Re: dselect selection

1997-03-21 Thread David C. Winters
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to install debian on different PC's using same selection > of packages for each PC. Is it possible if I have one PC fully > configured to take its list of installed packages and install > these on a second pc, whithout having to go

Re: pine producing gratuitous folder locks

1997-03-08 Thread David C. Winters
> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, David C. Winters wrote: > > Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began [Del.] On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > Are the permissions on the /tmp directory correct? (1755, which looks > like drwxrwxrwt in ls -l /) This is

pine producing gratuitous folder locks

1997-03-07 Thread David C. Winters
Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began telling me that every folder I tried accessing was locked. This persisted even after I rebooted the machine, so I upgraded to Pine 3.95q out of the 3.95L-7 .deb package. This resulted in the same thing--if I try to open a

libpaper?

1996-10-08 Thread David C. Winters
I was having some problems with procmail and the new lists' headers (which appear to be ironed out), so I haven't been able to see much of the content of the list for a little while--so I'm apologizing if this has been mentioned already. The gs and ghostscript packages depend on the libpaper pack

Re: Booting problems

1996-09-09 Thread David C. Winters
> From: "David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. > > After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" > > floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

1996-09-03 Thread David C. Winters
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Tim Egbert wrote: > On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the > root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the > various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second > drive just has the /home director

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-31 Thread David C. Winters
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Shawn Asmussen wrote: > I agree. I would very much like to be running the F beta in its entirety, > and with Debian I do not know how to go about doing that and being > positive I am not breaking anything in the process. I realize that the > owner of this package does not plan

Re: /dev/psaux problems

1996-08-27 Thread David C. Winters
> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote: > >If I try to "cat" the file, though, I get the following error: > > > cat /dev/psaux > > cat: /dev/psaux: No such device On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Mike Taylor wrote: > I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file. No,

Booting problems

1996-08-26 Thread David C. Winters
I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into Linux, the following comes up: xFA: (where x == /dev/hdax according to

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

1996-08-16 Thread David C Winters
On 16 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > It's too bad we can't support longer passwords. Not only are longer > ones easier to remember sometimes, but they are harder to break. > Something along the lines of the PGP passphrase. I've noticed something curious on various Unices: I can have a

Re: Few quick questions

1996-08-10 Thread David C Winters
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote: This isn't really germane to Debian, but I'm responding to the list as an error-checking scheme. > Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so Welcome back to the fold; I'm sure you'll find Linux to be at least as rewarding (and outrig

Re: printing and .profile problems

1996-08-08 Thread David C Winters
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, chris beamis wrote: >> 1. dselect didn't configure lpr correctly so I did it myself using the >> printing HOWTO which I've done successfully many times before with Slackware >> releases. Now root can print but users get the message, "usr can't create >> /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/.s

what files does dselect/dpkg use to discern choices?

1996-08-06 Thread David C Winters
Now, to explain the question, since I can't understand the Subject: line and I wrote it myself... I've got approximately 50 machines I need to build. My best option for the initial system build, unless I've missed something, would be to run deselect on one machine, then take a

Re: rename a machine

1996-08-05 Thread David C Winters
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to _Permanently_ change the hostname on my > machine ??? > Where is this info written ? Edit the single-line file /etc/hostname so it holds your machine's desired (new) hostname. David [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mounting other file systems (novell & afs)

1996-06-18 Thread David C Winters
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote: [Wants to be able to mount Novell and AFS filesystems on Linux.] > The second is the AFS file system for the campuswide workstations. I Linux-AFS is apparently somewhat arcane at the moment. There's a (very) limited amount of information on AFS

ftp-install problem in Debian 1.11

1996-06-14 Thread David C Winters
Here's a message I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], before I discovered and signed on to this list. Has anyone else encountered this? If yes, what was your solution? Thanks. // Begin Forwarded Message: I'm working on an installation of 1.11, specifically the 1996_6_11 version. I'm