>
>
> Hi, All
>
> just stupid question - in which package is killall command ?
$ dpkg -S killall
procps: /usr/man/man1/killall.1.gz
sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8
procps: /usr/bin/killall
sysvinit: /sbin/killall5
So that means it is in procps. Don't confuse it with the killall5
command, a
>
>
> Dear Sir:
>I installed debian software for linux in my machine and it's ok. when
> I try to install gcc_2.7.2.1-8 with g77=0.5.20-1.deb also it's ok. For compile
> Fortran program contain only main program, g77 or f77 command can compile and
> I get the execute file for this program. Bu
[snip]
Joost wrote:
>
> When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a
> 486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide
> interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom.
>
> IIRC it hung while the md driver was probing,
A miracle has happened.
For some inexplicable reason the FSF decided to release gcc 2.8.0 and
libg++2.8.0, which I had been expecting for ages. Anyone know if it
will be included in hamm before it freezes?
Eric Meijer
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189
E
>
> Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
> text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
> directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
> appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one g
>
> While running dselect and installing x, it asks me if I want to create
> a config file and I say yes. Then it shoots me into a graphics mode
> which takes a long time to load and then when loaded the config
> screens seem real sluggish and my computer sounds like its going to
> have a hernia.
>
> Hi,
>
> I've solved quite all the problems I had with my server/clients running
> Debian:-)
> I now have a little trouble with the MANPATH environment variable...
>
[ ... snip ... ]
>
> The only problem that remain is that I _don't_ want to include the
> servers' man directories in the cl
>
> When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
> etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
> of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any
> easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
> boot
>
>
> I have made myself an executable octave script called octave_test.mex and
> made it executable with chmodand the #!/interpreterpath mechanism. On
> both Red Hat and Debian, typing ./octave_test.mex runs the script as
> expected. I made also a c code wrapper for this program, so as to obey
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution.
> I have a couple of problems for which I need some help:
>
> 1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in
> /usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also g
>
> I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and
> suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages
> and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had
> a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped
> he
>
> Thank you for your reply:
>
> Firstly, at the command line I enter the following --> xxgdb gdbtst
> Following that, the 4 windows open and then close. In the window
> where I started the program I get Segmentation Violation. So I don't have
> an opportunity to do anything within the debugger.
>
> Hello all:
>
> I'm trying to use xxgdb or ddd to debug a small program.
> With xxgdb when I attempt to load a program (compiled
> with the -g option) I get a segmentation fault. When I try
> to use ddd, I get can't malloc.
>
> I there something other than the -g option I must use ?
The -g o
>
> I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default
> format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite,
> it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I
> could include more (or any, actually) details if requested.
> --
> Ben Pfaff <
>
> > If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on
> > filesystem sizes... At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable
> > filesystem size was 2GB.
> >
> > Has this changed? i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size?
>
> It changed a long time ago. I used a
Ted Harding wrote:
> In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function.
>
> You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr
> partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages not only are
> designed to install under /opt by default,
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:58:51PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 04:49:21PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote:
> > > I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of
> > > KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is
> > > packaged.
> >
>
> On 22 Nov 1997, David Z. Maze wrote:
>
> > You can put things after your window manager in .xsession. These will
> > be executed after your window manager exits (user logs out) but before
> > the X server resets.
>
> To do that I would need to remove the exec statement which causes fvwm t
Hello,
I upgraded to libc6 to try the alledgedly highly improved checker
package, version 0.8-19. However, the simplest `hello world' program in
C++ dumps core on me when compiled with checkerg++. This is a list of
what I think are the relevant packages I have installed:
libc6: 2.0.5c-0
Hi,
On my work we ordered two PC's with Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 series video
cards with 4MB ram. The PC vendor now has problems delivering this card
and wants to deliver Diamond Stealth II instead. Does anybody know
whether this card will work out of the box with the XFree distribution
that come
>
> Is there an archive of the questions asked on this list anyplace?
> I've been trying to save all the digest mail, yet it is getting BIG
> fast. I hate to re-ask a question someone may of asked a few
> weeks before.
See http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
Eric
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PRO
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to execute a few commands when I exit X windows session. Can
> someone tell me which script file will be excuted when one finishes the X
> windows session so that I can write my commands on that.
>
There are two possibilities. When an xsession on display :0 ends
>
> Hi,
>
> Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is
> constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system. It appends messages to
> /var/log/messages like
>
> Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times
Hi,
Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is
constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system. It appends messages to
/var/log/messages like
Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number
Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times
Nov 12 11:13:37 peb
[snip]
>
> The "Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO says to install
> libreadline2_2.1-4
> but I only find libreadline2_2.1-2.
> I never did find this debian package.
Go to http://www.debian.org/packages.html and do a search for
libreadline2. Then you'll find libreadline2_2.1-7.deb (I just
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
>
> Hi!
>
> >
> > I recently got a problem with a printer filter used by lpr. The filter
> > is used for a HP Deskjet 870 cxi, and used to work properly on this
> > machine
>
> Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected:
> >
> > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> >^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory.
> >| || *
>
> Shouldn't that be an
>
> On Sun, Nov 09, 1997 at 08:59:33PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> > I am looking for something that shows leaks and what not. efence only
> > works on segfault type situations.
>
> Take a look at
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/zorn/public_html/MallocDebug.html for a
> list of tools relating to m
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I recently got a problem with a printer filter used by lpr. The filter
> > is used for a HP Deskjet 870 cxi, and used to work properly on this
> > machine, an
Hello everyone,
I recently got a problem with a printer filter used by lpr. The filter
is used for a HP Deskjet 870 cxi, and used to work properly on this
machine, and still does on other machines:
The princap entry is:
gs
>
> On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Sam Ockman wrote:
>
> > I need to take the diff of two directories recursively, but am not just
> > interested in what files are different...I'm also interested in if the dates
> > of the files are different, the uids, the gids, and the permissions. Anyone
> > know of a p
I wrote:
>
> You can use this command in shell script `uidshell' like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> while true; do
> echo -n "[uid = $1] "`pwd`" $ "
> read a
> b=`echo $a | cut -d' ' -f1`
> if [ "$b" = "cd" ] || [ "$b" = "exit"
Joost Witteveen wrote:
>
> Note that this behaviour is new in bash-2.0 (1.4 didn't do it).
> I find it annoying, though. I don't really see the great advantage
> of this (its _very_ easy to get around for hackers), and it makes it
> more difficult for me to become UID 7483 (no such user exists on
>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
> > Dunno if I may call myself an expert, but something that would really
> > help in diagnosing the problem, is to try to reduce the code to a small
> > code snippet that produces the problem. It is hard to com
>
> I have ported some code from Sparc to Intel. The code works fine except it
> prints NaNs for some floats that are not NaNs at all. One of my co-workers
> suggested I run the same code (of course compiled) on FreeBsd and see if
> the NaNs appear. The FreeBsd code does not produce the NaNs. I ha
Justin Honold wrote:
>
> i'm running debian 1.3.1 and i need whatever help i can get on all these
> problems!
>
[ ... ]
> problem 6: mpeg_play
> this isn't necessarily a problem, because i switched to mtv, but i was
> unable to run mpeg_play because i was missing libm.so.4 (with libc
> installed
>
> 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.
Have a look at the man page of xset. xset m ... controls mouse speed and
accelleration. You can put your favourite setti
>
> >
> > Hello debians,
> >
> > I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers.
> > I'll try it again here.
> > The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related
> > man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly.
> > The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh
>
> Hello debians,
>
> I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers.
> I'll try it again here.
> The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related
> man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly.
> The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh:
> ~$ manpath
> /u
>
> On Sep 4, 1997, at 09:10, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> > Jeff Gunter:
> > Wildly off topic, but a fun view into `commercial quality software', let
> > me show you the output of CC under IRIX 64 with the following
>
Jeff Gunter:
> FWIW, I have also had problems with SGI's C++ compiler and g++ (on the same
> SGI) being incompatible. The incompatibilities are even to the level where
> code will compile cleanly under one compiler and not compile at all under the
> other. These two compilers are definitely not
>
> Hi.
>
> I have some strange problem with my C++ code: I get a segmentation fault
> in destructor's delete[] operator. GDB says it happend in free().
> What could be the cause of that? The only place I touch the pointer
> I pass to delete[] is in the constructor while allocating memory with ne
>
> > The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly
> > upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over
> > to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes,
> > have been an endless stream of smaller changes.
>
>
> Hi all,
> does anyone know which (and where) is the *system-wide* .bashrc file?
Let me quote from the bash man page!
INVOCATION
A login shell is one whose first character of argument
zero is a -,
Dave Cinege:
> You just don't get it. Debian is not supposed to be a company!!!
> Debian is supposed to be the efforts of it's developers! When
> you say Debian Inc should do xx, you're not saying the devs
> should do it but the few (one?) guys directly in charge of Debian
> Inc.
This is the
Dave Cinege:
>
> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:13:22 +0200 (MET DST), E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote:
>
> >Dave Cinege:
> >> A donation to 'debian' meant supporting the deveopers directly in some
> >> way,
> >> offering bandwidth, and contributing
Dave Cinege:
> A donation to 'debian' meant supporting the deveopers directly in some way,
> offering bandwidth, and contributing to the project. There were no direct
> bills to pay.
> The project could never fold unless the developers decided to just walk away.
>
> Then Debian suddenly had to g
[...]
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> You are hereby excused. *Nothing* has an S* in more than one
> level. A package is meant to be at a certain run level and higher. A
> level 3 package is started at run level 3, killed in run level 2, and
> at *no* other level. See how this works?
[ ... ]
> If you want to see how its supposed to work, look at
> Solaris 2.x, Irix 6.x, etc.
>
> I've rewritten rc to do just that somewhere, but I wound up
> having to undo whatever debian does _every time I added a
> package_! It became too much work, so I bagged it.
>
> The premise is that a
>
> Hello ppl!
>
> I just noticed when running top that a process owned by nobody was doing
> a scan of / with and -fstype argument...? I am not sure what it is but
> can someone kindly explain me?
It is a cron job updating a database.
See man cron and /etc/cron.daily/find
> Maybe I should
[...]
>
> I think you can have up to 16 swap files, and I think swap files can be up
> to 16MB each, but I'm not sure. I was unable to create a swap file in a
> IDE-based Multiple Drives (md) RAID-0 array, but YMMV.
In the linux faq there is item 7.11:
-
>
>
> Yesterday it happened that I was working on my debian machine (1.3) from =
> home, and another user of the same machine was working from home as well.=
> We wanted to talk to each other but we simply couldn't. ytalk said that =
> the other party refusing messages while I know that he is al
Bjoern wrote:
>
> for example my password on my system is: test1
> the user names are: delete and (of course) root
>
> Why is it possible to login as 'delete' and as 'root'
> when i type instead of 'test1' as password, 'test1dfetdf' (for
> example).
>
> Or more exactly: Why is it possible to typ
>
> George Bonser
> Why is it that the same people that tell us that manned space flight
> is a waste of money also tell us that we have been visited by aliens?
>
It all makes perfect sense when you think of it:
since they are coming to us already, we don't need to go to them !
:)
Eric
--
E
>
> This script does not work if the filename has a directory appended.
> Do you have a bug fix for this?
>
> I tend to agree with the original message that gzipped .dvi and
> .html are not a great idea.
>
> > zxdvi:
> >
>
> Go ahead and download the msdos-i386 directory. Lots of files, but
> they're all small symlink files to the real ones. Won't take too
> long ...
>
Really? my version of ftp follows the links and collects the files.
Eric
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 4
> I just looked at the new packages in 1.3.1. I tried to installing
> jdk1.1 and find out that all the documentation provided by Sun (API,
> demos) are compressed.
>
> The same happens for other packages too. The dvi files which are part
> of teTeX package are compressed too. This makes reading
Hi everyone,
I sure am happy to see tha my favorite raytracer, povray has been
included in debian 1.3. It was also nice to see that it now has html
documentation. I have some problems however reading it. I have tried
to do this at home with the lynx 2.7.1-1 package and the slang 0.99.38-2
packa
Hi,
I sometimes use the gnu midnight commander. It scribbles all sorts of
more or less useful things in the title bar of the xterm it is running
in. I usually have meaningful titles for my windows, and
"mc - Thank you for using GNU Midnight Commander" isn't one of them. Is
there a way to preven
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
> ...
> >Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start
> >line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is
> >starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing.
> >What else do I need to configure?
>
> Th
>
> >
> > > Although I have losts of idas on this, I cant find the answer. When
> > > logging in locally through xdm where is the path set? For instance, I am
> > > unable to run netscape because its not in the default path. I can just
> > > open an xterm and run it from there, but the buttons
>
> > Although I have losts of idas on this, I cant find the answer. When
> > logging in locally through xdm where is the path set? For instance, I am
> > unable to run netscape because its not in the default path. I can just
> > open an xterm and run it from there, but the buttons are there to
>
> On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, jr wrote:
>
> > I install Debian 1.3.1 today (i use Red Hat before) and when I start X
> > whitn "startx" all its OK. But when I wnat more color depth, I use
> >
> > "startx -- -bpp 16"
> >
> > but then my screen are flicking and the resolution down very much (much
> >
> Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config.
>
> A few days ago i got rid of my old 15" monitor and got a 17", so I made a
> backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config.
>
> It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card,
> monitor (filled
>
> My installation is supposed to be the latest release of Debian..(1.3) The
> Dos partition that Windows95 is on is a totally different hard disk and is
> the first hard drive. I looked in my linux directory (all over the system)
> but found no dos dir. Did i screw up with installation? How c
>
> Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > After that you just execute as *root* :
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
> You can also use the programs in the mtools package if you just want
> to access dos disks. You will also need to add yourself to the floppy
> group (see "man add
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> Let me clairfy. non-free contains packages that have some sort of
> restriction either on use or on distribution or on modification. Not
> all of the packages in non-free can be put on the Official CD although
> some of them can. debian-
Got this question...
Whenever I resize an xterm (or rxvt) with an nvi session, I need
to either go to the bottom of the screen with the cursor and type
^L, or explicitly type :resize before the editor `realizes' the
screen has become larger. Other programs, like less, adjust
immediately. Is ther
>
> > How long would it have taken an experienced Linux user to do a quick
> > install of three different distributions just to make sure something
> > major wasn't missing? Maybe a day at most?
>
> W install all three distributions on our TRI-LINUX cd on two different
> boxes ...
> one that i
Glenn asked:
> Does anyone know if Infomagic corrected the missing files for Debian
> on their April LDR?
I complained about the missing files to InfoMagic and got the following
reply:
E.L.
This set was mirrored on
>
>I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of
> questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other
> words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly,
> monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I
> wonde
Rich Morin
>
> Personally to read .pdf files from the screen I really like the acroread
> package. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to print, but gv worked like a
> charm. I can't say exactly why, but the fonts are much cleaner, and
> readable in acroread, for me anyways.
Just a wild guess: ha
[About upgrading a 486SX-33 chip.]
I wonder, did the original poster consider a 486DX4-100? If you are
going to spend some money, this would definitely be a more noticeable
change. Intel has (used to have?) 5V 486DX4-100 chips that can without
modification be plugged in any old motherboard that
> Ill start this off with the usual caveats, Im new to linux in general,
> as well as debian. My problems, however, seem to be with the dselect
> program. I have read the minimal help pages within dselect, as well
> as the linux install faqs and the (frankly next-to-useless) dselect
> beginner file
> Just a simple question. What does RTFM mean? I lost my code book.
File: jargon.info, Node: RTFM, Next: RTFS, Prev: RTFB, Up: = R =
:RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ /imp./ [Unix] Acronym for `Read The Fucking
Manual'. 1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they
consider trivial or annoying. Compare
Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and
> it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm
> just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing
> Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows.
> Am I go
This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time
(for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk
begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I
have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is
running `find' (it's amazi
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