I use startx to launch my xserver. A default xterm comes up with no
error. However when I start a new xterm from the window manager, I get
the following error:
bash: /home/havenerk/.bashrc: line2: unexpected EOF while looking for
matching `''
bash: /home/havenerk/.bashrc: line3: syntax
Hi.
Sorry for this silly question. I am new to both Debian
and Linux.
My disk has following partions:
/dev/hda1DOS
/dev/hda2extended partion
/dev/hda3swap
/dev/hda4Red Hat linux
/dev/hda5Debian 1.3
By installing debian,
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Would running the cable thru some metal conduit protect me? Are there
devices similar to surge suppresors for ethernet cables?
I was reading a section in an IBM manual about the requirements for
running twinax (sort of like thick coax)
Hi all,
One of the programs(kdelibs) that I am trying to ./configure is looking for
the aclocal, and looking through the configure output, it says the aclocal is
missing. Could someone please point me to right direction as to what this is,
and where to get it?
Thanks,
David
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Hi all,
One of the programs(kdelibs) that I am trying to ./configure is looking for
the aclocal, and looking through the configure output, it says the aclocal is
missing. Could someone please point me to right direction as to what this is,
and where to get it?
automake
Cheers,
- Jim
Dale Scheetz said:
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
What do you expect in Debian 1.3.1?
The major push for 1.3.1 is to fix problems with the XFree86 packages.
They are currently in the process of being upgraded from 3.2 to 3.3. The
first round of testing showed up some minor
From: Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I rebooted this morning the machine came back up with my old
2.0.27 kernel but I can't get an aliased address on the ethernet port.
Did you want it to come up with your old 2.0.27 kernel? You didn't make
that clear.
Thanks
Bruce
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I use startx to launch my xserver. A default xterm comes up with no
error. However when I start a new xterm from the window manager, I get
the following error:
bash: /home/havenerk/.bashrc: line2: unexpected EOF while looking for
matching `''
bash: /home/havenerk/.bashrc: line3:
Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out.
Where the heck can I get a CD with a WORKING debian distribution on it?
I've tried LDR, LSL's Trilinux, and stuff I've FTP'd. I've yet to get 1.3
to work.
Since I intended to format the drive Linux lived on anyway, I thought I'd
see what the
I have a 3Com Etherlink III ISA (3C509b-Combo) card. The driver which I
am using is the 3C509 driver, which was the closest I could find in the
base system.
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
Hi,
Sound as if you might have the wrong driver for your 3Com card. What model
is the card
I'm not sure when this happened but when I went back to using XDM
upon boot I lost my xconsole. And my /dev/xconsole has been changed
to /dev/xconsole|.
Could anyone help me remedy this problem. The xdm man page mentioned
an example of starting xconsole in the Xsetup file but this did not
Hi to all,
I am new on this list and new to Debian, very exiting the Debian project,
I just have successfully installed the base system on my PC, formerly
RH and Slack, now I need to install the remaining parts (net, x11, libs
etc..).
Since I have an old PC (486/33) I can have a CD that
Thanks for all the help so far.
I've been trying some other things, and have found that I cannot connect
to a local site using telnet through linux (using the site's computer
name).
Also, I found the IP Address of the ftp.debian.org ftp site by going to it
in netscape (under Win95), and reading
Hi
I would was wondering if there was any way to set up X so that I can
consistantly use the numeric keypad on my machine as that and not have
to worry about how every program interprets it.
ie a simple xterm may behave differently from an editor
running from within that xterm and the window
Hi everybody!
I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2
problems:
1. Installation.
Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'.
There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I
can't remember exactly). I
I tried using new disks and formatted them for this,
Can some one nice please give me installation help, may be even a step
by step prosses, this is what I've tried so far, I downloaded the disks
from ftp.us.debian.org (or something similar) and I used rawrite2.exe to
write the resc1440.bin to
Eddie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since I have an old PC (486/33) I can have a CD that connects to the
printer port, this works well under DOS. Is there a module that I can
use to install Debian or do I have to dowload everything from the net,
What model is it? I found a module to
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out.
It looked like it might work, but it crapped out big-time when it cam time
to install X. In fact, errors to the degree that there were missing links,
and xf86config couldn't run.
This is a pain
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure when this happened but when I went back to using XDM
upon boot I lost my xconsole. And my /dev/xconsole has been changed
to /dev/xconsole|.
Could anyone help me remedy this problem. The xdm man page mentioned
an example of
I just purshased a Toshiba 430CDS Laptop that I plan to run Debian on. I have
been running
Debian on a desktop for about a year now, so I'm comfortable with it.
My question has to do with the PCMCIA cards that are available now. I will
need to run a
modem and an ethernet card at the same
joost witteveen said:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
I tried using new disks and formatted them for this,
Can some one nice please give me installation help, may be even a step
by step prosses, this is what I've tried so far, I downloaded the disks
from
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:45:51 -0200, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
Does anyone define his nfs-exports access-permissions via netgroups?
What I meen is a exports entry like
/usr/local @hosts(ro)
I've defined netgroups in /etc/netgroups and serving them via NIS (yp).
A
Another possibility is that the disk itself is bad. Reformat the
disk,
run Norton (or some other disk checking utility) on the disk and make
sure that there are no bad sectors.
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Buddha Buck wrote:
Dale Scheetz said:
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
What do you expect in Debian 1.3.1?
The major push for 1.3.1 is to fix problems with the XFree86 packages.
They are currently in the process of being upgraded from 3.2 to 3.3. The
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Subject: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error
BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
post.metrolink.net does not have a dns MX record. I don't think smail
should give you an error if your smarthost doesn't have an MX record but it
might. Try
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
It looked like it might work, but it crapped out big-time when it cam time
to install X. In fact, errors to the degree that there were missing links,
and xf86config couldn't run.
I've used debian before, and it worked great! I like it! Is there
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
Hi everybody!
I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2
problems:
1. Installation.
Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'.
There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:43:00 +0200, Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Joerg Hi everybody!
Joerg I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2
Joerg problems:
Joerg 1. Installation.
Joerg Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'.
Sorry fellows,
my mail reader set a CC: to the list which I didn't see :-(
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Greetings,
This is my first post to this list. I have looked through some of the
archives and ran a search against the archives but have not found
anything to help me with this problem. I have installed 1.2 on a 486-66
with a Diamond Speedstar Pro. I followed the recent recommendations and
Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out.
You are pardoned.
Where the heck can I get a CD with a WORKING debian distribution on it?
I've tried LDR, LSL's Trilinux, and stuff I've FTP'd. I've yet to get 1.3
to work.
Dunno; I did my installation with the base1_3.tgz file and LOADLIN
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
Hi everybody!
I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2
problems:
1. Installation.
Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'.
There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
:On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 04:39:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: When I rebooted to linux I noticed several network error
[snip]
: configuration tool (grrr...). The second case (1.2, Apr 97)
:
: Am I the only one with such an expirience? I should
Jim,
Did I read your post right? Did you rm XF86Config!!!
XF86Config is the configuration file for the X system. It contains all the
information about your graphics card, screen, mouse, and other important
information that your X client needs to run. The flashing screen problem is
most
It might perhaps help if you explained where exactly the problems were,
how you tried to install, what didn't work, etc. Your problem is rather
vauge as it stands.
I agree. One thing that has gotten me into trouble when attempting to
install Debian is selecting too many things at the
I just installed debian on another machine, and it's slow as molasses.
It's an apex 486/33, with a 400mb on / and 514 on sr, with 20mb of ram.
For example, when launching dselect and asking to choose packages, it
takes a couple of minutes until it gets there. It is a few seconds on a
similar
I just installed debian on another machine, and it's slow as molasses.
It's an apex 486/33, with a 400mb on / and 514 on sr, with 20mb of ram.
I have seen some problems with such things as unterminated serial cables
causing getty to go berzerk, no swap enabled, permissons hosed in
Im having a problem with the tetex-packages. I upgraded from Debian 1.2
to 1.3 and have now TeTex installed (not the normal latex-packages
anymore...). Now I cant compile my files anymore. I always get:
mother:~/Uni latex document.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
I can't find
I just installed communicator-v40b5-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
with the netscape-beta package (since the old one was about to
expire), and now I get an annoying message every time it starts up:
No valid encryption policy file was found for this English language
version of
Hello,
I'm writing to ask if there is a Debian 1.3 release
that uses the ELF format rather than a.out and if yes, could someone be so kind
as to point out to me an ftp site that has the install disks so I can have a
running ELF system?
Xwindows 3.3 requires that there be an elf
system.
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote:
Did I read your post right? Did you rm XF86Config!!!
Yep, it was the only thing I could think of (rebooting did not work). I
then purged everything and re-dpkg'd in the order suggested. I could only
type 2 characters at a time between flashes :-(
Michael Harnois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Puzzled me for quite a while, too. Copy policyMoz40P1.jar, which
should be hanging out in the directory where you unpacked the archive,
into ~/.netscape.
Hmm, I didn't unpack it, the debian installer package did, but it
looks like that file didn't
The latest beta looks for *.jar files in /usr/local/lib/netscape. I just
symbolically linked them from the directory I installed netscape in:
cd /usr/local/lib/netscape
ln -s /path/to/nescape/files/*.jar .
That fixed the error messages. Hope this works for you,
Dennis
On 15 Jun 1997, Rob
Windows NT can connect with SAMBA, but it cannot
browse from network neighborhood The Linux computer is
detected but unable to browse within it.
Dose anyone know how to fix or debug this problem?
My smb.conf is as follows:
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load
Though I have yet to upgrade to TeTeX myself, I encountered this
problem when I installed the old latex packages.
As root, go to /usr/lib/texmf/ini (or the TeTeX equivalent) and, if
there's a makefile there you can just type 'make' but otherwise type
'initex latex.initex'. This will create a
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing to ask if there is a Debian 1.3 release that uses the ELF format
rather than a.out and if yes, could someone be so kind as to point out to me
an ftp site that has the install disks so I can have a running ELF system?
Xwindows
rxvt doesn't seem to want to display X pixmaps with the -pixmap
option. Without digging into the source, I'm wondering if the man page
is incorrect.
Could it be wanting a different file format than .xpm? Has anyone
gotten this to work??
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cd /usr/local/lib/netscape
ln -s /path/to/nescape/files/*.jar .
That fixed the error messages. Hope this works for you,
Dennis
Nope, still get the encryption error, but thanks for the effort.
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Tim Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you installed it as root then it should be in the /root/.netscape
dir. I had to copy it from there to my user's .netscape dir...
Perfect, that fixed it. Perhaps this should be mentioned somewhere in
/usr/doc/netscape.
Thanks
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On 15 Jun 1997 17:09:46 CDT Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
cd /usr/local/lib/netscape
ln -s /path/to/nescape/files/*.jar .
That fixed the error messages. Hope this works for you,
Dennis
Nope, still get the encryption error, but thanks for the effort.
Yep. Netscape seems
Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin
can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not
removed completely, etc. ?
I know when I remove some debian packages usuing dselect, it usually
throws tons of messages like can't remove /blah/bing/bang/
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi,
Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has
connected to the ISP?
You might set the modem to report the link data rate rather than the
serial port rate then tail
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