Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

2000-09-30 Thread Decklin Foster
Ben Collins writes: I don't have time to list everything it fixes, but I can tell you that it fixes EVERY issue that EVERYONE was having. Indeed, it's working perfectly here. Cheers! (I will no longer have to bug anyone about recompiling Perl...) For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update of

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Decklin Foster
[-devel snipped] S. Champ writes: what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first use a command to un-gzip the same? zless -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD

Re: Timeline for potato

1999-12-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Rainer Dorsch writes: The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As experience shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly after freezing potato), kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. Well, I had been expecting XFree 4.0 in July, so this is good news :) from

Re: newbie debian questions

1999-07-26 Thread Decklin Foster
Anybody can help me out? ps top xmkmf or tell me how can I find them? ps and top are in procps, and xmkmf is in xlib6g-dev. You can find this out quicker by going to #debian on irc.openprojects.net and typing !find ps !find xmkmf, etc. -- Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/ The Web

Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT

1999-07-19 Thread Decklin Foster
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Joel Gautschi wrote: I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update some packages or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian dist. the problem is that I don't have a static connection to the internet (or sth like that) at home. My connection

Re: Linux Install

1999-06-08 Thread Decklin Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the /main directory from the stable area on the Debian.org FTP site and burned that to a CD, less the devel section. (This and the disks directory almost fill one CD.) This is almost always not necessary; you can download the essentail files from

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-05-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Dave Whiteley wrote: Now I am playing with my own linux systems, and I want to create a similar user to give my Wife an easy way to shut down the PC. I use the following solution to let my mom shut down the PC from xdm: ** Step 1: a short Xaw program. #include stdlib.h #include