Re: Documentation (Was: Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to ...)

Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: 3. Keep in mind that it's hard to keep up with constantly-changing documentation. That is, a new user probably would read all the HOWTOs, README files, etc., to get started, but after that,

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What would you think about a script that checks the connectivity to a given set of closest mirrors based on the Timezone or so and reports the fastest mirror available? here's a perl script i wrote that uses the 'ping' program to find the 'distance' to a mirror,

Re: Running Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) said: I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge graphical thing that won't run on a terminal and depends on a lot of other stuff. Keep it simple. having recently used `make xconfig' to make a new kernel, i think a simple, easy-to-use

Re: HELP..CGI Scripts and Perl!!

What I get is a Error 500 cannot execute counter.pl... make sure that your script is executable and readable by the web server: % chmod a+rx counter.pl then, try running counter.pl from the shell: % ./counter.pl it won't `work' in the sense of doing the same thing that it would do if

Re: The X story so far...

Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING. the problem is probably that xdm is running, but waiting for a connection from an X server (or is it client? argh!). this seems to be the default for xdm; you have to specially configure it to

Re: smail problem: file table overflow

At 5 in the morning, my system sends out some 300 email messages.. I think smail ran out of file handles or something. i've had a related problem with smail. i have a perl script that generates 1400 or so messages, which it sends by piping them through `/usr/lib/sendmail -t' (a link to

Re: A few (stupid?) smail questions

[sorry for the length, but in writing this i realized that the info might be useful to other people, so i'm sending to the list as well as to johan.] I have succeeded in sending a test message to myself from Elm and by telnetting my ISP I could see that the message arrived. good! that's half

Re: newaliases script?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Kevin I've got an application I'm trying to install on my new Debian Kevin system and it is giving me a warning about a missing script (called Kevin newaliases). [...] Kevin Anyone have any ideas about where I can find this script? miles:~ [root] # zgrep