Ben Pfaff writes:
On my machine running hamm:
$ ulimit
unlimited
I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to
check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit
on a hamm machine?
My hamm machine has a 1GB limit, that I don't
Peter S Galbraith writes:
export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s'
This makes less pipe everything you view through this script.
This gives you readable information for verious non-text files, like .tgz,
.gz, .tar, .zip, .arj and .deb files.
This is nice, but where is lesspipe?
It is
BRIAN SCHRAMM writes:
I downloaded the latest version of Wine from the Wine web page. I
extracted it and read the readme file for compiling it. I found out
that I needed xpm and the x lib development on my system. I then went
to dselect and installed the two libraries. I
Britton writes:
I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it
anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right
cards). I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or
exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such.
Peter S Galbraith writes:
If XFree is setup correctly, then the `Windows' key (identified above as
Win), are Meta keys and the Alt keys are really seen in Emacs as Alt keys.
I use the Alt key to insert 8-bit characters, like é.
The `Menu' key really works and is a synonym for `Meta-x' in Emacs
Paul Miller writes:
Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program? Linux
really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can
quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set
quotas, etc
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Oleg Krivosheev writes:
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:28:03 -0800
From: J.P. Beebe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Subject: command set
Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:24:30 +
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Resent-cc:
Steve Witt writes:
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Mario Filipe wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
In that case i need another type of assistance. When i do
ldconfig -p | grep libXpm i get this :
126 - ELF libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
127 - ELF libXpm.so =
Hello gnomers,
I am trying to compile gnome-0.11 and am running into trouble. This
is the last error messages and text from the compile.
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o gnome-score-helper
gnome-score-helper.o ../libgnome/libgnome.la -lgdk -lglib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lX11 -lXext
Brian K Servis writes:
Hello gnomers,
I am trying to compile gnome-0.11 and am running into trouble. This
is the last error messages and text from the compile.
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o gnome-score-helper
gnome-score-helper.o ../libgnome/libgnome.la -lgdk -lglib -L/usr
Frank Barknecht writes:
Ana Silva hat gesagt: // Ana Silva wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
Hi Ana, yes there is an animated gif program called whirlgif.
hope this helps you.
Paul
Thanks, but what I ment was a thing that automaticly morphes the images,
but don´t
Is the list alive? I haven't received a post since yesterday.
Brian
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From the Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian? thread:
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Wintermute wrote:
If you want to find the resource listing for ANY X program you can use
the tool 'resedit' which comes with a normal X install. Read up on it
first though, it's not the most
Asher Haig writes:
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while (it's
actually two questions, I suppose). Both questions regard using two mice,
one on /dev/psaux (Touchpad on a laptop) and one on /dev/cua0 (Kensington
serial mouse).
The first is with GPM: It appears I can do
Is anybody using Supermount v6 for the 2.0.32 kernel? I recently
added the supermount patches to my 2.0.32 kernel and when I do a
system shutdown I get an occasional kernel panic when the
/etc/init.d/halt script is at the 'umount -a' line. The system
hangs at that point and I have to hit the
Help,
I need to restore a file from a Taper 6.7.4 backup and when I try
a restore Taper seg faults as soon as I select any file for restore.
I need to get a file off the backup ASAP! Is there any other
program that can read the tapes. I am using the ftape driver to
write to an QIC-80 Extra
Rick Macdonald writes:
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the
filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is
appreciated.
Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell:
Peter Mutsaers writes:
Hello,
Normally I stay current with hamm using dselect or dpkg directly. This
uses binary packages. The drawback is that sometimes (most often) the
real package doesn't change, but only the patches that were made to
'debianize' it.
Now I wonder whether it is possible
G. Kapetanios writes:
Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I
heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked
for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi
files by using the dvihp command. However the most
Mario Filipe writes:
Hi
A couple of days ago, I had a HP660C installed on my Linux box. Installed
magicfilter, enscripts, lprng,... . First question : I chose to use the
550C filter. Is there any filter more recent than that ?
After printing some test pages and seeing that everything was ok i
Nathan E Norman writes:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
:
: and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out
just
: what had been removed) none
Dale Scheetz writes:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just
what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected.
This isn't quite
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Brian K Servis wrote:
Mario Filipe writes:
[ initial problem text removed ]
/usr/local/lib/magicfilter/econogsc:
#!/usr/bin/tcsh
# called as: econogsc psfile
# send hpset hp escape codes to a tmp file
/usr/local/bin/hpset -c econo ! /tmp/prt
The sound card(SB16) on my Debian box picks up electronic interference
when I use the line-in as source(external radio). It sounds like I a
helicopter, whop, whop, whop, whop and it fades in and out. It only
happens under Debian, when I am booted in Win95 it doesn't happen.
Setup:
Debian 1.3.1
Andrew Akins writes:
I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my
Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At
our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix
these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in?
Steve Hsieh writes:
Sounds like you need to include some of the libraries that matlab was
compiled against inside the $MATLAB/sys/lnx86 directory -- the libstdc++
library that comes with debian doesn't work with matlab 5.1 and will
produce the error you write below. Here's the libs we use for a
Does anybody know were to find a netscape4_4.0-6.deb that does not
depend on libc6, so that I can use it on a 1.3.1 system? Why does it
need to depend on libc6 anyway?
I could modify the control file but I don't know how to put the
pieces back together once I have extracted them using ar and
Dale Scheetz writes:
I am printing postscript files to my HP DeskJet using printcap and a gs
filter. Things work as expected, but I have several minor glitches that I
can't figure out how to deal with.
When I print a plain ascii file I simply cat the file to the printer.
The printer defaults to
Orn E. Hansen writes:
This is what is currently set mode wise:
# ls -l /usr/local/bin/hpset
11 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root10445 Jul 10 16:47
/usr/local/bin/hpset*
# ls -l /dev/lp1
0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 May 28 17:16 /dev/lp1
You can either, make
Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!!
M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5.
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more
bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when done
installing and 60M during the install, YIKES!
Brian Servis
This is a permissions problem that I can't straighten out. I have a
util called hpset that I use to change the print qualilty of my hp
dj660c. This program currently will only let root execute it since it
writes directly to /dev/lp1. I want to stick this command in my
magicfilter filter file
ImmortaL writes:
Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt
matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for
example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant
enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape,i tried
Will Lowe writes:
I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb
I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any
way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with
out doing
dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb
and then moving the one file and clearing
Hi all,
Just thought you would like to know, Netscape 4.03 english version is
out for Linux. It comes in three forms: standard, professional and
just the stand alone browser with now news/mail/composer/etc.
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.03/shipping/english/unix/linux20/
% grep Project.tmpl Contents-i386
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmplx11/xlib6-dev
I keep a copy of the Contents file locally in case I can't find a file
that should be in a package somewhere. If 'dpkg -S file' can't find
it then I do the above. My. $.02.
Brian
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Brian White writes:
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I
almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the
screen? It's a PS/2 mouse.
I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting
things in X? X is accessing
Carey Evans writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X,
such that the paste button is on the rightmost
button.
xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 3 2'
But be warned that it will effect everything else that uses the 2 and
3 buttons. Examples: Netscape, Emacs,
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Damir J. Naden wrote:
Hi, everyone --
I was following the thread that was going on for a while here regarding
the bug in bash 2.0 that is holding us back in using some Netscape
helpers. I must admit that I missed the final point: what is the best
way of fixing
Daniel J. Mashao writes:
On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote:
I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a
clean
reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck.
Any
info, pointer ?
That happens in OS/2 but I would not expect to see this
Why is the XF86 v3.3 module xf86Jstk.so not to be found in any of the
XF86 packages? All the other modules are present. Is it not part of
the upstream distribution even though it is listed in the man pages?
Thanks,
Brian
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Hi all,
Just thought I would let ya knowDebian is getting some free
publicity among Metamail users these days. A few months ago a CERT
advisory(ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.14.metamail)
was issued about Metamail and problems with the CSH code used in which
security could be
Daniel Laffin writes:
After su'ing in an xterm and trying to run any x app i get this. I tried
xhosts -, but it still gives me this. *scratches his head* Sleep
now--thanks. =)
apollyon:/# xterm
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to add a clear screen character to the beginning of the /etc/issue
file instead of having a clear command in the .bash_logout... I think it
is ^L... how can I add this character with emacs?
I'm not sure how you would do it in Emacs - I use vi (actually
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Hong Huang wrote:
BG Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bash 2.01 is in the Incoming directory of master.debian.org. However, it's
compiled against libc6. If you still stay with bo (1.3.1), you'll have to
grab the debianized source codes, make necessary modification
I have a M$ 2-btn PS/2 mouse. When using cut and paste in X I have to
click the L R button simultaneously to paste. I would like to click
the R button to paste as with gpm on the tty's. Can I switch this
around? Or is my only solution to buy a 3-btn mouse?
Related question: Is it possible
Hi all,
Here at Purdue the Engineering Computer Network staff have developed a
very awesome account management package called ACMAINT. They currently
use it to manage all the accounts and machines on the network.(Over
13,000 users with over 336,000 accounts on approx. 800 Sun's, 120
HP's, and
Jason Killen writes:
Along those lines. What tty is my modem I have two working com
ports and an internal modem. Is there a way to say the internal is number 1
or number 2 if I want.
This is usually set by jumpers on the modem along with the interupt. If
you have 2 builtin com ports
H Huang writes:
On 13 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a strange XTerm behaviour after upgrading to XFree 3.3-3.
When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys:
F1 gives P
F2 gives Q
F3 gives R
F4 gives S
F5 - F10 work just
Casey Feskens writes:
Still having problems keeping ppp from dying out. Telnet works
without any problems whatsoever. So does ping. FTP and Netscape
seem to be the biggest problems. FTP works fine until I begin
downloading files. It works for awhile, then my whole ppp connection
begins to
Brian K Servis writes:
Casey Feskens writes:
Still having problems keeping ppp from dying out. Telnet works
without any problems whatsoever. So does ping. FTP and Netscape
seem to be the biggest problems. FTP works fine until I begin
downloading files. It works for awhile, then my whole
Brandon Mitchell writes:
There is no happy medium. IMO, 7 is too early. I was around 4 am, but
the users who lonly turned their computers on during the day never got
their logs rotated and wondered why their /var/log got so large.
Changing the crontab is easy as you have said, so making sure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 07:06:32 Lawrence wrote:
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Hi!
Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to
the ISP? (using ppp chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga).
I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400.
If its a
Shaya Potter writes:
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is
only supported by RedHat. Does anyone know?
In many cases, the companies ship the products as .rpm's. Therefore they
only support it on RedHat, but since we
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
W Paul Mills wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However,
every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for
about 30-200+ seconds. It did on each of these last two
How about having Ian or Bruce put a sound byte of them saying Debian
on the webJust like Linus did for Linux!
Brian
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I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
If I do 'rxvt -ls' I don't get
How do I change the banner that 'in.fingerd -w' gives? Right now it gives
Welcome to Linux version 2.0.30 at host
uptime results
I would like to get rid of the uptime info and add some Debian info.
Thanks,
Brian
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Randy Stocking writes:
Brian K. Servis writes:
Brian K Servis writes:
I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
Warning
Brian K Servis writes:
I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
not being recorded in utmp. I have the *loginShell resource set
true. So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
If I do
Ed Down writes:
What _I_ would like is a nice concise posting regarding setting up a mail
filter for pine and other mail progs, posted regularly, so that instead of
saying 'I will unsubscribe' and losing possibly important members of the
list, people say 'That mail filter sounds easy to set up,
Brian K Servis writes:
For those of you following this here is an update.
It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it
out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in
the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I
have a stand
For those of you following this here is an update.
It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it
out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in
the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I
have a stand alone machine that I
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Brian K Servis wrote:
Help!
Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems
with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the
following repeated 5 times in messages:
Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable
Carey Evans writes:
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu
widget-servis
#(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu)
[snip]
/etc/init.d/network:
ifconfig lo
Help!
Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems
with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the
following repeated 5 times in messages:
Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local
machine widget-servis
I
HELP,
Here is the problem. I upgraded to frozen from uiarchive.uiuc.edu
over the weekend. I am having all kinds of network type problems now.
Everything upgraded ok with no real problems that couldn't be fixed
with a second run of install in dselect. I am running on a stand
alone machine at
I was considering changing my Linux partition size to give my Win95
some more room to put it's fat programs on. When I ran fdisk on
/dev/hdb which is my linux only drive I got the following errors.
%root%fdisk /dev/hdb
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra
I think the maintainers of xv, xanim, imagemagick, etc. need to agree
on the description fields that go in the mailcap file. Whenever I
upgrade or install one of the packages they are always wanting to
change the description from what one of the other packages set it
to. Example, xanim suggests
Jason Costomiris writes:
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
i want to set up elm, but nowhere i can find the configuraton file
elm.rc. I am using a Debian 1.2.6 and elm is at Version 2.4. I have
searched after it, but i can't find it...Has the name been changed?
According to the output
Pavel Galynin writes:
Hello,
Well, I looked at it already, but it caused my question:
How to dual-boot reliably?
Paul
Bob Nielsen wrote:
Get the LILO+Win95 mini-HOWTO.
I personally like the LOADLIN option better. For me it seems safer
than modifying the MBR. I just have a menu come
Steve Hsieh writes:
Who has EQL running on their system? To those that do -- do you still
have to run eql_enslave as written in the eql readme file in the kernel?
The info and web sites listed there are out of date.
The short answer: yes
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How about the ability to search(currenlty using /) all fields not just
the package name. It is sometimes helpfull if you are not sure what a
package is called to search the discription of the package.
Brian
Mechanical
I was running the checksecurity program by hand after adding the types
vfat and supermount(not really needed) to the list of types to skip in the
checksecurity.conf file and I got a kernel-panic.
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Fri Mar 21 08:21:20 1997 ...
widget-servis kernel: Kernel panic:
Philippe Troin writes:
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:40:01 EST Brian K Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
I was running the checksecurity program by hand after adding the types
vfat and supermount(not really needed) to the list of types to skip in the
checksecurity.conf file and I got a kernel
Chris Brown writes:
I was looking at the man pages HOWTOs etc. for GostScript with
the intent of using it with my HP 660C printer. It looks like the
standard distribution esecutable won't work for me so I got the
source and was going to compile it. It looks like the best option
for
Hi all,
Occasionally when I switch from a VC back to X(alt-f7) and try and use
the mouse immediately X crashes and exits. If I don't use the mouse
for a couple of seconds it does not crash. I am running xdm but have
had it happen when just starting X using xinit. I am running gpm on
the VC's.
Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have
dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available.
Is this a bug?
Brian
Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purdue
I am having trouble getting an rsh to run over a dial in ppp
connection using slirp. I have had no troubles with any other
networking programs. If I do an rsh machine where machine is my
provider then it does an rlogin as expected. If I do an
rsh machine command the command never gets
Paul Christenson writes:
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote:
My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have
been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp
install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages. (Not bad at work,
but can be
Oh wise ones,
I am having problems with my modem. The modem is a PnP modem so I
have to initialize it with a dos PnP driver and then use loadlin to
boot. This is the time line and scenarios:
1) Had 0.93 w/ 1.2.13 minicom/pppd/chat all worked great, ppp/slhc as
modules. Modem is /dev/cua1
Hi all,
I have to run the 1.2.13 kernel for MATLAB. I have compiled a new
1.2.13 kernel and modules using all the a.out gcc and libs, no
problems. In /lib/modules I have separate directories for 1.2.13 and
2.0.0 with all the subdirectories with all the modules in them. But
when I try to load
Just thought I would start here to see if I can find a solution. I
have a Micron PCI Pentium-90 PNP system with the EIDE controllers on
the mother board. On the primary controller I have two 1.2G Western
Digital HD's. The master is partitioned into 2 drives all for
Win95. The slave is
Does anybody know what happened to dpkg-ftp? I can't find it
anywhere. I have looked in all the directories on ftp.debian.org and
have searched the ls-lR file with no luck. I am wanting to look into
doing an 1.1 upgrade over a ppp dial-up connection during the middle
of the night. This brings
Hi,
I could really use someones help.
When booting I get the following errors when calculating dependencies.
*** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/3c501.o
*** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/3c509.o
*** Unresolved symbols in module
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