires your machine to run at a different time than the CMOS
clock... which means you have two different clock versions on your
system.
The appropriate option, is to control the representation...
I'm not sure what you're saying here, but
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Christopher E. Stefan writes:
After upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 none of my suid-perl scripts worked
anymore. I ended up having to put C wrappers around all of them.
I reported this as a bug a while back, don't
[This message has also been posted.]
Hello everyone,
I have recently installed Debian on a machine and for some reason cron
doesn't start up automatically. As a temporary fix, I have put
``/etc/init.d/cron start'' in my /etc/init.d/boot file, but I know that this
is not how it should be.
This
Having read that the interface card is capable to reply to icmp echo
requests, my next question should be this: Why does does the card assume
that we are using the internet protocols? (On a side note, this does
no good to those who ping the machine and conclude that everything is well
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
I tried searching around for teTeX whis morning, and I found a lot of
FTP-sites carrying the files, I also found the maintainer's address and
the mailing-list. BUT do you know if there is a teTeX web-page somewhere,
where some general information,
In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said:
Debian is already lambasted for needing more disks than anyone else.
i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and debian
distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian being too large.
downloading six
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
Yes indeed! Fresco is the replacement for interviews. The
development is sponsored by the X consortium. It breaks new
ground by providing distributed graphics using the CORBA model.
That wounds interesting. Do you think you can tell us more?
Help,
I can connect to my ISP using pon as root: when I attempted to use this
as user amacater, I got cannot read /etc/ppp.chatscript errors: chmod
755 cured this for /etc/ppp.chatscript and /etc/ppp.options_out but I
now get: cannot execute /usr/sbin/pppd - permission denied. I know
that pppd
I've read all this stuff about PnP cards not being supported in the
kernel. I recompiled my kernel before I realized that I had a SB16 PnP
(atleast according to the model numbers at Creative Labs it's PnP).
However, it worked, and I get sound.
Jan 5 07:05:35 timberwolf kernel: Sound
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
than a *quality* tape system?
Before I tell you what I do
I believe that you must put a link in with `.so' , i.e. without
the version numbers, and, of course, run ldconfig -v to be
sure first.
-Walter
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi,
I'm running into another problem again with gcc while try to
build vile.
The gcc can not load
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
I have recently installed Debian on a machine and for some reason cron
doesn't start up automatically. As a temporary fix, I have put
``/etc/init.d/cron start'' in my /etc/init.d/boot file, but I know that this
is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hate to follow up to myself but here we go anyway:
Robert Yetman, the maintainer of the original suck distribution, gave me
the hint to check '/etc/news/newsfeeds' for the flags 'Wf'. It turned out
that the flag 'f' which adds
Check to see that the path for these libraries are included in
/etc/ld.so.conf
Then run ldconfig -v and it should load them.
Dick A.
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the
following error message:
mf: can't load library
In article 4O0zt3.0.ru7.rpipo@master.debian.org,
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For reasons I won't go into, I had to purge INN and reinstall. I re-installed
from unstable to find that the program that controls the config,
ctlinnd, is not on the system. Was it taken out of
I wonder if anyone on the list may have experience with Packard
Bell machines, running Debian ? The reason for the question is, a local
store is selling excess stock that didn't sell during the holiday season
at a price that is very, very, tempting. Actually, the price is only a
little
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is that it is complete with all
bells and whistles described in the LaTeX Book and the LaTeX Companion
and that it is an implementation which adheres to the TDS (TeX Directory
Then I guess I should be installing
I recently updated some packages from the bo set. One of these was, I
believe, netstd or something. Anyway, I then found that POP wasn't running
any more. I looked in /etc/inetd.conf and found it commented out. I also
looked in /usr/sbin and discovered that in.popd had been deleted.
This follows
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Huh? Linux will issue HLT instructions when not doing anything else.
However, HLT does not really halt the machine, like when you're finished
using it, but only until the next interrupt. Yes, HLT does lower
power consumption. On a Cyrix 6x86 CPU, with
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
Then I guess I should be installing teTeX as well. I need to do some
TeX'ing but the standard Debian TeX package always seems to come up with
a new problem once I fixed one.
Then you'll be really happy with teTeX! Today i had a notice by Thomas
Esser
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you
should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about
If it is just a week or two I'll rather wait. I like what I hear :)
Someone actually told me that I should install
When I installed Debian 1.1 (linux 2.0) and later upgraded to 2.0.6
I did not give a password. I usually log in as root followed by a CR
at password prompt.
For some time now I have not logged into Linux. Been busy with several
other stuff. Close to 2 months or more.
Today I booted linux and it
Hi,
I'm running into another problem again with gcc while try to
build vile.
The gcc can not load -ltermcap nor -lncurses. Here are the
two small programs that caused the problem:
prog1.c
char initscr(); int main() { initscr(); return 0; }
$ gcc prog1.c -lncurses
I have just installed the Debian 1.2 Base System.
During booting from the rescue diskette and also from the configured
kernel boot diskette I get some misterious messages like:
mcd=0x300,11: init failed
mcdx ... no mcd device at 0x300 irq11
and some more messages lokking like an unsuccessful
Instead, do update-rc.d cron defaults.
This is in the Debian-1.2 installation problems list posted here by Dale
Scheetz.
OK. That worked!
Thanks for the tip.
--
John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org)
Custom Programming|
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have a merry
Andrew == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andrew Help, I can connect to my ISP using pon as root: when I
Andrew attempted to use this as user amacater, I got cannot read
Andrew /etc/ppp.chatscript errors: chmod 755 cured this for
Andrew /etc/ppp.chatscript
Joseph == Joseph L Hartmann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joseph I have two HD's. Right now only one is hooked up -- it is
Joseph my hda, a 1.6G Western Digital, running Redhat. I wish to
Joseph hook up in addition a 340 Meg Connor. I would like that
Joseph to be the slave so
I have been reading this list for a few weeks now, and I wonder
if someone could regularly post and maintain the . I'll
call it debian FAQ, for lack of a better term. It would be
very worthwhile to keep a list of unique debian questions and
answers.
Best Regards,
Joe Hartmann Tel:
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I agree strongly that the last disk in Debian 1.21 (if it ever comes
out) should include telnet and ftp, at the very least. I know that
EVER time I installed 1.1, I used the ftp that was on the base disks
to go and get telnet off another machine *grin* Now that
Chuma == Chuma Agbodike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chuma Today I booted linux and it won't let me in. I log in as
Chuma root and give it CR at password prompt. Keeps rejecting
Chuma me.
Chuma How do I get around this? I hate to think that I have to re
Chuma install from
I'm trying to install Debian and, after booting from the rescue disk, the
kernel hangs while initializing the md driver support. (Well, that's what
the last message was talking about anyway.) Any ideas? My setup:
SuperMicro P6DNF w/2 PPros
128MB ram
Adaptec 3940UW
IBM UW 2.1gig HD
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if i were u, i would:
obtain a boot disk, boot ur sys up with it, mount the root partition,
`vipw` and put a * for root's passwd.
reboot the machine and supply a passwd for root asap.
/ayn
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
When I installed Debian
With some help from Martin Stromberg I have built a temporary
replacement rescue disk for Toshiba Tecra 700 series laptops. (They
cannot boot a normal bzImage loaded by lilo.) It has the same generic
2.0.27 kernel as in the 1996-12-8 resq1440.bin rescue disk, but with
Jens Maurer's kernel patch.
the tetex TeX/LaTeX distribution is available in rpm format at any Redhat
mirror for anyone wishing to install from a package format as opposed to
doing it by hand. and of course rpm is available in deb format for easy
installation.
i've been using the tetex distribution that i installed via
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, ugs wrote:
Before I tell you what I do to make a perfect and bootable copy of your
current Linux setup, let me tell you how I have my hard drives configured.
on the one hand this sounds like a good system because your backup is
bootable, but some problems come to mind.
At 07:06 PM 1/4/97 -0500, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the
version was 0.95r6 or something like that.
I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly
not all the problems
I installed X windows package from Debian 1.2 (ftp'd from
uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu, one of the mirror sites), here are some strange
things I noticed, I wonder if anyone else has it:
(1). rxvt doesn't work properly: backspace doesn't work, it types ~
instead. I can't set it by stty erase either.
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Nathan L. Cutler wrote:
Mikael == Mikael Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mikael And by which device should I call my modem which is
Mikael connected to the second serial port? /dev/cua1 or
Mikael /dev/ttyS1? Where can I find out more about this?
Why doesn't chfn let user's change their full name?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~chfn
Changing the user information for joey
Enter the new value, or press return for the default
Full name is Joey Hess
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~chfn -f Joey
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Xinbing Liu wrote:
(2). tcsh doesn't work properly: I can't ftp into my computer from
another computer if my shell is tcsh (as specified in /etc/passwd). It
gives me user access denied.
However, if I say csh in /etc/passwd, ftp works fine, even though the
shell is
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr. wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks.
hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB.
I have two HD's. Right now only one
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Xinbing Liu wrote:
(2). tcsh doesn't work properly: I can't ftp into my computer from
another computer if my shell is tcsh (as specified in /etc/passwd). It
gives me user access denied.
However, if I say csh in /etc/passwd, ftp works fine, even though the
shell is
Please, everybody: could you address your e-mails to the list, instead of
sending them personally to somebody and cc them to the list? Many people (like
me) set up filters to separate mailing lists from personal e-mail, and check
the
To: field in the message header. To have the filter
I am writing my questions in between the text, if anyone can
answer them I would appreciate it.
Why are you not using hda and hdb? what determines which one
you use?
I would use hda and hdb. I don't have an eide controller so I don't have
an hdc or hdd. Some might prefer to use hda and
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it as new? Do their machines use standard memory components, so they
could be easily upgraded with parts from other vendors, etc? They don't
AFAIK, PBs use proprietary parts which means you usually have to
buy from them to get upgrade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes:
ld: cannot open -lncurses: no such file or directory
Have you installed ncurses3.0-dev? You need the libncurses.so link
provided by this package to compile (among other things).
both libs are in /lib:
libncurses.so.3.0
libtermcap.so.2 -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman Widders) writes:
i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and
debian distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian
being too large. downloading six megabytes doesnt take that long B)
I was also incredulous the first time I heard
Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
than a *quality*
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