Something about Debian GNU/Linux being year-2000-ready, for those
interested.
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.software.year-2000
Subject: Re: GNU software Year 2000
But, if you want to access the floppy as a user (not root!) with
mtools, you must be in the group floppy. Edit the file /etc/group to
put yourself in. I have something like:
floppy:x:25:ecl
(My username is ecl)
Hth.
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SW == Stephen Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SW Subject pretty much says it all. I've got a Dell PPro w/ Number 9
SW Reality 332 (S3 virge). My XF86Config has entries for multiple
SW displays (I think) at different depths. Reading the XFree86 docs
SW last night indicated if there are multiple
Well, I never tried it. But it should work. There are some
instructions out there to make a smooth upgrade from some other
Linux distribution to Debian. The first step is, of course, install
dpkg. If it works with other distributions, it should work with
another (nice) flavor of unix.
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PM == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PM how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc?
PM I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when
PM doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all
PM screwed everything up)...
Debian upgrades are
JG == John Garas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JG I can talk or ytalk to debian machines but I can't talk to any sun
JG machines. If a sun user tries to talk to me I don't even get a
JG notification.
Sun uses an old protocol for talk. There is a talk-like program
somewhere in sunsite that
EAP == Eloy A Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EAP rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail
EAP package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not...
Your guess is right. Rmail is a mail reader for Emacs.
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JM == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote:
It's apparently a message from your window-manager. Which one do you
use?
JM fvwm. Thanks, maybe I have something strange in .fvwmrc?
Yes, maybe you tell fvwm to use an icon for xcalc that doesn't indeed
exist
LA == Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LA The original idea (of using nice) seems to have been forgotten.
LA Is this not a Good Idea?
It's just the right thing, IMHO. And also this anacron thing is worth
a look.
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MS == Max Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MS I used to have a slackware system and thus got used to the old
MS rigamorole involved in compiling a new kernel. However, with
MS debian, there seems to be more steps involved (at least, there are
MS debian readmes distributed with the kernel
HM == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Emacs? Are the mail handling tools of emacs worth looking into?
HM Obscure keystrokes.
Not at all if you have the reference card around. :-)
I read my mail and my news with Gnus (comes with Emacs), both with the
same interface. With Gnus, I
JM == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM I was able to solve my rxvt colour problem, by rewiting .Xdefaults.
JM However, now I notice that xcalc gives:
JM Warning: Cannot convert string calculator to type Pixmap
JM Warning: Cannot convert string %s to type %s
JM xcalc looks and works
JHV == Jaldhar H Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JHV By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when
JHV I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this
JHV in an rxvt. But when I tried again from the console, everything
JHV was fine. Don't ask me why. Try it
SA == Syd Alsobrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SA I just recently compiled a new kernel on my linux box, this isn't
SA the first time that I have done this, but this the first one that
SA had a problem. After recompiling the kernel servel times with
SA different options and decided to check here.
JHV == Jaldhar H Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JHV On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote:
JHV == Jaldhar H Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JHV By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when
JHV I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this
JHV in an rxvt
JT == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JT After installing the 'unstable' package wn_1.17.11-1.deb the
JT installation failed with a (for me) mysterious error: bash says
JT /usr/sbin/wn: No such file or directory, and the same thing with
JT all other executables which belongs to WN,
EAP == Eloy A Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EAP I do not know much about security but Debian's /bin/false is also
EAP a shell script. Are we at risk? Shouldn't /bin/false be changed
EAP to a compiled version?
That's no risk. If you do a C-c at login, the shell process will be
ended too, and
JM == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM After upgrading to 1.3, rxvt can find certain colours:
JM rxvt: can't load color snow
JM rxvt: can't load color blue
JM I also have this problem using gnuplot.
JM I've tried some of the tricks posted the last few weeks. I have a
JM ~/.Xdefaults
b == bigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
b cd /usr/src/Linux
With this you go to the directory where the kernel sources are. :-)
b make config
Here you will be asked a lot of things. Responding these questions you
are saying what you want and what you don't want in your kernel,
acording to your
T == Tommy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
T Are the various debian lists available in digest formant? If so
T what is the procedure for setting delivery for digest. Thanks
Just subscribe to debian-user-digest, etc.
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.
Hi all,
the following is a rough translation of a short note that appeared in
the July edition (pag. 40) of the iX Magazin, a German computer
magazine.
SB == Sylvain Briole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain
SB ls in color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile.
I put all this things in my ~/.bashrc. My ~/.bash_profile just sources
it. In this way I have the same
j == jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
j Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a day,
j when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that Netscape for
j linux is the most unstable but working application I've ever seen.
Fix the bugs and submit patches to Netscape.
Just in
JRB == J R Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JRB On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:41:22 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote:
I'm trying to set up a machine as an xterm, so I want it to run the chooser
on bootup and then xdm... the Xaccess file seems to indicate that if you
make it contain just this line, it'll
BM == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BM On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, David Puryear wrote:
[...]
This way I can do Ctrl-Alt + or - to change depth. I have 1 meg on
video card.
[...]
BM Maybe the X people could work on better interaction between
BM programs and the X server to add this
Maybe we should wait for 0.5.21. It's in alpha right now. Don't how
long it'll take till it gets beta though...
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DH == Dan Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DH Greetings, I have such a printer, which does not have any sort of
DH PostScript support, so I am wondering if there is any way that I
DH could use it as some other sort of printer (that is, does it
DH emulate anything, or are there any drivers around
SC == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this
SC list.
It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty
annoying, IMO.
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TB == Tim Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TB I installed the latest gcc/libc5 (and other compiling tools) from
TB unstable, had problems, so I've reinstalled the stable
TB versions. But now I get:
TB /usr/include/string.h:33: stddef.h: No such file or directory
TB etc, despite the fact that
JT == James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think he should at least watch this list.
JT I think it's unfair for you to demand (by implication) that every
JT developer read debian.user, it's not low-volume and people only
JT have a limited amount of time.
Normally yes. But if you know there
TB == Tim Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is that you have a version of cpp that's incompatible
with gcc. They have to have the *same* version number.
TB I don't think that's the problem. (I've been trying gcc/cpp
TB 2.7.2.1-8 and gcc/cpp 2.7.2.2-5.)
Exactly: cpp 2.7.2.*2* looks
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BG Check /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.
BG It should have a line:
BG :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
BG I've seen this bug a zillion times.
BG I thought that /usr/X11/bin/X was always a wrapper program
BG pointing to the correct server, so why do the X
MS == Marc Saric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MS I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the
MS Xterm: I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in
MS /etc/X11)
MS #ifdef COLOR
MS *customization: -color
MS #endif
MS but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is
SB == Stefan Baums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB I'm running Debian 1.3.0, kernel 2.0.30, and my software watchdog
SB timer is having trouble starting getting started at boot time. The
SB .deb installed all right, my kernel is configured
SB CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
SB CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT=y
RvdM == Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RvdM I once say someone do 'xdm -something', and he got a xdm, with a
RvdM 'remote_host login:' instead of 'localhost login:'.
X -query remote_host
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AR == Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AR I installed fvwm95 and the default settings have a color_xterm and
AR xfm icons. I looked in all the debian packages but I could not
AR find them. Can some tell where I can find color_xterm and xfm? Or
AR Is there a better substitute for those
PW == Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PW Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't
PW been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer
PW subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody
PW else with the same problem?
Here in Munich there
PW == Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PW A list server that requires a password somewhere in the message
PW and removes it before remailing would be nice.
Maybe a just header. Each reader of this list had to setup it just
once in their mailreaders and forget it.
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G == Gernot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
G Thanx to those who replied. I tried all your hints but it still
G does not work. When I do the thing mentioned above I get the
G following:
G mother# initex latex.initex
G ! I can't read tex.pool.
G mother#
G Hmmm. ???
Have you tried to run
RS == Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RS I've got a working sound card and CD-ROM drive again for the first
RS time in a while, and I'd like to set the permissions up so I can
RS play CDs on it without being root. The drive is an IDE device,
RS /dev/hdc, it's currently group disk.
CF == Carl Flippin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CF When I did my initial debian installation, I chose to install
CF emacs ratger that Xemacs because I wasn't sure if I would be
CF running Xwindows. Now that I am using Xwindows, I attempted to
CF install the
The plain Emacs (GNU Emacs) works very
Hi,
I'm having problems trying to compile some programs. gcc doesn't seems
to find stddef.h. As an example:
gcc -O2 -g -Wall -c asmail.c -o asmail.o
In file included from asmail.c:16:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:34: stddef.h: No such file or directory
In file included from
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