bug in /etc/hosts: hostname in loopback address

After just installing debian/unstable, I've found my /etc/hosts file contains the line 127.0.0.1 preston localhost This is invalid, the "hostname" address shouldn't be mapped to the loopback address. (I can provide authoratitive references stating as such, if required). Now, the thing is I d

Re: Fonts

Craig B wrote: ... > I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The > biggest problem I have is with Netscape Navigator. Sometimes the fonts > are too small and sometimes they are just distorted. I have tried all I believe the problem arises due to the good old HTML H tags,

Debian terminfo's (was Re: xterm/rxvt screen clearing / restoration)

"T.E.Dickey" wrote: > > it's an faq (the alternate screen behavior) ... I wrote: > >I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm > >and rxvt where often the screen fails to be restored properly > >after running vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily > >restores the

xterm/rxvt screen clearing / restoration

I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm and rxvt where often the screen fails to be restored properly after running vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily restores the terminal screen after exiting. When I say 'fails to be restored', it's kind of like the current

xterm-debain termcap?

Why is there a separate xterm-debian termcap entry? It is kind of annoying, as when I brint up a shell to another (non-debian) machine TERM is still set to 'xterm-debian', which of course the other box doesn't know about... Setting the XTerm.termName xresource to 'xterm' works around the problem,

Re: ftp via proxy server, for dselect

I too have a proxy, and also had a no-go using ftp access w/ dselect/dpkg (slink). I found that if I used a http access pointing to the ftp site, all works well (provided the site allows http to their ftp site, as most debian sites seem to). e.g. here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.

perl: installing w/ PREFIX...

I want to install various perl modules local to my home account, the standard perl MakeMaker allows the following ~/local/src$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/local/ does not work under Debian 2.1, It seems that no matter what I set PREFIX to, Install.pm wants to put it in /usr/local/lib/site_perl. I